Welcome Sycamore Creek Elementary families!

If you have not yet filled in your back-to-school forms and reviewed the important back-to-school information from the district, please visit the Pickerington Schools Back-To-School page for 2023-2024

Sycamore Creek Elementary PTO… enriching the lives of students, supporting the work of teachers, and building a caring community.  Welcome to an exciting school year at Sycamore Creek Elementary School!

Grades 1 – 4

AM Kindergarten

• Standard day
  • Start time: 9:15 a.m. – Doors open at 9:05 a.m.
  • Dismissal time: 12:15 p.m.

• Days with 2-hour delay
  • Start Time: 11:15 p.m. – Doors open at 11:05 a.m.
  • Dismissal Time: 1:15 p.m.

PM Kindergarten

• Standard day
  • Start time: 1:05 p.m. – Doors open at 1:00 p.m.
  • Dismissal time: 4:05 p.m.

• Days with 2-hour delay
  • Start time: 2:00 p.m. – Doors open at 1:55 p.m.
  • Dismissal time: 4:05 p.m.

AM Preschool

• Standard Day
  • Start time: 8:00 a.m.  “B” Doors will open at 8:00 a.m.
  • Dismissal time:  10:45 a.m.

• Days with a 2-Hour Delay
  • Start time:  10:00 a.m.  “B” Doors will open at 10:00 a.m.
  • Dismissal time:  11:45 a.m.

PM Preschool

• Standard Day
  • Start time:  12:00 p.m.  “B” Doors will open at 12:00 p.m.
  • Dismissal time:  2:45 p.m.

• Days with a 2-Hour Delay
  • Start time:  1:00 p.m.  “B” Doors will open at 1:00 p.m.
  • Dismissal time:  2:45 p.m.

Student morning drop-off

Parent drop-off 

1. Students should let themselves out of the vehicle once it is stopped. 
   • Please do not wait for the staff to open the car door for your child as this creates a longer drop off time for everyone.
   • Staff are there to assist the flow of traffic. 
2. When entering the parking lot from Sycamore Creek Street, please follow the directional arrows to “snake” through the parking lot.
   • This prevents cars from lining up on the street and disrupting the flow of traffic in the neighborhood.  
3. When you get to the front of the building, form a line along the curb.
4. The first car should be pulled up to the sign that says “Student Drop Off."
   • Parents must stay in the car.
   • The FIRE LANE is not space to park and go into the building, but is designed for the driver to pull up, drop off the student and pull away.
   • At no time should a parent pull into the striped line area next to the handicap spaces and leave their car.  
   • This is a no parking zone and it will affect the flow of traffic.  
5. Parking and leaving your car is only allowed if you are in a traditional parking space.
6. In the morning, there will be adults supervising children getting out of the cars.

If a student is riding a bike to school, the bike should be parked in our bike rack. We do not have locks, but you may certainly provide your own.

• The bus drop-off is at the hard-surfaced playground area off Fairfield Street.
• This area is for buses only. No parent drop-offs!
• Students will remain on the bus until 9:05 a.m., at which time they will enter the building through the POD doors.
• Adults will be on duty directing them to the appropriate destination.
• After the buses are unloaded and have departed, the gates to that area will be closed and locked.
• Do not drive in the playground parking lot while students are present.

Kindergarten release and drop-off (AM dismissal, PM drop-off)

Mid-day, buses will load at the front of the building in the “student drop off” lane.

• Please permit the buses and daycare vans to pull into the lane before parents pick up.
• This will permit us to safely get as many students into vehicles as quickly as possible.

Morning students will be dismissed out of the main school doors and will be accompanied to the buses by staff.

• Walkers and bike riders will be the last to be dismissed.
• If you are waiting for a walker or bike rider, please stand in the grass area by the bike racks.
• Morning kindergarten dismissal is at 12:15 p.m.. Please do not arrive prior to 12:05 p.m. for pick-up.

Those kindergarten students arriving at school for afternoon kindergarten will be dropped off at the main door and wait for staff to proceed into the building to their rooms.

• Staff members will be outside to escort them.
• After the buses and daycare vans unload, parents may pull into the “student drop-off” lane and proceed to drop off students.
• Afternoon kindergarten students may be dropped off no earlier than 12:55 p.m.

Afternoon students' dismissal is the same as Grade 1-4 students, 4:05pm.

One of the greatest challenges we face daily is ensuring that each student gets dismissed in a timely and safe manner.

• Please limit the changes in your student’s dismissal to emergencies or absolute necessities. This ensures your student knows how they are consistently getting home and dismissal transitions smoothly for all.
• If it is necessary to change how your student will be getting home, please notify the school office by 3 p.m. to ensure the message gets to your student and teacher in a timely manner. 
• If a permanent change in dismissal is necessary, please send in a letter stating the change to the school office so it may be kept on file.

Bus

Bus pick-up is on the hard-surfaced playground where students will be supervised as they board the buses.

• Parents cannot pick up students at anytime from the playground area. 
• It is important that all students are accounted for before buses are dismissed from school.

By car

1. When picking up students after school, parents should pull into the front parking lot  and follow the arrows to snake through the parking lot.
2. The cars should be lined up along the curb with the first car pulled up to the “student drop off” sign.
3. Please do not arrive prior to 3:45 p.m. as the area in front of the building also serves as our fire lane.
4. Adults will be on duty outside in the car area and inside the cafeteria where students will be waiting.
5. As cars pull up, you will be asked whom you are picking up or you will have a sign to display in your front window.
6. We will “radio” for your child to come to your car. 
7. If a staff member does not know you, you may be asked to show your ID.
8. Only those individuals listed on dismissal forms will be allowed to pick up a student unless notified by the office.
9. Once the children are safely in the car, the next cars will pull up and the process will continue.

Again, we ask that you have patience as we get to know all the students and parents and their schedules.

Day care

Day care students will be assembled in our first grade hallway and will be escorted to the daycare vehicles waiting in the pick-up space on the hard surfaced playground area.

Walkers and bike riders that are permitted to leave the building unaccompanied

• Walkers and bike riders will be dismissed along with the staff member(s) on duty to accompany the children to the crosswalks in front of the building.
• It is important that each student is accounted for on dismissal before we release the children who will be walking and riding their bikes unaccompanied by a parent or caregiver.

Walkers and bike riders picked up by a parent/caregiver

1. Students walking home with their parents or guardians will be picked up at the door at the cafeteria entrance, labeled “S."
2. Please line up in an orderly fashion against the building's wall and wait until school personnel dismiss your child to you.
3. Only those individuals listed on dismissal forms will be allowed to pick up students unless notified by the office.
4. We want to make certain all students are released to the appropriate parties.

Kindergarten Supply List 2023/24

First Grade Supply List 2023/24

Second Grade Supply List 2023/24

Third Grade Supply List 2023/24

Fourth Grade Supply List 2023/24