General Information
School Hours 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Regular day arrival begins at 8:50am
Regular day dismissal begins at 3:20pm
Students should not arrive before 8:50 AM. There is no adult supervision before this time.
Scheduled Early Dismissal Days : 1:25 PM (lunch will be served) Early release days may include conference days and days before certain holidays.
EMERGENCY Early Dismissal Days : Emergency early dismissal may be due to inclement weather or any event requiring the early dismissal of students.
- Morning Emergency Dismissal: 11:30 AM (no lunch served)
- Afternoon Emergency Dismissal: 1:25pm (lunch served)
Student Absence: Please notify the school every day your child will be absent by sending an email to oxridgeatt@darienps.org
After classroom attendance has been taken and sent to the office, a check will be made against the absences emailed to the school. For more information regarding attendance polices please review our Attendance Policy.
Student Absences
If your child will be absent, please use the new Follett Aspen Go app to report the absence.
Instructions on how to download and use the Follett Aspen Go app to report your child’s absence can be found here.
After classroom attendance has been taken, a check will be made against the absence reported via the app. In any case of absence where there has been no notification by the parent/guardian, contact will be made with the home to verify the absence.
Per Connecticut State Law regarding school attendance, students are allowed up to 9 absences from school without documentation for illness or otherwise. After this absence limit has been reached, documentation will be required for all absences, or they will be noted as “Unexcused”. Documentation may include a note from a doctor or pediatrician to excuse a day due to illness. Our school nurse is also a resource if you need assistance determining if your child should or should not attend school due to feeling unwell. The school will provide regular reports to you regarding any attendance concerns, and schedule meetings to review your child’s school attendance and truancy if necessary.
Pikmykid app and Dismissal Changes
We use Pikmykid (www.pikmykid.com) to notify classroom teachers of any change to a student’s dismissal. All parents are required to log in and prepare their child(ren)’s dismissal for each day of the week. You can select options for all days, for example, if your child will always take the bus or always be picked up. If there is a change to your child’s dismissal, you must go into Pikmykid and note changes prior to 2:15 pm.
Pikmykid may also be used if you need to pick up your child in the middle of the day for an appointment, afterschool activities, orchestra, etc.
EXTENDED VACATIONS:
Extended vacations beyond the regularly scheduled school vacations are strongly discouraged. Skill development is a day-to-day process. Interruptions to your child's normal school calendar may be harmful to the learning process. It is difficult for teachers to prepare homework before, during and after an extended vacation. In order to discourage extended vacations, it has become a district wide practice for teachers not to be required to provide extra homework.
PICKING UP AND PARKING:
The bus loop located in front of the gym is reserved for buses only. Cars are not allowed in the bus loop. Parent pick-up is located in the front entrance loop of the school. At arrival and dismissal times, students must be picked up and dropped off at the designated area only. Pick up before 3:00pm is considered an "early pick-up" anything after 3:00pm is considered regular pick up. Please plan and update Pik My Kid accordingly. We have security personnel stationed at the crosswalk during both arrival and dismissal times to assist pedestrians in need of ADA support.