Arrival

Classes begin at 8:30 AM. Students are tardy at 8:29. Families arriving after 8:29 AM will need to park and enter the school through the Front Office. Tardy students must be accompanied by a parent. We strongly suggest you pull into the school driveway no later than 8:10 AM to ensure your child has time to unpack and prepare for class.

Morning Traffic

Follow directions provided by the traffic team and do not use your cell phone. Please follow the driveway up and around to stop in front of the gym. Please do not drive-through cones set up to direct traffic.

Afternoon Pick Up Window

The pick-up hours are staggered in order to control traffic congestion on New Haw Creek Road.

Dismissal times are as follows:

Monday
K-8 - 1:35

Tuesday-Friday
K-2 - 2:50-3:05
3-5 - 3:00-3:15
6-8 - 3:15-3:25

Afternoon Traffic

Please follow the directions provided by the afternoon traffic team. Staff will indicate when to move and when to stop. Afternoon traffic flows in two lanes. Do not use your cell phone, please.

Dismissal

There is a 10-15 minute pickup window after each dismissal time and we expect parents to pick up their children within this time frame. Students with older siblings or in carpools with older students will be in the dismissal time and pickup window of the older student. If children are not picked up during their window, with no exceptions, students will be sent to EverAfter. Applicable EverAfter fees will be charged to the parent. The time after school is professional development, planning, and conference opportunities for teachers, and they cannot provide child care during this time. Dismissal procedures are designed to help ensure the safety of every child.

Early dismissals after 1:00 on Mondays and after 2:30 on Tuesdays through Fridays will not be permitted except in special circumstances or emergencies. Parents are encouraged to schedule appointments later in the day so students do not miss important instructional time at the end of their school day.

Students who are not registered for EverAfter but are sent there because of not being picked up from school on time will be charged a $3 fee if picked up within 30 minutes of the end of their pickup window, or a full daily fee if picked up after 30 minutes. They will wait with the attendance manager rather than participating with their age groups.

If your child is going home with someone other than a parent or guardian, we need written permission. You will be given a form to fill out indicating all carpool or pick-up arrangements. Please write an individual note for exceptions. Pickup permissions for EverAfter must go directly through EverAfter.

Park & Walk Initiative

All parents and students who are physically able are encouraged to park in the Lower Lot by the ball field, walk up the trail through the woods (not the pool driveway), safely cross the school’s driveway and parking lot using crosswalks, and arrive at school.

With signed parental permission, middle school students (grades 6-8) may walk to the Lower Lot at dismissal time so parents can pick them up there no later than 3:25 rather than wait in the traffic line. Should students remain in the lot after 3:25, they will be brought back to EverAfter and parents can pick them up there (EverAfter fees will apply).

Walking to the Lower Lot is a privilege for students, and parents are responsible for any misconduct that occurs once a student is off school property. When walking to the Lower Lot after school, we ask students to follow these safety guidelines:

● Walk safely along the Oakes Trail to the ballfield parking lot.
● Quietly socialize until parents arrive.
● Refrain from using cell phones until seated in the grass.
● Stay out of and away from the creek.

Artsonia

Artsonia is an online art gallery designed to connect parents and families with their child’s creative activities at school. Artsonia offers high-quality keepsakes with your child’s art at cost. Twenty percent of your purchase goes to our art program.

Tree Trot - A Fun Run

Each spring, our fun run is a fitness-based fundraiser that encourages students to collect pledges for running laps around the gym. In 2022 our students redesigned the event, took it out of corporate hands and made it a more home-grown/grass roots tradition, and the Tree Trot was born. It accounted for 46K in revenue!

Compassion Fund

We support our families in times of crisis with donations, lunch box sales, schoolwide event food sales, and consignment sales. There is a Community Pantry available to any Evergreen community member who is in need, for whatever reason. Please inquire at the front desk.

Book Fair

We generate funds for our library and the greater school through fiction and nonfiction sales. We also do a fundraiser before each event to make sure no child leaves the book fair without a book. Any excess funds are used to purchase titles from teacher wishlists.

Cans for Climbing

Help support the climbing wall by donating your aluminum cans: there’s a recycling cage by the dumpster.

Fall Pictures

We take student pictures in the fall. These pictures are included in the yearbook, and are also available for purchase. A percentage of those purchases are donated to the school.

Spring Gala and Silent Auction

Each Spring our community gets together to dance and socialize and bid on items donated by area businesses who support our mission, vision and values!

Further Initiatives

Support Evergreen during your shopping runs! The setup is pretty doable from your end. And let us tell you, those proceeds do add up!

Box Tops for Education
Harris Teeter: Together in Education
Ingles' Tools for Schools
Publix Partners