Get ready for the class lists.

According to the announcement on the front door of the Bluffton elementary school, class lists will be posted by 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 21.

• Kindergarten and first grade lists will be posted by the K-1 entrance on Lawn Avenue. 
• Second grade and third grade lists will be posted at the traditional location, which is the elementary main entrance. 
• Fourth and fifth grade lists will be posted at the fifth grade entrance at the corner of Jackson and Vine.

Arrival procedures
New arrival procedures are in place for this school year. They follow:

• Kindergarten and first grade students will enter from Lawn Avenue.
• Second and third grade students will enter at the front entrance of the elementary.
• Fourth and fifth grade students will enter on the Jackson Street fifth grade doorway.

Second through fifth grade students crossing Jackson Street must cross at the main crossing in front of the main school entrance.

School begins at 8:10 a.m.  and the entrance doors will open at 7:30 a.m. The school is asking that parents wait until 7:45 a.m. to drop off students. 

Parents are not permitted to enter the building unless granted permission by the principal.

New dismissal procedures
Students will be dismissed by grade level at alternating times this year. 

• Students walking home or being picked up will depart out the front doors with fourth and fifth graders departing from the fifth grade doors.
• Kindergarten and first graders will depart from the middle school entrance. 
• Second and third graders will depart from the main entrance.

Any Kindergarten or first grader not picked up by 3:10 p.m. will be escorted back and will wait at the elementary main entrance.