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The Welcome Guide.
Everything a family needs for the year, written by parents who were new last year. Doors, buses, uniforms, lunch, apps, who to ask when something goes wrong. English and Spanish, one document.
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It is a PDF on purpose — print it, screenshot it, send it to the grandparent doing pickup on Thursdays.
Edition 26–27, dated 9 August 2026. Written by the Welcome Committee.
PDF · 2026–27 edition
PDF · edición 2026–27
What is in it
The questions everybody asks in September.
The school day
Doors open 8:10–8:15. Hours 8:30 to 2:45. No supervision before 8:15. Late is after 8:45.
Getting there
Buses rarely arrive before 8:05. Chipmunk for bus tracking, and how to reach transportation when it goes wrong.
The apps
ClassDojo, ParentVue, MySchoolBucks, MySchoolApps. Which one is for what, and which you can ignore.
Immersion, explained
How the two-language model actually works, and why not understanding your kid’s homework in October is normal.
When something is wrong
Illness, the nurse, Hazel Health telehealth, and who to call first.
How to meet people
Social Fridays, the swaps, WhatsApp, grade reps. The part that makes the rest easier.
Something missing or out of date?
The guide is rewritten every summer by the Welcome Committee. If you hit a question it did not answer, that is a gap worth telling us about — it goes in next year’s edition.