GJPS Preschool Weekly Update

If you need an activation code, please email stevensm@gjps.org.

Preschool Packets

Students with Disabilities Packet

Peer Model Packet

Preschool Supply List

You can view the preschool supply list HERE

Preschool arrival and dismissal procedures are linked below.

Goshen Lane Arrival & Dismissal

Clark Hall Arrival & Dismissal

Your child will be getting a color-coded wrist band and a car/bus tag. Please do NOT cut this off your child's backpack. This assists our staff with arrival and dismissal procedures.

Your child will be getting color-coded cards with numbers that you will be required to bring each day to pick your child up. We will be checking these cards daily, so please remember to bring them!

LATE PICK UP FEES

Parents/Guardians of peer model(s) who pick up their child after the scheduled pick-up time will be charged a late fee equal to $1.00 per minute, per child. Teachers will be asked to complete a Late Pick Up Acknowledgement form for parents/guardians who pick up their child after the scheduled pickup time. Parents/Guardians will be asked to sign the Late Pick Up Acknowledgement form and will be given a copy before leaving the preschool with their child. The fee must be paid in cash or check to the receptionist at Clark Hall, 380 Granville St., Suite B. Gahanna, Ohio 43230 before the child can be admitted back to their preschool class. If there are more than six violations, then your child may be dismissed from the program.

Infinite Campus/ Instructional Fees

Instructional Fees are $17.50. Payment can be made through Infinite Campus parent portal, cash, check or money order.

• Cash should be exact change.

• Checks should be made payable to Gahanna Jefferson Public Schools and returned to the preschool secretary, Mary Ann Stevens. Please write your child's name and building in the memo portion of your check.

Your family should have received a staggered start date for your student through your personalized email on one of the following staggered start days August 18th-August 19th. Please send your student on their assigned staggered start date ONLY. All preschoolers will start a regular schedule beginning August 21, 2025.

Transportation will continue to be provided on staggered start dates for students with disabilities that require special transportation as a related service.

For any students that will be riding the bus, families can download the app to see where the child is or where the bus is in their route.

Please find the attached survey that will assist our preschool staff in gaining information about your families needs. If you choose to complete it electronically, please complete it online below by clicking the yellow button. A paper copy of the survey will be sent home with your child in the upcoming weeks with an option to OPT out of the survey.

Our preschool will be using Talking Points to message/communicate with your family. I will be posting messages through Talking Points and sending it through School Messenger as a second form of communication. Your family will not need to sign up for this. If you have students in multiple grade levels, this communication platform will be used district-wide to help centralize communication.

Our preschool licensing rules require us to have an updated medical statement on each student after EACH annual exam. The medical statement form is attached below. Take this form to your child's yearly exam to have completed by their pediatrician. If you need a form sent home, please let us know and we would be happy to print and send it home!

Forms will be sent home next week for returning families to indicate if your child's medical statement is expired, will be expiring soon, or we do not have on file.

August 18-19- Staggered Start Dates

August 20 -Staff in required training for preschool

August 21- First Day of Preschool