Dear Memorial Families,
I am so excited to finally roll out PickUp Patrol (PUP) to our families! You should have received an email today to set up your account, and a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Schmidt for pre-loading all of the default dismissal plans into the system.
Once you have an account set up, please take a look at the default dismissal plan for each of your children and make any permanent adjustments needed to their default plan for each day of the week. This will be how we dismiss your child if you do not make any changes. You can make changes for a one-day change or even for multiple days/weeks at a time. This will be a huge time saver for all of you at home and for our staff as well. We have been using it internally and it has worked really well so I am happy to give all of you access to it as well. Thank you MMPTO!
A few notes:
- You can now report absences right in PUP if your child is ill or absent for any reason.
- This will avoid us calling home as we will expect the absence.
- You can also report a late arrival if you know ahead of time that your child will be tardy.
- This will avoid us calling home as we will expect the late arrival.
- You can manage and change your child's daily dismissal procedure right in PUP.
- Please note that ALL changes in dismissal need to be entered by 2:00PM, so please plan ahead :).
- You no longer need to email Mrs. Schmidt, your child's teacher, and Nurse Morrissey for absences, tardies, and dismissal changes as long as you use PUP to communicate those changes!
My hope is that this tool will alleviate some stress from the busy lives of families while decreasing the human error component with our former method of communicating these changes to our students' day.
If you have questions or need assistance, please reach out to Mrs. Schmidt or myself. We are here for you!
Here are some helpful FAQs:
Have a great weekend!
Best,
John
