How to have a successful day at Homeschool Unlimited Co-op!
Please read the below student handbook
First day of school
do’s and don’ts
do’s and don’ts
How to have a successful day at Homeschool Unlimited Co-op!
The student handbook is being periodically edited to reflect the 2022-23 school year. Please read and refer back often. We expect the editing to be done by the end of June. Not much will change but somethings will be added.😊
Communication
Perhaps the most important factors in a successful school year for everyone is open communication between parents, teachers, staff and students.
•Make sure you are on our email newsletter list. If you have never received a group email, please text or email to Virginia right now at 757-717-7187.
• like and follow the Facebook page for the Virginia Beach School of the Arts. Posts are made there about four or five times a week.
• request to join the Facebook page VBSA PTA. Posts are made there almost daily.
•Get on your child’s Class Dojo. Get the app! There is a constant conversation between all the parents in your child’s class, your child’s teacher and school staff. This is a great way to daily stay in the loop about homework, upcoming events and more!
You have Mrs. Virginia‘s personal cell and email (757-717-7187, virginia@vbsota.com). Unless it is an extreme emergency, please do not text or call Virginia (or Samantha, the on site manager) on the weekends. An email over the weekend is fine. Please note that your text, call or email will be answered at their first available opportunity, often times within minutes or first thing Monday. Thanks!
Please ask your child’s teacher their preferred method of communication. If they do give you their personal cell, please respect their weekends, family time and holidays. Our teachers work very hard. They need to have their uninterrupted quality time with their families. Thanks!
Attend “Meet Your Teacher
Preschool for the Arts
Homeschool Unlimited
Saturday, September 3, 2022
PreK & K 3:30-5:00
1st-8th 3:30-4:30
At Meet your Teacher, PreK-1st grade will be given a fluorescent color coded name card with their child’sname on it. Laminating it is a great idea! Please display it clearly on the back of your passenger visor at pick up. If you don’t you will slow down the pick up line and cause a back up. Proper display lets us call for your child quickly for dismissal.
Please do not exit your vehicle in order to go to your child’s classroom or speak to their teacher. Pick up and drop off car lines are for just that, quick pick up and drop off. If you need to return to your child’s classroom, please park on the far end of the parking lot out of the way of the drop off/ pick up line and walk to your child’s classroom. Thanks!
If everyone can come prepared for the first day of school and abide by these procedures, things will go pretty smoothly😊. Please be patient. We have new families. Please be patient. Expect a long drop of car line at the beginning. Please be patient. After the first week, everyone will get the hang of things and the process will become more and more efficient.
PreK Drop off car line is 8:55-9:05. Turn right into the parking lot. Begin formation of a double car line. Single file will back things up. Please make a double car line. Drive down in front of both buildings. DO NOT STOP in front of 3083. Pull forward to the 3081 door. A cheerful staff member will greet your child. and escort them to the classroom. Please have your pictures already taken at home and have your child unbuckled and ready to exit your vehicle with one of our staff. If we all work together and are patient, things will go smoother and smoother each day as parents, students and teachers get in the groove.
K-1 Drop off car line is 9:10 - 9:15Turn right into the parking lot. Begin formation of a double car line. Single file will back things up. Have your child unbuckled and ready to exit your vehicle. Pull forward to the 3079 door. A cheerful staff member will greet your child. and escort them to the classroom. Please have your pictures already taken at home. If you have an older child at our school, they may exit the vehicle in the kindergarten and first drop off line. Do not get in the drop off line on Kings Grant Rd. If we all work together, are patient And follow these procedures, things will go smoother and smoother each day as parents, students and teachers get in the groove.
2nd-9th Grade drop off car line is 9:10-9:15.
Do not turn on Brickhouse Court or into the parking lot. You will drive on Kings Grant Rd and make a U turn at the park entrance. Pull as far forward as possible. Your child should exit QUICKLY, go up the stairs and head to their classroom. If we all work together and are patient, things will go smoother and smoother each day as parents, students and teachers get in the groove.
For pick up, display your child’s name on the back of your passenger visor (PreK -1st) and reverse the process. 2nd & up will be supervised on Kings Grant Rd as they await their parent’s vehicle. They do not need the name cards in the windshield.
Label everything please in black sharpie for grade. We have a lost and found. This is because people have not been labeling everything. Please label all of your child’s belongings.
Food
Every student PreK through 9th should bring a NUT FREE snack. That means no peanut butter. bring water only in a bottle/thermos. If your child is staying after words for enrichment classes or kids club, please remember to pack them extra water and another snack. If it’s during the warm summer months, please remember to pack more water than you think they need.
Kids Club
$6 to stay from dismissal until 1:00
$12 to be picked up between 1:01 and 2:00
$20 to stay until 3:00
(rate will be $7 per hour starting September 2022)
Kids club meets in 3093 for lunch then plays outside, but during inclement has inside games and crafts. Theresa Walker is the Kids Club director and her number is (757) 434-2630. Please text BOTH Theresa and Virginia (757-717-7187) for drop in availability. We might be full so please always check first. Pick up your child from 3093. You will sign them out. Please notify Theresa and the entire staff at the Virginia Beach School of the Arts is there is someone with whom your child should never leave.
Be prepared to show Theresa or another Kids Club staffer your payment. Please Venmo your payment to Virginia Dill@virginia-dill or PayPal to 757-717-7187.
Your child’s September tuition is due Sept 1. When remitting payment, please include
•your child’s first and last name
•grade
• extracurricular program name
You can include Kids club with tuition payments just PLEASE itemize them. If another family member is paying for your child, they must clearly identify and itemize their payment. When paying for your PreK student, please list the days they attend so we can continually cross reference.
Venmo payments to Virginia Dill@virginia-dill
Paypal payments to 757-717-7187
Or mail to:
Virginia Dill
10791 Aventura Dr
Jacksonville, FL 32256
Preschool for the Arts monthly tuition rates are based on the number of days your child is attending: $135/233/335/432/532
Kindergarten monthly tuition is $510
1st -9th grade monthly tuition is $550.
Withdrawing
If you withdraw from Preschool, Homeschool Unlimited or an extracurricular activity, please give Virginia Beach School of the Arts, 30 days written notification. This allows us time to fill the spot. Thank you!
Samantha is the on site manager. She will be available 5 days a week to you at sam@vbsota.com and +1 (757) 619-3149. Contact Sam if you are late, lost a sippy cup, have grandma picking up your child, need to pick up early, are sending in treat bags for a birthday, heard of an incident that needs clarification, etc. Sam will be mainly in the PreK suite but will be on site assisting the entire school. Save her number for easy access. Thank you for respecting Sam’s weekend time with her family and only contact her Saturday and Sunday if it is an emergency. Please only contact her during normal business hours Monday through Friday. You may send an email or Dojo message any time.
Contact the Director, Virginia Dill, for registration for classes, tuition payments, withdrawing from a program, etc. Not sure who to contact, send an email to both Sam and Virginia.
Sick policy: if your child has a profuse runny nose, fever, cough, unexplained rash etc, please keep them home. Any child we believe is not healthy will be separated and their parents called for pick up.
Absences
If your PreK child is sick or absent email on site manager Samantha Marti at sam@vbsota.com. If your k-9th grade child is sick or absent, pleasenotify their teacher.
Please be sure to get your teacher’s email and cell and get on Dojo! Please be respectful of your teacher’s weekends and evening. They have families too. Teachers need their down time to be able to give 100% in the classroom.
Please be respectful of our staffs’ weekends. Please do not text staff member on the weekend but rather send an email. We will get to it first thing Monday morning! You may post to dojo anytime, but please know that we value our family time. We will reply first thing on Monday.
We let our students use the bathroom when they ask. Teach your child to ask if they need to be excused.
If your child is not allowed to play on the tire swing or climb the trees, please let Virginia Dill know via email at virginia@vbsota.com.
If you are going to be more than 5 minutes late for pick up, your child may be sent to Kids Club in 3093 where you can pick them up. Our staff has other teaching duties in the afternoon, other places to be. Please be on time for pick up. Please be considerate. There is a five dollar fee for every 15 minute block that a parent is late for pick up. Under our new system, it will be charged automatically by the kids club staff and verified by your sign out time. We dismiss our staff as students are dismissed in the afternoon. If parents are late, this means we need to retain our staff past their scheduled work hours.
Are you receiving all the emails? If not, please text Virginia your email address right now at 757-717-7187.
Check the Virginia Beach School of the Arts calendar page on our website often.
If your child has ADD/ADHD, academic delays, psychiatric difficulties or similar, Homeschool Unlimited may not be the right fit for. Our staff is not trained to meet these needs. They do not have special Ed degrees. If at any time the peace and safety of the classrooms is compromised by a student, parents will be notified. The student may be immediately removed. Please know this upon enrollment. If your child becomes violent such as throwing a chair across the room or any other act endangering the safety of other students, immediate disenrollment will be considered.
Please read about the curriculums we use:
The Good and rhe Beautiful 3rd-9th)
https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/pre-k-8-curriculum/
Stratford Oxford (1st & 2nd)
Remember to register your child as a homeschooler, send in your Notice of Intent and sign up for Homeschool Unlimited at the Virginia Beach School of the Arts. Here is the best resource : https://heav.org/begin-homeschooling/notice-of-intent/
Communication
Perhaps the most important factors in a successful school year for everyone is open communication between parents, teachers, staff and students.
•Make sure you are on our email newsletter list. If you have never received a group email, please text or email to Virginia right now at 757-717-7187.
• like and follow the Facebook page for the Virginia Beach School of the Arts. Posts are made there about four or five times a week.
• request to join the Facebook page VBSA PTA. Posts are made there almost daily.
•Get on your child’s Class Dojo. Get the app! There is a constant conversation between all the parents in your child’s class, your child’s teacher and school staff. This is a great way to daily stay in the loop about homework, upcoming events and more!
You have Mrs. Virginia‘s personal cell and email (757-717-7187, virginia@vbsota.com). Unless it is an extreme emergency, please do not text or call Virginia (or Samantha, the on site manager) on the weekends. An email over the weekend is fine. Please note that your text, call or email will be answered at their first available opportunity, often times within minutes or first thing Monday. Thanks!
Please ask your child’s teacher their preferred method of communication. If they do give you their personal cell, please respect their weekends, family time and holidays. Our teachers work very hard. They need to have their uninterrupted quality time with their families. Thanks!
Attend “Meet Your Teacher
Preschool for the Arts
Homeschool Unlimited
Saturday, September 3, 2022
PreK & K 3:30-5:00
1st-8th 3:30-4:30
At Meet your Teacher, PreK-1st grade will be given a fluorescent color coded name card with their child’sname on it. Laminating it is a great idea! Please display it clearly on the back of your passenger visor at pick up. If you don’t you will slow down the pick up line and cause a back up. Proper display lets us call for your child quickly for dismissal.
Please do not exit your vehicle in order to go to your child’s classroom or speak to their teacher. Pick up and drop off car lines are for just that, quick pick up and drop off. If you need to return to your child’s classroom, please park on the far end of the parking lot out of the way of the drop off/ pick up line and walk to your child’s classroom. Thanks!
If everyone can come prepared for the first day of school and abide by these procedures, things will go pretty smoothly😊. Please be patient. We have new families. Please be patient. Expect a long drop of car line at the beginning. Please be patient. After the first week, everyone will get the hang of things and the process will become more and more efficient.
PreK Drop off car line is 8:55-9:05. Turn right into the parking lot. Begin formation of a double car line. Single file will back things up. Please make a double car line. Drive down in front of both buildings. DO NOT STOP in front of 3083. Pull forward to the 3081 door. A cheerful staff member will greet your child. and escort them to the classroom. Please have your pictures already taken at home and have your child unbuckled and ready to exit your vehicle with one of our staff. If we all work together and are patient, things will go smoother and smoother each day as parents, students and teachers get in the groove.
K-1 Drop off car line is 9:10 - 9:15Turn right into the parking lot. Begin formation of a double car line. Single file will back things up. Have your child unbuckled and ready to exit your vehicle. Pull forward to the 3079 door. A cheerful staff member will greet your child. and escort them to the classroom. Please have your pictures already taken at home. If you have an older child at our school, they may exit the vehicle in the kindergarten and first drop off line. Do not get in the drop off line on Kings Grant Rd. If we all work together, are patient And follow these procedures, things will go smoother and smoother each day as parents, students and teachers get in the groove.
2nd-9th Grade drop off car line is 9:10-9:15.
Do not turn on Brickhouse Court or into the parking lot. You will drive on Kings Grant Rd and make a U turn at the park entrance. Pull as far forward as possible. Your child should exit QUICKLY, go up the stairs and head to their classroom. If we all work together and are patient, things will go smoother and smoother each day as parents, students and teachers get in the groove.
For pick up, display your child’s name on the back of your passenger visor (PreK -1st) and reverse the process. 2nd & up will be supervised on Kings Grant Rd as they await their parent’s vehicle. They do not need the name cards in the windshield.
Label everything please in black sharpie for grade. We have a lost and found. This is because people have not been labeling everything. Please label all of your child’s belongings.
Food
Every student PreK through 9th should bring a NUT FREE snack. That means no peanut butter. bring water only in a bottle/thermos. If your child is staying after words for enrichment classes or kids club, please remember to pack them extra water and another snack. If it’s during the warm summer months, please remember to pack more water than you think they need.
Kids Club
$6 to stay from dismissal until 1:00
$12 to be picked up between 1:01 and 2:00
$20 to stay until 3:00
(rate will be $7 per hour starting September 2022)
Kids club meets in 3093 for lunch then plays outside, but during inclement has inside games and crafts. Theresa Walker is the Kids Club director and her number is (757) 434-2630. Please text BOTH Theresa and Virginia (757-717-7187) for drop in availability. We might be full so please always check first. Pick up your child from 3093. You will sign them out. Please notify Theresa and the entire staff at the Virginia Beach School of the Arts is there is someone with whom your child should never leave.
Be prepared to show Theresa or another Kids Club staffer your payment. Please Venmo your payment to Virginia Dill@virginia-dill or PayPal to 757-717-7187.
Your child’s September tuition is due Sept 1. When remitting payment, please include
•your child’s first and last name
•grade
• extracurricular program name
You can include Kids club with tuition payments just PLEASE itemize them. If another family member is paying for your child, they must clearly identify and itemize their payment. When paying for your PreK student, please list the days they attend so we can continually cross reference.
Venmo payments to Virginia Dill@virginia-dill
Paypal payments to 757-717-7187
Or mail to:
Virginia Dill
10791 Aventura Dr
Jacksonville, FL 32256
Preschool for the Arts monthly tuition rates are based on the number of days your child is attending: $135/233/335/432/532
Kindergarten monthly tuition is $510
1st -9th grade monthly tuition is $550.
Withdrawing
If you withdraw from Preschool, Homeschool Unlimited or an extracurricular activity, please give Virginia Beach School of the Arts, 30 days written notification. This allows us time to fill the spot. Thank you!
Samantha is the on site manager. She will be available 5 days a week to you at sam@vbsota.com and +1 (757) 619-3149. Contact Sam if you are late, lost a sippy cup, have grandma picking up your child, need to pick up early, are sending in treat bags for a birthday, heard of an incident that needs clarification, etc. Sam will be mainly in the PreK suite but will be on site assisting the entire school. Save her number for easy access. Thank you for respecting Sam’s weekend time with her family and only contact her Saturday and Sunday if it is an emergency. Please only contact her during normal business hours Monday through Friday. You may send an email or Dojo message any time.
Contact the Director, Virginia Dill, for registration for classes, tuition payments, withdrawing from a program, etc. Not sure who to contact, send an email to both Sam and Virginia.
Sick policy: if your child has a profuse runny nose, fever, cough, unexplained rash etc, please keep them home. Any child we believe is not healthy will be separated and their parents called for pick up.
Absences
If your PreK child is sick or absent email on site manager Samantha Marti at sam@vbsota.com. If your k-9th grade child is sick or absent, pleasenotify their teacher.
Please be sure to get your teacher’s email and cell and get on Dojo! Please be respectful of your teacher’s weekends and evening. They have families too. Teachers need their down time to be able to give 100% in the classroom.
Please be respectful of our staffs’ weekends. Please do not text staff member on the weekend but rather send an email. We will get to it first thing Monday morning! You may post to dojo anytime, but please know that we value our family time. We will reply first thing on Monday.
We let our students use the bathroom when they ask. Teach your child to ask if they need to be excused.
If your child is not allowed to play on the tire swing or climb the trees, please let Virginia Dill know via email at virginia@vbsota.com.
If you are going to be more than 5 minutes late for pick up, your child may be sent to Kids Club in 3093 where you can pick them up. Our staff has other teaching duties in the afternoon, other places to be. Please be on time for pick up. Please be considerate. There is a five dollar fee for every 15 minute block that a parent is late for pick up. Under our new system, it will be charged automatically by the kids club staff and verified by your sign out time. We dismiss our staff as students are dismissed in the afternoon. If parents are late, this means we need to retain our staff past their scheduled work hours.
Are you receiving all the emails? If not, please text Virginia your email address right now at 757-717-7187.
Check the Virginia Beach School of the Arts calendar page on our website often.
If your child has ADD/ADHD, academic delays, psychiatric difficulties or similar, Homeschool Unlimited may not be the right fit for. Our staff is not trained to meet these needs. They do not have special Ed degrees. If at any time the peace and safety of the classrooms is compromised by a student, parents will be notified. The student may be immediately removed. Please know this upon enrollment. If your child becomes violent such as throwing a chair across the room or any other act endangering the safety of other students, immediate disenrollment will be considered.
Please read about the curriculums we use:
The Good and rhe Beautiful 3rd-9th)
https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/pre-k-8-curriculum/
Stratford Oxford (1st & 2nd)
Remember to register your child as a homeschooler, send in your Notice of Intent and sign up for Homeschool Unlimited at the Virginia Beach School of the Arts. Here is the best resource : https://heav.org/begin-homeschooling/notice-of-intent/