Transport

If driving, you may access the carpark at 6 Cambridge Street.

You have two options:

1.  Pull up at the car drop-off/pick-up area and your child may exit the car here and and walk up the stairs to the playground area.  PLEASE NOTE: Students are only to get out on the left-hand side of the vehicle are are NOT to walk behind the car to get bags out of the boot. If you have items in your boot, please park and walk your children as instructed below.
2. Park in the carpark and the parent walks their child up to the school entrance on P1 or to the playground. At no time are students permitted to walk through the carpark unaccompanied by an adult. Car spots 32-40 on P2 have easy access to the school entrance via stairs.

Please note that free parking is available for 30mins in the morning, then again in the afternoon.  If you stay longer you will be required to pay at the gate or at the parking machine located at the entry to the school.

Please attempt to park rear to curb.

If you are required to extend your stay in the carpark for a school related issue, please visit the Office for license plate verification before leaving the carpark.

Some limited street parking spaces are available around the school. Please observe traffic regulations when parking your car. Police and Parking Inspectors patrol the area regularly.

Year 5 and Year 6 children who walk home will exit the school grounds through the Cambridge Street or Oxford Street gates. Please note, younger years cannot walk home by themselves.

Children who are being collected by their parents/carers from the playground are to meet on the space outside the Office. Parents are asked to wait on the red paved area at the bottom of the stairs. Parents may also organise to meet their child at the Oxford or Cambridge Street gates.

If you have parked in the carpark for afternoon pickup, please park level P2 or P3 and use the stairs to enter the school grounds (open from 2.50pm).

• Please note that free parking for afternoon pick up is available for 30 minutes.  If you stay longer you will be required to pay at the gate (or the school parking machine located on the P1 entry to the school).
• Children not collected by 3.15pm will return to the School Office to wait for their parents to collect them. Parents are asked to phone the Office if you are running late.
• If you are collecting your child from school before 3pm you will need to go to the School Office to collect your child and sign them out at the Kiosk. If you are aware in advance that your child will leave early, you are asked to email or phone the Office.

Drive Through commences at 3pm

Each family will receive two yellow signs (one for each car) with your child’s last name. Please clearly display this sign on your left-hand sun visor.  A rubber band at each end is usually the best way to secure the sign to your visor.

PROCEDURE

• Children sit in the glass Drive Through pick up area under Teacher supervision
• Parents pull up on the red line in a queue
• Parents are to remain in their car at all times
• Parents make sure their yellow sign is showing on the left hand side of their car, preferably on the sun visor
• The supervising teacher uses a microphone to call each child’s last name
• Staff will stand along the pedestrian path marked in white and supervise the students as they go to their car
• Students are only to get into their car from the left hand side
• No items are to be placed in the boot
• Parents are to remind their child to put on seat belt before driving off

There is a local student-only bus service for those parents who would like their older child to catch the bus from OLHC Epping to their nearest bus stop.

The two services available cover the North Epping area (route No. 710) and the Dence Park area (special route No. 711). For Student Opal cards applications and information go to transportnsw.info/school-students.

Student opal cards are available for children who are:

• Kindergarten – Year 2 children, irrespective of the distance from home to school.
• Students in Years 3 to 6 who reside more than 1.6 kilometres from the school.