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On-campus Students Grades K-8
Student packets will be mailed June 14th, which will include your child's class schedule.
Below, you'll find everything you need to know as you prepare for Summer Festival of Learning
including important action items, arrival and dismissal instructions, what to wear, homework guidance, and more.
Mandatory To-Do List Before Coming to Campus
1. Review and sign the COVID-19 Liability Waiver and Assumption of the Risk
2. Receive a negative COVID test prior to coming on campus
Pinewood Upper Campus Drive-Thru Testing
- Thursday, July 15 for ALL students Grades K-8 that begin July 19 | 3:30-5:30 pm
Step 1: Register for Testing
Step 2: Download, Print, and Complete the Consent Forms
Step 3: Make a Testing Appointment
Click Here for More Information Regarding Testing
If students use other testing sites, testing must take place on or after July 1 for the July 6th start date and on or after July 15 for the July 19 start date. Results must be submitted to Theresa Maksim no later than Saturday, July 3 (or for Session 2 Saturday, July 17).
Select the grade your child will be entering in the 2021-2022 school year.
- Lower (Grades K-2)
- Middle (Grades 2-4)
- Upper (Grades 5-8)
- Lunch Program
- Contact Us
- Pay Tuition Balance
Lower (Grades K-2)
- Safety Protocols
- Program Details
- Arrival + Dismissal Instructions
- Curtain Time Performances for 4-Week Students
Safety Protocols
COVID-19 Safety Protocols
We are excited to welcome you to the Summer Festival of Learning on Tuesday, July 6th. We are writing to inform you of slight updates to our COVID-19 protocols. In order to align with the state and county guidelines, as of TODAY, June 18, these are our most recent updates:
- Face Masks
- Are required indoors at all times. At this time, K-12 schools still require vaccinated individuals to be masked indoors. Please make sure your child attends each day with a clean mask that properly covers both the nose and mouth. Gators are not allowed.
- Physical Distancing
- Student desks will be at least 3 feet apart per current guidelines.
- Students will eat outdoors and remain 6ft apart while eating lunch.
- Grades K-6 will be in stable groups of 9-14 students. Tracks will not mingle with other tracks while outdoors or indoors.
- Grades 7 & 8 will not be in cohorts, but will follow current physical distancing protocols.
- In some cases, students staying for the 3pm-5pm Extended Care will be assigned to an afternoon cohort that is slightly different than their morning cohort.
As always, these are subject to change at any time when new information is available to us.
As a reminder, if your child is experiencing any COVID or flu-like symptoms, please refrain from bringing them to school and notify the appropriate campus office manager.
Program Details
Lower Campus Grades K-2
Please note: Grade 2 students that are registered for the 4wk program with a dismissal time of 3pm or 5pm are assigned to the MIDDLE Campus. All other Grade 2 students are assigned to the LOWER Campus.
Location
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Pinewood Lower Campus 477 Fremont Ave, Los Altos, CA 94024
First Day of School
- 4-week session | Tuesday, July 6th
- 2-week session 1 | Tuesday, July 6th
- 2-week session 2 | July 19th
July 6th & 7th | Staggered Arrival
- Students in Grades 1 & 2 arrive at 8:10 am. (Please arrive before 8:20 am.)
- Students in Kindergarten arrive at 8:25 am. (Please don't arrive any earlier than 8:20 am unless a student's sibling is in the earlier arrival time.)
- Teachers will be on hand to greet students as cars continue through the arrival line; you do not need to leave your car. If you feel it absolutely necessary to walk with your child, please park on Fremont Avenue and walk to the entry gate where you can leave your child to join his/her track.
Regular Arrival After July 7th
- Lower Campus will open at 8:05 am each day and classes begin at 8:30.
- There is no before-school supervision. Students should not arrive at school earlier than 8:05 am.
- When your child arrives on campus, he/she will go directly to his/her classroom.
- Session 2 students arriving on July 19, will be directed to the field where they will be oriented and matched with their cohort and teachers.
Name Tags
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All students will receive a name tag in the mail. Please have your child wear his/her name tag every day the first week of the program.
Dismissal (12:30 pm, 2:55 pm, & 5:00 pm)
(please note: if you registered for a 3:00 pm pick-up, dismissal at Lower Campus will begin at 2:55 pm in order to give parents more time to pick up their other children at a different campus.)
- Dismissal is a very busy time, especially the 2:55pm dismissal. Therefore, we ask for your complete cooperation and patience.
- Please read the dismissal instructions carefully (in separate tab, below).
- A car sign with your child's name on it will be sent in the mail. Before entering the dismissal line, please place the car sign in the front, driver's side corner of your car's windshield.
- Your child's dismissal pick-up time is indicated on their name tag that you will receive in the mail.
- There is a 15-minute grace period if a student is picked up after his/her selected dismissal time. If a student is picked up after the 15-minute grace period, a late fee will be charged to the student's account.
Leaving Early in the Day
- During the school day, if your child needs to leave early, please go to the office where you will sign him/her out and then your child will be called to join you.
Absences
- If you know your student will be absent on a given day(s) prior to the start of the program, please email your child's name, grade, and the date(s) he/she will be absent to lcsummer@pinewood.edu.
- If your child has any COVID-19 symptoms, please keep them home from school.
- If your child tests positive for COVID-19 or becomes sick with ANY infectious disease (Hand/Foot/Mouth, Strep, lice, etc.), please call the office immediately.
Attire + School Supplies
- Kindergarten students will receive a bag labeled with their name. This bag will be sent home every Friday with their week's work. Please return these bags empty every Monday.
- Students in grades 1 and 2 should bring a small backpack and writing utensils (pencil and eraser)
- Students should bring a filled water bottle, water only. Drinking fountains will only be allowed to be used to refill water bottles.
- School attire is casual; clothes should be comfortable and suitable for enthusiastic work and play.
- Shoes appropriate for play should be worn.
- All other school supplies will be provided.
For students who have a 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm Pick-Up
- Splash Bash (Week 4): bring a swimsuit, sunscreen, towel, and water shoes.
- Students enrolled in Take Your Pick (3:00-5:00 pm) will have the option to get wet. If your child would like to participate in any water activities, please have him/her bring a swimsuit, sunscreen, towel, and water shoes (going barefoot is not permitted).
Snack/Lunch
- Students will have a break/snack sometime between 10:00 am - 11:00am daily. Please send your child to school each day with a healthy and substantial snack labeled with his/her name.
- Students that are enrolled in a 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm dismissal should bring a sack lunch unless they have ordered the Epicurean lunch program.
- All COVID-19 safety rules will be followed for snack and lunch breaks including tracks staying separate from one another while receiving and eating their lunch. All students will have lunch and snack outside.
Homework (Grade 1 & 2 only)
- Regular homework assignments will be given in the following classes for Grade 1 & 2: Language Arts Essentials and Math Basics/Mastery.
- Your child should do homework independently. This helps the teacher assess your student’s mastery of the concepts in the homework and determine whether your child needs reinforcement on any concept.
- If your child does not understand the assigned homework, please write a brief note to the teacher indicating that there are difficulties.
Academic Class Progress Check
We invite you to track your child's progress and curriculum in the following ways:
Kindergarten
- A bag with your child's work and class newsletters will be sent home on Fridays. Please review and return the bag empty on Mondays.
- The teacher will contact you if your student is experiencing difficulties.
- You are welcome to contact the teacher if you have any questions. The best way to contact teachers is via email. Summer Festival of Learning teacher email addresses are formatted as such: first initial + last name @pinewood.edu (ex. tjones@pinewood.edu). Teachers’ first initial and last names are listed on your student’s schedule that will be mailed June 14th.
Grades 1 & 2
- Read weekly class e-newsletters.
- Check your child's class take-home folder, spiral, and/or workbook on a regular basis. Corrections will be in a different color. (Math Basics/Mastery and Language Arts Essentials classes have a workbook from which they will do their daily homework.)
- Sign and return quizzes that are given in the following classes: Math Basics/Mastery and Language Arts Essentials. Quizzes typically come home on Mondays and should be returned to the teacher the following day as part of the homework.
- The teacher will contact you if your student is experiencing difficulties.
- You are welcome to contact the teacher if you have any questions. The best way to contact teachers is via email. Summer Festival of Learning teacher email addresses are formatted as such: first initial + last name @pinewood.edu (ex. tjones@pinewood.edu). Teachers’ first initial and last names are listed on your student’s schedule that will be mailed June 14th.
Questions and Cancellations
- Questions prior to July 6th: please contact the office at (650) 209-3050 or lcsummer@pinewood.edu.
- Questions about Student Schedules: email Laura Blotter prior to June 25th.
- Cancellations: please email Barbara Hantke immediately as we have other students on our waiting list.
Arrival + Dismissal Instructions
- Place the car sign that you received in the mail with your child’s name in the front, left corner (driver’s side) of your car’s windshield to aid us in loading your child at dismissal.
- To help us unload or load students in the car more easily, please place car seats behind the passenger seat or middle seat. Once your student is loaded and if he/she needs help fastening his/her seat belt, please pull up to the circle a few yards away to do this.
- In order to avoid gridlock on Fremont Avenue left turns into the school driveway during arrival and dismissal are not permitted.
- Once inside the driveway, you will be directed into the correct lane.
- Please do not leave your vehicle once you have entered the arrival and dismissal area.
- When queued on Campbell Avenue, please do not block neighborhood driveways.
- You may turn right or left when you exit.
- For the safety of all students, it is important that you utilize the drop-off and pick-up lines as opposed to parking and walking into the school during arrival and dismissal.
- Please do not drive on Bellevue Court (adjacent to Middle Campus) at any time. The use of Bellevue Court during arrival and dismissal is prohibited at all times.
- Dropping-off or picking-up a student along Campbell Avenue or in the Campbell Avenue parking lot is strictly prohibited at all times. This includes using the Campbell Avenue gate to walk into the school to pick-up your child.
- No “U” turns are allowed on Campbell or Fremont Avenues
- If your child needs to be picked-up early, park along Fremont Avenue and walk into the school via the crosswalk located between the administration building and Fremont Avenue.
- Please note: there are red "no parking" zones, enforced by the City of Los Altos, located between the exit driveway and adjacent neighbor and alongside the fire hydrant in front of the school. Cars are not allowed to park in this zone for loading or unloading; vehicles may be ticketed.
5:00 pm Dismissal
You have a choice of using the pick-up line or parking in the parking spaces in the driveway and picking up your child on the lawn area. If walking in, please bring your car sign with your child's name and check your child out with the teacher.
Curtain Time Performances for 4-Week Students
Curtain Time! is a class option for students enrolled in the 4-week program with a 3pm or 5pm pick-up. When you receive your schedule in the mail mid-June, if it includes “Curtain Time!,” then your child will have a performance on Thursday, July 29 or Friday, July 30. More information will be posted here and emailed to parents.
Please Note: Students enrolled in Curtain Time! must be in attendance all four weeks of the summer program. If your student is enrolled in this class and will be absent more than four days or absent for the performance, please email Heather McCauley immediately so she can change his/her schedule.
Middle (Grades 2-4)
- Safety Protocols
- Program Details
- Arrival + Dismissal Instructions
- Curtain Time Performances for 4-Week Students
Safety Protocols
COVID-19 Safety Protocols
We are excited to welcome you to the Summer Festival of Learning on Tuesday, July 6th. We are writing to inform you of slight updates to our COVID-19 protocols. In order to align with the state and county guidelines, as of TODAY, June 18, these are our most recent updates:
- Face Masks
- Are required indoors at all times. At this time, K-12 schools still require vaccinated individuals to be masked indoors. Please make sure your child attends each day with a clean mask that properly covers both the nose and mouth. Gators are not allowed.
- Physical Distancing
- Student desks will be at least 3 feet apart per current guidelines.
- Students will eat outdoors and remain 6ft apart while eating lunch.
As always, these are subject to change at any time when new information is available to us.
As a reminder, if your child is experiencing any COVID or flu-like symptoms, please refrain from bringing them to school and notify the appropriate campus office manager.
Program Details
Middle Campus Grades 2-4
Please note: Grade 2 students that are registered for the 2-week sessions and the 4-week session with a dismissal time of 12:30 pm are assigned to the Lower Campus.
Location
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Pinewood Middle Campus 327 Fremont Avenue, Los Altos, CA 94024
First Day of School
- 4-week session | Tuesday, July 6th
- 2-week session 1 | Tuesday, July 6th
- 2-week session 2 | July 19th
July 6th & 7th | Staggered Arrival
- Students in Grades 3 & 4 arrive at 8:10 am. (Please arrive before 8:20 am.)
- Students in Grade 2 arrive at 8:25 am. (Please don't arrive any earlier than 8:20 am unless a student's sibling is in the earlier arrival time.)
- Teachers will be on hand to greet students as cars continue through the arrival line; you do not need to leave your car.
Regular Arrival After July 7th
- Middle Campus will open at 8:05 am each day and classes begin at 8:30.
- There is no before-school supervision. Students should not arrive at school earlier than 8:05 am.
- When your child arrives on campus, he/she will go directly to his/her classroom.
- Session 2 students arriving on July 19, will be directed to the field where they will be oriented and matched with their cohort and teachers.
Name Tags
-
All students will receive a name tag in the mail. Please have your child wear his/her name tag every day the first week of the program.
Dismissal (12:30 pm, 3:00 pm, & 5:00 pm)
- Dismissal is a very busy time, especially the 3:00 pm dismissal. Therefore, we ask for your complete cooperation and patience.
- Please read the dismissal instructions carefully (in separate tab, below).
- A car sign with your child's name on it will be sent in the mail. Before entering the dismissal line, please place the car sign in the front, driver's side corner of your car's windshield.
- Your child's dismissal pick-up time is indicated on their schedule and name tag that you will receive in the mail.
- There is a 15-minute grace period if a student is picked up after his/her selected dismissal time. If a student is picked up after the 15-minute grace period, a late fee will be charged to the student's account.
Leaving Early in the Day
- During the school day, if your child needs to leave early, please go to the office where you will sign him/her out and then your child will be called to join you.
Absences
- If you know your student will be absent on a given day(s) prior to the start of the program, please email your child's name, grade, and the date(s) he/she will be absent to mcsummer@pinewood.edu.
- If your child has any COVID-19 symptoms, please keep them home from school.
- If your child tests positive for COVID-19 or becomes sick with ANY infectious disease (Hand/Foot/Mouth, Strep, lice, etc.), please call the office immediately.
Attire + School Supplies
- Students should bring a small backpack and writing utensils (pencil and eraser)
- Students should bring a filled water bottle, water only. Drinking fountains will only be allowed to be used to refill water bottles.
- School attire is casual; clothes should be comfortable and suitable for enthusiastic work and play.
- Shoes appropriate for play should be worn.
- All other school supplies will be provided.
For students who have a 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm Pick-Up
- Splash Bash (Week 4): bring a swimsuit, sunscreen, towel, and water shoes.
- Students enrolled in Take Your Pick (3:00-5:00 pm) will have the option to get wet. If your child would like to participate in any water activities, please have him/her bring a swimsuit, sunscreen, towel, and water shoes (going barefoot is not permitted).
Snack/Lunch
- Students will have a break/snack sometime between 10:00 am - 11:00am daily. Please send your child to school each day with a healthy and substantial snack labeled with his/her name.
- Students that are enrolled in a 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm dismissal should bring a sack lunch unless they have ordered the Epicurean lunch program.
- All COVID-19 safety rules will be followed for snack and lunch breaks including tracks staying separate from one another while receiving and eating their lunch. All students will have lunch and snack outside.
Homework
- Regular homework assignments will be given in the following classes: Language Arts Essentials and Math Mastery.
- Your child should do homework independently. This helps the teacher assess your student’s mastery of the concepts in the homework and determine whether your child needs reinforcement on any concept.
- If your child does not understand the assigned homework, please write a brief note to the teacher indicating that there are difficulties.
Academic Class Progress Check
We invite you to track your child's progress and curriculum in the following ways:
- Read weekly class e-newsletters.
- Check your child's class take-home folder, spiral, and/or workbook on a regular basis. Corrections will be in a different color. (Math Mastery and Language Arts Essentials classes have a workbook from which they will do their daily homework.)
- Sign and return quizzes that are given in the following classes: Math Mastery and Language Arts Essentials. Quizzes typically come home on Mondays and should be returned to the teacher the following day as part of the homework.
- The teacher will contact you if your student is experiencing difficulties.
- You are welcome to contact the teacher if you have any questions. The best way to contact teachers is via email. Summer Festival of Learning teacher email addresses are formatted as such: first initial + last name @pinewood.edu (ex. tjones@pinewood.edu). Teachers’ first initial and last names are listed on your student’s schedule that will be mailed June 14th.
Questions and Cancellations
- Questions prior to July 6th: please contact the office at (650) 209-3030 or mcsummer@pinewood.edu
- Questions about Student Schedules: email Heather McCauley prior to June 25th.
- Cancellations: please email Barbara Hantke immediately as we have other students on our waiting list.
Arrival + Dismissal Instructions
Place the car sign that you received in the mail with your child’s name in the front, left corner (driver’s side) of your car’s windshield to aid us in loading your child at dismissal.
Morning Drop-off
- One lane of traffic only is in use during morning drop-off
- Your student(s) must exit on the vehicle's passenger side.
- Use the left lane at the top of the driveway to exit turning left (use the right lane to turn right).
- Important! Pull up to the end of the red curb near the administrations building so that more cars are able to unload.
Afternoon Dismissal
- Two lanes of traffic are in use during afternoon dismissal.
- Your student(s) must enter on the vehicle's passenger side.
- Several teachers will be on duty to assist students.
- Remain in your vehicle; we will call your student to come to you.
- Important! Choose your lane according to how you will exit (turning left: use the left lane, turning right: use the right lane). No lane changes are allowed in the driveway.
5:00 pm Dismissal
You have a choice of using the pick-up line or parking in the parking spaces in the driveway and picking up your child on the lawn area. If walking in, please bring your car sign with your child's name and check your child out with the teacher.
Curtain Time Performances for 4-Week Students
Curtain Time! is a class option for students enrolled in the 4-week program with a 3pm or 5pm pick-up. When you receive your schedule in the mail mid-June, if it includes “Curtain Time!,” then your child will have a performance on Thursday, July 29 or Friday, July 30. More information will be posted here and emailed to parents.
Please Note: Students enrolled in Curtain Time! must be in attendance all four weeks of the summer program. If your student is enrolled in this class and will be absent more than four days or absent for the performance, please email Heather McCauley immediately so she can change his/her schedule.
Upper (Grades 5-8)
- Safety Protocols
- Program Details
- Arrival + Dismissal Instructions
- Curtain Time Performances for 4-Week Students
Safety Protocols
COVID-19 Safety Protocols
We are excited to welcome you to the Summer Festival of Learning on Tuesday, July 6th. We are writing to inform you of slight updates to our COVID-19 protocols. In order to align with the state and county guidelines, as of TODAY, June 18, these are our most recent updates:
- Face Masks
- Are required indoors at all times. At this time, K-12 schools still require vaccinated individuals to be masked indoors. Please make sure your child attends each day with a clean mask that properly covers both the nose and mouth. Gators are not allowed.
- Physical Distancing
- Student desks will be at least 3 feet apart per current guidelines.
- Students will eat outdoors and remain 6ft apart while eating lunch.
- Grades K-6 will be in stable groups of 9-14 students. Tracks will not mingle with other tracks while outdoors or indoors.
- Grades 7 & 8 will not be in cohorts, but will follow current physical distancing protocols.
- In some cases, students staying for the 3pm-5pm Extended Care will be assigned to an afternoon cohort that is slightly different than their morning cohort.
As always, these are subject to change at any time when new information is available to us.
As a reminder, if your child is experiencing any COVID or flu-like symptoms, please refrain from bringing them to school and notify the appropriate campus office manager.
Program Details
Upper Campus Grades 5-8
Location
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Pinewood Upper Campus 26800 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
First Day of School
- 4-week session | Tuesday, July 6th
- 2-week session 1 | Tuesday, July 6th
- 2-week session 2 | July 19th
- Upper Campus will open at 8:00am the first day. Please have your student arrive by 8:20am.
- Teachers will be on hand to greet students as cars continue through the arrival line; you do not need to leave your car.
- Students will be directed to their first period classroom.
Arrival
- Upper Campus will open at 8:05 am after the first day.
- There is no before-school supervision. Students should not arrive at school earlier than 8:05 am.
- Classes will begin at 8:30 am; please continue to follow the arrival instructions.
- When your child arrives on campus, he/she will go directly to his/her classroom.
Name Tags/Lanyards
- Grade 7 & 8 students will receive a lanyard with their schedule in the mail. Please have your child wear his/her lanyard every day the first week of the program.
- Grades 5 & 6 students will receive a name tag in the mail. Please have your child wear his/her name tag every day the first week of the program.
Dismissal (12:30 pm, 3:00 pm, & 5:00 pm)
- Dismissal is a very busy time, especially the 3:00 pm dismissal. Therefore, we ask for your complete cooperation and patience.
- Please read the dismissal instructions carefully (in separate tab, below).
- A car sign with your child's name on it will be sent in the mail. Before entering the dismissal line, please place the car sign in the front, driver's side corner of your car's windshield.
- Your child's dismissal pick-up time is indicated on their schedule and name tag that you will receive in the mail.
- There is a 15-minute grace period if a student is picked up after his/her selected dismissal time. If a student is picked up after the 15-minute grace period, a late fee will be charged to the student's account.
Leaving Early in the Day
- During the school day, if your child needs to leave early, please go to the office where you will sign him/her out and then your child will be called to join you.
Absences
- If you know your student will be absent on a given day(s) prior to the start of the program, please email your child's name, grade, and the date(s) he/she will be absent to ucsummer@pinewood.edu.
- If your child has any COVID-19 symptoms, please keep them home from school.
- If your child tests positive for COVID-19 or becomes sick with ANY infectious disease (Hand/Foot/Mouth, Strep, lice, etc.), please call the office immediately.
Attire + School Supplies
- Students should bring a small backpack and writing utensils (pencil and eraser)
- Students should bring a filled water bottle, water only. Drinking fountains will only be allowed to be used to refill water bottles.
- School attire is casual; clothes should be comfortable and suitable for enthusiastic work and play.
- Shoes appropriate for play should be worn.
- All other school supplies will be provided.
For students who have a 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm Pick-Up
- Tennis during Activity Central: When your student’s schedule arrives in the mail, check to see if they have tennis as one of their Activity Central rotations. It will tell you the week that they have tennis. If your child has tennis for a specific week, bring a tennis racket, hat, sunscreen, and tennis/athletic shoes that week. Extra tennis rackets will be on hand if your child does not have one.
- Splash Bash (Week 4): bring a swimsuit, sunscreen, towel, and water shoes.
- Students enrolled in Take Your Pick (3:00-5:00 pm) will have the option to get wet. If your child would like to participate in any water activities, please have him/her bring a swimsuit, sunscreen, towel, and water shoes (going barefoot is not permitted).
- Students enrolled in Tennis Festival (3:00-5:00 pm) bring a tennis racket, hat, sunscreen, and tennis/athletic shoes.
Snack/Lunch
- Students will have a break/snack sometime between 10:00 am - 11:00am daily. Please send your child to school each day with a healthy and substantial snack labeled with his/her name.
- Students that are enrolled in a 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm dismissal should bring a sack lunch unless they have ordered the Epicurean lunch program.
- All COVID-19 safety rules will be followed for snack and lunch breaks including tracks staying separate from one another while receiving and eating their lunch. All students will have lunch and snack outside.
Homework
- Regular homework assignments will be given in the following classes:
- Grades 5 & 6: Language Arts Essentials, Math Mastery
- Grades 7 & 8: Grammar, Pre-Algebra, Algebra Prep, Writing & Rhetoric, Literary Analysis
- Your child should do homework independently. This helps the teacher assess your student’s mastery of the concepts in the homework and determine whether your child needs reinforcement on any concept.
- If your child does not understand the assigned homework, please write a brief note to the teacher indicating that there are difficulties.
Academic Class Progress Check
We invite you to track your child's progress and curriculum in the following ways:
- Read weekly class e-newsletters.
- Check your child's class take-home folder, spiral, and/or workbook on a regular basis. Corrections will be in a different color. (Math Mastery, Language Arts Essentials, Pre-Algebra Prep, and Algebra Prep classes have a workbook from which they will do their daily homework.)
- Sign and return quizzes that are given in the following classes: Math Mastery and Language Arts Essentials. Quizzes typically come home on Mondays and should be returned to the teacher the following day as part of the homework.
- The teacher will contact you if your student is experiencing difficulties.
- You are welcome to contact the teacher if you have any questions. The best way to contact teachers is via email. Summer Festival of Learning teacher email addresses are formatted as such: first initial + last name @pinewood.edu (ex. tjones@pinewood.edu). Teachers’ first initial and last names are listed on your student’s schedule that will be mailed June 14th.
Questions and Cancellations
- Questions prior to July 6th: please contact the office at (650) 209-3010 or ucsummer@pinewood.edu
- Questions about Student Schedules: email Heather McCauley prior to June 25th.
- Cancellations: please email Barbara Hantke immediately as we have other students on our waiting list.
Arrival + Dismissal Instructions
- Place the car sign that you received in the mail with your child’s name and pick-up time in the front, left corner (driver’s side) of your car’s windshield to aid us in loading your child at dismissal.
- When entering the driveway, proceed the entire length of the parking lot—do not stop at the top of the parking lot or cut around the circular planter containing the horizontal Pinewood School sign.
- At the bottom of the parking lot, the driveway is divided into two lanes.
- For MORNING drop off, please use only the right lane (closest to the buildings) and pull all the way to the door of the theater, or as far as traffic will allow.
- For PICK UP, both lanes will be open.
- If you must leave your car for any reason, please park in a marked parking spot not on the same side as the loading and unloading area.
5:00 pm Dismissal: you have a choice of using the pick-up line or parking in the parking spaces in the driveway and picking up your child at the Murphy Patio (past the office). If walking in, please bring your car sign with your child's name and check your child out with the teacher.
Curtain Time Performances for 4-Week Students
Curtain Time!/Onstage! is a class option for students enrolled in the 4-week program with a 3pm or 5pm pick-up. When you receive your schedule in the mail mid-June, if it includes “Curtain Time!,” then your child will have a performance on Thursday, July 29 or Friday, July 30. More information will be posted here and emailed to parents.
Please Note: Students enrolled in Curtain Time!/OnStage! must be in attendance all four weeks of the summer program. If your student is enrolled in this class and will be absent more than four days or absent for the performance, please email Heather McCauley immediately so she can change his/her schedule.
Lunch Program
- The Epicurean lunch program is ONLY available to students with a 3:00 pm or 5:00 pm dismissal time.
- You have the option to select the lunch program for your entire session or select the lunch program for specific weeks. Lunch per week is $45 (Week 1 (July 6-9) is $36). Lunch is not available on a day to day basis.
- Lunch menus are prepared from scratch using natural and organic ingredients. Regular and vegetarian entrees are offered each day. If you desire the vegetarian option, you will indicate this during registration.
- Epicurean will follow all COVID- 19 safety protocols that are in place July 2021 Click here to view Epicurean's Safety Pledge >>
- Questions about the menu? Contact Chef Lidia Contreras by email or phone (650-269-7256)
- Questions about our fees? Contact Barbara Hantke in the business office.
Please Note: If you did not order and pay for the lunch program during registration or when you paid your tuition balance, click the Order Lunch button, below.
Contact Us
Heather McCauley
hmccauley@pinewood.edu
Director of Summer Festival of Learning and
Upper Campus Site Director
Brynn Hambly
bhambly@pinewood.edu
Middle Campus Site Director
Laura Blotter
lblotter@pinewood.edu
Lower Campus Site Director
Kyle Riches
kriches@pinewood.edu
Activity Central & Extended Care Director
Barbara Hantke
bhantke@pinewood.edu
Business Office (for questions about tuition balance and fees)
Teacher Email Addresses
Summer Festival of Learning teacher email addresses are formatted as such: first initial + last name @pinewood.edu (ex. tjones@pinewood.edu). Teachers’ first initial and last names are listed on your student’s schedule that will be mailed June 14th.
Lower Campus
477 Fremont Avenue
Lost Altos, CA 94024
lcsummer@pinewood.edu
Middle Campus
327 Fremont Avenue
Los Altos, CA 94024
mcsummer@pinewood.edu
Upper Campus
26800 Fremont Road
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
ucsummer@pinewood.edu
Pay Tuition Balance
2021
SUMMER FESTIVAL of LEARNING