Parking at SKiPPS

With the start of the new year, it is the perfect time to provide a reminder about the ongoing safety issue around the access road and car park at drop-off and pick-up times. 

We rely on all of our community showing patience and consideration to manage this issue and keep all of our families safe.

Sadly at times (and already this year) we have seen parents parking illegally and causing congestion and increased dangers for children leaving the school grounds.

Our strong recommendation is that families avoid the access road and car park altogether, either walking to school or, if driving is necessary, taking advantage of the free parking on Lakeside, Hockey and Village Green Drives at busy times (more details on this below).

However, if you are using the small Parks Victoria car park at drop-off and pick-up times;

• Please only ever park in the marked parking bays. Do not park on the footpath on the Bowls Club side as this blocks the footpath - forcing children onto the road and also blocks traffic flow and prevents other cars from passing safely. If you cannot find a marked, safe parking space please show patience, stay with your car and wait for a space to become free. Your child's teacher will stay with them until 3:45pm and then take them to the office so there is no need to act in an unsafe way & abandon your car on the footpath in order to make it into school for 3:30pm. Never park illegally and then leave your car unattended.

• Move slowly at these times and be aware of who is around you. There are a large number of children who walk home in this direction and it is always a possibility that they will forget their road-sense and run between vehicles. Please help us to avoid a potentially highly distressing accident.

• Remember that there is plenty of free parking on Hockey Drive, Village Green Drive and Lakeside Drive at these key times when you display a SKiPPS sticker on your windscreen. Often parking this little bit further away and avoiding the congestion of the car park actually saves time (and a huge amount of stress). Please drop into the school office to get your free sticker and further details of this arrangement with Parks Victoria.

• Never drive onto the school grounds (even if dropping off or picking up from Team Kids). Before and after school (and during the school day) our school grounds are used for basketball training, as a play space by Team Kids and for many other activities that will see children running around. To add to this, at dawn and dusk light and visibility are poor. We have seen a number of parents driving into the school grounds to drop-off and pick-up at these times, often at high speed as they assume the school is empty.  Please do not drive onto school grounds and use the car park instead.