Dear TASIS Community,
Our first project will be to greatly expand the parking lot on the main TASIS campus. Please note that our current parking lot will be closed as of Monday, February 24, which will affect our drop-off and pick-up procedures beginning on Monday, March 2. Below you will find a summary of the essential information related to these new procedures. If you currently drive your children to school, we strongly encourage you to take advantage of our free Shuttle Service. Shuttle Service Map We offer an extensive shuttle service that covers all of the greater Lugano area. This free service reduces traffic and carbon emissions, saves you time, and will be particularly valuable during this upcoming period of construction.
Detailed schedules and maps can be found on the Shuttle Service page on our website, and you can sign up here if your child does not currently use the shuttle service.
Please direct all questions about our shuttle service to Svetlana Koreshkova at shuttle@tasis.ch. If you walk to school to drop off or pick up your child, very little will change. The only difference in this case is that all dismissals for Elementary School students will take place outside of Hadsall rather than across the street on the main TASIS campus. Please plan on picking your children up at Hadsall at the usual time.
If you choose not to use the shuttle service and do not live within walking distance of school, please refer to the appropriate section below. You only have children in the Elementary School. MORNING DROP-OFF
AFTERNOON PICK-UP
On Wednesdays, please do not drive to the parking lot next to Hadsall to pick up your child until 15:10, and please do not try to park in the lot next to Hadsall at any time between 14:00–15:10.
Please direct all questions related to ES procedures to essecretary@tasis.ch. You only have children in the Middle and/or High School. MORNING DROP-OFF All Middle School and High School students who are driven to school by car must be dropped off in the unpaved parking area behind the Sant'Abbondio cemetery (see graphic below). Students will then be shuttled from this location to the parking lot next to Hadsall in TASIS vans and Romantic Tour coaches.
If you are driving to school to pick up your child in the afternoon, you may continue to use the parking lot next to Hadsall, but please do not arrive until 16:10. We must wait for all shuttle buses to depart from that lot.
Alternatively, you may pick your child up at the parking area behind the Sant'Abbondio cemetery when it is convenient for you. Please note that this would require your child walking down to that lot following his or her final class.
You have children in the Elementary School and the Middle School or High School. In this case, please follow the instructions related to your youngest child. For example, if you have a child in the Elementary School and a child in the Middle School, you may drop them both off at the parking lot next to Hadsall.
Thank you once again for your patience as we continue to enhance our beautiful Global Village! We expect the procedures described above to remain in place for the rest of the academic year, but we will be sure to send further updates if any new developments occur.
Many thanks,
Christopher Nikoloff TASIS Headmaster Via Collina d'Oro, 6926 Montagnola, Switzerland
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