The K-Lab provides unique programming for kindergarten students thanks to its three cornerstones: 

• Experiential Learning: K-Lab students have the opportunity to engage in a wide variety of experiential learning experiences due to the unique facilities that the high school setting offers that cannot be accessed in our elementary buildings.
   
• Student Mentorship: K-Lab students will have the opportunity to learn from supervised and supported student mentors. This will range from support in developing core skills with personalized instruction, to inquiry-based, project-based, and hands-on experiences. Many of our high school students can provide expertise to the kindergarten students that our elementary teachers do not have, for example, art or musical expertise.
   
• Personalized Learning Profiles: K-Lab teachers will gather information to develop personalized learning profiles for each student in conjunction with families based on student skills, interests, and needs. Profiles will support students in the development of core reading, writing, and math skills, as well as communication, science, social studies, and personal success skills.
   

Yes, the core subjects and curriculum are the same for literacy, math, science, health, social-emotional learning, and social-global studies; however, opportunities for experiential learning as described above are included.

Students engage in the typical elementary specials listed below. In addition, students have numerous opportunities for experiential learning as explained in a subsequent section. 

• Physical Education for 25 minutes/day
• Art for 50 minutes/week
• Music for 50 minutes/week
• Library Media for 50 minutes/week
• STEM throughout the year, including STEM Bootcamps

The K-Lab classroom is part of Barrington High School and K-Lab students have multiple guided opportunities to work with high school students throughout the year. 
 

The two K-Lab classrooms are housed in two newly renovated age-appropriate classrooms at Barrington High School. The classrooms are near the Little Broncos Program.

The Little Broncos Program is an early childhood program at Barrington High School that provides a quality childcare program for children three through five years old. High school students enrolled in the Child Development Lab are an integral part of the program as student interns and classroom aides. They participate in the planning and implementation of learning activities for the Little Broncos under the supervision of staff. The Little Broncos Program has been successfully implemented at BHS for more than 20 years. 

Class begins at 8:05 am. Dismissal is at 2:30 pm. There will be an early release every Wednesday at 2:00 pm. 
 

Students who qualify for bus transportation will take a neighborhood bus to Roslyn Road Elementary School, where they will board a shuttle bus to Barrington High School. Kindergarten students will have a laminated sign, indicating their bus number and the BHS shuttle to pin to their backpack. In addition, students will have their boarding lanyards and I.D.s (same as elementary schools). Roslyn Road staff will assist the kindergarteners in finding and boarding the shuttle bus that will bring them to BHS. 

Parents also have the option of driving their child to and from school.

• Buses: The shuttle bus will leave Roslyn Road Elementary once all of the students arrive and drop the students off by the designated K-Lab corral entrance, where K-Lab attendants will greet them and bring them to their classroom. 
   
• Car Drop-off: Cars will follow the high school car line, pulling all the way forward to the K-Lab corral area on the west side of the building. K-Lab aides will greet the students and walk them to the K-Lab playground or classroom. Parents can also park in the designated “K-Lab Parking Spots” on the west side of BHS and walk their child up to the K-Lab corral area. 

• Buses: A K-Lab assistant will walk the K-Lab students from the classroom to the shuttle bus pick-up. The shuttle bus will then transport the K-Lab students back to Roslyn Road, where they will board their neighborhood buses. Again, students will have a laminated sign pinned to their backpacks with the bus number, and Roslyn Road staff will assist students in finding their neighborhood bus. 
   
• Car Pick-up: Parents will follow the high school car line procedures. K-Lab assistants will bring the student to the car once in sight. Parents can also park in the designated K-Lab spots on the west side of the building. They can then proceed to the K-Lab corral to pick up their child. 

K-Lab students will have the option to attend the KEEP program, which provides before and after-school care, through the Barrington Park District at Roslyn Road Elementary. Please click here for registration procedures. 
 

Students will have three hot lunch options each day and/or milk for those students who bring their lunch to school. Students will have 20 minutes to eat, similar to all kindergarten students. After lunch, students will have a 30-minute recess period on the kindergarten playground, which is in an inner courtyard at BHS. The playground is close to the classroom, and kindergarten aides will supervise recess.

K-Lab students will have access to all of the same academic and social-emotional support as students do at our other elementary schools.
 

IEPs are implemented, as written, in all educational settings.

All K-Lab students will follow the Barrington 220 assessment calendar for kindergarten students. Fastbridge assessments will be administered in the Fall, Winter, and Spring.

No, there is not an additional fee for this program. 
 

K-Lab students will return to their attendance-area home school for first grade.

All district-wide safety and security measures will be in place to support the K-lab classrooms. The safety procedures will be accessible to the staff and students in the K-lab classroom. Students will take part in all state-mandated safety drills during the district's annual Safety Week in the fall.