**All make-up classes from 2016 and before have now expired**

Make-up classes are only given due to illness (and must be accompanied with a doctors note) or if we canceled from bad weather. They are not given for vacations,graduations, recitals,other sporting activities, birthday parties, etc! And make-up's from illness will be done before make-ups from when we canceled due to the weather!

 Reminder!!!  If you did not call during your session, 3 hours or more before your class to let us know your child was sick (as is explained on the 'what to do if your child gets sick' page and was also on the welcome sheet you were given when you were here), you are not eligible for a make up and if you just did not come to class because it was raining at your house, but we did not cancel, we did indeed swim, your child will have been considered a no-show and you will not be eligible for that make up class either! Sorry!

Please remember, make-ups do expire at the end of September of this year, 2017 if you do not call us! If you are planning on doing at least 4 maintenance classes after your make-up classes are done, then, you do not need to do them right now, but you will need to call before the end of September to discuss this with Cornelia! They cannot be done next summer (unless your child could not do them during our entire season for medical reasons along with a Drs. note and/or it was pre-approved by us, this year, to do them next summer) SO PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO CALL! 

***If your child does end up with illness make-up classes*** you will need to call the school (305-661-3820) and leave a message and we will put their name on our 'needs a make-up class' list. Then, we will call you WHEN something becomes available. If we do not call you, this means that we were not able to fit them in yet. 

So, please do not call back again saying you have not heard from us!

Remember, you do not call during your session! You wait until after your session is over to see how many make-ups you end up with in total!

If we cancel class due to bad weather, these make-ups cannot be done until mid August, so you will need to call us then and leave the information asked of you below. If we find we are able to fit your kids into a class before mid August we will call you! If we do not call you this means we were not able to fit them in and you'll have to call in mid August. Please read the page about our weather policy!

And if your child has make up classes from illness (and you called and left us a message 3 hours before their class notifying us) or we canceled due to bad weather you may do your make ups during our maintenance program. So, there's plenty of time and also, but they will expire at the end of September! You do not have to take any maintenance classes if you do not want to, but if you are planning on doing mnt. classes, your make-up's can be done as your 1st class/classes, then continue with the mnt!

Below is the information to leave in your message when you call for illness make-ups. Please call on Tuesday or after, of a new session! Not on a busy 1st Monday of a session, please! And not during the session you're attending!

 Your name and the best phone number to reach you

Your child's name and their age

The session # and the class time they were in

The number of make-up classes they ended up with after their session was done and please leave all the class times and the days of the week that you would be able to do the make-ups.

 We will then put your childs name on our 'Needs a Make-up Class' list and we will call you when something become's available!

For the weather make-ups- Please call us around mid August and please leave a message with your name, phone number, childs name,the session # and class time they were in and the number of make-ups they have. We will call you back to schedule.

Here are a few different options

on how you may take the make-up classes!

If you are planning on doing our maintenance program (read more about it on its page) you may wait and do your make ups during maintenance. If you are going to take maintenance classes, the expiration of September may be able to be extended.

If you’re already signed up for another session you may want to wait until that one’s completed in case you end up with more make ups again.

If you have more than one child in class, you may use the make ups on the child needing the classes the most if you would like or if one child has more make-ups than the other, you may divide them so they both come to the same amount of make-ups if this is more convenient for you.

But please remember, the make-ups do expire at the end of September of this year! They cannot be done next summer (unless your child could not do them during our entire season for medical reason's along with a Drs. note and/or it was pre-approved by us, this year, to do them next summer) SO PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO CALL this summer! and get their name put on our 'needs a make-up class' list!!! If we are unable to fit them into one of our sessions, you'll need to call after our last session in August and arrange for them to come during our maintenance program.

If you do not call us, you will lose the classes!

Make-up classes are not offered on the first Monday of a session or Friday’s, unless you missed a Friday, but if you did miss your childs viewing Friday class you may come in and watch on whatever day you schedule your last make-up class on. Just mention in your message that you did not get to come in and watch your last day!  

Please do not call us on a 1st Monday of a session! We are so busy on 1st days already and... we do have to get through the 1st day to see how the classes were and which classes we will be able to add make-ups in to and if we're able to add make-ups in at all that session. We also want to see which class your child will benefit the most from! You may also have to wait until the 2nd week if kids are crying still during the 1st week. So, please wait and call on Tuesday or after of a new session!

 When we call you back,  we will also give you all the class hours and days that we have available.  If the hours we offer you are not good for you, you will have to wait again! So, if at all possible, it might be best to try to take what we are offering when we call, especially if it's only a few classes.  

If you do schedule a make-up class, but then cannot come and you do not call 3 hours or more to let us know you're not coming, you will have lost the make-up! It will be considered a no-show! When we schedule make-ups into a class, at times we may have to add another teacher, so this is why we need to know in advance if you are not coming for your make-up! Calling us a few minutes before class telling us you're not coming does not give us enough time to tell that extra teacher not to come or to add someone else for their make-up instead of your child.

And if you call to say that you’re not coming, you may not just change your mind and show up either. We may have to add another teachermay have scheduled someone else.

We teach 10 classes a day with 10 to 12 kids in each class and every 2 weeks it's a new set of children! That’s a lot of kids to keep organized and a lot of make ups too, as you can imagine! So your cooperation and understanding is much appreciated! Many other schools tell you when they offer make-up days and if you cannot come to the day they offer, it's your loss and they don't care! We care! We want your child to do the class or classes they missed! We are trying to do our best!