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Back-to-School Hub
*Use tabs across the bottom to find your grade level.
Parent/Student Expectations
For Student Arrivals & Dismissals
Thank you for your cooperation and patience as we all work together to keep our students safe. Please watch the video, then click the button below to view our complete protocols for arrivals and dismissals.
*Please note that the details and instructions in the Pick Up (Car Line) video featuring Mrs. Koop remain current and valid even though Mrs. Koop is now the Head of School and not the Elementary Principal.
Middle School
2025-26 School Year Theme
We are excited to announce that our eighth-grade class of 2025/26 has selected the following for our next year’s spiritual theme (translated trilingually for ZCS):
祂永不改变 (tā yǒng bù gǎi biàn)
耶稣基督，昨日、今日、一直到永远，是一样的。- 希伯来书 13:8
Él Permanece
“Jesucristo es el mismo ayer, hoy y por siempre.” - Hebreos 13:8
He Remains
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” - Hebrews 13:8 NIV
What's Happening Next
- October 3, 2025
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NO PM Bus
October 3, 2025ZPS 1/2 Day
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Instant TRIP
October 3, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am
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- October 4, 2025
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Pumpkinfest Parade
October 4, 2025 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm7th & 8th Grade Bands; Preschool Floats
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- October 8, 2025
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Donuts with Dads - Front Entry Y5-5th
October 8, 2025 8:00 am - 8:45 am
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- October 9, 2025
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Donuts with Dads - Front Entry Y5-5th
October 9, 2025 8:00 am - 8:45 am
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Parent Reminders
Learn the sign-in process here. We are pleased to announce a New Visitor Management System called “Raptor”, which we began using on December 1, 2022. The safety of our ZCS Family is our highest priority. Because of the more efficient and thorough screening process for visitors, contractors, and volunteers, this new system allows us to create an even safer environment for our students and staff. In addition to strengthening our campus safety, the signin process for visitors is streamlined and much more user-friendly. Please bring your state issued ID/Drivers License to facilitate efficient sign-in.
If your student is going to be absent or late, please:
- Email students' homeroom teacher and attendance@zcs.org the reason for the absence or late arrival.
OR
- Email your homeroom teacher and leave a message on the attendance line 616-741-0051 with the reason for the absence or late arrival.
- If your student is going to be absent for multiple days, please email attendance@zcs.org prior to the absence, and all the days can be entered at once.
- A fever of 100 degrees or higher. Your child should be fever free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medicine before returning to school.
- Vomiting and/or diarrhea within the last 24 hours, free of vomiting/diarrhea for 24 hours before returning to school.
- A child that seems ill – unusually tired, pale, difficult to wake, headache, body ache, confused or irritable, and/or lack of normal appetite.
- Zeeland Christian operates on the same schedule as Zeeland Public Schools when weather delays and cancellations occur. Subscribe to Z for Me to receive email alerts from ZPS regarding school closings. (Weather News Outlet text notifications are no longer available.)
- Delays:
- Busing: When school is delayed for two hours, all buses will run two hours later than scheduled. School start times will be exactly two hours later as well.
- Hot Lunch: Will be provided as scheduled on delayed days.
- Morning Preschool: No school on delay days.
- Before School Care: is available on delay days for students already scheduled for that morning. (Before School Care is unavailable for students not on the schedule for that morning.)
- Morning Young Fives: No school on delay days.
- Morning Only Kindergarten Students: No school on delay days.
Please find more information here If you want to access the Zonar bus security app.
- Parents of Young 5s-5th grade: If you want your TRIP sent home with your child, please update your profile on RaiseRight with their current teacher's name. Middle School students need to pick up your TRIP in the front office.
- Instant TRIP will have new hours in the fall. It will be on Fridays at 8:00-9:30 am.
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October 3, 2025 | NO PM Bus
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October 3, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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October 4, 2025 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Pumpkinfest Parade
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October 8, 2025 8:00 am - 8:45 am | Donuts with Dads - Front Entry Y5-5th
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October 9, 2025 8:00 am - 8:45 am | Donuts with Dads - Front Entry Y5-5th
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October 9, 2025 8:45 am - 10:15 am | School Board Coffee Connection
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October 16, 2025 3:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Parent/Teacher Conferences: Y5s-5th 4:00-8:30 // 6th-8th 3:00-7:30
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October 17, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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October 17, 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am | All School Chapel
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October 21, 2025 | SWAP Day - FRIDAY
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October 21, 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Family Groups
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October 21, 2025 3:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Parent/Teacher Conferences: Y5s-5th 4:00-8:30 // 6th-8th 3:00-7:30
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October 22, 2025 | No School // Teacher PD
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October 23, 2025 | No School // Teacher CEA
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October 24, 2025 | No School // Teacher CEA
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October 30, 2025 | NO PM Bus
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October 31, 2025 | NO AM/PM Bus
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October 31, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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November 6, 2025 | NO PM Bus
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November 6, 2025 | School Picture Retakes // 8th Grade Pictures
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November 6, 2025 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Legacy Event
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November 7, 2025 | NO AM/PM Bus
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November 7, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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November 12, 2025 9:30 am - 11:30 am | Explore Creation Ridge // Families Interested in ZCS
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November 13, 2025 9:30 am - 11:30 am | Explore Central Ave // Families Interested in ZCS
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November 14, 2025 | 1st Marking Period Ends
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November 14, 2025 | No School // Teacher PD & Grading
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November 17, 2025 | 2nd Marking Period Begins
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November 21, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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November 24, 2025 | No Preschool // PS Parent/Teacher Conferences | Ext. Care Open to Elementary
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November 25, 2025 | No Preschool // PS Parent/Teacher Conferences | Ext. Care Open to Elementary
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November 25, 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am | All School Chapel
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November 26, 2025 | No School // Thanksgiving Break
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November 27, 2025 | No School // Thanksgiving Break
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November 28, 2025 | No School // Thanksgiving Break
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December 2, 2025 | Y5s-8th Grade | Early Enrollment // Current Families Only // 12/3-12/10
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December 2, 2025 9:30 am - 11:30 am | Explore Elementary
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December 3, 2025 9:30 am - 11:30 am | Explore Elementary
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December 5, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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December 8, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Middle School Choir Concert
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December 9, 2025 | Y5s-8th Grade | Open Enrollment // Families New to ZCS
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December 9, 2025 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Elementary Musical
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December 12, 2025 | NO PM Bus
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December 12, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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December 12, 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Family Groups
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December 15, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Jingle Jogs - AM only,
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December 15, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | TENTATIVE: Middle School Band Concert
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December 16, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Jingle Jogs - AM only
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December 16, 2025 10:50 am - 11:15 am | 5th Grade Band Christmas Performance
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December 19, 2025 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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December 19, 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am | All School Chapel
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December 22, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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December 23, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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December 24, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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December 25, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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December 26, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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December 29, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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December 30, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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December 31, 2025 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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January 1, 2026 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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January 2, 2026 | No School // Christmas Vacation
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January 4, 2026 | Blaze's Birthday 2022
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January 5, 2026 | School Resumes
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January 9, 2026 | Middle School Day Away
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January 9, 2026 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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January 14, 2026 | NO MS PM Bus
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January 14, 2026 9:30 am - 11:00 am | Explore Central Ave. Preschool // Families Interested in ZCS
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January 15, 2026 | NO MS PM Bus
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January 15, 2026 | Spelling Bee
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January 15, 2026 9:30 am - 11:00 am | Explore Creation Ridge Preschool // Families Interestsed in ZCS
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January 16, 2026 | NO EL PM Bus
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January 16, 2026 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Family Groups
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January 19, 2026 | No School // MLK Day // Teacher PD
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January 22, 2026 10:00 am - 10:00 am | Preschool Early Enrollment Opens at 10:00 a.m.| Current Y5s-8th Grade Families (P1) // 1/21-1/24
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January 23, 2026 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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January 23, 2026 9:00 am - 9:30 am | All School Chapel
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January 27, 2026 10:00 am - 10:00 am | Preschool Early Enrollment Opens at 10:00 a.m.| Current Preschool Families (P2)
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January 28, 2026 10:00 am - 10:00 am | Preschool Open Enrollment Open for All at 10:00 a.m.
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February 6, 2026 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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February 6, 2026 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Family Groups
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February 6, 2026 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | OM Preview Performances for 3rd-5th in Media Center
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February 9, 2026 | NO AM/PM Bus
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February 10, 2026 | NO AM/PM Bus
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February 13, 2026 | No School // No PD // Mid-Winter Break
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February 16, 2026 | No School // No PD // Mid-Winter Break
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February 18, 2026 | Covenant Christian Band Festival - Daytime 7th/8th Band Field Trip - Date Subject to Change
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February 19, 2026 | 6th Grade Solo Night // Time and Location TBD
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February 19, 2026 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Annual Society Meeting
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February 20, 2026 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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February 20, 2026 9:00 am - 9:30 am | All School Chapel
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February 20, 2026 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Lunar New Year Celebration
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February 23, 2026 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Project Best Life Parent Meeting - for 5th-Grade Parents
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February 24, 2026 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | School Board Coffee Connection
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February 25, 2026 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm | CONFIRMED: Countywide Spelling Bee
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February 26, 2026 | NO PM Bus
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February 27, 2026 | NO AM/PM Bus
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February 27, 2026 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | 8th Grade Winter Camp-In
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March 5, 2026 | NO EL PM Bus
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March 5, 2026 3:00 pm - 8:30 pm | OPTIONAL Parent/Teacher Conferences: Y5s-5th 4:00-8:30 // 6th-8th 3:00-7:30
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March 6, 2026 | 1/2 Day of School // No PD // MS 10:40 / ELEM. 11:40
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March 6, 2026 | 2nd Marking Period Ends
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March 6, 2026 | NO MS PM Bus
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March 6, 2026 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Instant TRIP
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March 9, 2026 | 3rd Marking Period Begins
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March 10, 2026 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Elementary Spring Worship Night
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March 13, 2026 8:50 am - 11:39 am | MS Shadow Days
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March 13, 2026 9:30 am - 2:00 pm | CONFIRMED: Grade 5 JA BizTown
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March 13, 2026 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Middle School Play
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March 16, 2026 | No School // Teacher PD & Grading
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March 18, 2026 8:50 am - 11:39 am | MS Shadow Days
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March 20, 2026 8:50 am - 11:39 am | MS Shadow Days
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March 20, 2026 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | ZCS Annual Auction // Live Auction Event
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March 23, 2026 | Preschool Conferences - Preschool is IN Session
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March 24, 2026 | Preschool Conferences - Preschool is IN Session
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March 24, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | DELETE (we'll scheulde this later)--4th/5th Country Of Heritage Classroom Tours
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March 27, 2026 9:00 am - 9:30 am | All School Chapel