If you wake up to wintry weather in the morning, please check the following sources for school delays or cancellation information.

1. Begin by listening to the radio. The ones that report (or at least are supposed to report) information about our school are:  WBNR (1260 AM), WSPK (104.7 FM), WHUD (100.7 FM), WGNY (1220 AM), WDLC (1490), WKIP (1450 AM), WBWZ (Z93 FM), WRNQ (92.1 FM) WGHQ (920 AM), WPDH (97.7) and (101.5), WRRV (92.7) and (96.9), and "The Wolf" (94.3) and (97.3). If the radio stations don’t mention Bishop Dunn specifically then listen for news about Newburgh schools, because we almost always follow their lead since the district has people out much earlier in the morning checking on weather forecasts and road conditions.
2. If you don’t want to wait for the next radio round-up, you can get more immediate feedback by checking our website, www.bdms.org and its emergency notification link after 6:30 a.m. After 6:30 a.m., the site is normally updated approximately every 15 minutes.
3. As a last resort, you can call our main office number, 569-3494, after 6:30 a.m. to find out about a delayed opening or possible weather-related snow closing. Since we have discovered that the telephone’s message box is only capable of storing a limited number of messages (each call made, even if no message is left, is counted as a recording), we would prefer if you used our website or listened to the radio before you attempt to get school closing information from our message machine.

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If bad weather is forecast for the day and you have already sent your child to school, please do the following:

1. Listen to the radio throughout the morning for reports of early dismissals. If it is announced that the Newburgh public schools are closing that means that Bishop Dunn will also be closing.
2. Look out the window occasionally (We’ve learned not to assume anything in this business).
3. Check your cell phone and answering machines regularly for messages from school.
4. DO NOT CALL IMMEDIATELY, but wait for a call from our office, if your child normally takes the bus home and you don’t want them sent home because no one is there. Since different school districts begin picking up children at different times, check our website, www.bdms.org. where we will have an emergency notification section that will be updated with early dismissal details for specific districts.
5. Call our main number to let us know where we can reach you ONLY if you are not going to be near a phone that we have listed for daytime contacts.
6. Be aware that if we cannot make contact with a parent that we will still send children home on their bus, if you have indicated on emergency forms earlier in the year that your child can be sent home without notification.
7. If you are picking your child up by car, you will be able to pick them up only at the back door or library at the designated closing time, which will be listed on the website emergency noticiation link. Because we are trying to coordinate very complicated bus dismissal procedures, we ask you not to come to the main office to pick up your child.
8. Finally, Remember that whenever we have early dismissal that all afternoon and evening activities, including afternoon extension, are cancelled.