| Arrival | Attendance | Picking Up Your
Child | Withdrawals
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Emergencies | Emergency
Procedures | Telephone
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| Textbook and
Supplies | Suspensions
| Parent-Teacher
Conferences | Art/Music/PE
| Visitors
| Illness
| Medication
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| Lost and
Found | School
Parties | Out
of School Parties | Bicycles | Attire | Indoor Recess
Guidelines |
| Field Trips
| Breakfast/Lunch
Program | Length
of School Day | Special Services
| Elementary
P.T.O. |
| Cell Phones | Things To Leave
At Home | Discipline
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Arrival |
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In the best interest of your child, please
plan for him/her to arrive between 7:40 am and 7:55 am. Children who arrive
before this time interfere with the class preparation time available to the
teacher. A student is considered tardy if he/she arrives after 8:00 am.
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Attendance |
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A child's success in school depends on
regular attendance. Regular attendance is an important school habit. If a
child must be absent for any reason, please call the office on the first day
of a child's absence. Unexplained absences totaling more than 10 days
total will be considered excessive. Parents will be notified of the need for
a conference concerning attendance. After 15 unexplained absences the case
will be referred to the county juvenile office. |
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Procedures For Picking Up Your Child |
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If it is necessary for a child to leave
during the school day, parents must check his/her child out in the office. The
child will be called to the office via the intercom. Parents are not to go
directly to the class nor wait outside the classroom door. Standing in the
hallway outside the classroom doors can be disruptive to the activities
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Withdrawals |
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In case of the withdrawal of a child from
school, please notify the office at least one day in advance, by note or telephone.
Textbooks and library books must be accounted for and transfer papers must be
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School Emergencies |
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Generally, there are two types of
emergencies that could necessitate the closing of school. They are snowstorms
and tornadoes or severe weather activity. The directive to close school comes
from the office of the Superintendent of Schools. Notice of closing will be
broadcast over KMMO Radio (1300 AM, 102.9 FM), KMZU 100.7 FM, KZBK 96.9 FM,
KRES 104.7 FM and KZZT 105.5 FM |
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Emergency Procedures |
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During the school year we prepare the children
for emergency situations by practicing fire, tornado and earthquake drills.
We feel as a school we have procedures that will keep us as safe as possible
if we would happen to experience any of the disasters mentioned. To help keep
calm and organized in an emergency situation, we ask that you follow these
guidelines.
Please help us by following these simple
rules in an emergency. Children usually stay relatively calm in these
situations, because we prepare them well. Rest assured that all children will
be taken care of until they can safely be released to you the parent. |
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Telephone |
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Because of the number of children enrolled
in school, no child may use the telephone except for emergencies. It is
difficult to accept messages for individual children without interrupting the
classroom instructional program. We would appreciate your cooperation in not
asking us to deliver a message to an individual child except in an emergency.
School telephone numbers are: |
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Textbooks and Supplies |
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Textbooks are furnished by the |
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Suspensions |
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Any child whose conduct continues to be
disruptive to the classroom setting after other means of correction have failed,
may be suspended by the building principal, who in turn will notify the
Superintendent of Schools. The pupil who consistently refuses to follow a
teacher's direction or consistently disregards school regulations may be
suspended. |
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Parent-Teacher Conferences |
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Coupled with progress reports are
parent-teacher conferences. These conferences are held at the end of the first
and third quarters. The purpose of the conference is to provide an
opportunity for parent and teacher to sit down and frankly discuss the
educational progress of the students. |
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Art/Music/PE |
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Art classes will be held for 60 minutes
once a week. Music and Physical Education will meet on alternating days for a
30 minute period. |
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Visitors |
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Because of the number of pupils in each
classroom, visiting relatives, friends, and younger brothers and sisters are
not allowed to visit school during regular school hours. Parents are encouraged
to visit their child's classroom. However, when planning a visitation, please
check with the school office prior to the visit in order to avoid any
conflict with special schedules. If you need to give your child a message,
medication, homework, lunch money, supplies, etc., for the protection of the
students, all visitors including parents, please report to the office upon
entering and leaving the building. Please do not go directly to the
classroom. Interrupting class hampers valuable instruction time. You will
be given a visitor's pass at the office when you sign in. |
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Illness |
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If a child becomes injured or ill during
the school day, the parents will be notified. For this reason, it is vitally
important to list an emergency telephone number with the school office, and
that this information be kept up-to-date. If the
parent cannot be reached, the emergency number will be called. The health and
physical well-being of all our students is a matter of great concern to us.
For the sake of classmates, children should not be sent to school if they are
suffering from headache, fever, or running sores. |
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Medication |
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Giving medication to students during
school hours shall be discouraged and restricted to necessary medication that
cannot be given on an alternative schedule. It should not be necessary to give
more than one dose of medication during a 7 hour school day. Your doctor may
be able to schedule all doses of medication to be taken at home. Exceptions
should be arranged with the school nurse. Prescription medication will only be
administered if in the original bottle/packaging with label affixed by
pharmacist/physician. Over the counter medications will only be given if in
the original packaging, are appropriate for child's age/weight and no
contraindicating conditions exist. Aspirin and products containing aspirin
will only be given if accompanied by a physician's order. Please pick up
the necessary forms for medication administration from the school nurse. This
form must be completed before your child can be given any medication at
school. The administration of medication to a
student, when the above conditions have been met, shall be limited to the
school nurse or other designated person(s). All medication shall be kept in
the nurse's office. The parents/guardians of the student must assume responsibility
for informing school personnel of any change in the student's health or
change in medication. |
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Lost and Found |
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Please be sure your child's name is
plainly marked on such items as boots, coats, sweaters, raincoats, purse,
wallet, etc. many items such as these are lost and go unclaimed each year. If
your child should lose an item, please check with the school office. |
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School Parties |
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There are three parties held in your
child's class per year, Fall Festival, Christmas, and Valentine's Day. Pupils
may provide healthy snacks for their classes in recognition of their
birthday. These should be served after 2:00 p.m. Birthdays are celebrated on
one day each month. |
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Out of School Parties |
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Parents frequently ask permission to send
home invitations to birthday and other parties through the schools. We are
happy to cooperate when an invitation is extended to every member of the
class. When a few children are excluded their feelings are unnecessarily
hurt. |
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Bicycles |
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Students may ride bicycles to school as long
as the parents approve. The school will not accept responsibility for the
safety of the bicycles. Locks are recommended as a safety precaution. All
bicycles should be registered with the police department and should have a
license. Students must walk the bicycle to the rack as soon as they get
to the school grounds. Bicycles will be parked for the entire school day.
Racks are provided at each building to park bicycles in. |
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Attire |
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Good taste necessitates that children
should be appropriately dressed and carefully groomed at all times. Items of
apparel which make a child feel uncomfortable or conspicuous should be avoided.
Please dress your child appropriately for play outside during cold weather. Shoe
Skates are not acceptable footwear at school. |
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Indoor Recess Guidelines |
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The guidelines for indoor recess are a
temperature of 32 degrees or less or the temperature when combined with the windchill factor of 25 degrees or less. |
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Field Trips |
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Field trips are taken at the discretion of
the classroom teacher. A signed permission slip must be on file before your
child will be allowed to go on the trip. |
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Breakfast and Lunch Program |
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Lunches served in our school are
attractive and nutritious. Lunches may be charged for no more than two
days. A menu for the week is published by the Democrat News. Children who
bring lunches from home may purchase milk at school. Children are not
permitted to bring carbonated beverages or milk additives such as chocolate
syrup or other flavoring to mix at school. Breakfast is served from 7:35am-7:55am.
We expect the same high standards of behavior during the breakfast/lunch
periods as during any other part of the instructional program. |
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Length of School Day |
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*Student
Hours............................8:00am-2:55pm |
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Special Services |
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Erin Oligschlaeger,
Director of Special Services 860 W. Vest,
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Elementary P.T.O. |
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The Elementary Parent-Teacher Organization
helps to develop mutual understanding and cooperation between parents and teachers.
This provides a firm foundation upon which an outstanding educational program
can be built. The P.T.O. Executive Board encompasses all four elementary
schools. Each school has its own committee chaired by a P.T.O.
representative. These committees will plan and conduct P.T.O. sponsored
activities within each building. |
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Cell Phone Policy |
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Cell phone use is not permitted during the
school day. Staff members will take
away cell phones if they are seen or heard for any reason. The phone will then be turned into the Principal.
1st Offense:
Conference with Principal and parent will have to pick up cell phone.
2nd Offence: Focus
room and parent will have to pickup cell phone.
3rd Offence: 1 day
of ISS and parent will have to pickup cell phone.
4th Offense 3 days of ISS and parent will have to pickup
cell phone. |
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Things To Leave At Home |
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* Students bringing
knives to school will be suspended.
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Discipline Plan |
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The pupils
management plan that is adopted by Our belief is that all children have
the right to learn and if a child's behavior interferes with their ability to
learn or another child's ability to learn, then we will help that child
develop a plan to take responsibility for his/her actions and solve the
problem. Some of the things you will see or hear when you are in our schools:
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