Medications – including Cough Drops!
If your child needs to take any type of medication at school (prescription or over the counter – creams, ointments, drops, pills, etc.), the parent must come into the school office to fill out a Medication Permission Form. This allows the school to administer medication to your child. The medication must be in the original container/box with all the directions for usage.
Do NOT send medication with your child to school.
Please contact the office if you have any additional questions.
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Student Transportation and Dismissal
If your child is going home a way other than normal or with someone different, contact the office either by phone or with a note prior to 2:00. Please do not email teachers or office staff during the school day with changes as staff could be absent and/or they don’t have opportunities to check their email before the school day’s end.
Do not drop students off earlier than 7:45.
Students must be picked up by 3:15.
Parents need to park in the north parking lot and walk to the kindergarten playground for pick-up. Students are not allowed to walk to cars unescorted. Parking in the Drop-Off Loop is reserved for various after-school daycare program vehicles only.
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Positive Discipline
The Positive Discipline Classroom Management model is aimed at developing mutually respectful relationships. Positive Discipline teaches adults to employ kindness and firmness at the same time, and is neither punitive nor permissive.
The tools and concepts of Positive Discipline include:
- Mutual respect. Adults model firmness by respecting themselves and the needs of the situation, and kindness by respecting the needs of the child.
- Identifying the belief behind the behavior. Effective discipline recognizes the reasons kids do what they do and works to change those beliefs, rather than merely attempting to change behavior.
- Effective communication and problem solving skills.
- Discipline that teaches (and is neither permissive nor punitive).
- Focusing on solutions instead of punishment.
- Encouragement (instead of praise). Encouragement notices effort and improvement, not just success, and builds long-term self-esteem and empowerment.
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Lost and Found
Ask your child to check the Lost and Found near the cafeteria if any sweatshirts or jackets are missing. Please label your child’s things so we can easily return misplaced items. Items will be donated to a local charity every six weeks.
Safety Drills
To ensure that we are prepared for emergency situations, we practice drills throughout the school year. Please encourage your child to tell you and/or school personnel about situations that make them feel unsafe.
Important Notice Regarding Special Education:
Sometimes students experience substantial on-going difficulties in school as the result of disabilities. If the school team or your child’s teacher(s) have this concern, they will contact you to discuss it. If you are concerned that your child may have an educational disability and is in need of special education services, please contact the school principal.
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