Parents:

• No children should be unattended. Please have your students with you until they may enter at 7:30 a.m.
• Please stay in your cars when dropping off in the car rider line. 
• Please use the crosswalk when moving throughout the parking lot.
• Thank you for helping us maintain safety for students and staff members.
• Our building opens to students at 7:30 a.m.
• Grades Pre-K - 2nd grade students will report to the cafeteria.
• Grades 3rd-5th-grade students will report to the gym.
• Students arriving after 8:10 a.m. are considered tardy.

Students will be dismissed from the inside of the building. This provides for a safer process and allows more effective monitoring of whom students are leaving with. There are four classifications of students as it relates to dismissal:

Please use the crosswalk when moving throughout the parking lot. Thank you for helping us maintain safety for students and staff members.

• Car Riders: Please Keep your car tag visible during the entire dismissal process. Parents will need to park & visit the front of the school to have their IDs if car tags are not presented. Students picked up by car, PreK - 2nd in front of the circular drive and grades 3-5 at the rear of the campus.  If Kinder - 2nd have a sibling in 3rd - 5th, they will be picked up with their sibling at the rear of the campus. Parents, please stay in your cars if you are pick up in the car rider line
• Park and Riders: Please Keep your car tag visible during the entire dismissal process. Parents will need to park & visit the front of the school to have their IDs if car tags are not presented. Students whose parents/guardians park on the street and walk up to the campus to get their child/children. You will come to the front doors with your laminated car card to collect your child.
• Walkers: Students who walk home. (Students are escorted by a staff member to the appropriate sidewalk according to their destination)
• Bus/Daycare: Students who are picked up via these means.

Attendance guidelines

Why does attendance matter? Poor attendance can directly contribute to poor academic performance and lead to failure. Therefore, it is the responsibility and duty of both the school and the home to jointly encourage students to establish a good attendance record. We understand that sometimes it is difficult to tell whether or not you should keep your child home. Here are some tips and suggestions that may provide some help.

Being in class on time is an important part of student's success and an important habit for children to begin at a young age. A student must be in the classroom by 8:10 a.m. to avoid a tardy. Tardies, according to GISD policy, will be reflected on the report card whether they are excused or unexcused. For accounting purposes, a tardy is equal to a partial absence. Excessive tardies can become an attendance problem, so be sure to establish routines at home that will ensure your child has plenty of time to get to class on schedule.

🍽️ Parent Lunch Guidelines 🍎

• Our top priority is maintaining the integrity of student learning and safety at all times.

• To give all families a chance to participate, each student may have up to four lunch visits per semester.

📅 Days:

• 3rd – 5th Grade: Mondays

• PK – 2nd Grade: Fridays

✅ Important:

• You must sign up for a time slot on ParentSquare for your student’s grade level.

• Space is limited and will be filled first-come, first-served.

📌 Reminder: ParentSquare is our main source for events and family communication. Be sure to check it regularly!

• Only visitors with scheduled appointments approved by administration (for extenuating circumstances only) will be allowed into the building (i.e ARD, parent conference) 
• When the visitor arrives, the office staff will confirm with an administrator that this visitor has an appointment. (District visitors with badges will enter the building using their access cards)
• If a student does not have a lunch, they will be provided with lunch from the cafeteria.

Building Entry and Departure Locations for Visitors: 

1. Push intercom for assistance to explain the reason for visit.
2. When the visitor arrives (before granting entry to the building) the office staff will confirm with an administrator that this visitor has an appointment.
3. Visitors will check-in with the office staff by providing district or state picture identification and receive a visitor’s badge.
4. Visitors will remain seated in the front office until the staff member they are checked in to visit comes to escort them to the meeting area of the building.
5. The same staff member that picks up the visitor from the entrance must escort them back at the conclusion of their time together to ensure check-out before departing the campus. 

There are times when parents may need to contact the school to send a message to a child. Please be ready to give the student's identification number to our staff when you call so we can verify your connection to the student. We suggest you memorize this very important number and have it written down in several places.

● All parent concerns should be communicated via phone or email including complaints, enrollment/attendance matters, and etc. 

All medication brought to school by a student must be prescribed medication in a properly labeled prescription bottle. All medication will be kept in the clinic in a locked cabinet. We encourage students to take responsibility for reporting to the clinic for medication. Students will not be allowed to take over-the-counter medications unless accompanied by a doctor's note.

For safety purposes, the district permits students to possess personal cellular telephones; however, the devices must remain turned off during the instructional day and in his/her backpacks. Students who do not follow this guideline will receive a warning from the teacher. If it happens again, the teacher will take up the cell phone until the end of the day and send a parent notification of the incident. On the third event, it will be given to an administrator for the parent to pick up.