Students shall be
expected to be in attendance every day scheduled by the
Absences and tardies are
closely monitored. 5 or more unexcused
absences or tardies within a month may result in a phone call, letter,
conference or referral to the truancy office.
Immediately upon returning to school after a
period of absence, the student must bring a note to his/her teacher, which
should contain the following information:
This note will be sent to the front office to be kept on file.
Students are responsible
for making up all missed assignments in a reasonable amount of time. Parents
may request assignments for extended absences by calling the school office. A
24-hour notice must be given prior to picking up missed assignments. These assignments may be picked up in the
school office.
Students may begin arriving on campus 30
minutes prior to the first bell.
Students may only be dropped off in car line when a faculty member is on
duty. Please do not drop of your
children in other areas.
Late arrivals must
report to the office with a parent/guardian. The parent/guardian must sign the child in
and the child will be given a tardy slip to report to class. Excessive tardies to school shall be reported
to the St. Tammany Parish Supervisor of Attendance.
*Perfect attendance
cannot be earned if a child reports late to school or is checked out early.
Before-school care will be offered in the gym on regular school days starting
at
BUSES
The bus driver and the St. Tammany Parish
School Board's Transportation department will handle bus transportation
arrangements. However, students must
remember that the bus driver is responsible for their safety while they are on
the bus, and students who violate bus rules will be referred to the principal
for disciplinary action. Such referrals
may result in the student being suspended from the bus.
BREAKFAST
The cost of breakfast for school children is
$.60 ($.30 for reduced.) The weekly
cost for breakfast is $3.00 ($1.50 for reduced.)
If a child is planning to eat breakfast at
school, he/she should immediately upon arrival at school report to the
cafeteria and should NOT go to the playground first.
LUNCH
Lunch times will vary by grade level. For school children the cost is $1.00 ($.40
for reduced). The weekly cost for lunch is $5.00 ($2.00 for reduced.)
PAYMENTS
Payments should be made in advance. Please make checks payable to Folsom
Elementary School. Put in an envelope marked CAFETERIA with the student’s name,
teacher’s name, and amount of money enclosed. Contact the Cafeteria Manager,
Mrs. Rainey, for additional information.
Students arriving in cars must be
dropped off or picked up ONLY in the car line.
Parents are NOT to drop off children in the middle of the parking lot,
nor should they park and walk to pick up their child. We feel that the safety of your child is
worth the short wait you may experience in car line.
Car riders may be dropped off and picked up
ONLY on the gym side of the school. Under no circumstances should students
be dropped off or picked up on the library side of the school.
To help keep things moving
smoothly, please place a card with the student’s last name in the front window
on the passenger side of the car. Please
use this card all year because duty teams rotate.
DISCIPLINE POLICY
Folsom Elementary School has established a Positive Behavior Support Plan. It includes school-wide behavior
expectations/rules; procedures for encouraging expected behaviors; procedures
for discouraging violations of school-wide expectations/rules, and a plan for
monitoring effectiveness.
It by no means replaces the
school board policy. The St. Tammany
Parish School Board policy on discipline can be found in the
The school-wide
behavior expectations/ rules are:
·
We are respectful.
·
We are responsible.
·
We are prepared.
·
We are in school every day.
Procedures for encouraging expected behaviors
include:
·
Each classroom has an F.E.S. Tiger Poster
displayed. Students who exhibit
outstanding effort to follow the rules, demonstrate kindness, and show good
character will be given a tiger paw to write their name on and display on the
Tiger Poster.
·
Students who receive a specified number of paw
prints will have their names displayed on a Tiger Paw bulletin board in the
front of the school. Additionally, those
students’ names will be put into a box for a drawing at the special event, Tiger Roar.
·
At the end of the nine weeks, those students
who have no more than one detention referral and/or assignment to Second Chance
are invited to the Tiger Roar. Tiger Roar is a celebration event which
includes games, treats, prizes, etc.
·
In an effort to encourage students to “Be In
School Every Day” we will be awarding students with perfect attendance each
quarter (this includes having no tardies and checkouts) a perfect attendance
t-shirt. If they continue to have
perfect attendance, they will receive an iron-on PAW patch to add to their
shirt each quarter. Students who earn
these shirts will be allowed to wear them to school.
Procedures for encouraging
expected behaviors in the classrooms:
V.I.P. (Very Important Person) – Fifth Grade:
Procedures for discouraging
violations of school-wide classroom expectations/rules:
1)
A classroom teacher, duty teacher, or school
administrator may assign students not following classroom or school rules a
2)
After the 4th
3)
An 8th
4)
Additional
Disciplinary action by the principal may include an Administrative
Conference,
ANTI-BULLYING POLICY
Our school defines
bullying as unfair and one sided. It
happens when someone keeps hurting, frightening, threatening, or leaving
someone out on purpose. Examples of
bullying include, but are not limited to: hurting someone physically by
hitting, kicking, tripping, pushing; stealing or damaging another person’s
things; ganging up on someone; teasing someone in a hurtful way; using
put-downs, such as insulting someone’s race or making fun of someone for being
a boy or a girl; touching or showing private body parts; spreading rumors about
someone; leaving someone out on purpose or trying to get other students not to
play with someone.
Students at our school
will do the following things to prevent bullying: treat each other respectfully; refuse to
bully others; refuse to let others be bullied; refuse to watch, laugh, or join
in when someone is being bullied; report any bullying to the staff.
Consequences for violating
the anti-bullying policy are in accordance with the school-wide positive
behavior plan.
The St. Tammany Parish School Board policy on bullying can be found in
the St. Tammany Parish Handbook on Attendance, Discipline and Student
Records.
CLASSROOM RULES
The teachers will post classroom rules and
consequences in the classrooms. Teachers will handle minor infractions with a
warning,
Students should not bring toys, valuable
jewelry, electronics, trading cards, or any other valuable items to school,
including large amounts of money. Any such
items picked up by a staff member and sent to the office will have to be
retrieved by the parent. A student
violating this rule may be disciplined.
PLAYGROUND
RULES
The following rules are general playground
rules to be followed by all students.
Duty persons may establish additional rules and guidelines. Duty persons will handle minor infractions
with warnings,
1)
Rough play is NOT allowed.
2)
Stay within the playground boundaries.
3)
Use equipment properly.
a.
Go down the slide on your bottom, feet first.
b.
No jumping off the swings.
c.
No sitting on top of the monkey bars.
d.
Do not run in front of people on the swings.
4)
No throwing objects such as sticks, rocks,
pine cones, and sand.
5)
Chasing games are not allowed except in
organized play.
6)
No ball playing around equipment.
7)
Permission is needed to leave the playground
for any reason (water, bathroom, and to go to the office)
8)
Walk to your line quickly and quietly when the
bell rings. All play should end.
9)
Water fountains and restrooms are off-limits
once the bell to end recess rings.
UPPER PLAYGROUND RULES
1)
Only 2 kick-balls on the playground at each
backstop.
2)
No footballs on the playground.
3)
No hard soccer-type balls.
4)
Students may bring an extra ball to play small
tossing games (within a 10’ diameter area) under the trees.
5)
Students are not allowed to kick balls across
the playground – this is only allowed at the two backstops.
HALLWAY/BREEZEWAY
RULES
1) Students must WALK QUIETLY at all times when in halls or on breezeways.
2) Students must go directly to the assigned destination.
3) Students should use the restroom quickly and quietly with no playing.
4) Do not bounce balls in halls or in breezeways.
CAFETERIA
RULES
The following rules are general cafeteria
rules to be followed by all students.
Cafeteria monitors handle minor infractions with warnings, teacher
notification, etc. Serious infractions, such as throwing food or defiance
toward cafeteria monitors will be referred immediately to the principal for
disciplinary action.
1)
Each class will enter quietly in the order assigned
by the teacher.
2)
When waiting in line to be served, get the
correct lunch card, face forward at all times, and keep hands, feet, and other
objects to yourself.
3)
Talk in a quiet voice at all times and use
good manners.
4)
Each class will be dismissed as teacher
directed.
5)
Follow posted cafeteria rules.
DRESS
CODE
Parents and students are to refer to
the
·
The minimum length of shorts, dresses, skirts,
etc. must be at the fingertip or below when standing erect with arms extended
down the sides or be not more than 5” above the knee.
·
Undershirts may not be worn as outerwear and
may not be visible under the uniform shirt except at the neckline. Underarmor and other athletic undergarments
should not be worn as a uniform shirt.
·
Fun Fair shirts, regardless of color, are not
to be worn as uniform shirts.
·
No skin may show between the pants and shirt
in any position.
·
All pants MUST be secured at the waist with NO
undergarments revealed.
·
Beach sandals or backless rubber thong sandals
are not permitted.
·
Caps, hats, and bandanas are not allowed at
school.
·
The length of hair for boys may not fall below
the base of a collared shirt. Any method
used to circumvent this hair length rule is not permitted. Hair arranged in a manner detrimental to the
performance of normal educational activities will be prohibited. Extreme hair
styles will not be permitted; i.e. unnatural coloring, mohawks, sculpted
designs, etc.
Violating the St. Tammany Parish policy on dress code or the school
uniform policy could result in disciplinary action.
A student will not be allowed to remain at
school if the violation is disruptive.
DISMISSAL POLICY
At dismissal time:
·
Bus riders will report to a designated area. Students must remain in their assigned area
until a duty teacher calls for their bus.
·
Car riders will report to the gym side of the
school for pickup.
·
After-school care students will report to Ms.
Kirchoff’s room.
*Students who are not picked up 15 minutes after dismissal time will be
sent to after school care, and will be charged the daily rate of $6.00.
If changes in
transportation must be made, please send a note to the teacher with specific
information. Transportation changes will not be made in the last 15 minutes
prior to dismissal time except in the case of extreme emergency. It is difficult to get last minute messages
to students.
Before a student may ride a bus other than
his/her own, the parent/guardian must submit this request to the principal in
writing for approval. The note should contain the child's name, the date of the request, the
number of the bus the student is requesting to ride, and the parent/guardian's
signature. The bus driver will not let the child on the bus without a letter
signed by the principal. Some buses
may not allow extra riders due to over-crowding.
The parent/guardian must send written
permission to the school when the child is to ride home with another student's
parent. The note should contain the
child's name, the date of the request, the person picking up the child, and the
parent/guardian's signature.
EARLY
CHECKOUT
A parent/guardian must come to the office to
sign a child out for early checkout. No exceptions
will be made. Only persons listed on a
child's emergency card will be permitted to check the child out. A person checking a child out may be required
to present identification.
We will not check students in the last 15
minutes of school. Students will only be
allowed to check out if it is an emergency.
*Perfect attendance cannot be earned if a
student is checked out early.
A parent wishing to check his/her child out from a field trip must sign
the child out in the school office prior to leaving school the morning of the
field trip.
The parent will receive a copy of the Sign Out Permission Slip to give
to the child's teacher.
In
some situations a student's parent may be required to accompany his/her child
on a field trip in order for the child to attend.
Siblings will not be allowed to go on field trips. The purpose of the chaperone is to supervise
a class group of 4-6 students.
Found articles will be placed in the “Lost and
Found” container in the gym. Students should also check with their classroom
teachers for lost items. Parents and
students are strongly urged to clearly label all items a student brings to
school. Books, book bags, and purses should not be left unattended in the halls
or on the playground. The school will not be responsible for items lost at
school. At the end of the school year
unclaimed items will be donated to charity.
MEDICATION
POLICY
Children are NOT allowed to have medication
with them at any time while on school grounds or while in route to school. This includes prescription and
over-the-counter medications.
According to St. Tammany
Parish School Board policy, designated personnel are not allowed to dispense
medication of any kind unless the appropriate forms have been completed by the
parent/guardian AND doctor. Any change
in medication will require a new form.
All medicine must be brought in by a parent/guardian and must be kept in
a prescription bottle that matches the information on the form. All medications must be picked up at the end
of the school year or they will be disposed of.
Communication between the home and school is
an essential part of the educational process.
Parents/guardians are encouraged to keep in close contact with their
child's teacher. Conferences may be
scheduled by contacting the school at 796-3820. The school guidance counselor
may also be contacted to assist in this matter.
Report cards are sent home after each of the
four grading periods. Students will
receive report cards on the Thursday following each grading period with the
exception of the last grading period. Students in grades K - 3 will receive
their final report card on the last day of school, and students in grades 4 and
5 will receive their final report card the following week in the mail from the
St. Tammany Parish School Board. Kindergarten
students will NOT receive a report card for the first grading period.
EDUCATION
As mandated by the St. Tammany Parish School
Board, students in grades K-8 will
receive instruction on the topic of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention, Education
and Reporting. All materials to be used
in the instruction may be previewed by contacting the school guidance
counselor. We would also like to
encourage you to talk to your child about this topic as well as other general
safety issues.
Each student and a parent/guardian must sign
the St. Tammany Parish Instructional Use Agreement in order for the student to
use the St. Tammany Parish School Board instructional technology and Internet
services. This form will be kept on file
in the student’s permanent folder and maintained as long as he/she is a student
in the St. Tammany Parish School System. Students who do not have a signed form
on file in the school office will be issued one to complete and return to
school. To revoke permission once it has
been granted, a letter must be submitted to the school office. The letter should contain the following:
Students are responsible for all textbooks and
library books issued to them during the school year. Any lost or damaged books must be paid
for. The replacement value of most
textbooks is in excess of $30.00. Extra
care should be taken in keeping up with textbooks and library books. If a lost book is found, the money will be
refunded.
The uniform policy that was voted in by the
parents of Folsom Elementary is as follows:
Uniform pants and shirts
must be solid in color without stripes or designs. School t-shirts may be purchased at the front office and worn as
uniform shirts. Folsom Elementary
Perfect Attendance t-shirts may be worn as uniform shirts. Fun Fair shirts, regardless of color, are not
to be worn as uniform shirts.
VISITORS
Visitors are welcome at Folsom Elementary, but
we foremost want to ensure safety for your child. As mandated by St. Tammany Parish School
Board Policy, the following must be adhered to when visiting our school.
All classroom visits for observational
purposes must be scheduled through the principal. Advance notice is required so that the visit
will not disrupt instruction. Parents
should not visit the classroom unannounced for any reason.
VOLUNTEERS
We encourage and appreciate parent volunteers. Volunteers may assist in classrooms, the
library, or the workroom. Volunteering
in a classroom must be arranged with the classroom teacher at least one day in
advance. Volunteers should follow the
“Visitor’s Policy”, but should remember to sign in and out in the “Volunteer
Log Book.”
PHONE DIRECTORY
Office
Fax
Cafeteria
Before & After Care *630-6088
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Other Important Numbers
Transportation
Child Welfare &
Attendance
School Nurse