About 8th Grade [+]

WELCOME TO 8TH GRADE
Each year, our staff works diligently to complete our final responsibilities in preparation for the upcoming school year. We hope that our families enjoyed their time together during this vacation and we are looking forward to meeting and working with each of our new students and their families. In our attempt to provide students and their parents with pertinent information about this upcoming school, we are offering our 8th Grade Center Guidelines to view at your convenience.

Tardy: All students are expected to be in their homeroom when the bell rings at 8:05AM or they will be considered tardy. Any student without a legal excuse for 4 or more times will receive a detention each time they are tardy.

Bussing: Students are NOT permitted to ride a different bus to and from school. 

Forgotten Items: If your student forgets their lunch, gym clothes, tectbooks, homework, etc, please be aware that we will not interrupt classes to inform students of the arrival of such items. It is the students' responsibility to check in the office between classes. 

End of the Day Dismissal: Students should meet their parents in the front of the 8th Grade Center on Washington Street. Walkers and first run busses are dismissed at 2:41PM. Second run busses are dismissed when the busses arrive from the 7th Grade Center at approximately at 2:50PM. 

Sick at School: All students are sent home sick by the nurse. If your child should call or text home indicating that they do not feel well,  please direct them to go to the nurse.

Activities/Athletics: Students must be in school before 9:31AM to participate in after school or evening activities scheduled for that day. After that time they must have a Doctor's note explaining their late arrival. 

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MESSAGE FROM THE NURSE

In an effort to keep all of our students safe and healthy at school, updated information is required each year. This year we added the emergency/health information card to the first day verification packet. This replaces the green cards that you filled out in previous years.

Since this is a new system, we are asking for your patience and cooperation as we ensure that the correct information is on file in your child’s records.

Please review the information you initially entered into your child’s Health Information section. Please remember to hit SUBMIT when you have completed your review.

Two sections in particular are blank on many forms. They are the permission or denial for the nurse to give standing order medications to your child/ren and the section regarding the epi pen. Please be sure to check yes or no granting or denying permission for administration of specific medications at school and to review the section about epi pens and give us information about whether or not your child will carry his/her epi pen at school, if one is prescribed for your child.

To review and edit the information on your child’s Health Information Form in Skyward, please follow these steps:

• Open skyward family access
• Click “go to first day verification”
• Choose your child
• Click “mark as incomplete and make changes”
• Click #7 “health information”
• Click “view full screen” if an option
• Make changes/add information to *required fields
• Scroll up and Click “complete step 7 and move to step 8” at top of screen
• Click #11 to resubmit
• Scroll down and be sure to do this for each of your children

Thank you very much for helping us to keep your child/ren happy and safe while at school! (next year this will be easier)

Feel free to call me with any questions,

Bridget Mullins RN, BSN, CSN, M.Ed.

Certified School Nurse

610-705-6079

 

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