South Columbia Elementary Parent Information

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South Columbia Elementary Parent Information

• Welcome!

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Mission Statement

• To provide a positive learning environment in
  which students will develop the knowledge and
  skills to become lifelong learners in a changing
  society.

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School Rules

• Respect yourself, others, and their property.
• Stay in your seat or assigned area.
• Listen, follow directions, and complete all work.
• Refrain from disruptive behaviors in class.
• No physical contactkeep hands, feet, and other
  objects to yourself.

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Morning Arrival

• Students may arrive between 800-830.
• Cars will enter the teacher parking lot creating
  a single file line of cars, and the students will
  exit the vehicles where a Safety Patrol is
  stationed.
• Parents REMAIN in their cars.
• Parents who need to enter the school are welcome
  to park in the gravel lot to the right of the
  school in order to keep drop-off traffic flowing.

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Attendance

• At 830 each day, the tardy bell rings. Students
  who arrive later than 830 will be counted tardy.
  
• If your child is late to school, please sign them
  in at the front office.
• For more information, consult the SCE Student
  Handbook or www.ccboe.net.

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School Nurse

• If your child has any medication (prescription or
  OTC) that needs to be administered at school,
  please fill out a Medication Form available from
  the front office or your childs teacher.
• Prescriptions must be in the original bottle in
  order to be administered.
• PLEASE let us know if your child has a food
  allergy!

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Breakfast Lunch

• Breakfast is available and served to students
  from 800 to 820 each day. The cost for
  breakfast is 0.75.
• Lunch is available to students each day. The
  cost is 1.75.
• Menus are sent home with children monthly, also
  found on www.ccboe.net and local news media.

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Specials

• Art
• Music
• PE- please wear athletic, rubber soled, flat
  bottomed shoes.
• Guidance
• EIP

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Afternoon Dismissal

• Students are dismissed by closed-circuit
  television.
• Car riders are dismissed at 330, followed by
  buses and daycare riders.
• In addition to being numbered, each bus is color
  coded with flags, to help younger students
  identify their bus.

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Afternoon Dismissal

• While waiting for their children, parents are
  asked to stand in the corral area or remain in
  their car.
• Each parent must have a dismissal card in hand
  (if out of the car) or in the front windshield
  with the students first and last name on it in
  order to pick up a child.
• If you do not have a dismissal card, you will be
  asked to go into the building to check out the
  student.
• Again, parents who need to enter the school are
  welcome to park in the gravel lot to the right of
  the school in order to keep pick-up traffic
  flowing.

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Rainy Day Dismissal

• Definition of a rainy day dismissal
• A downpour or heavy rain
• (If there is a light rain shower dismissal
  procedures will remain as they are on normal
  days.)
• Bus riders will be dismissed from the second
  grade hallway loading one bus at a time.
• Daycare riders will be dismissed as usual, out
  the fifth grade hallway, and will load one van at
  a time.

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Rainy Day Dismissal

• Cars will form a double line in the center of the
  parking lot as they do on normal days.
• All parents will need to get out of their cars,
  walk up to the flagpole and have their dismissal
  cards in hand.
• Car riders will be kept under the front breezeway
  and in the front hallway. As each student hears
  their name called by Coach McGowan or Coach
  Kilpatrick they will be escorted across the
  crosswalk to their parent.
• Once the car line is loaded and moved we will
  call the remaining students to their cars. It is
  very important that you have your dismissal card
  on the right side of the dashboard with the names
  of the child/children clearly written on it.

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Rainy Day Dismissal

• Please understand that your child/children may
  still get wet, but we are hoping that this will
  keep the students as dry as possible.

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Tigers Lair Program

• Morning program begins at 700 A.M.
• Afternoon program ends at 600 P.M.
• Students may attend morning, afternoon or both
  sessions.
• Homework time, snacks, crafts and socialization
  provided.
• Contact the school for details about fees.

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Getting Involved

• Open House 600-800 P.M. The evening preceding
  the first day of school, meet your childs
  teacher and tour the school.
• Parent Orientation held during the month of
  August. An in-depth meeting with your childs
  teacher(s) to learn about specific classroom
  procedures and plans for this year.

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Getting Involved- PTO

• Meets on alternate months
• Yearly activities include Pumpkin Patch
  Carnival, Fundraisers, PTO meetings, Family Movie
  Nights more.
• Volunteering for committees and in classrooms.

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Student Activities

• Pride Club
• Safety Patrol
• WSCE Morning Show
• Ensemble
• Mileage Club

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Honors and Recognitions

• All Day Every Day
• Golden Shoe
• Tiger Point Award
• Tigerific Kids
• AR Points
• A A/B Honor Roll

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School Contact Info

• 325 McCormick Road
• Martinez, GA 30907
• 706-863-3220
• Fax [phone]
• www.ccboe.net/sce/home.html