MacDougal School

Kids First Kids First, created by Title 1 Teacher Jeanne Niswander, offers helpful tips on ways you can help your child grow, learn, live healthy, and become responsible well rounded people. Soon it will include information on grade level expectations and suggestions of things you can do at home to help your child reach those expectations. We will be adding book lists by grade level for summer reading as well as ideas on how to continue helping your child with their reading and math during the summer.

Everything you need to know about starting Kindergarten!

Registration and Enrollment Information

Bus Safety and Transportation Information

Walkers and Bike Riders

Conduct, Rules, and Discipline

The Morning Drop Off
	When dropping off your children by the front door in the morning, please pull up farther if there is a bus behind you. This will keep the traffic flow going and will not interfere with the children getting off the bus. Also, please wait before allowing your child out of your vehicle if there is a bus pulled up already. The bus drivers cannot see the students if they run in front of the buses.

Changes of Address and Phone Numbers
	Please advise us of any changes in a student's address and or telephone number as soon as possible.  This update is very important in case we need to reach you due to your child becoming ill or in case of an emergency.Call us at 596-2005 or e-mail our school secretary, Judy Lessard, with your current information.  Thank You.

Notes of Permission
	Students need to bring a note from your home regarding any change in after school activities or transportation.  Please do not put the school in an uneasy position of not knowing for sure what your child is to do after school.

Tardiness
	Any student who is late to school must bring a note from a parent or guardian.  If the tardiness is unexcused then the student may be asked to makeup the time after school.  Lunch Arrangements When Tardy

Absences Please call the school at 596-2005 if your child is absent.  Students are requested to bring a note from home indicating the reason for an absence.  The school staff will call home to verify absences if no call from you is received.  By state law an "excused" absence must fit into one of the following areas: * Personal illness * Appointments with health professional that cannot be made outside the    regular school day.  Students should return to school if at all possible. * Emergency family situations. * Planned absences for personal or educational purposes which have    received prior approval from the principal. * Observances of recognized religious holidays.

Dress Code

Please be sure that your children are dressed appropriately for the various weather conditions. Students will be going out for recess unless the weather is extreme. We ask your cooperation in seeing that students do not wear items that promote drugs, alcohol, or tobacco in any way. Students may not wear T-Shirts etc. containing slogans that may offend others. Appropriate student dress is expected even in the warmest weather. Hats should not be worn in the building unless there are special circumstances. Proper footwear should be worn to ensure safety especially in Physical Education Class. MSAD 5 Dress Code

Visitors & Volunteers Parents and other adults are welcome to visit our school.  Please contact the office or the individual teacher for a convenient time.  For security purposes, all visitors (including volunteers) are asked to sign in at the office before going to any area of the school. When coming to school to get your child, please stop at the office and have your child paged.  Going to the classrooms is often distracting (even at the end of the day) when teachers are giving assignments or checking on after-school plans.

Dismissals (and) Custody Issues If you wish to have your children dismissed from school you must sign them out at the office.  If someone other than a parent or known relative is to pick up your child, the office should be notified in advance.  Dismissals should be kept to a minimum so the student does not lose instructional time.In the case of custody and visitation issues the principal will honor the most recent legal papers and contact the authorities for assistance if necessary.

Homework & Make-Up Work

We believe that homework is an important part of the educational process.  In assigning homework, the teacher will consider the individual student's needs, ability, home situation, and the availability of resources in the home environment.  School will provide an equal opportunity for all students.  Suggested homework times for Kindergarten is 0-10 minutes per night and 10 minutes per night for first graders.   When a child is absent, you should call the school to request work that is being missed.  upon returning, the student will be allowed the number of days absent plus one day to make up the work missed.

Parent and Student Resource Links

Local Area Resources

Student Records and Privacy Act