Country Meadows Elementary School

PROCEDURES & EXPECTATIONS

PROCEDURES

Health Room:
1. Volunteers for our health room are trained, caring, and responsible. They need not be health care providers. Please consider volunteering for the health room. It is a great way to interact with the school.
2. Please make sure that the Emergency Information Card for your child is up to date.

Medications:
1. No medication, prescription or nonprescription shall be administered without specific written request of parents, nor without prior directional contact from a physician. Necessary forms are available in school office.
2. State Law requires that all students present written evidence of immunization against measles, rubella, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, mumps and whooping cough. Please make sure that this documentation is up to date.

Emergency Information:
1. Please design and discuss an Emergency School Closing Plan with your son(s) or daughter(s).
2. In the event of an emergency school closing, or late start, this information will be announced on the following radio and television stations.
  • Radio: WEMP (1250), WOKY (920), WISN (1130), and WTMJ (620)
  • Television: Channels 4, 6, or 12

3. Country Meadows will conduct periodic Fire, Tornado, and Hall Clearing drills throughout the school year.

Visitors: To ensure the health and safety of everyone in our building, visitors must inform the office of their presence in the building and obtain a visitors pass.  These are located in the office, room 318.  Thank you. 

School Attendance:
1. Regular school attendance is expected of all students. Excessive absence will be taken seriously. When your child is absent, please call the school (262-971-1815) before school starts.
2. In cases where an absence, or early departure from school is known in advance, please use the blue notepads to notify the school office.

EXPECTATIONS

Homework: Homework is an opportunity for a child to reinforce, expand, develop, or prepare for skills and knowledge presented in the classroom. It is great way for parents to become aware of their child's educational progress. A regular homework time is recommended. Parents should support and help their children in the homework process while understanding that it is the child's responsibility to grow and develop into independent learners.

Lunchroom:
Students are expected to conduct themselves in an orderly and responsible manner. They are expected to follow the lunchroom rules as stated in the Student Handbook.

Recess:
1. Students are expected to go outside for lunch recess. Parents may request that their children remain inside for a specific health reasons. This will be permitted with a doctor's excuse only.
2. Play which may cause possible injury will not be permitted. Throwing snow is not allowed.

Bus Conduct:
1. The bus is regarded as an extension of the school. A disregard for safety regulations/expectations, for the bus driver's authority, or for the comfort or well being of others, may result in a formal report and suspension from the bus for up to 10 days.
2. Please read and discuss BUS PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS in the Student Handbook with your son/daughter.
3. If a student desires to get off the school bus at some point other than the regular point of departure, or desires to ride a bus other than the assigned one, a note from the parent approving the change must be brought to the office and a bus pass will be issued from the school office.