Parent Expectations - Activities & Organizations

sent home for their removal. · It is policy that ill students will be sent home if they have a fever over 99.6, have vomited, or have had diarrhea. Students will be sent home for persistent nausea or pain unrelieved by over-the-counter medications.

Parent Expectations

A unique aspect of Gatewood Schools is that the family, not just the student, becomes a part of the school community.

Parent Activities and Organizations

The Gatewood Association of Parents (The GAP): The GAP exists to provide a framework in which parents, teachers, and administration may work together to develop students academically, physically, spiritually and socially. The GAP serves as a non-partisan organization that makes a united effort to attract new families to

Gatewood Schools. It also supports the activities of Gatewood students, administration and faculty through parent involvement. It promotes Gatewood through selected fundraising efforts for the benefit of the entire school. Members include parents or guardians of students enrolled at Gatewood Schools and teachers of your children. GAP meetings are posted on the school calendar.

Personal Property

While we hope and expect all students to operate in an honorable and ethical manner, it is advisable that all Gatewood personnel safeguard valuables at all times. Students are discouraged from bringing expensive toys or electronic devices, large sums of money, or headphones to school. If computers, tablets or other approved electronic devices are used during the school day, students are required to secure these items at all times. The school is not responsible for the security of or protection from such items being damaged or lost.

Structure

Gatewood is divided into the Pre-School, Lower School, Middle School, and the High School. The Pre-School consists of grades K2 through K-4. Lower School is grades kindergarten through fifth. The Middle School is sixth through eighth grades, and the High School includes ninth through twelfth grades.

The Director of Advancement and Development coordinates Annual and Capital Campaigns and related events. Charitable gifts to Gatewood are received and processed through the school business office. Generally, these tax-deductible gifts consist of cash, securities, tangible personal property, real estate, bequests, and insurance and charitable trust arrangements. In order to assure tax deductibility and proper gift recording and acknowledgement, all gifts should be coordinated with the business manager. All requests for gifts and solicitations by faculty, student and parent groups must be approved by and

Student Injury during the School Day

Students who sustain an injury during the school day are to be seen by the administration and the Athletic Trainer, when possible. The administration will determine the response to the injury. This includes on-site treatments, contacting parent/guardian, and referral to a medical provider or facility if needed. If a student has a life-threatening injury, 911 will be called.

Supervision

After School Care Program: Gatewood offers this program focused on Pre-K through 5th grade that enables families to pick students up later than the normal dismissal time. This service is provided for a fee with the after school care running from 2:45 pm until the student can be picked up, but not exceeding 5:30 pm. This service costs $200 per month for one child, $250 per month for two children and $300 per month for 3 or more children. To participate, families must complete state required information forms to be maintained by the staff caregivers and front office of school. All parents having children 5th Grade and below, regardless of whether they use the service routinely, must complete the above mentioned forms to expedite planning should emergency care be needed. Additionally, periodic users must have given 24 hour notice through the school office to ensure that the adequate staffing for the day of use. The cost for periodic services shall be $20 per day per child and $10 per day each additional child. Final cost will be rounded to the nearest quarter hour.

Anyone picking up a child who is not on the child’s pick-up authorization list will need to be approved through the written authorization of a direct phone call from the parent/ guardian before the child may leave school grounds. Permanent changes to the pick-up list need to done in writing.

Costs for the program will be billed monthly with tuition, and must be paid in full each month before being allowed to continue in the program for the following month. For late pick up (after 5:30 pm), parents will be charged $5 for the first 10 minutes and $1 per minute thereafter.

Regular Before School Drop Off: In the preschool and lower schools, there will be a teacher on duty in the multi-purpose/ activity rooms beginning at 7:30 am. Students shall not arrive at school before this time

Regular After School Dismissal: All preschool and lower school students shall be picked up at 2:45 pm in front of their respective school building, unless the teacher has been notified that a middle school or high school sibling will supervise the student’s pick-up at the gym. Parents may choose to wait until 3:00 pm to pick up their preschool or lower school children if they have older children. It is imperative that students are picked up on time so teachers may meet their after-school obligations to tutoring, meetings, supervision of extracurricular activities, etc. If not known or recognized as a person authorized to pick-up a child, a photo ID may be requested. Those picking up prekindergarten children will sign a daily roster maintained by their teacher per state requirements.

Traffic Flow

Morning Drop Off All traffic will turn between the gymnasium parking lot and the media center in the morning and afternoon drop off and pick up times. Middle school and High School students will be dropped off and picked up in along the loop around the high school parking lot. Preschool and lower school children will be taken around the rear of the lower school and proceed along the road between the preschool and track. Lower school & preschool parents will proceed beside the track and back to the front of the lower school building. They will proceed along the loop to drop off or pick up lower school children. Phillips Road will be one way during these times so that both lanes may be used in front to the lower school. Do not park in drop-off zones. Keep the line of traffic moving. If you must park to go inside at the lower school, park across the street or in the parking lot behind the school (facing the baseball field, as the spaces facing the mobile units are reserved for faculty). For safety purposes, students must be picked up along the sidewalks. Please do not drop children off in undesignated areas, especially behind the lower school. Doors in the rear will not be open for entry.

Afternoon Pick Up Follow the same parking procedures as in the morning. K2 through 5th grades are dismissed at 2:45 pm; middle and high school are dismissed at 3:00 pm. Parents may choose to wait until 3:00 pm to pick up their children if they have older children. Students (K2-5th grade) who remain on campus more that 15 minutes after dismissal (2:45 pm) who are not registered for our After Care program and do not have an older sibling will automatically be checked into aftercare and charged $20 per day. If you believe you will need after school care more than twice a year, it is strongly recommended that you register your child for our After Care program. It is imperative that students are picked up on time so teachers may meet their after-school obligations of tutoring, meetings, supervision of extracurricular activities, etc.