General Information

General Information

Field Trips
Official field trip forms must be completed, signed and returned to the teacher before the date of the planned trip. Notes and telephone calls from parents cannot be accepted as a form of permission to attend a field trip.

Illness and Injury
Any illness or injury will be reported to the classroom teacher and the office. Office personnel will contact parents.

Good attendance is encouraged for academic learning and for developing good habits for the future as a working adult. However, if your child is ill, allow him or her to remain home until the illness has run its course. A measure we use to determine illness is a temperature of 100 degrees or above, or sub normal temperature. If this happens to a child at school, parents or guardians will be notified. Please be sure that they are picked up as soon as possible.

Be sure your child's emergency card is updated in the office and include the telephone numbers of nearby family or friends who can come for your child quickly, if parents cannot be reached. Students cannot be released to anyone unless they are listed on the emergency card.

Medications
If your child needs medication administered at school the following procedure shall apply. (Medication is defined as all prescription or over-the-counter drugs). All medication to be administered must be accompanied by a Lake Washington School District Authorization to Administer Medications Form. This form must be completed by: 1) a parent or legal guardian and 2) a physician or dentist.

Medications and non-prescription medication must be in the original container and labeled with name of student, name of medication, dosage and time of administration and name of physician prescribing medication. All medications are administered between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

Lunch Money
Individual lunches cost $1.90 and milk or juice for cold lunches is $.50. Parents may prepay for as many lunches/milk as they wish. With this system each student has a computer account. Please include the student's name on checks sent to school. When a student does not have a lunch or lunch money, an emergency hot lunch will be provided. If a student comes with less than the full amount, the student will be given an emergency lunch and should bring the full amount the following day. Free and Reduced lunches are available to qualifying students. Information and applications are sent home on the first day of school, or are available in the office. If your financial situation should change during the school year, please call the school office for application form.

Playground Rules
1. Play Safely - any play that hurts others or yourself - physically or emotionally is not acceptable.

2. Boundaries - off limit areas include:

* Portable ramps, service driveways and service load/unload area;

* Breezeway (except for rainy days) and front walkways;

* Woods;

* Grass next to intermediate classrooms;

* Parking lot;

* Upper corner of playground by fence;

* Backstops;

* Trees and bushes.

3. Leave rocks, stones, cones, sticks and dirt on ground. No digging.

* Digging is limited to designated areas.

4. Tire swing

* Time limit - two minutes morning & afternoon recess, three minutes at noon;

* Must sit on swing - no standing or laying down;

* Wait for your turn by the wood border.

5. Bars

* two students may be on the bars at one time;

* time limit - two minutes;

* one hand on bars at all times;

* grabbing legs or pulling students off bars can cause serious injury;

* swinging by knees or dropping off bars is dangerous.

6. Balls

* Balls are checked out from bins at recess;

* Balls are returned to bins at end of recess;

* Hold on to football until you are in the upper field;

* No throwing balls at people;

* Use big red balls only on the wall by portable B;

* Use tennis balls, not racquet or hard balls.

7. When playing tag, touch on the shoulders only, and play in the upper field.

8. Breezeway

* Use a quiet voice; (other students are still in class);

* Walk;

* Use only red balls;

* Stay off grass and bars;

9. All Play Structure

* One at a time down slides;

* Slide down direction only on your bottom - no climbing up the slide;

* No pushing;

* Stay out from under the slides;

* Do not climb over slide sides;

* No tag around any of the play structures;

* One at a time on balance beam;

* Two at a time on bouncing bar;

* Do not climb over structure railing;

* No climbing on time of structure.

10. When there is a dispute over a game, take a vote and the majority wins; or do rock, paper, scissors. If dispute continues, find a teacher or Peace Coach. The P.E. teacher sets game rules.

11. Walk, don't run around portables.

12. Bring coats to lunchroom. Everyone has to stay outside during recess.

13. Playground supervisors have passes for the bathrooms. Use the bathrooms and drinking fountain by the gym.

14. Thunder - three whistles and line up QUIETLY in the breezeway.

15. No food or beverages on the playground unless sold at recess.

16. NO HARRASSMENT.

Our playground is supervised to ensure our students a safe environment. Students should report any recess problems to the recess supervisor.

Safety
Because we care about your kids...
At Rose Hill Elementary, we care very deeply about our students. In consideration of their safety and making the most of their school time, we respectfully request the following:

* Everyone must check in at the office to receive a visitor's pass.

* All students being dismissed early must be checked out through the office.

* To insure that classes have uninterrupted instructional time, we request that all assignments, books and lunches be taken to the office, not directly to the room.

* In the event of an emergency and/or evacuation, students can only be checked out through the office or reunion site which will be located in the front of the school.

Traffic Safety
In order to maintain an effective traffic safety program your cooperation is needed. Our goal is the safety of our children. Please help promote our safety program by observing the following regulations:

Parking & Pick-Up/Drop-Off
The area in front of the school is a NO PARKING ZONE and is reserved strictly for buses and childcare vans. The area in front of the gym is for pick-up and drop-off by parents. If you plan to come into the building or need to leave your car unattended, use a designated parking space.

Safety Patrol Cooperation
Please cooperate with our hard-working safety patrol. They go on duty at 8:10 a.m. and leave duty at 8:25 a.m. They are also on duty from 3:00 to 3:20 p.m. They help students safely cross the streets. They do not direct traffic. We have patrols at the following crossings:

Bicycles
Students in grades 4-6 may ride their bicycle to school. Parents are required to complete a bicycle permission form which is available in the office. Students in K-3 are asked to leave bicycles at home. Every rider is required to wear a helmet and lock his or her bike in the bike rack. Bicycles are to be walked on and off the school grounds. Exceptions to the age policy for riding bikes to school need to be approved by the building principal.

Skateboards and Rollerblades
Because of safety and liability concerns, skateboards, scooters and rollerblades (rollerskates) are not allowed on school grounds.

Electronic Equipment
All electronic equipment such as "boom boxes", Gameboys, disk players, walkmans, and hand-held games should be left at home. Please contact the office if there are questions.

Bus Rides
Bus service is provided for students living 1.5 miles from school or for those students that do not have a safe walking route to and from school. For new students, neighbors are the best source of information about bus stop location and pick-up times. Parents may also call the District Transportation Department at 425-882-5120.

School Phone
To alleviate classroom interruptions and protect learning, students are not called to the phone. Urgent messages will be communicated to them. Please discuss after-school arrangements in the morning before school starts. Students will be discouraged from using the phone to make after-school arrangements, call for homework, etc.

Textbooks
Students are responsible to the school for the proper care of textbooks and must pay for lost or damaged books. Students will be required to pay fines for damaged textbooks in accordance with the amount of damage. In cases where the damage is so extensive as to render the book unusable, the full price will be collected since the book will need to be replaced. Each student shall return all textbooks issued when leaving the school, or at the end of the school year.

Tardy Policy
Any student who arrives late will be sent to the office for an Admit to Class slip. Students with medical appointments are considered excused. Family emergencies will be excused only if parents notify the school office in the morning of the tardy by phone or send a note with your child. Students who are tardy for a reason other than those listed above will make up missed work during noon recess in the Library.

Dress Code
Parents and children should make the decision of what to wear and clothing styles. Clothing that causes distraction to learning or sets a negative example is inappropriate. Since students are required to go outside for recess and take part in PE and other activities, they must be suitably dressed.

The following will be allowed:

The following are not allowed: