Attendance

ABSENCES:
  • Call the 24-hour attendance line at 949-936-5801 to report your child’s absence from school.  Do not leave messages on other phone lines.
  • Please speak clearly, identify yourself, your child’s name, grade level and teacher, and give the date and reason for absence.
  • Your child cannot return to school until he/she is fever-free for at least 24 hours, without medication.
  • If your child misses more than 3 days of school, they must obtain a doctor's note before returning.
     
PICKING YOUR CHILD UP FROM SCHOOL: 
  • If you need to pick your child up early from school, you must report to the office to sign your child out.
  • Please be on time to pick your child up at the end of the school day.
  • Children can only be picked up by a parent or authorized person, as listed on the student’s emergency card. 
     
DELIVERY OF ITEMS LEFT AT HOME:
  • Musical instruments, lunches, homework, and other items are sometimes forgotten by the students when they come to school.
  • The front office is not accepting items to deliver items to classrooms.
  • If a parent chooses to bring forgotten items to the school later, they must be dropped off on the green cart outside the front office door.
  • Parents do not need to inform the front office that they have dropped the items off.
  • It is up to the students to check the cart for items - PLEASE INFORM YOUR STUDENT TO CHECK THE CART IF THEY FORGOT SOMETHING.
  • The office staff is not responsible for items left on the cart, nor running these items to the students for a variety of reasons, first and foremost being it is disruptive to the classroom.  
MEDICATION AT SCHOOL: 
  • If your child requires medication at school, the medication must be kept in the nurse’s office to be administered by school personnel.  
  • Children may not have medication, including inhalers, in their backpacks.

By law, the school must follow these procedures:

  • Medicine must be in the original pharmacy bottle, labeled by the pharmacist.
  • Parent and physician each must sign a consent form prior to medication being administered.  Consent forms are available in the school office or you can click here to download form.
  • Medication MUST be brought to school by the parent or guardian.  At no time can medication arrive at school in a lunch box, baggie, etc.  These regulations also apply to non-prescription medications.  Non-prescription medications include aspirin, vitamins, cough syrup, cough drops, ointments, etc.
  • Do not ask school personnel to administer medications until the above mentioned requirements are met.
     
VOLUNTEERS OR VISITORS:  
  • All volunteers and visitors to the school must sign in to Raptor at the front office and pick up an ID badge.
  • Upon leaving the school, they must sign out and return the ID badge to the office.