Garfield Elementary School



Student & Family Resource Handbook

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Garfield Elementary – You’re Family Here!

Garfield Elementary School

Olympia School District

325 Plymouth Street NW

Olympia, WA 98502

360-596-6900



Please refer to our website for the most current information.

On behalf of the Garfield Elementary School community and staff: Welcome to Garfield–you’re family here! Garfield is a professional learning community dedicated to enabling all students to succeed academically, socially, and emotionally.

We pride ourselves on our student/staff diversity, use of volunteers, and our commitment to expanding learning opportunities for our students both during and after school. This handbook provides answers for some commonly asked questions. Please feel free to call school at (360) 596-6900 if you don’t find the information you need.

We have high expectations for ourselves and our students at Garfield. Those expectations are communicated through programs like our recess mantras, Kelso’s Choices, and our Student Learning Behavior Targets, which are summarized below.

1. BE AN ACTIVE LISTENER

Voice off; hands empty; eyes on speaker; attentive body language.

2. BEING A GOOD STUDENT IS YOUR JOB

Listens actively; arrives prepared to learn: has supplies, well-rested, has eaten breakfast, homework is complete; stays engaged and focused; does best on all assignments and activities; shows respect for differences; uses Kelso’s Choices and recess mantras; completes all assignments in quality manner.

3. BE AN EFFECTIVE COLLABORATOR

Close physical proximity; stays on-task and adds to group achievement; uses appropriate voice level; willing to encourage everyone; shares work and air time; fulfills specific role or job; makes progress toward goal and produces quality work; gives feedback and reflects on group dynamics.

Thank you for all you do. We look forward to a working partnership focused on the success of all our students.

Sincerely,

Bob Hodges, Principal

Garfield Elementary School

Placement Policy continued:

Steps (during school year):

• parents discuss problem with classroom teacher

• interventions

• parents discuss problem with principal

• principal and classroom teacher confer

• interventions

• parents meet with grade level team

• interventions

• move is considered based on space available and classroom dynamics

Garfield Elementary, Title IX, and Washington State Equity Requirements

The Olympia School District has formally adopted policies concerning a Prohibition of Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying (#3207) and Nondiscrimination (#3210). Please see the bulletin board in our main hallway for the complete text.

NOTES:

Garfield Elementary – You’re Family Here!

Teacher Placement Policy, Parent Request Protocol

Input from parents is solicited via the Parent Placement Consideration Form, which can be turned into the office anytime before May 31. Staff doesn’t recommend specific teachers but can comment on best fit/learning style variables if they so choose. We don’t offer “pre-placement parent observations” in classrooms. In May or June, grade level teams create draft class lists for the following year. Parent requests go to the principal and he/she works with these, but prioritizes to achieve gender, academic, number and behavior balance. The principal places all new enrollees based on number and gender balance. Staff reviews class lists in August for final placement.

LOOPING

At Garfield, families occasionally have the option to participate in classrooms that stay together for two years. These multi-year classrooms are called looping classrooms (for example, a class that stays with the same teacher for both first and second grade). Looping allows teachers and students to establish consistent classroom procedures and strong interpersonal relationships - which enhance student achievement.

Change of Teacher Placement Policy

During the first two weeks of school, students may be moved by the principal to re-adjust classroom balance, but after the first two weeks, a student won’t be moved without parent input.

Consideration of a parent request for a change of placement at the start of the school year will be deferred at least three weeks to give the teacher-student match a chance. Placements are interdependent and a requested change for any one child is difficult because a change involves a ripple effect for other students and classrooms. If a change is desired after the three-week waiting period, the teacher and/or parent may start the change process of moving a student to a new classroom.

Consideration of a parent request for a change of placement during the school year is only considered after working with the parent, teacher, child, and team affected. If the placement is still problematic for the student or the teacher, and we have room for a change – a move may be considered.

Information Within

Contact Information

Garfield School Code of Conduct

Student Behavior Management Plan:

Purpose

Recess Mantras

Kelso’s Choices

Garfield Great Kid Awards

Lifeskills Program

District Calendar

School Hours

Mornings at Garfield

Early Release

Before & After School Care

Visiting the School

Absences / Illness Policy

Medication Policy

Garfield Dress Code

Electronic Toy Policy

Personal Items / Cell Phones

Getting To/From School: Walker’s Crossings

Busses

Student Drop Off & Pick up

Bikes, Scooters, Skateboards

Garfield Food Service

Free and Reduced Lunches

Inclement Weather

Emergency Drills

Recess Options

Shared School Governance: Garfield Staff

Team Leaders

Site Council

Diversity Committee

Parent Teacher Association (PTA)

Extra Learning Activities: MORE Classes

GRRR (Garfield Reads & Reads & Reads)

Homework Center

Assemblies

4th & 5th Grade Orchestra

5th Grade Band

School / Parent Resources: School Counselor

Library

Newsletters

Phone Directory

Homework Policy

Lost & Found

Volunteering

Teacher Placement Policy

Looping at Garfield

Change of Teacher Placement Policy

GARFIELD CONTACT INFORMATION

Main Phone number: (360) 596-6900

Fax number: (360) 596-6901

Principal: (360) 596-6905

Office Manager: (360) 596-6910

Attendance: (360) 596-6911

Counselor: (360) 596-6904

Nurse: (360) 596-6908

Volunteer Coordinator (360) 596-6911

Library: (360) 596-6902

MORE Classes: (360) 596-6911

Gymnasium: (360) 596-6912

Kitchen: (360) 596-6807

Custodian: (360) 596-6906

PTA Voicemail: (360) 596-6989

Y-Care (before/after) (360) 705-2642

Street & Mailing Address –

Garfield Elementary School

325 Plymouth Street NW

Olympia, WA 98502



Olympia School District –

1113 Legion Way SE

Olympia, WA 98501

(360) 596-6100



We ask all members of our school community to follow the Garfield Code of Conduct. Please review the Code of Conduct and model these guidelines while on school grounds and using school transportation.

The Garfield School Code of Conduct

• Demonstrate respect for people’s feelings, bodies, and property at all times.

• Act in a safe and responsible manner.

• Attempt to solve personal problems in a respectful, responsible, and safe manner.

Below are some of the many volunteer opportunities at Garfield:

• Classroom assistance (might include room and office tasks, tutoring, special events and projects, field trips, parties, newsletter production, family liaison, etc.)

• Literacy tutoring (individuals and/or small groups)

• PTA-sponsored events (book fairs, costume ball, fund-raising auction, holiday children’s store and photos, game night, carnival, bingo nights, fun run and spring fling)

• Curriculum night

• Special field trips

• Recess activity helper (we provide ideas, you tell us what day you can play)

• Homework Center (homework help on Tues, Weds, and Thurs 3:25 pm-4:15 pm)

• M.O.R.E. classes (45 minutes after school once a week for six weeks; Tues, Weds, or Thurs; various offerings; you choose a class topic or we will help identify one; e.g. art, cooking, science experiments, games, sign language, foreign language, crafts, sports, music, drama, chess, board games, etc.)

• Garfield Site Council

• Garfield’s Diversity Committee,

• Parking lot safety (primarily the first 10 days of school)

• Library assistance (ongoing)

• Presidential Fitness testing (once in spring)

• Vision screening and tooth sealing (once in spring)

• Assembly set-up

• Conservation Activities

• School Gardening

• Lunch Buddies

Garfield volunteer reminders:

1. Complete a volunteer form and return it to the office.

2. Please attend our volunteer orientation in September.

3. In order to ensure student safety, we ask all visitors and volunteers to always sign in and out of the office and always wear a name badge – even though we know you well!

4. Please know you are welcome and wanted at Garfield!

HOMEWORK POLICY

Grade Level # of minutes to read / do class homework

Kindergarten at least 10 minutes each school night

First at least 10 minutes each school night

Second at least 20 minutes each school night

Third at least 30 minutes each school night

Fourth at least 40 minutes each school night

Fifth at least 50 minutes each school night

Lost and Found

There is a lost and found box in the hallway for clothing items and another in the office for small miscellaneous items. Items not retrieved will be donated to charity.

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Are you interested in volunteering at Garfield? Your time and talents are wanted and needed here. Each school year, Garfield volunteers give over 10,000 hours of their time! With your help, we offer our students extra enrichment activities, tutoring opportunities, and individual and small group attention. Our students benefit everyday from the involvement of parents, grandparents, friends, extended family, and community members. Please join us in our commitment to provide our students with the richest possible elementary school experience.

You can start volunteering by attending the Garfield Volunteer Information and Orientation Meeting each September, or contact the school’s volunteer coordinator or principal. You will learn about volunteer opportunities, school procedures, office tools and machines, classroom and building needs, volunteer badges and student security, and much more. We ask that you please complete a volunteer survey form and drop it off in the office or mail it to us.

If you have any questions about volunteering or the various opportunities listed below, please contact our volunteer coordinator at (360) 596-6911.

Student Behavior Management Plan

PURPOSE: to create an all-school behavior management plan and referral system based on respect and responsibility, the foundations of the Garfield Code of Conduct.

Garfield is proactive in teaching school-wide appropriate behavior and communication skills as demonstrated by our Lifeskills Program, Kelso’s Choices, Recess Mantras and Garfield Great Kid Awards.

No bullying, harassment or intimidation of any kind is allowed at Garfield Elementary. Boys and girls are treated equally and fairly and no gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or socio-economic-based favoritism or bias toward or against any student is ever allowed.

Student responsibility: to make good behavior choices

School-wide protocols and procedures:

• All classrooms / teaching spaces post and teach behavior expectations.

• Create a school-wide incentive program for common areas, service and general reinforcement.

• Teachers reference behavior expectations at curriculum night and make volunteers aware of the classroom and school-wide plan.

• Classrooms have behavior monitoring systems that: a) individualize; b) escalate; c) include warnings, recognition/reinforcement, and natural consequences (consequences that logically flow from a mistake, for example: helping to clean graffiti, if you create it); d) include a buddy class system; e) is utilized to the fullest extent possible before making a principal referral.

• All students, staff and parents are informed that extraordinary disrespect, noncompliance, and/or physical or emotional harm will result in a principal referral and/or a communication home and may result in suspension.

• Specific individualized plans may be created for some students.

Recess:

• Basic recess expectations and rules will be taught.

• Students are taught that breaking a recess rule or expectation will result in consequences – warning, problem-solving, natural consequence, brief timeout, extended timeout, referral to alternative recess activity, and/or principal referral.

• Staff will ensure calmer entrance to the playground via dismissal procedures.

RECESS MANTRAS

To simplify our recess expectations and create a more peaceful, fun playground experience for students, we developed five recess mantras:

1. Hands off – hands are for helping

2. Use your words not your body – to express anger, frustration or to solve problems

3. Get help from an adult – there’s always one close by

4. No retaliation – don’t make the same mistake back

5. Be an ally – comfort and support but don’t “get in the middle of it”

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School & Parent Resources

SCHOOL COUNSELOR

At Garfield, our counselor supports students and families in a variety of ways.  She works with students individually, in small groups and in the classroom setting.  Social skill groups are offered three times a year for seven weeks.  These groups meet weekly to discuss and practice ways to: make friends, be a good friend, adjust to changes, solve conflicts in friendship and understand self-control and responsibility.  Our counselor also has welcome/orientation groups for new students, and she assists students with recess planning to strengthen positive choice-making skills.

 

Our counselor maintains a variety of helpful parenting resources on topics such as:  positive discipline, developmental stages of childhood and pre-adolescence, grief reactions, sibling issues, blended families and single parenting.  She also has information about how to access help via city and community resources.

Library

The Garfield School Library offers wonderful materials for both children and parents. The Parent Library which is located in the school library, contains many great parenting resources. Please see library staff if you are interested. Kindergarteners may check out one book; students in grades 1-5 may have two books or one book and one other media item at a time. Books are due after two weeks. Families must pay replacement costs for lost or damaged items.

Newsletters

School-wide newsletters are sent home monthly. Many classrooms have their own newsletters as well.

Phone Directory

A student phone directory is printed once a year. Please ask in the office for further information.

KELSO’S CHOICES

Garfield uses the Kelso’s Choices curriculum to teach conflict management skills and language to our students. It’s a simple but powerful learning tool with two main ideas.

Extended Learning Activities

M.O.R.E. (More Opportunities for Recreation & Education)

Garfield offers after school enrichment classes throughout

the school year. Please watch for informational flyers. Students must register to attend. The school funds a neighborhood bus for students needing transportation home.

Math CLUB, BEFORE SCHOOL TUTORING, MSP ACADEMY

These are intervention programs that targets emerging readers mathematicians. Other small group instruction using various intervention programs occurs during school hours.

Homework Center

The Garfield Homework Center (HWC) operates on the same days as MORE classes (from 3:05 pm – 3:50 pm) for transportation purposes. Students in grades 3-5 are provided a quiet, supervised space in the library to do homework. Limited assistance is available – though students must be able to work independently. Applications for HWC are in the office and also in the MORE application packets. There is no cost but families are encouraged to donate $5 per 6 week session to help with materials, snacks and transportation costs.

Assemblies

Lifeskills and other enrichment assemblies are scheduled regularly. Please see the school newsletter for dates and times. Family members are always invited to all assemblies and school events.

4th & 5th Grade Orchestra / 5th Grade Band

For interested students in 4th or 5th grade, students can register through their classroom communications. The music teacher will assist with registration and getting the instruments. The school has a limited number of instruments available for loan. The Orchestra and Band will perform several times a year at assemblies.

Garfield Great Kid Awards

The purpose of the Garfield Great Kid Award is to encourage and honor positive student behaviors and choices. Any staff member may give any student an award. Our intention is to use them often, but to also keep the awards significant (overuse for common tasks or expected behaviors diminishes their value). Awards are sometimes presented to the student by the principal.

The first idea is to teach and learn the difference between small problems (i.e. some one cut in front of me) and big problems (someone put me in danger or hurt me). Small problems are solved by students using Kelso’s Choices. Big problems are referred to adults for help.

The second big idea is the choices themselves. Kelso’s Choices are noted on the wheel below. Please encourage your student to use them at school and at home to manage conflict peacefully.

SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT

Garfield Elementary has adopted a district-sponsored school-wide system called Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS). This is an opportunity to improve our behavior support for all students. PBIS is a team-based process focused on problem-solving and planning. It’s an attempt to create an environment within which all students understand - and are reinforced for - meeting school-wide behavior targets. A school-based team is providing PBIS leadership, as we implement research-based instructional and management practices.

The six components of PBIS:

1. A common school-wide approach

2. 3-5 school-wide expectations (Garfield’s are to be Responsible, Respectful, and Ready)

3. Expectations are taught to all kids

4. Staff uses reinforcement strategies to encourage appropriate behavior

5. Staff uses consequential strategies to discourage inappropriate behavior

6. Staff’s goal is to use a ratio of 8:1 positive to negative reinforcers

7. Data is collected and used to guide decision-making

LIFESKILLS

As a school, Garfield has adopted a common approach to character building called LIFESKILLS.

The Lifeskills we teach are:

Friendship: to make and keep a friend

Caring: to feel concern for others

Cooperation: to work together toward a common goal

Flexibility: to have the ability to change plans when necessary

Initiative: to do something because it needs to be done

Perseverance: to stay with something until it is complete

Courage: to have the strength of mind to meet difficulties with firmness

Responsibility: to be accountable for your actions

Common Sense: to use good judgment

Problem Solving: to seek solutions in difficult situations

Integrity: to be honest and sincere and do the right thing.

Effort: to try your hardest

Patience: to wait calmly for someone or something

Organization: to plan, arrange, keep things together

Sense of Humor: to laugh and be playful without hurting others

Curiosity: to have a desire to learn and know about things

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Shared School Governance

Garfield Staff – Committee of the Whole

At Garfield, the primary decision-making body consists of Garfield staff members as they participate in regularly scheduled staff meetings. Garfield staff have created norms, procedures, and a decision-making document to help facilitate school-wide communication and decision-making. Staff meet monthly to consider issues and make recommendations. All staff – certified and classified – are invited to participate on the various committees and advisory groups that facilitate school decision-making.

Garfield Team Leaders

The Team Leader group meets twice a month. Team leaders is made up of one representative from each grade level plus a specialist and a para-educator. The purpose of Team Leaders is to increase staff meeting efficiency by: collecting feedback from staff on policies and decisions, communicating school governance and procedural information, discussing current issues, brainstorming policy and procedural ideas, and guiding teaching and learning. All meetings are open to all staff.

Garfield Site Council

The Garfield Site Council meets monthly. Site Council’s primary mission is visioning and policy recommendation. Members include: four parents, a PTA rep, one classified staff member, three certified staff members, one community member, one special education representative, and the principal. Representatives will serve a one to three year term and nominations for placement are due in May. All meetings are open to the public.

Garfield Parent Teacher Association

The Garfield PTA is a vibrant organization that does many positive things for students, staff and families. Our PTA is a crucial school partner and important part of the Garfield Family. The PTA raises money, creates family-centered special events and celebrations, buys school equipment and tools, recruits volunteers, and much more. Please support our PTA by becoming a member each year, helping to advertise PTA events, attending PTA events, and by thanking our PTA volunteers regularly. The PTA meets monthly and all meetings are open to the public. Please join us!

District Calendar

You will receive a district calendar at the beginning of the school year. The calendar highlights vacations, holidays and early release days.

School Hours & Schedule

8:10 Start of staff day

Breakfast (for qualifying students)

8:20 Campus Supervision begins

8:35 Students enter pods and classrooms

8:40 Start of student day

10:15 AM recess- all students 1-5

11:15 5th Grade lunch (20 minutes)

11:20 Extended-day Kindergarten lunch (25 minutes)

11:35 1st, 2nd Grades lunch (20 minutes)

3rd, 4th, 5th Grade recess (25 minutes)

11:55 1st, 2nd Grade recess (25 minutes)

12:00 3rd, 4th Grade lunch (20 minutes)

12:00 5th Grade SSR*

12:20 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th SSR* (20 minutes)

1:40 PM recess – all students

3:02 End of student day

3:10 Campus Supervision ends

3:47 End of staff day

* = sustained silent reading

Kindergarten, Recess 9:50-10:05, 1:25-1:40

All-day Kindergarten sessions (M-F) – 840-302

MORNINGS AT GARFIELD

Please have your student arrive at school after 8:20 AM unless he/she is enrolled in our on-site YMCA childcare (Y-Care). No student supervision is available on campus prior to 8:20 AM. From 8:20 AM to 8:35 AM very limited supervision is available. Please help us keep our students safe by having them here only when supervision is available. The best arrival time for all students is between 8:25 AM and 8:35 AM. The best places for students are the gym, the hall by the gym and Multi-Purpose Room, and the playground. The field and stairways from B Pod to the basement are unsupervised and consequently off limits at this hour.

Late Starts

All OSD schools will have one-hour late starts for teacher collaboration day – October 3rd, November 7th, December 5th, January 9th, February 6th, March 6th, May 1st, and June 5th. On those dates, the student day will start at 9:40, and students should not arrive at school before 9:25. Teacher collaboration time offers our instructors a chance to work with each other to design lesson plans, discuss successful curriculum, adjust learning groups, and develop interventions to help struggling students.

Early Release

Early release days (ERDs) are noted on the school district calendar. All-Day Kindergarteners and all students Grades 1-5 are dismissed at 12:32. Lunch is served on ERDs.

Before and After School Care

If you need child care, we have on-site service provided by the YMCA. Y-Care provides child care for a sliding scale fee from 7:00 am-8:40 am and 3:02 pm - 6:00 pm. There are several child care facilities nearby that provide van service or an adult (walking) escort. The Boys and Girls Club at Jefferson Middle School also provides after-school care and activities. There is a bus from Garfield to JMS each afternoon.

Visiting the School

Family members are welcome and encouraged to visit the school. All guests, volunteers and visitors must check in at the office and wear an ID badge. Children may not bring guests to school (i.e. a visiting cousin) without classroom teacher approval and a prior arrangement with the office.

Inclement Weather

For school closures or delayed starts, please listen to local radio stations (1240 KGY AM, 96.1 FM) or local TV stations. Information is also available at the school district website - . Please don’t call the school office for confirmation.

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Emergency Drills

Fire, earthquake and intruder drills are scheduled on a regular basis. Students are instructed in what to do in a variety of emergency situations. Students and staff practice emergency response regularly.

RECESS OPTIONS (ROUTINE & RAINY DAY)

Garfield offers a variety of choices for students during recess. “Regular recess” options include:

1) the playshed and upper black top area for jump rope, 4-square, wall ball, handball and basketball

2) the playground for Big Toys, slides, spinners, swings, climbing toys and a digging area

3) the Waterwise garden for quiet play and conversation

4) the field and baseball diamonds for kickball, football, and tag

5) the Computer Lab

“Rainy Day Recess” options include:

1) the gymnasium for handball, wall ball, jump rope and 4-square

2) the playshed for basketball, jump rope and hula hoop

3) the Library for reading and drawing

4) the Computer Lab

5) the multi-purpose room during AM / PM recess for board games and jump rope

Food SERVICE

The OSD Nutrition Policy recognizes that optimal nutrition is essential for lifelong health and peak academic performance. Basic guidelines for food items: shall be under 200 calories per item; less than 10% of the calories from a combination of trans/saturated fats; yogurt and cheese products need to be made with 2% or lower milk fat; avoid all nuts due to allergies; avoid foods that contain minimal nutritional value as defined by the USDA.

SCHOOL LUNCHES

Please send lunch money on the first day of the week (or month if you pay monthly). Please write your child’s name, teacher, and the amount of the money you are sending on the outside of the envelope. Envelopes containing money for lunch may be sent to your child’s classroom.

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FREE AND REDUCED COUNT HELPS GARFIELD

Garfield offers free and reduced prices on breakfast and lunch for families who qualify. Because we are a Title 1 School, we receive about $3000 extra for every child signed up for the free and reduced lunch program. This money helps pay for reading, math, tutors, teacher assistants, a reading specialist, and extra student supervision. If you think you might be eligible, please sign up for free/reduced meals, even if you choose not to have your child participate. Your registration will bring this extra assistance to our school. (Please look for an application in your student’s first day packet. Fill out the application and bring or send it to the office.)

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Please call (360) 596-6911 if your child will be absent. If we don’t hear from you, we will phone or use our school messenger system to contact you.

If your child becomes ill at school, we will call you to pick him/her up. Please make sure parent/caregiver contact information, and all of the emergency information for your child, is always up to date.

Garfield Attendance/Tardy Notification Policy

Absences (more than 1 hour)

|Number |Intervention |

|10 |First letter on white paper and phone call home; classroom teacher notified |

|15 |Second letter on yellow paper and follow-up phone call |

|20 |Third letter on pink paper, phone call, and district policy is to start Becca Bill |

| |proceedings soon |

|21 |Phone call, mandatory meeting |

|22 |Mandatory start Becca Bill proceedings |

Tardies (less than 1 hour)

|Number |Intervention |

|10 |First letter on white paper and classroom teacher notified |

|15 |Second letter on yellow paper |

|20 |Third letter on pink paper, phone call home |

|25 |Phone call home, mandatory meeting |

Medication POLICY

If your child needs medication while at school, we need a signed form from your doctor (a nurse’s signature is not acceptable). We also need to have medication in its original container with its original instructions. Please see our office staff for details.

Getting To & From School

WALKERS CROSSING: DIVISION & HARRISON

The school provides adult crossing guard assistance at Division Street (at Madison) and Harrison Avenue (at Perry). This supervision is available on Division from 8:15 to 8:35 in the morning and from 3:02 to 3:20 in the afternoon. This supervision is available on Harrison from 8:15 to 8:35 in the morning and from 3:02 to 3:20 in the afternoon. Please do not allow your student to cross these busy streets before our adult crossing guards are there to provide safe supervision.

Student-only school patrol crossing assistance is available at the corner of Thomas and Madison during the same approximate times.

BusSes

Please contact the Garfield office staff at 596-6900 to see if you are on a bus route or call OSD transportation at 596-7700 or see the District website under Transportation.

STUDENT DROP OFF AND PICK UP

We have a dedicated lane for school busses and childcare-vans in the front of the school along the yellow curb for about 15 minutes before and after school.

The front parking lot on Plymouth Street is open during this time– but we request that all parent drop off and pick up traffic go to the loop in the back of the school off Thomas Street. An adult is there to facilitate drop off and pick up. Please have students exit and enter vehicles only on the school side of the loop along the yellow curb; please don’t allow students to walk across loop lanes or through the parking area. Cars may wait in the loop but please don’t park there or leave your vehicle unattended. If you want to park, please use a slot and walk your student across the loop lanes.

Bikes, SCOOTERS, SKATEBOARDS, ETC.

Bicycles and other wheeled vehicles may be ridden to school. There are bike racks in both the front and back of the building. Students must wear helmets and have bike locks. Scooters and skateboards can be stored in the gym. There is no skateboarding allowed on campus. All wheeled vehicles must be walked on campus.

GARFIELD DRESS CODE

• Clothing should not be distracting to others (for example halter-tops, spaghetti straps, or cleavage/tummy showing). Baggy pants should include a belt. Shorts and skirts should extend 2 inches beyond extended fingertips.

• Shoes should be worn at all times. Flip flops, wheelies, and high heels are not safe at school.

• Coats or jackets should be worn on cold and/or rainy days.

• Any clothing depicting drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and/or inappropriate pictures or slogans may not be worn at school.

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Personal Items/CELL PHONES

Students are encouraged to leave all personal items at home. If a student brings a personal item to school, he/she should practice the following guidelines:

1) Items brought to school must be safe and legal. Nothing that could be used as, or that looks like, a weapon or weapon facsimile, may be brought to the school.

2) Students are liable for what they bring to school. The school is not responsible for personal items that are lost, broken or stolen.

3) No trading or selling of anything is allowed at school.

Garfield students are encouraged to leave cell phones or other internet-capable communication devices at home. Students have access to phones in classrooms or the office for emergencies. Parents or care providers may reach a student via the main office at (360) 596-6900 in case of an emergency. If a student brings a cell phone or other internet-capable communication device to school, he/she may not use it on school grounds between the hours of 8:25 am and 3:05 pm. Cell phones and other devices must stay in backpacks (not in a pocket or on a person) during the school day or they may be confiscated and held until retrieved by an adult.

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