Registration
At the the time of enrollment, immunization records, a birth certificate and proof of
address are required. Additionally, the school would like to see a copy of the last report
card, and the student's Social Security card. Having turned five years of age on or before
September 1st. of the current school year, children are eligible for kindergarten.
Registration
Student Accident and Health Insurance
Withdrawal
Procedures
Please notify the school office and your
child’s teacher as soon as you know you will be moving. All textbooks
and library books must be returned. Also,
the cafeteria account must be cleared. Please come to the office
to sign the withdrawal form on your child’s last day.
Arrival
at School
To
be considered on time, students must be in class by the 7:45 a.m. bell.
Breakfast will be served from 7:15-7:40.
Student times: 7:45-2:45.
PK Bilingual-morning 7:35a-10:35p
PK ESOL/English-afternoon 11:45a-2:45p
All students need to report to the cafeteria before 7:40..
Morning Assembly 7:35a-7:40p
Students are counted tardy after 7:45.
Please read "Arriving Late or Leaving Early"
for more information.
Dismissals and Change in Transportation
The school day ends at 2:45 p.m. When the
dismissal bell rings, daycare and bus riders will exit through the
back doors and car riders, bike riders and
walkers will exit through the front doors. There may be occasional
Early Release Days scheduled during the school year. Students will be
released at 12:45 p.m. on these days. If there is a change in the way
your child is to go home, please notify the teacher
and the office in writing. If calling by phone
please notify the office an hour before school get out.
Car Rider Arrival and Pickup
In order to ensure student safety, the front
driveway is for car riders/parent pick up/arrival.
The back driveway is for
RRISD
buses and daycare vans only.
Safety patrol is on duty in the morning and afternoon to assist car
riders in loading and unloading. Pre-k students
are picked up by RRISD buses in the front drive.
Arriving Late or Leaving
Early
Students arriving between 7:45 a.m. and 9:00
a.m. go directly to the office to get a tardy slip
for the teacher. If you are bringing your child after 9:00 a.m.,
please walk him/her into the office and sign in. During
the school day, an authorized adult must sign all students in and out
through the office.
A student must bring a note from home with the time, date, and parent signature on it.
Parents need to pick up their children in the office area. All students
leaving school must have their parents sign the register in the office. Except in the case
of emergency, students will not be allowed to call home to check out after they get to
school.
The school’s staff is not to release a child
to any-one without the assistance of the office staff. Photo
identification is required when checking out a child before the end of
the school day.
Early Arrival
Children After School
Children are sometimes asked by a staff
member to remain at school after dismissal time. Your children, however,
will not be kept after school for more than 10 minutes without your
verbal or written permission. Dismissal is at
2:45p.m.. Teachers and Staff do not supervise students after this time.
Children attending After-School Programs
are requested to go there immediately.
Under no circumstances will a child be allowed to enter the school
buildings after 4 p.m.
Traffic/Pedestrians
Driving and Parking
If you drive your child to school, we ask that you be aware of the
safety of all children when driving in the of the school.
Due
to the limited number of parking spaces, we ask that parents reserve the
parking
lot
for staff only. Please
park only in the visitors space.
Do not double park or block the road. U-turns are illegal on
both streets. Parking variances will be
requested when whole-school events are being held. If you have any
questions about parking please contact the office. Safety
is a priority at Purple Sage. Please drive
slow and safe.
Bicycles
The following guidelines are established
to prevent injury or loss of property.
1. All
students who ride their bicycles to and from school MUST WEAR A
BICYCLE HELMET.
2. Each
bicycle MUST BE LOCKED.
3. Bikes may
NOT be locked to gates or to the bicycle racks located on the east
side of the school, near the pool.
4. The bicycle
parking area is not supervised the entire day. Riding new, and
expensive bicycles with many attachments should be carefully
considered.
5. All
bicycles must be WALKED while on school grounds and across the
driveways to the parking lot.
6. Students
should report to the cafeteria immediately
after locking up bicycle.
7.Bicycles
should be kept in good repair.
Walking To and From
School
Parents are urged to discuss safety rules
and the responsibilities of good citizenship with their children in
regard to walking to and from school. Purple Sage
provides crossing guards at El Salido and
Tanglebriar.
These points should be stressed:
a. Come directly to school from home.
b. Stay on the sidewalk and walk at all
times up to and inside the crosswalks.
c. Cross streets only at the corners and
crosswalks and with the crossing guard who is on duty before and after
school. To ensure students’ safety and compliance with school rules,
written warnings can be issued to students (with or without an adult
present) if they cross streets in an unsafe manner.
d. Go directly home after school. Do not
talk to strangers.
We highly encourage students to use the
supervised crosswalk.
Absence
Daily class attendance is important, but so
is the health of your child. If your child is ill, or needs to miss
school, please call the office each day your
child is absent at 428-3500. A written note
from parents is mandatory when the student
returns to school. If an absence or tardy is due to a doctor’s
appointment, notify the office that your child will be arriving late or
leaving early due to an appointment with a health care professional.
Please request a note from the doctor’s office for the attendance clerk.
Students will be counted present if they begin classes or return to
school on the same day of the appointment.
State law re-quires students have 90% daily attendance as a
condition for promotion to the next grade. A child not in class at 9:00
a.m. will be marked absent for the day. You
may e-mail absentee notices to our registrar,
Cindy Molina.
Visitors
All visitors are required to sign in at the office before visiting a
classroom or performing volunteer activities.
Please be
prepared to present your photo I.D. (drivers license, state I.D., green
card, or work visa) to the front office the first time you visit our
school. After that, you will be able to sign in using our self serve
kiosk. All visitors should have a badge on.
Please remember to sign out as well.
Visitors
Lunchtime/Cafeteria Procedures
Classes line
up quietly in the hallway by the cafeteria.
Teachers monitor their classroom until students enter the serving area.
Students not following procedures will wait at the
end of the line and sit at a designated table.
Lunch Monitors will supervise the classrooms during this time.
Students enter
five at a time on each side of the serving area. After giving their
lunch card to, or paying the cafeteria manager, students sit according
to classroom at the cafeteria tables. Students may quietly talk to their
neighbors while they are eating.
At dismissal
time, Students exit through the door by the
stage and proceed quietly to their classroom or to
the playground with their class teacher.
Classroom Deliveries/Forgotten Items
Lunches, homework, and backpacks are
sometimes left behind. Please bring all forgotten items to the office.
Write the child’s and teacher’s name on the item and a staff member or
volunteer will deliver it. We encourage your support so we are able to
maintain uninterrupted instructional time.
Communication
Communication between home and school
contributes to school success. Parents are encouraged to contact their
child’s teacher to share information, clarify questions, and get to know
each other better. The following identifies communication tools you can
expect:
Folders – Folders containing class
work, tests and school memos are sent home weekly, (Wednesday) for parent
review. Folders should be emptied, signed by the parent and returned the
next day.
Progress Reports – Progress reports
are sent home to parents of students whose grades are declining or below
75, midway through the nine-week grading period.
Parent/Teacher Conferences – Parents
or teachers may request conferences anytime. Teachers are available for
conferences during their conference time or after school. Twice during
the school year, early release days are scheduled for parent
conferences. Students are encouraged to attend their conference for goal
setting and end of year re-view.
Report Cards – Report cards are issued
every nine weeks. The district copy must be signed and returned. Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade report cards
will have stages of progress. The explanation of stages will be provided
at the grade level parent orientation meeting.
Telephone - Classrooms are equipped
with a telephone and each teacher has voice mail that will be used
during instruction times and when the teacher is unavailable. Teachers
will provide their school phone number in all communication.
Lost or Damage Textbooks and Library Books
Emergency Contact
Parents must provide telephone numbers where
they, or adult designees, may be reached in the event of illness or
injury. Please send written notice if any contact numbers change during
the year. Please be sure
to update and send in the registration forms. We need accurate home
phone numbers and addresses. In addition, be sure and read the back
side of the form for our dismissal policy.
Inclement Weather - School
Closing
Bad Weather
Procedures
Lost and Found
Jackets, coats, sweaters, and lunch kits tend
to get separated from their owners. A Lost and Found box will be
maintained for lost items. Items will be kept until claimed by their
owner or until the end of each semester.
Medication
We cannot provide medication for students.
Parents must send any medication to the school nurse that is needed
during school hours or kept for emergency use.
Nurse's Notes
When medication must be at school, Texas law
requires that it be furnished in its ORIGINAL LABELED CONTAINER and with
the parent’s signed WRITTEN REQUEST and DIRECTIONS. The container and
your notes must include: student’s name, name of the medication, purpose
of medication, dose, time of day or when it is needed and how the
medication is to be taken. Include telephone numbers where you can be
called if there are concerns. THE SCHOOL REQUIRES THAT ALL MEDICINE BE
CHECKED INTO THE NURSE’S OFFICE. Please do not let your child carry
medication to school. It is best if an adult brings the medication to
the nurse. Medication forms are available in the nurse’s office,
school office and nurse's website.
Telephone – Student Use
Phone use by students
after school is discouraged. Students should arrange for
transportation, lunch, after school plans, etc. prior to arriving at
school. Our office will deliver messages, however students cannot be
directly contacted by phone during instructional time.
Field Trips
Procedures
Parents will always be notified by written note of upcoming field trips. Field trips
are an exciting adventure for both the students and the teachers. Although it rarely
happens, our school policy states that if a child misbehaves on a school field trip,
he/she will not be permitted to go on the next field trip unless accompanied by his/her
parent. Because of the necessity to ensure the safety of all of our children
some students may not be allowed to go because of his/her extreme negative behavior.
Rainy Day Modification
An
announcement will be made on the PA system if we are having rainy day
dismissal. During rainy day dismissal, students will be walked to the
lobby and will quietly wait for their rides according to the signs
posted on the hall walls.
The
Assistant Principal and the
Principal will be in the front of the school and will radio the
names of students inside to the duty person as the students’ rides
arrive.
Morning
kindergarten students will wait for their rides in front of the
school. Afternoon kindergarten students will wait for their rides at the
end of the kindergarten hallway.
Bad Weather Procedures
Playground/Recess
Procedures
Birthday Parties
Animals on Campus
Student
Handbook
Our school follows the Round Rock ISD policies and procedures as
outlined in the district handbook. Please refer to this handbook
for questions concerning grading systems, dress codes, etc.
Student
Handbook
Campus and district
information is available at:
http://www.roundrockisd.org
