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Last Updated (Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:07)
At a Glance
Baucom Elementary is a North Carolina School of Distinction With High Growth in Wake County. It currently consists of a campus of 4 buildings and 10 mobile units with approximately 925 students in grades K - 5. Baucom Elementary operates on a traditional calendar.
School Hours
Our school day is from 9:05 am to 3:35 pm.
The school building is officially open at 8:35 am. Carpoolers are encouraged to arrive between 8:35 and 8:55 am. School buses will wait to unload at the 8:35 bell. Your child(ren) should remain in your car until adults and safety patrol are outside on carpool duty at 8:35.
Students eating breakfast should go directly to the cafeteria. All other students are to report to their homerooms upon arrival at school unless they are involved in before-school activities such as chorus or AVTV. There should be no stopping at restrooms or visiting other classrooms before going to homeroom.
Parents/Visitors to Baucom
All parents, volunteers, and other visitors to the school are required to use the main entrance of Building 1 and sign in at the office whenever they are in the school. Everyone is required to wear the visitor's badge that will be issued at this time. These requests are made so that we know who is in the school at all times. This is also a North Carolina Statute (NC G. S. 14-132) and a Wake County Public School System policy. Students are not permitted to bring visiting students, friends, or younger siblings to school. Please remember to sign back out at the office and return your visitor's badge.
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YMCA Early Arrival Program
Early Arrival begins at 7:00 am in the cafeteria. At 8:35, students will be dismissed to breakfast and class.
For more information, call the Kraft YMCA.
YMCA After School Program
The YMCA After School Program will begin immediately after dismissal each afternoon. The program will be open until 6:00 PM every school day. The program is not open on teacher workdays but is open on scheduled Early Release days. Contact the YMCA for more information.
In the event of an early dismissal due to inclement weather, the After School Program will not operate. Parents should make every effort to pick up their children as soon as possible.
Carpool Procedures
For the student's safety, it is essential that they adhere to the following procedures:
Carpool students will go to the carpool area in front of Building 1 at the 3:35 pm dismissal bell.
Students will wait with teacher assistants until their transportation arrives.
Parents will need to enter the carpool line and move, single file, to the pickup area.
Students will be placed in their cars by a teacher assistant or student safety patrol. They will not be allowed to go to their car until it has arrived in the carpool area.
Parents are requested to remain in their cars at all times. They should not park their cars anywhere else on the campus or street and come to the area to retrieve their children. This causes confusion in the process and increases the opportunities for accidents.
Student names need to be printed on a card and placed in the right hand corner of the windshield. This assists with lining up the students and speeding up the process.
For the children's safety and to keep the process proceeding in a smooth manner, parents should please cooperate and follow the rules!
Parents must not use the bus parking lot to drop off or pick up their children.
Bus Transportation
Bus transportation is provided for all students at Baucom Elementary who reside 1.5 miles from the school.
Students will be dismissed to the bus loading area by their classroom teacher each day after the 3:35 pm bell or when their bus has arrived on campus.
Any changes in bus route assignments must be made with the assistant principal.
Students may ride ONLY the bus to which they are assigned and may not ride a different bus to or from friend's homes. Students not assigned to a bus may not ride a bus to "go home with a friend."
Buses will park in the bus parking lot for loading and unloading.
Students will be well supervised by Baucom staff members during unloading and loading. If it is necessary for students to wait for their buses in the afternoon, they will wait in their classrooms or other closely supervised area.
For information about the bus routes, click here.
Volunteers
Parents and interested community volunteers are strongly encouraged to become involved in our school's program. We recognize and appreciate the valuable role parents and volunteers have in the success of each school, and we hope that everyone will join with us in our efforts to improve and expand our program.
Parents interested in a specific area of volunteer work should complete the Parent Volunteer Survey sent home by our PTA. Assistance in "signing up" can be offered by contacting the school or the PTA's volunteer coordinator. You will also have to complete the Volunteer Registration online at school.
We need and encourage parents' help and participation in the school. Please check with the teachers for specific times when special projects or instructional situations could benefit from your help. Teachers would like to construct schedules (dates and times) when they can count on parent participation.
Please! Parents should refrain from just "dropping in" the classroom unannounced. Unannounced visits and/or parents just sitting and observing their child can be disruptive and interfere with the total class' concentration and learning process. In addition, parents should not bring younger siblings to school when volunteering or tutoring. The younger siblings require supervision and cause distractions to regular classroom procedures. The parents need to be able to devote their time to assisting the teacher or the individual students they are tutoring.
Student Illness
School personnel will notify parents and arrange for children to go home when they have the following symptoms:
* Fever of 100 or higher. Students should then remain at home until fever free for 24 hours.
* Nausea, vomiting
* Severe headache
* Diarrhea
* Red, watery eyes with yellow drainage
* Undiagnosed rash
Please remember that we only have a school nurse on our campus 1 day per week.
(Reference Wake County Human Services Handbook.)
The health room provides only emergency medical help. Students who become ill or are injured during the day will be taken/sent to the health room. The use of the health room will be limited to these students.
A student who is too ill to remain in the classroom should go home. A parent/guardian will be contacted for arrangements.
Reasons for remaining in the health room are:
1. Waiting to go home.
2. Too ill to be in the classroom but having no way to go home.
The only services our health room can offer are: bandages, taking of temperatures, rest in bed, soap and water, TLC and the rescue squad (for emergency situations).
Please! Students who are ill or "near-to-ill" should not be sent school with the instructions, "Call if you feel worse later today."
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Inclement Weather
The first notifications of early school dismissal, delayed opening, or school closing are made to the radio and television stations. If the weather appears threatening, please turn on one of these and wait for further word. (WRAL TV and radio station 101.5 are recommended.)
If during the day there is concern about a student's safety because of the weather, parents should feel free to come to school for her/him. It is not necessary to telephone the school.
If an early dismissal is announced, please do not telephone the school and request that a student be "pulled from the bus." In inclement weather situations, it is extremely important that the students leave as soon as possible. Keeping them at school can cause a dangerous situation for them and the staff.
All bus-riding students will be placed on their assigned buses unless their parents arrive before their bus leaves the campus.