Today's Tip for Parents and School Success Ideas for Parents
Check out this informative site we subscribe to and find daily tips and ideas you can use to help your child/children from the Parent Institute.  Be sure to check out the timely topics, ask an expert your questions, and visit the school success library.

Building Readers
Access tips on improving your child's reading ability.  

Be A Buddy
Find out how YOU can help us generate the MOST money & products from your regular shopping and special giving… at little or no cost to you!

2006-2007 Elementary Connections
These brochures provide overviews of the Wake County Public School System's instructional programs for grades kindergarten through eight.

Staff E-mail Communication
Instantly e-mail Baucom staff members here.

Volunteer Registration
Register from any Wake County school computer - must be accessed through our system intranet - to be a volunteer for any of the Wake County Public Schools.  

2006-2007 School Supply Lists
What will your child be needing in class this year?   

Wake County Public Schools Parent and Student Handbook
The Parent & Student handbooks are valuable reference materials containing information about student assignment, school discplinary policies, promotion and graduation requirements, testing schedules and more.

Manual para Estudiantes y Padres

2006-2007 Traditional Instructional Calendar
In addition to the holidays and workdays, Baucom will have early release on Sept. 29, Nov. 9, Feb. 16, and May 25. Students will be dismissed at 12:00 pm.

Family Education Newsletters
Subscribe to several informative parent newsletters from Family Education.  Samples are available here.  

Reading
Help your child be a competent and skillful reader in a variety of subjects and formats by exposing him or her to a variety of reading material. Find numerous valuable websites devoted to the importance of literacy on the Internet here.  

Baucom PTA
This site provides news and information for the parents and teachers of Baucom Elementary. Check back often for updates!!

National PTA
National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A not-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its obligations to children.

Wake Education Partnership
As a community-based public school advocacy organization, Wake Education Partnership links human and material resources to strengthen our public schools. In addition to fostering action-oriented community involvement in the Wake County Public Schools, the Partnership seeks to leverage the investment of private contributions to ensure the greatest possible impact in every school.
Specifically, Wake Education Partnership targets efforts to strengthen the achievement of our children by actively participating as an advocate, convener, coordinator and facilitator of community involvement in the public schools.
From many voices and interests, the Partnership seeks to bring forth a shared vision for the future of our schools and concrete steps to get there. To this end, the recommendations of parents, school and civic leaders, and business people have been gathered to develop our priorities during the next year.

E-Mail Notification Service
The Wake County Public School System now offers an e-mail notification service. Using the form below, you can choose to receive timely e-mail concerning urgent WCPSS news and important events such as school closings, delays in opening, early dismissals, public hearings and the opening of online forums. The form below also offers a simple way to unsubscribe from the service.
Important: while e-mail notifications for emergency situations, such as school closings, are sent out as soon as decisions are reached, Internet conditions can significantly delay their arrival. Being on the notification list is not a substitute for monitoring your local media (newspapers, radio, TV and so on) in situations where a delay in opening or school closing is an obvious possibility (such as when the weather forecast calls for snow or hurricane).

The School Connection
The School Connection is a bi-weekly E-newsletter about events and news of interest for Wake County Schools students, parents and anyone interested in public education. It is brief and easy to read, but also provides links to in-depth reports.
The School Connection will focus on the latest events affecting the school system. In addition, each edition will feature a round-up of education news from across the country with links to newspapers and education web sites. School Connection will be posted here and can be e-mailed to your desktop.

Wake County Public School's Parents and Students Resource Center
From here you can get to all of our information of interest to Parents and Students. Everything from athletic eligibility to Board policy to high school graduation to student assignment is available off this page.

WCPSS News Headlines
Get the latest news about Wake County Public Schools

Parent Tips
This section contains advice, information and resources designed to help parents with the challenging task of being a parent. Some of these links are to materials on other Websites.

Family Education Parent Page
Parents find practical guidance, grade-specific information about their children's school experience, strategies to get involved with their children's learning, free email newsletters, and fun and entertaining family activities. FamilyEducation brings together leading organizations from both the public and private sectors to help parents, teachers, schools, and community organizations use online tools and other media resources to positively affect children's education and overall development.

Scholastic
Click on the PARENTS tab.  For MANY great ideas and activities for you and your child/children to do together or independently, this site will keep you busy.  You can also get a wealth of information in the areas of reading and writing.  I especially loved the "Ways to Play" page and "The Magic School Bus" and its "Activity Lab!"  Be sure to have your kids venture into the KIDS section for safe and fun online learning.

Education Place
Filled with ideas and information from a variety of subject areas, you're sure to find something of interest here.  There are fun activities for writing, reading, and vocabulary development.  Publishes student work.

NC Wise Owl
NC WISE OWL is a Web site that has, as its centerpiece, several subscription databases. InfoTrac, a periodical database product by the Gale Group, is made up of a Kids Edition for elementary students, a Junior Edition for middle schoolers, and both the Student Edition and InfoTrac Gold Reference Edition for the high school and parent community. The Junior Reference Center offers a simplified format for greater ease of use. Custom Newspapers includes articles from several North Carolina newspapers, as well as content from national and international newspapers. Also included in the Gale databases is the Scribner Writers Series, with information on more than 1600 authors. Grolier Online offers two encyclopedias: The New Book of Knowledge for elementary and middle school students, and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for middle and high school students.

The American Library Association Parent Page
This awesome resource has tips to help your child with reading skills and a list of good books for children.  Be sure to check out the 700+ Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and The Adults Who Care About Them and The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids.

Children’s Literature Web Guide
This an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

FORMS

Parental Request to Deny Internet Access
All students registered in the Wake County Public School System will automatically be given access to the Internet and E-mail.
Parents have the option of denying their child's access to the Internet and/or prohibiting them from obtaining an e-mail account. To exercise this option, the Parental Request to Deny Access form must be completed and returned to the child's school.

Automatic Lunch Payment Form
Allows you to pay for your child's school lunches with an automatic bank draft or credit card charge. Includes program description and full instructions.

Where can my child/children publish their work?

What a great motivator to have your work published and no one will see it more than on the Internet!  Check out these sites that publish student work.

Kids Space is a fun site where children can publish their own pictures and stories.  They can also publish one or the other for another child's story.  There is also the chance to give each other feedback and make email pen pals from around the world.

The Power of Literacy is run by Lewis Middle School in San Diego, CA and won grand prize in the San Diego County web page contest.  On "The Story Line" children can submit writing, get help with their writing, get/give feedback, and co-author stories with children from around the world.

StoneSoup, the homepage for a magazine for kids is totally made up of work by children ages 8 - 13.  You can see a sample issue, subscribe to the magazine, and find out the guidelines for submitting work.