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Baucom Elementary is a
North Carolina School of Excellence in Wake County. It currently consists Our school day is from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. The school building is officially open at 8:00
am. The staff is not legally "on duty" until this time. Students,
unless enrolled in our Early Arrivals Program, should not arrive prior to this time.
Carpoolers 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, Techsperts, or AVTV. There should be no stopping at restrooms or visiting other classrooms before going to homeroom. 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. If it is necessary for a student to arrive before 8:00 am, arrangements must be made for the student to participate in the Early Arrivals Program. The program begins at 7:00 am each day. Applications are available in the office. In the event of a "late opening" for the school system, the Early Arrivals Program will be delayed for the period of time equivalent to the announced delay of the regular school day. (e.g., If school is delayed for 1 hour, the Early Arrivals Program is delayed 1 hour.) The 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. Registration forms are available in the school office. In the event of an early dismissal due to inclement weather, the After School Program will operate. However, parents should make every effort to pick up their children as soon as possible. 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 3:00 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. 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 Students' 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 pick up their children. Bus transportation is provided for all students at Baucom Elementary who reside 1.5 miles from the school.
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 friends'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. 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. School personnel will notify parents and arrange for
children to go home when they have the
following symptoms: Please remember that we only have a school nurse on our campus 1 day per week. (Reference Wake County Human Services Handbook.) 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." 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 All bus-riding students will be placed on their assigned buses unless their parents arrive before their bus leaves the campus.
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encouraged to arrive between 8:00 and 8:25 am. School buses will wait to unload at
the 8:00 bell. Your child(ren) should remain in your car until adults are outside on
carpool duty at 8:00. 
Students will be dismissed to the bus loading area by their classroom teacher
each day after the 3:00 PM bell or when their bus has arrived on campus.
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.
