Procedures:
When your child is a student at Wedgewood Elementary School, it’s important to understand and have access to school procedures, rules, and important forms. To help students and parents get the most out of their experience at the school, we’ve made information on school procedures easily and conveniently available online.
Please visit the links to the left for all you need to know about health & medicine; emergency protocol; academics & homework; and more.
When your child is a student at Wedgewood Elementary School, it’s important to understand and have access to school procedures, rules, and important forms. To help students and parents get the most out of their experience at the school, we’ve made information on school procedures easily and conveniently available online.
Please visit the links to the left for all you need to know about health & medicine; emergency protocol; academics & homework; and more.
- Communication with teachers---- In order to protect the integrity of the learning environment, we ask that you schedule a parent/teacher conference to ensure proper time is given to discuss any concerns you may have. It is very important to protect the learning time. If it becomes necessary to deliver a message to you child during the school day, please call (225) 753-7301 or come by the school office. Please make arrangements for lunch, car pools, babysitting, etc., with your child BEFORE s/he leaves for school in the morning. In the event of an emergency or change of plans, the office staff will relay messages to your child's teacher. Please do not ask the office staff to contact your child or interrupt a class for messages that are not critical.
- Lunch/Homework--- Lunches and homework brought to school by parents should be left at the school office and office staff will contact your child to get his/her lunch or homework. Please do NOT interrupt the smooth process of class to deliver a forgotten lunch or homework. Children will not be allowed to use the phone to ask parents to bring forgotten homework. Learning to take responsibility for getting homework to school is an important part of your child's growth. It is important for children to take personal responsibility and shoulder the consequences if need be.
- Home-School Connection--- The staff of Wedgewood Elementary School is concerned that parents are well informed about school activities. All regularly scheduled events and holidays are in the Calendar section of the website, located in our Parent Resource Center, monthly newsletters and through the school’s callout system. In addition, classroom teachers have regular communication (grade level newsletters), which comes home with the students. Please check your child's backpack for newsletters and other school communication on a regular basis.
- Emergency Forms--- Emergency forms will be sent home with each child as part of the school packet at the beginning of the school year. Please fill out this card and return it to school as soon as possible. During the school year, please send a note immediately if there are any changes to the emergency information ... address, phone numbers, and/or change of responsible contacts. Unfortunately, your child is the one who will suffer if injuries or illnesses occur and we are unable to reach anyone.
- Student Medication----Medical treatment is the responsibility of the parent and the family physician. Medications are rarely given at school. The parent is urged to work with the physician to plan a medication schedule for non-school hours. If it is an absolute necessity that medication be given at school:
- We MUST have a written statement from the doctor "detailing the method, amount, and time schedule by which medication is to be taken”.
- A signed release from the parents for the school to assist in administering medication.
- Medication must be in a pharmacy container, labeled with the student's name; the name of the medication; proper dosage and instructions; name of the prescribing physician; name of the pharmacy or manufacturer who dispensed the medication.
- Forms are available in the school office. (This is also the policy for over the counter drugs, such as aspirin, eye drops, cough drops, etc.) These forms must be renewed each school year.
- Illness/Accidents----- In case of an accident requiring the services of a doctor, we request that parents keep us informed of any changes of address or phone numbers. We will make every effort to contact a parent before the child is taken to a doctor. If it is necessary for a student to go home because of illness, contagious health problem, or injury, the parent or person listed on the emergency card (if the parent cannot be contacted) will be requested to pick the child up in the office. Please remember that we cannot keep a seriously ill child at school. In the event of a serious illness or accident, Wedgewood Elementary School personnel will:
- Contact parents/guardians
- Contact other authorized persons listed on the child's emergency card, if possible.
- Illness/Accidents----- In case of an accident requiring the services of a doctor, we request that parents keep us informed of any changes of address or phone numbers. We will make every effort to contact a parent before the child is taken to a doctor. If it is necessary for a student to go home because of illness, contagious health problem, or injury, the parent or person listed on the emergency card (if the parent cannot be contacted) will be requested to pick the child up in the office. Please remember that we cannot keep a seriously ill child at school. In the event of a serious illness or accident, Wedgewood Elementary School personnel will:
