Crestdale Middle School Homeroom Day 3

Crestdale Middle School Homeroom Day 3

by Erin Bollinger

Poll

What is your favorite core suject?

• Math

• Science

• ELA

• Social Studies

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​Health Room: Our school’s Health Room is located in the Main Office. It is for emergency use and minor first aid treatment only. Students must have a pass from their teacher to report to the Health Room. Students will not be permitted to remain in the Health Room for longer than 10 minutes unless it is determined that he/she is too ill to return to class. If it is determined that a student is too ill to return to class, a parent or guardian will be notified and asked to pick up their child. If a student is unable to leave school, he/she must return to class. Medication Administration – For safety purposes, medication will only be administered to a student if a Medication Authorization Form is completed by a physician and signed by a parent, then returned to the school nurse; this includes over-the-counter medications.

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​Attendance: There is a direct correlation between regular attendance and school achievement; therefore, it is imperative that students are in class every day. The North Carolina Attendance Laws (GS-115C-378) expect every student to be inattendance each school day. There may be times that a student must be absent. In the event of an absence, the student must bring in a parent note and turn it in directly to the Main Office immediately following their return to school. An excused absence is one that falls under the following conditions: illness or injury of a student, death in the immediate family, CMS approved religious holiday, doctor’s appointment, court or administrative proceedings, and approved educational leave. In order to be granted approved educational leave, Form 5123.21 must be completed, and approval obtained from the principal in advance. An unexcused absence is one that falls under the following conditions: inclement weather, car trouble, lack of heat or electricity, missing the bus, oversleeping, truancy, no written excuse, unnecessary delay in reporting to school when transferring to a new school, class cutting, and work. It is the student’s responsibility to contact individual teachers within five school (5) days for any work missed during the absence that must be made up.

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​Students who arrive to school after 12:30 pm or depart from school prior to 12:30 pm will be considered absent for the entire school day and will not be permitted to participate in CMS sponsored activities on that day. If your child is out of school for an extended period of time (5 or more days) due to a chronic or extended illness, please notify your child’s counselor and our school nurse before your child returns to school. Such illnesses/absences can, and often do, affect academic performance. Sharing this information as soon as possible will help to maintain a team approach in ensuring your child’s academic success.

Multiple Choice

You were absent because you had to get braces , you bring a note to school. Where do you turn it in?

• Your homeroom teacher.

• Every single one of your teachers needs a copy of the note.

• Take it to the front office.

• You don't need a note.

Multiple Choice

If you are absent from school, how do you know if you missed work?

• You don't have to make up work if your absences is excused.

• It is your responsibility to ask all of your teacher and check you class canvas pages.

• Your teachers will let you know if you missed anything important.

• Wait until progress reports come out to see if anything is missing.

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​Bus Rules: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education provides transportation to and from school for most Crestdale students. Students who take advantage of this transportation are expected to remain quiet and orderly on the school bus. Students must remain seated while the bus is moving. Students may talk quietly but must avoid shouting or making unnecessary noises. Students also need to keep their hands, feet, and objects to themselves. No food or drink is allowed on the bus. It is imperative that students wait at the assigned bus stop in a safe and orderly manner. In order to maintain safety and order, students who distract the bus driver or are disruptive on the school bus will be reported to the administration. The administration will then determine what disciplinary action is necessary. The student may lose his/her privilege of riding the bus for a period of time. Students are only permitted to ride the bus route assigned to them by CMS transportation.

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​Car Riders: Students who are car riders in the afternoon are to leave the building as quickly as possible and go to the car rider location in the front of the school. You must pay attention and watch for your ride as we will not be able to hold up the car line. For safety reasons, students are not allowed to walk to a nearby location to meet their ride, including parking lot spaces. All students must be picked up in the carpool lane no later than 4:15. Repeated violations of the pick-up time may result in revocation of car rider privileges.

Multiple Choice

You are having a sleep over with your friend Friday. She rides a different bus than you, but if you bring a note from your mom to school on Friday, you can just ride home with your friend. 

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Usually your mom is one of the last cars in the car rider line, so it's fine that you go visit some of your friends before you head to the car rider area?

• True

• False

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​Early Dismissal: Students are not authorized to leave campus after their arrival without strictly adhering to Crestdale’s check-out procedures. In order to leave campus during the school day, students must have written permission from a parent/guardian. The note must be brought to the Main Office prior to first block starting. To protect the instructional environment within each classroom, students cannot be called out of class if a note is forgotten or for last minute early release requests. There are no early dismissals after 3:30pm. All parents/guardians must show their photo ID when signing out their child. For the protection and safety of our students, no phone calls or emails for early release will be accepted. All student early release notes must include the following: Student first and last name ● Student grade ● Student ID number ● Date and dismissal time ● Parent signature ● Reason for early dismissal – all dismissals will be coded as unexcused until proof of dismissal (i.e. doctor’s appointment) is presented ● Telephone number where a parent/guardian may be reached

Poll

What arts class are you most excited about this year?

• Band or Orchestra

• Dance

• Guitar or Piano

• Theater Arts

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​Grading Policy: The CMS Middle School grading scale is used across the system to measure student performance for the purpose of reporting progress to parents. A 90 – 100 B 80 – 89 C 70 – 79 D 60 – 69 F Below 60

Prepare = 20%

(i.e. Homework, warm-ups, exit tickets, smaller checks for understanding)

Rehearse = 30%

(i.e. Quizzes, labs, mini-assessments, mini-projects, classwork)

Perform = 50%

(i.e. Unit assessments, common assessments, performance tasks, writing assignments, projects with rubrics)

​Grading Policy

​All assignments are to be completed and turned in on the designated due date. If this timeframe is exceeded, only partial credit will be given.

1. Students absent from class are responsible to obtain and complete classroom assignments, homework, projects, tests, etc.

2. Student may re-take a test one time. Students will need to meet with the teacher to review the information before retesting. Retest will need to be taken during the designated timeframe. Students will be responsible to initiate the process of re-testing. 

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​Honor Code: At Crestdale Middle School, we believe that part of education is learning and practicing responsibility, respect, integrity and honesty in behavior as well as academic study. Therefore, the students, parents, teachers and administrators must strive to preserve these fundamental values in all of our academic endeavors. This includes a commitment to the work of each individual to ensure that work completed is done fairly and honestly

Multiple Choice

You want to retake a test. What do you need to do first?

• Have a parent send your teacher an email that you want to take a retest.

• Meet with your teacher to review the material.

• Nothing. You can take a retest whenever you want.

• Wait until the end of the quarter and let your teacher know you want to retest.

​Academic honor code violations include:

Cheating: ● Giving or accepting answers on a test or quiz including spoken or unspoken signals. ● Taking or attempting to take a test or quiz for another student or discussing the details of a test or quiz before other students have had the opportunity to take the quiz. ● Using unauthorized materials during a test or quiz, including cheat sheets, sneaking a look at another student’s paper, using electronic information (cell phones, Chromebooks, etc.). ● Copying another student’s homework or giving your homework to another student to copy. ● Using online translation programs for language assessments or assignments.

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Plagiarism: ● Using another person’s work, whether it is verbatim (word for word), with some changed words or paraphrased without giving the author credit with appropriate citations. ● Signing another person’s original idea and submitting them as one’s own work. ● Submitting material taken from the internet and or any unauthorized materials and submitting it as one’s own work. ● Using materials or pictures, graphics, etc., without appropriate citation.

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Forgery ● A parent or guardian name on a progress report, note, etc. ● A staff member’s name on a pass

​Consequences for Honor Code Violations:

1 st Offense: Student retakes alternate assignment with max grade opportunity of 79%, parent contact, referral to administration

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2 nd Offense: 0 on assignment, parent contact, referral to administration, 3 days Lunch Detention 10

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3 rd Offense: 0 on assignment, parent contact, referral to administration, 1 day In School Suspension

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4 th Offense: Determined by grade-level administrator

Multiple Choice

You ar3 writing a paper. You copy a paragraph from online but you go in a change a couple of words. Is the plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

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​Late Arrivals: When a student arrives late to school, a parent/guardian is required to sign the student in at the main office. If a student is arriving late on a consistent basis, their grade-level administrator will require a parent meeting to determine what steps can be taken to ensure they are on time, minimizing the loss of instructional time.

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​Lost and Found: Items that are lost, such as articles of clothing, book bags, and lunch boxes should be placed in the lost and found area located outside of the Registrar’s Office. Students may check lost and found before or after school, or on the way to and from lunch. Please label your coats, gloves, sweaters, purses, sports equipment, etc. This will help us to identify the owner if items are in the lost and found. Unclaimed items will be donated to a charity on a monthly basis.

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​Telephone Use: We encourage parents to work with us in requiring students to make all transportation arrangements necessary for after school activities prior to arriving to school. This teaches responsibility and planning. A student telephone is available in the Main Office. Students may not call parents to ask for early dismissals using personal phones. The phone may not be used when class is in session or between classes. Students are not permitted to use other office phones.

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​Tutorials: Our teachers at Crestdale offer an extensive tutorial program that is available to all students free of charge. Students may receive additional help in all of their subjects before or after school. Please contact your child’s teacher or check the Crestdale website to learn when tutoring is available.