Bowdon Elementary School requirests and is grateful for parent donations. We feel that your donations will benefit your child's education. However, your child's participation in the instructional program is in no way conditional upon the degree or lack of compliance to this request.

When a student becomes sick enough to call his/her parents, he/she may do so, but must then return to his/her room and remain until the parent comes to pick him/her up.

If a student leaves before the end of a school day for any reason, parents must sign the child out in the office.

A student must leave school with a parent or some other adult who has been desinated by the parent on the registration card or by written/phone notification by the parent.

It is the parents responsibility to keep the emergency card current. At least one local, working phone number in addition to the parent/guardian must be listed to insure the safety of your child.

• A Request for Administration of Medication form must be completed and returned to the school office staff for any medicine (whether over-the-counter or prescription) given during the day. A doctor's signature is must be on the form if medication must be administered for more than a 30 days.
• Medicine will only be given if it is delivered to the office in the original bottle, marked with the students name, dosage, name of medication, time to be given, physician, pharmacy, and purchase date.
• All medicine must be delivered to the office by the parent or guardian. Students cannot transport medication to and from school.
• Child's medication must be picked up the last day of school. We do not keep medicine over summer break. All medicines left at the end of post planning will be disposed of.
• Short-term prescription medications (less than 30 days) - follow all the above procedures. Parents are to send one (1) day dosage each day in a prescription bottle that is properly labeled by the pharmacy. (The pharmacist will provide a duplicate bottle).

All dismissals of students are done through the main office. Each child must be signed out by his/her parent/guardian unless written or verbal permission is given to the office staff. Leaving school without following proper checkout procedures is a serious offense, and any pupil guilty of this is subject to school discipline.

Please do not pickup your child before 2:45 p.m. And early checkout will count as a tardy!

Application for free and reduced price meals will be sent home the first week of school. Lunch money will be collected on Monday or as the child goes through the line. You may send money for the week or the month or online. Any paid meals missed due to absences will be credited to your child.

1. Put lunch or breakfast money for the day, week or month in an envelope.
2. Write the child's name, student number, and teacher's name on the envelope and the words "Lunch Money".
3. If paying by check, make check payable to Bowdon Elementary School and write child's name and student number on the bottom of the check. Please write a separate check for breakfast and lunch for each child.

Medical information is needed if your child is allergic to certain foods or dairy products. A doctors note is required yearly if a student is not to drink milk. Do not send carbonated, non-nutritional sodas for your child's lunch.

Excuses for student absences must be in writing, signed by a parent/guardian and presented to the teacher on the day of the student's return to school. Excused absences will be granted and full credit for make up work will be given when absences result from sickness of student, serious illness of a member of the immediate family, death of a member of the immediate family or religious holidays.