Transportation

Transportation is the responsibility of the parents. You will be given a class list which includes the names, addresses and phone numbers of our families. It is your responsibility to set up car pools, if desired. You are solely responsible for the care and safety of all children in your car pools.

Please notify us in writing of your car pool arrangements. If there is to be a change, even for one day, you must notify us. We will not release your child to any unauthorized person.

For safety reasons:

Ø Please keep your child in the car until the car reaches the school entrance.

Ø Please have your child get in and out of the car by the left side of the car. It is good training to have your child arrive on time. Children feel very uncomfortable when they walk into an “already” busy room.

Ø It is equally important to pick up your child on time. There are many little chores to be done during the lunch break as well as after school.

Ø When picking up your child, please advance your car a little before putting on the seat belt. This will help to keep things moving.

Ø Please place your child’s name card in the driver’s window at pick up time.

Ø Please do not block the entrance to the parking lot. If you need to talk to a parent or teacher, please park your car in the parking lot.

Ø The Massachusetts State Law requires all children under the age of five to wear a seat belt or appropriate child restraint.

Students of Saint Anne Montessori School do not go on field trips.

Snowstorm Policy

Inclement weather necessitating school closing will be announced on WSRO 1470. Please be good enough to listen to the radio or T.V. channels 4 , 5, or 7, in the early hours of the morning.

Ø If Marlboro schools close for the day, we will be closed.

Ø If Marlboro delays, we will have school in the afternoon. Should it be necessary to close in the afternoon, we will call you after 10 A.M. If you are not going to be home in the morning to receive our phone call concerning the afternoon session, please be good enough to call the school to see if we are open. Our leaving a message on your phone does not guarantee that you will get the message on time.

School Clothing

School clothing should be easy for your child to manage. Overalls, while very comfortable and attractive, are sometimes a hindrance to a child who might need to use the bathroom on short notice. An extra set of clothes (if you think there may be a need) should be left at the school, which includes but not limited to, a shirt, pants, socks, and underwear. Please assist us by labeling all clothing that might be changed at school. When your child wears boots to school he/she must bring a pair of shoes in a bag. It is much too warm to wear boots in the classroom.

Photograph

Please send us your child’s photograph for his/her file. We would appreciate having this photo before the opening of school.

Birthdays

We will have a special celebration on your child’s Birthday. Part of the celebration will be a Birthday walk around the sun (a candle). The purpose of this walk is to: 1. to help the child understand the passing of a year 2. to recognize how he/she has grown and changed during the years 3. to give the other children an opportunity to join him/her in celebrating this event.

The Birthday Walk consists of the child carrying the globe and walking around the circle. A candle representing the sun is placed in the center of the circle. As the child walks around the circle, the teacher recalls for the child each year of his/her life, highlighting special events, people and places. At the conclusion, the child will open his/her little gift from the school, the group will sing “Happy Birthday” to the child, and then share the special Birthday snack the child has brought for the occasion. We would invite you to send in cookies or small cupcakes for the whole class. We ask that there be no nuts or peanuts used in the baked goods. We always have children with allergies, so please keep this in mind. The Birthday information sheet you will fill out for your child will help the staff to make your child’s celebration more meaningful. Children who have weekend or summer Birthdays will celebrate their special day in the month of May.

Family Snack Program

You, the Parents, are invited to participate in the “Family Snack Program”. If you choose to participate in the Program, you would be expected to provide a simple, nutritious snack for your child’s class, approximately five or six times a year (this would include your child’s Birthday snack). A calendar would be prepared by the school at the beginning of the school year, so you would know in advance the snack days for which you would be responsible.

Your child will take home the snack basket the day before you are scheduled to send in the snack. Please remember that this is a “snack” not a meal. We ask that you send in “ONE TYPE OF SNACK”, ENOUGH FOR 36 CHILDREN. Sending in more than one kind of food, e.g., a combination of raisins, cookies, yogurt, for less than 36 children makes it almost impossible to have snack at the snack table. Children must make a choice of one food and this can cause confusion.

Because of food allergies:

In the interest of keeping all of our children safe, we are a NUT FREE school. Because many of our children have severe nut allergies, please do not send in any food that contains, may contain, has been processed on machinery, or in a facility with any type of nut or sesame seeds.

If you purchase the snack, please leave it in its original package/container so we can read the ingredients before serving it. If you bake the goodies, please include a list of ingredients (including packaging from cake mixes, chocolate chips, etc.) We must be able to verify the ingredients before we serve it. If the snack does not contain the list of ingredients, we will have to return it to you. TELLING us that it is a “Betty Crocker” cake mix is unacceptable. A snack that is deemed unsafe will be RETURNED TO YOU.

Snack Suggestions:

-crackers and cheese

-raisins / yogurt apple sauce

-nutritious cookies / mini muffins

Snacks to avoid:

-food that contains plain M & M’s (often contaminated with nuts)

-nuts (of course)

-popcorn / celery / whole grapes (food that may cause choking)

-gummi bears / fruit rollups / fruit strings / gogurt