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DROPPING OFF AND PICKING UP STUDENTS
Students SHOULD NOT be dropped off before 8:30 AM. There is no one to supervise the students until 8:30 AM. This time before school is a much-needed prep-time for all those associated with the school. We DO NOT have the faculty to watch your children before 8:30 AM. School begins at 8:45 AM sharp. This is a VERY IMPORTANT time for your child to be in their classroom, please do not make it a habit of getting your child to school late.
FREE AND REDUCED LUNCHES
Greater Albany Public Schools and the State of Oregon offer the breakfast and lunch program at reduced prices or free for those families qualifying due to size and income. We encourage parents who have had a change in their family’s situation, due to size or income, to complete applications. Students who qualified for free or reduced lunches last year and have not filled out an application for the ’05-’06 school year will be excluded the middle of October. If you have not filled out a new application for this school year, please do so immediately.
KIDS GOING HOME
Please talk to your child in the mornings before they leave for school and give them directions of where they are to be after school that day. The office is gets calls frequently that could/should have been taken care of at home. Please note that unless your student brings a note to the office or to his/her teacher, or the office receives a phone call. YOUR STUDENT/S WILL RIDE THE BUS HOME! Students are required to ride the bus unless prior arrangements or notification has been made. Kindergarten Students… If a person is not at the bus stop to pick up their child, the child will be returned to school for you to pick up.
MEDICATION
Students receiving ANY kind of medication, over-the-counter or prescription, must have a medical release form filled out and on file in the office. If your child is taking a prescription, the bottle must come to the office by an adult – NOT ON THE BUS – and be marked EXACTLY how it is to be dispensed (frequency and time of day). All non-prescriptions INCLUDING cough drops, Tylenol, etc. must be accompanied by a medical release and dispensed from the office.
VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME
Tangent School welcomes parents and community members who wish to volunteer. However, ALL visitors need to enter through the front doors and check in at the office and obtain a badge. Also, volunteers must complete Criminal History Verification form prior to volunteering.
TANGENT SCHOOL HABITAT
A very special thank you to Mrs. Jeanie Mowery and Ryan McMinds of Albany Troop 100 for all their hard work designing, assisting volunteers, and doing a WHOLE LOT OF WORK so we can enjoy Tangent Schools’ new Habitat!
Ryan McMinds, a South Albany High School student, used the area in front of the school, outside the glass window wall for his Eagle Scout project. Ryan designed and constructed a native plant habitat for butterflies and humming birds.
Many students, their parents and community members helped to prepare the ground, build trails, collect native plants and plant them. Ryan has identification stakes on all the plants. Mrs. Mowery worked with the 4-H Wildlife Stewards to bring the native plants habitat to our school.
This is our garden to enjoy for many years… Please protect it as something we have to attract wildlife so we can watch and appreciate them. Stay on the path when you enter the habitat, many of the plants is very fragile and must not be bothered until they are better established.
Thank you Ryan, Mrs. Mowery, and of course, Albert, who so faithfully watered this summer, and all those who helped make this possible for us!