Communication between school and home is one of the most vital ingredients for a successful school experience for your child(ren). This Handbook is designed to provide a means of communication pertaining to school operation during the current school year. All of the staff at Livingston Avenue School and the PTA organization are dedicated to the concept of home-school cooperation and communication. It is hoped that this Handbook will provide answers to the questions often asked by parents of students attending Livingston School.
Caring, Community, and Commitment
Cranford Public Schools
Livingston Avenue School
75 Livingston Avenue
Cranford, NJ 07016
September 2007
Dear Students, Parents, and Guardians,
As we welcome you back to yet another school year, let us once again reinforce the importance of caring, community, and commitment to our children. For any school/home partnership to be meaningful, it must reflect an ethic of care for our children and our community coupled with a sense of commitment to educational excellence and equity for all. This Livingston Avenue School Student/Parent Handbook is a reflection of those ideals.
This Handbook will provide you with factual information and answers to the most commonly asked questions, as well as with the school’s Mission Statement and our Pupil Code of Conduct. You will find it to be extremely useful throughout the school year. Should a question or concern arise that is not addressed in our Handbook, please feel free to call me at (908) 709-6250 at any time.
We are looking forward to a rewarding and productive school year!
Respectfully,
Danielle Bache
Acting Principal
Livingston Avenue School
Mission Statement
The mission of Livingston Avenue School is to provide a learning environment which encourages all students to reach their maximum potential while promoting mutual respect and cooperation, fostering a love for learning and developing responsible citizens.
We believe that the school’s mission can best be accomplished when teachers, parents, students, and the community form a partnership and work cooperatively toward these common goals.
SCHOOL HOURS
School is in session as follows:
Morning Session
Grades 3 to 5 8:30 – 11:45
AM.
Students enter building at 8:30 AM
Afternoon Session
Grades 3 to 5 12:45 - 2:50 PM
Instruction ends and students begin to get ready for dismissal at 2:50
PM
Important Telephone Numbers
Livingston Avenue School Cranford Public Schools
Main Office: 908-709-6248 908-272-9100
Secretary/Nurse: 908-709-6250
Absence/Fax Line: 908-709-6748
In the interest of safety, parents are urged to have their children arrive at school no more than 10 minutes before the students are admitted into the building at 8:30 AM.
November 23, and June 19, 20, 21, 22 are single session days. The hours for these days are as follows:
Students enter the building at 8:15 AM.
Instructional time for Grades 3 to 5 is 8:30 to 12:30 P.M.
The school crossing guard is on duty:
7:45 A.M. to 8:45 A.M.
11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.
2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
DELAYED OPENING
Students enter the building at 9:50 AM.
Instructional time for Grades 3 to 5 is 9:55 to 2:50 P.M.
ATTENDANCE
Regular attendance is an important part of a good education. This includes not only being present each day, but being on time. State law identifies the following reasons for children to be legally absent:
· Illness
· Illness in family
· Death in family
· Religious Holidays
It will be the responsibility of parents to determine whether the health condition of their children or weather conditions are such as to justify keeping them home.
If your child is going to be absent, please call the school answering machine at 709-6748 prior to 9:30 A.M. or 1:15 P.M. (for afternoon absence) indicating the reason for the absence. In addition, when your child returns to school, he/she should bring a note to the teacher indicating the same information. This is for our records.
Children arriving after 8:40 A.M. are tardy and must report to the office before reporting to class.
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