• If you would like to meet with your child's teacher to discuss their progress, it is necessary to make an appointment.

  Teachers begin their school day at 7:30 am when students are picked up in the cafeteria. The day ends at approximately 2:45 pm when all students have been released to either busses or parents. During this time frame, our teachers are working very hard to provide excellent instruction and supervision to all children; it is very difficult for teachers to meet with parents during the school day.

  We realize there are parents who can only meet during the school day, in these special situations and with adequate notice; we will work to arrange an appointment.

• Parents wanting a younger student to purchase and eat breakfast at school should send money daily or you can send a check for the week. Be sure to write on the check the number of breakfasts you are purchasing. Sometimes, when young students see others eating breakfast, they also want breakfast.

  If students don't have money and eat breakfast the parent will receive a bill from Mrs. Collins. The school prefers that breakfast not be charged and lunch charges should exceed $20.00.

• Students who have been serving at the daily masses and want to be altar servers on the weekends should contact the school or church office. Your daily experience in serving is the training you need to fulfill this ministry.

• Young American Showcase will be presenting an Anti-Bullying Program for our St. Ann students and their parents the evening of September 18th from 6 pm to 7 pm. Admission for students is $10/parents may attend FREE of charge. Tickets can be purchased at the school office or at the parish hall beginning at 5:45 PM. This is a fantastic program!

• Covertly: Not openly practiced, in a secret way, on the sly
  
• Overtly: Publicly; openly

Social alienation which includes acts such as:

• Negative comments or teasing about the person's appearance, clothing, actions, personality or other things personal to the victim
• Gossiping about or spreading rumors
• Embarrassing or publicly humiliating
• Setting up to look foolish
• Setting up to take the blame for something
• Exclusion from the group
• Threatening exclusion from the group
• Manipulating to achieve exclusion from the group
• Manipulation in order to gain compliance
• Ethnic slurs, racism, homophobia and sexual harassment

Intimidation which includes such acts as:

• Hiding, damaging, or taking possessions (books, hats, clothing, lunches)
• Playing dirty tricks or pranks
• Dirty looks or threatening gestures
• Name calling and taunting
• Threatening to reveal personal information
• Intimidating or harassing phone calls, e-mails, notes, or letters
• Extortion
• Threatening to vandalize or damage other property or possessions (bicycles, victim's home, car)
• Verbal threats of violence or bodily harm to the victim, the victims family, friends, or pets

Physical aggression includes such acts as:

• Spitting on or at
• Pushing
• Shoving
• Kicking
• Hitting or slapping
• Vandalizing or damaging property or possessions
• Stealing
• Locking in or out of a space
• Throwing objects at
• Physical acts that are humiliating such as "wedgies" or "swirlees", spitting on, pouring liquids on
• Physical violence against family, friends, or pets
• Threatening with a weapon
• Any acts of bodily harm including sexual assaults and sexual touching

• No fingernail polish of any color is to be worn to school.

• Plain watches
• Catholic medals, crucifixes, crosses
• Small gold or silver stud earrings or small character earrings like dolphins, etc.

Students are NOT allowed to wear:

• Rings of any kind
• Character watches
• Bracelets including the rubber ones supporting causes, UK, etc.
• Hoops or dangling earrings
• Bracelet or necklace tattoos
• Body jewelry in the lips, nose, tongue or stomach
• Boys are not to wear earrings.

• Hair scarves:
They must be red/white/blue plaid or solid red/white/blue. Hair bows must not be extra large.

• Headbands:
Maximum of 2" wide, must be solid red, white, or blue; or plaid of the same colors.

• Other:
Ponytail holders and scrunchies must be red, white, or blue.

**If the teacher has to constantly replace the hair accessory throughout the day, the child will be asked to remove it and place it in their bookbag.

• Shoes and boots are limited to a heel no taller than "2" inches.

• Older polos sold by the St. Ann School Booster Club with the Cherokee embroidered emblem are NO LONGER part of the uniform policy.

• The navy blue sweatshirt with the St. Ann crest can be worn this year, however, this is the last year for that particular sweatshirt.

• Check the length of the skirts, skorts, and shorts. They must be no shorter than 2 inches above the knee.

If in question about exactly what type of short, pant, skirt, or jumper is allowed, you may visit the ARTEX website at: http://www.artexschooluniforms.com/

• For future reference the consequences will be as follows:
• 1st offense: warning
• 2nd offense: Lunch recess detention walking for 5 minutes
• 3rd offense: Lunch recess detention walking for 10 minutes
• 4th offense: Parent call and after school detention

When your child has recess detention, he/she will walk the perimeter of the playground for the specified amount of time. Please discuss these consequences with your child. Thank you for everything you do to ensure your child follows the guidelines.

• Digital or other types of cameras are not to be brought to school by students. Cameras will be taken from the student and then the camera must be picked up by the parent from the school office.

• If a student is caught with a cell phone, the student will have one day of after school detention and a parent must pick up the phone. This rule has been in effect for several years.

  Students have no reason to have a phone at school.

  Staff members who have cell phones do not have them on during the school day.

  SAIS does have a rule that students are not allowed to call home during the day to have something brought from home or to get permission to go to after school activities.

• In order to ensure that all children are delivered to their destination safely we will be making a few changes in the dismissal procedures. Effective Tuesday, September 4th, the office will no longer accept any changes to transportation arrangements of St. Ann students after 1:30 P.M. We will also accept no change in transportation arrangements over the telephone. ALL changes must come in the form of written documentation. This documentation can be sent with your child in the morning or faxed to St. Ann's at 389-1834. Only in an emergency will we make any last minute changes to the dismissal procedures for your child. We will work with you to make this transition as smooth as possible.

• We are working on a plan to expedite the afternoon dismissal of car riders. We now allow our Middle School students to walk to the church parking lot with the teacher on duty. The students can walk to their parent's car from this point. If you only have middle school students, you are allowed to leave the church parking lot once you have picked up your child(ren). If you have younger children, you will have to remain in the pick-up line and pick them up just as you have in the past. We are presently working on other dismissal plans and will update you when we have more information.

• Safe Environment

• Another reminder, any parent or grandparent who wishes to go on a class field trip must have attended a Safe Environment class and submitted information for a record check.
• Parents going on the 8th grade trip must complete Safe Environment by the end of December.

• Lunch Time Visitor Check-In

• All parents and others who are visiting with students to eat lunch must report to the school office to receive a visitor's badge. The cafeteria doors are now locked and the cafeteria staff will be called to open the door for you. When you leave you must check out and return the visitor's badge.

• Playground Supervision

• All students must be supervised on the playground and this happens during the school day. When parents are here for a school or church activity, students are not to be on the playground alone. One parent must be on the playground when there are children playing there. Young siblings not in school are not to go to the playground with SAIS students during the school day.

• Families are welcome to use the play area as long as an adult is present. No one should be picking up and throwing the mulch. It is expensive to replace and also a danger to other students.

• Field Trip Permission Form

• If you need a field trip permission, you can download one here. This file will open as a Word Document.

If you do not have Word, you can get a printer friendly version here. This will open in a new window.

1. SAIS students are to stay in the gym at all times unless going outside with a parent.
2. No running and playing downstairs, in the parking lot or on the hill.
3. Only basketball players playing that night are to be shooting hoops between games or at the half.
4. Only athletes and coaches are to be in the dressing rooms.
5. If you get hurt ask for help from an adult.
6. Don't leave the gym with anyone except your parents or someone that your parents have told you to leave with that night.
7. If you need to call home, ask Mrs. Gill or another adult you know.
8. If Mrs. Gill is not at the game another SAIS teacher will be in charge at the gym.
9. Treat guests with respect.
10. Show good sportsmanship.
11. Put your trash in the trash cans.
12. Have a good time and cheer for SAIS.

• Aluminum Cans

• Remember the 8th grade class collects and recycles aluminum cans all-year long. Please bag the cans and drop them over the railing in the parking lot next to the school. Thanks for helping this group go to Washington.

• Things To Save

• Campbell's Labels
• Box Tops for Education
• A+ Labels
• Cell Phones
• Inkjet Cartridges - not recycled
• Laser Cartridges - not recycled
• Aluminum Cans

• JC Penney
• Barnes and Noble
• Oriental Trading
• Gap
• Staples
• Target
• Wal-Mart
• Disney
• Toys R Us
• Lands End
• LL Bean
• Eddie Bauer
• Amazon