Greencastle Elementary School

Medication will not be administered in the health room unless:

The parent/guardian hand delivers the medication to school,

Medication is properly labeled by a pharmacist, and

MCPS Form #525-13  (Authorization to Prescribe Medicine) is completed by a physician and given to the health technician. This form is available in the health room or at the link above.

Our health room staff (240-740-0781) will be happy to assist you if you have any questions.

Links to MCPS Health Forms

• Authorization to Provide Medically Approved Treatment 
• Authorization to Administer Prescribed Medication 
• Emergency Care for Student Diagnosed with Anaphalix
• School Asthma Management Plan
• Medication form
• Medication form in Spanish

Applications for free and reduced meals can be completed on paper forms once school begins or at any time online: https://www.myschoolapps.com/Application. Additional information about the program and eligibility can be found here: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/food-and-nutrition/meal-payments/#FARMS.

If your child participated in the free and reduced meals program last year, your child will only continue to be eligible for meal benefits through the first 30 scheduled school days OR until an application is processed for the new school year.

School menus can be found here: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/food-and-nutrition/menus/.

Arrival

Students may begin arriving at 8:45 a.m. and should not arrive earlier, as there are no staff available to supervise students until 8:45.  In the event of inclement weather - staff should be ready to receive students as early as 8:40. Staff should be at their classroom doors to receive students at 8:40 am.  

• Grades 1-3 Walkers and car riders enter through the stained-glass doors. Prior to entering the building students will line up along the sidewalk near the stained-glass doors by grade level 8:45 am. 

• Grades 4-5 Walkers and Car Riders will line-up by the stained-glass doors, but they will be dismissed to the portables at 8:45.  

• Walker and Car Riders- Pre-K and Kindergarten enter through the Art room door (rm. 116) and are escorted to their classes by paras and patrols.

• Bus Riders enter through the front of the building and then proceed to their classes. 

• PEP enter through exterior doors outside of their rooms. 

• Pre-K collects students from buses and walks them into the building.

• Grades 3 - 5 will be dismissed at 3:20, allowing students to wait by the flagpole exit for siblings.

• 4th grade will enter through the K hallway/5th grade will enter through the 1st grade hallway.  All 4th and 5th grade students from the portables will walk with a teacher and exit through the flagpole doors exit. 

• Grades K-2 will be dismissed through the exit nearest the flagpole at 3:22.

• K and Pre-K walkers will be picked up by paras and patrols and dismissed out of room 116 .  Students sit on the floor.  Staff will organize parents for student pick-up by teacher.

• Teachers will remain with students and remind them to stand near the building (near the flagpole exit) as they wait to be picked up.

• Patrols will support dismissal.

• Daycare Vans dismissed after walkers and before buses. Daycare Vans may be dismissed without an escort.

• Car riders dismissed to the gym at 3:25.

• Students are dismissed to the gym where they will wait on number markers w/ siblings until a vehicle arrives. 

• Students exit through the stained-glass doors.

• Number system, hundreds chart will be used in the gym and outside. (Students use the same numbers as last school year. K and new students will receive new numbers. Families receive 1 number.)

• Families will be assigned numbers. Individuals working the car loop and the gym will have walkies in order to communicate when a ride has arrived. 

• Bus riders dismissed as buses arrive. 

• Students remain in the classroom until their bus has been called. 

• KAH dismissed to multi-purpose room at 3:25

• East County leaves with daycare vans

• AM Absent - a student arrives more than two hours late
• PM Absent - a student leaves more than two hours early
• 1/2 Day Absent - a student is absent for more than any two hours during the school day
• Full Day Absent - a student is present for less than two hours of the entire school day