The Stingray Review

Attention families of veterans and active military members:
Please let Homeroom teachers know if you have any of these special people in your family or close group of friends. Students can take these templates home and write a letter to a veteran or soldier. These letters will be displayed the first week of November in preparation for our Veterans' Day program. We need them by October 31st.

We are having a Veterans Day breakfast on Friday, November 10, 2023 for all of our Veterans that have or are serving in our military. If you know someone in your family or someone in the community that would like to join us please fill out the below Google Link. This way we will be able to have an approximate count of people coming to our breakfast. The breakfast will start at 7:45 A.M. and end right near 9 A.M. We will then transition to the gym for our Veterans' Day Program. We are looking forward to this wonderful event! Any student who has a family member come for the breakfast will be allowed to eat breakfast with their veteran. This link will close on Friday November 3, 2023.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdruwIstQAv-wl8hJ1oXz5QhrU-hX_fB420XqSAAUIDi0Jubg/viewform?usp=sf_link

All students in Horry County Schools will receive free breakfast and lunch during the 23-24 school year as part of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program. Click here for more information.

We love having parents coming to eat with their child. Please sit with your child at the tables that have been put out for parents.Please make sure to not travel anywhere else but to the lunch room and back down to the office. Parents are not allowed to walk around with or without their student around the building unsupervised.Thank you for your attention to this!

Students will only be allowed to eat with their parent. Please do not have a friend come to sit with you and your child. Please do not photograph any other children other than your child. We have a do not photograph list and we have students who cannot be photographed.

Our doors open for our students at 7 A.M.

• Breakfast begins at 7 A.M. and ends at 7:35 A.M.
• Tardy bell rings at 7:40 A.M. (Please make sure you are on time.) Our car rider line is empty from 7-7:25. Everything starts to pick up right at the last 15 minutes.
  
• Dismissal is at 2:40. If you are picking up in the car rider line, please have your car rider tag on your dash board the entire time or you will be asked to park and come to the front office.

Research shows that consistent attendance is a critical piece of student success. Absences with doctor notes (medical, eye, dentist) will be marked as medically excused. If absent due to death in the family an obituary or memorial information is needed to excuse for bereavement.

If any of the following occur Horry County Schools requires an attendance meeting to implement an AIP (Attendance Intervention Plan):

1. 3 consecutive unexcused absences
2. 5 accumulative unexcused absences
3. 10 unexcused tardy/early sign-outs

Any attendance questions, please notify Deadra Wills at dwills001@horrycountyschools.net or 843-650-3490. Phone calls to the school will not excuse absences.

Please reach out to Nurse Hopkins if your child has any medical issues that the school may need to know (severe allergies, asthma, diabetes, seizures, etc.) If you need to reach her please call the school at 843-650-3490 or by email at MHopkins002@horrycountyschools.net. It is imperative that we know about any medical issues so that we are able to keep your child safe at all times.Please make sure that your child's shot records are up to date.

Dear Parent/Guardian:

Horry County Schools (HCS) performs student mass health screenings in selected grade levels. As recommended by the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), these screenings include vision, hearing, dental, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure screenings. Health screenings play an important role in the health and health education of our children and help to identify students who may need a referral for medical/professional evaluations. HCS health professionals do NOT perform medical evaluations. If a referral is necessary based on the screening findings, the school nurse will send information home with the student. It is the responsibility of the parent or guardian to schedule the appropriate medical appointment.

All health screening information is maintained in the school nurse’s office and may only be shared with the child’s parent or guardian.

Parents may opt out of student health screenings by sending the attached Student Health Screenings Opt-out form to your child’s school nurse. Opt-out forms must be completed each school year. Additional information regarding health screenings can be found on our website at https://www.horrycountyschools.net/healthscreenings.