Rising Sun Elementary Tiger News

Welcome to the Rising Sun Tiger News -Family Edition for Rising Sun Elementary. Each Sunday, this email will be delivered to your inbox with information about what is happening at Rising Sun Elementary. We hope to be able to provide you with important information on a regular basis to help you support your student. Please feel free to email us with any questions!

Thursday, August 29

Preschool, PreK, Kindergarten Meet & Greets - scheduled times were emailed to parents

Back to School Social Grades 1-5 4:00 - 5:00pm

Tuesday, September 3

First Day of School for ALL students!

Wednesday, September 4

2:00 Dismissal

On Thursday, August 29th from 4:00PM-5:00PM, RSES will be hosting our annual Meet and Greet for the 24-25 school year for students in Grade 1-5. We feel it is important to give our students an opportunity to see the inside of their classroom and the space where they will be learning this year.

We look forward to seeing everyone on the 29th!

The first day of school for all Cecil County Public Schools is Tuesday, September 3rd. We strongly encourage your student to arrive/dismiss from school via the route they will be using during the school year.

Rising Sun Elementary School Hours are as follows:

Homeroom 8:45-9:00am (Students marked "tardy" after 9:00 and will need to be signed in in the main office.)

Instruction Begins 9:00am

Dismissal Begins 3:25 (Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri)

Dismissal Begins 1:45 (Wednesday)

By now, you should have received an email stating your child's homeroom teacher. If you did not receive either a letter or an email, please call the main office.

New for the 2024-25 School Year, ALL students, regardless of income level, receive a free breakfast. Unless students qualify for Free School Meals, lunches will need to be purchased by students.

Breakfast and lunch are served daily. Families will have to fill out FARMs applications in order to qualify for Free School Meals EACH YEAR. To complete the application online, please click the link below or scan the QR code.

https://www.myschoolapps.com/Application

Parents are encouraged to take advantage of our computerized School Cash online payment website to add funds to your child’s meal account. All meal account checks should be made payable to RSES Food & Nutrition and should not include payment for any other school activity. Please include your child’s name and “meal account” in the memo section of the check. Parents are expected to rectify negative balances in their child’s account. These negative balances do not clear at the end of a school year and also carry over from school to school within the county.

Costs:

Breakfast - Free for ALL students

Lunch $2.90 (Reduced cost= Free)

Milk $ .55

To add funds to your child's meal account, please visit: https://ccps.schoolcashonline.com/

County menus are planned around a four-week cycle. Menus will be distributed during the first week of each month and are also available on the Food Services website. Free and reduced lunch service is available throughout the year upon request. The information is confidential and will be used only to determine eligibility.

All of the bus information for students returning September 3rd was sent out via email last week. If you did not receive this information, please first check your SPAM folder, then contact the main office. This information is to be a reminder of the bus information for those students that are using bus transportation. The times are subject to change due to traffic and road conditions as well as students being added or deleted. As a reminder, I encourage you to download the free “WheresTheBus” parent app at www.ccps.org/86 to know when your student’s bus will arrive.

This app utilizes GPS technology on our school buses to allow you as a parent to know when your child’s bus will arrive at their bus stop right from your phone or computer. The system also provides the CCPS Transportation Services Department and bus contractors with additional capabilities to even more effectively manage the bus fleets. It is important to note that in order to maintain information security, you will need to provide your child’s student ID number, date of birth, and provide email confirmation before you will be able to utilize the app. Please carefully read the information below before completing the app registration:

• You should register at www.wheresthebus.com prior to trying to access the app. This works most effectively on a computer and not a cell phone.

• IMPORTANT: Please note the following prior to accessing the online registration: o You will need to know your student’s ID number and date of birth in order to register. Contact your child’s school if you need assistance in finding this information. o If you have more than one student in CCPS, be sure to enter ALL students' names and ID numbers when you register. The app will not allow you to add additional students after registration is complete.

• Visit the website www.wheresthebus.com and select “Set up an account” under “Parents” then select Cecil County Public Schools from the District drop-down menu.

• Upon completing the login information, you will receive an email confirmation.

• You can download the WheresTheBus app from Android and Apple app stores, and will be able to login with the information that you provided during registration.

If you have difficulties in downloading the app or completing the online registration, contact Customer Support at support@wheresthebus.com. The support team will reply within twenty-four hours.

Any student arriving to school NOT by bus, should be dropped off in the car rider loop. You do not need to register as a car rider for drop-off. The doors will open at 8:40am and students will be directed to the cafeteria to wait for the bell to ring. Please do not dismiss students from your car until staff members are present. Students may not be dropped off in the parking lot or bus loop. Doors will close promptly at 9:00am. If you arrive later than 9:00am, please park in the front lot, not the bus loop, and follow signage to the main office to sign your student in.

Car Rider Loop

• Parents wishing to utilize the car rider loop for dismissal must fill out the Car Rider Loop Sign-up Form. This form will be available during the back to school social.
• Students are not permitted to be picked up in the car rider loop unless a legal guardian has filled out the proper form.

Office Sign Out

• Students may be signed out from our office until 3:15pm (1:35 on Wednesday) for early dismissal. After 3:15pm we ask that you wait in the cafeteria, not the main lobby. After 3:15, any parent pick up students signed out will be held in the classrooms and be dismissed after all buses have been dismissed. This is for the safety of our students and staff members.
• Sending in a note with your student regarding early dismissal is recommended as this helps the teachers with relaying homework and other classroom news before the student leaves for the day.

Hi all! I wanted to introduce myself before I get started with important information. I am the new school nurse, Heather Hartnett. I am transferring in from Conowingo Elementary. Prior to that, I worked at Exceptional Care for Children with intensive needs children. I absolutely love doing community nursing and working in pediatrics! I am very excited to be at Rising Sun Elementary. This is truly a dream come true.

With the start of the new school year, I want to remind all parents:

• Medications must be brought to school with a completed authorization form by an adult. Authorization forms are available in the school office at any time. Students may not keep medications in their backpacks. This includes Tylenol, Motrin, allergy medication, and cough drops. Please do not send medications in backpacks, as you risk the medication getting into tiny hands at school! Help me help our kids stay safe!
• I will be available at the meet and greet to collect any forms, hand out forms, and collect medication prior to your child’s first day of school.
• No more than a month supply of daily medication can be kept at the school. You will have to replenish daily medication as it runs out. I will send reminders home with your child as needed.
• All immunization records are due to school by the first day. If you have questions or have misplaced any form, please contact our office or stop in so that we may replace it.
• It is very important to notify the School Nurse of any known allergies so that information can be shared, confidentially, with your child's teacher and our kitchen staff as needed.

RSES School Nurse - Mrs. Heather Hartnett, hnhartnett@ccps.org

Once again, Rising Sun Elementary will be hosting the YMCA for Before and After Care right at the school. If you are looking for childcare before and after school, checkout the flyer below to see what the YMCA has to offer to our students.

If your child is in need of immunizations, please see the flyer below.

Email: mrmartino@ccps.org
Website: https://www.ccps.org/rses
Location: 500 Hopewell Road, Rising Sun, MD, USA
Phone: (410)-378-4493
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rising-Sun-Elementary-School-335513993505830