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Services
Sunshine Day
Care
The Sonoma County Family YMCA offers an on-site childcare program
at Dunbar School before and after school. This comprehensive
recreational program is fun and affordable. Please call Dave
Kirkland, Dunbar site Director at 996-9220 for more information.
Transfers
Intra-district and inter-district
transfers are available for the 2009-2010 school year. If you would
like to transfer to Dunbar please call 935-6070 or e-mail Melanie Blake.
Family Bulletin
The bulletin comes out
every other week in your child's Thursday folder. Inside your
bulletin, you will find calendar updates, school and community
notices, and FODS/PTO communications. If you would like something
to appear in the Bulletin, please let Ms. Blake or Mrs. D know
by the Friday before the bulletin is to go out. This way you will be certain
to have it appear in Thursday's Family Bulletin.
Teacher Conferences
A Conference with your child's teacher can be requested at any
time during the year. Feel free to send a note or call the teacher
to set up an appointment. The more communication you have with
the school the more your child will know you value their education.
Student Study
Team Meetings
Student Study Team meetings are a function of regular education.
These meetings are set up
when the issues and/or concerns about a child need the expertise
of personnel in addition to
the classroom teacher.
Who can request a meeting?
Teacher
Parent/Guardian
Principal
RSP/Speech teacher
Why request a meeting?
The requestor would like help and feedback with a particular
concern regarding a
student. The concern can be academic, social and/or developmental.
The parent
and teacher have already met and still request help.
How do I request a meeting?
Pick up a referral form from your child's teacher, fill it out
and return to the
Principal. Please note if a translator will be needed for the
meeting.
What will be the outcome of a meeting? Information will be shared that will help the team understand the whole child. Plans will be made for how both the teacher and parent can help their child. Sometimes, based upon the information presented at the meeting, the Psychologist and/or the RSP teacher will suggest further academic or social testing.
What will the meeting look like?
AGENDA 1/2 hour meeting
1. Introductions
· Parents/Guardians
· Classroom Teacher
· School Resource Teacher
· School Psychologist
· Principal
2. Report from teacher: Strengths and Weaknesses, Concerns
3. Added information
4. Parent information: Strengths and Weaknesses, Concerns
5. Brainstorm Solutions
6. Next Steps
7. Make plans: Who is responsible, and timeline
Class Publications
Individual classroom teachers will publish a "class happenings"
newsletter on a regular basis.
School Lunches,
Breakfasts, and Snacks
Nutritious hot breakfasts and lunches are available for your
child at school. Menus are sent home monthly. School meals are
to be paid in advance in the mornings before school in the cafeteria.
Children may pay for meals weekly or daily.
Monthly Menu>(District web site)
Bus Transportation
Bus passes are available at our transpiration headquarters, 17789
Railroad Ave., Sonoma. Regular Hours = Monday through Friday 9:30-3:30. You may call the Transportation Department at 935-6092.
District Bus Schedule>(District web site)
Life Skills/
Conflict Resolution:
Our counselor and our teachers instruct a K-5 continuum on the
use of these valuable skills for the classroom and the playground.
The list of Lifeskills and the Talk-It-Out strategies can be
found in the handbook and in every classroom. Each month the
Dunbar community highlights a different lifeskill. Students are
recognized for using lifeskills with verbal praise and of a lifeskill
card. The cards are collected in the office and each Friday at
lunch 3 cards are drawn and the children receive books.
