Welcome to

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Welcome to Excel Parent Night
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Excel Program

• The Excel Program provides after school care to
  children through quality childhood education
  while providing enrichment, homework help, and
  tutoring and equipping children with skills for
  social, emotional, intellectual, and physical
  development. 

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Independent Business
The Excel Program is an independent business.
Although it is operated at Valley View Elementary
School, it is owned and operated privately by
Valley View teachers. Valley View Administration
is not responsible or accountable for any Excel
Program issues. If you have ANY problems,
questions, or issues PLEASE direct them to the
Excel Directors- Andrea White and Shannon
Browning.
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Hours of Operations

• Excel begins when school dismisses
• PreK students will stay with the PreK teachers in
  the intermediate building
• K-2nd will be dismissed to the cafeteria where
  staff will be waiting
• 3rd-6th grades will bus to elementary on Valley
  View School Bus
• Students MUST be picked up by 600
• A charge will be added for late pickup.

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Daily Rotations K-6th

• Snack
• Recess
• Homework/ Reading
• Enrichment Activity

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Pre-K Daily Rotations

• Free Play
• Enrichment T/Th
• Snack
• Literacy
• Centers

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Snack

• Students will be offered snacks from at least two
  different food groups each day.

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Inclement Weather

• If Valley View Public Schools are closed due to
  inclement weather, the Excel Program will also be
  closed. If schools open late, the Excel Program
  will operate. If school is in session (but
  dismissed early due to weather), it is the
  parents responsibility to pick their children up
  from school at early dismissal time. The Excel
  Program will not operate after early dismissal
  due to inclement weather.

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• We will offer childcare on In-service days,
  Christmas Break and Spring Break.
• 20 a day for current students.
• 25 for nonenrolled students

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Pickup Procedure

• Parents must sign students out
• If someone other than designated people are
  picking up, we MUST have a note
• Students may be signed-out in the gym or on the
  playground after 500
• Do not pick-up through main doors by office
• A staff member will be stationed in the gym lobby
  if picking up students before 500
• Students may be signed in or out at any time
• Students MUST be picked up by 600- Fees will be
  assessed to account for late pick-up

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Tuition

• All fees for the program are due on the first
  school day of the current week or monthly on the
  first of each month.
• Your check should note the week or time period
  being paid.
• Get a receipt when paying with cash
• Fees will be collected in the kiosk located by
  the gym.
• Make checks payable to Excel Program.
• Automatic bank draft payment is accepted.
• Accounts will be prorated for weeks with less
  than 5 school days.

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Tuition

• Tuition should not be given to teachers, left in
  backpacks, or in the rooms.
• Credit will not be given for any absence from
  Excel.
• No credit will be issued for closure due to
  inclement weather.
• You are obligated to pay for all the days your
  child is registered to attend each month
  regardless of whether or not your child attends.

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Tuition

• Late Pickup Fees
• Any child picked up after the ending time of the
  program will be charged a late pickup fee. It is
  10 for every 15 minute period beginning at 601.
  This fee is due with the following weeks
  tuition.
• Return Check Policy
• Any checks returned for insufficient funds will
  be assessed a 25.00 additional fee.
•  Late Fee Charges
• A 10 late fee will be added to tuition not paid
  by Friday at 600 p.m. of the current week. These
  fees are due with payment that week.
• Any fee becoming 10 days delinquent will
  necessitate removal of the child/children from
  the program.

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Medication

• Excel Program staff members do not administer any
  medication to the students (with the exception of
  Tylenol if permission is given on medical forms).
  
• Students may not carry their own or other
  medication to the program.
• Students are permitted to store an inhaler for
  asthma or an Epi-Pen at the site provided the
  inhaler and/or Epi-Pen is in its original box
  with instructions and a prescription label.

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Discipline

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• Verbal reprimand
• Time-out
• Notes to parents
• Documented behavior reports

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Withdrawal Procedure
Notification of withdrawal must be given in
writing two weeks in advance. If notification is
not given tuition will continue to be charged for
the two-week period.
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• Questions?