School Procedures

How to Pick Up Your Kindergartner from School

Attention, new families!

Kindergarten teachers hold the children at the Kindergarten entrance until they see a parent or their pick-up person. Teachers ask parents to fill out a questionnaire which includes asking who would pick up the child.

If you’re late for pick up the teacher helps the child to the school office and someone calls your contact number to see what’s going on. Students wait in the school’s front office. If you know you’ll be late, email your teacher and also call the front office to notify them.

Don’t forget: every Wednesday ends an hour early!

School ends at 2:55 every day, except each Wednesday it ends at 1:55. Half days end at 11:00.

PBIS

Irving School, in conjunction with District 97, is using the Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) program to help us achieve our goals. PBIS focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach and support positive behavior of all students. It is a proactive, systematic approach to prevention and response to classroom and school discipline issues. Emphasis is on developing and maintaining safe and respectful environments where teachers can teach and all students can learn.

Here at Irving School we focus on 4 essential principles to ensure that all students are doing their best inside the classroom and school. We refer to those as our Eagle Essentials:

Be Respectful,
Be Responsible,
Be Peaceful,
Be Safe,
…Everywhere.

If you have any questions about the program or would like more information please contact your teacher or Ms. Creehan at 708.524.3090 or ecreehan@op97.org.

Tuesday Packet

The Tuesday Packet, sent home with the youngest student in each family every Tuesday, contains information about PTO, school and community events. It is also found online at http://www.op97.org/irving/dp/

Classroom Communications

Weekly, bi-weekly or monthly newsletters come home to parents from your child’s classroom teacher. Most teachers update a classroom blog (found on the Irving website). Announcements are made over the school public address system in the morning, just before the lunch hour, and at the end of the day to inform students of upcoming events.

Student Council

The Irving Student Council is composed of students from each grade level, kindergarten through five.

The Student Council Creed is:

We the people of the Irving School’s Student Council plan activities to help bring our school closer together. We also raise money or make donations to help our school and community. We are here to have fun! We are all different ages and we will help each other to succeed.

Students have the opportunity to help with a different activity each month. Council events can include hallway decorations, coin drives, writing a Note of Thanks, Writing a Valentine, School Spirit Week, and more. Students are selected to participate in the Irving Student Council by their homeroom teacher. Students serve a four- month term, and each homeroom has a maximum of four participants throughout the year. For more information, contact Susan Tresselt or Lori Pelling at Irving School.