Lakeview Handbook
Lions Today Leaders Tomorrow
We hope our school's Student-Parent Handbook will serve as a guide and answer your questions regarding policies, rules, and regulations. We want you to share in the genuine excitement that is a part of Lakeview Design Center (LDC). Our faculty and staff are striving to do the very best job possible to provide a quality education for each and every student. The strength and unifying ingredient of Lakeview is our mutual partnership involving students, teachers, staff, and parents. Working together, we can accomplish tremendous things!
Vision Statement
Lakeview Design Center exists to inspire learning to reach their maximum potential by developing the whole person.
Hours and Early Dismissal
Lakeview School Hours
- 7:30 a.m. Pre-K-5 Students may enter the building.
- 8 a.m. Pre-K-5 School Begins
- 2 p.m. Pre-K Dismissal
- 3 p.m. K-5 Dismissal
Please do not drop off your child any earlier than 7:30 a.m. due to lack of supervision. Car riders should be dropped off in the car rider line. Instruction begins at 8 a.m. Students arriving after 8:00 are tardy and must be signed in by an adult in the office. Walkers are dismissed and escorted to the corner of Bell Road and Edge-O-Lake Drive. Car riders are picked up in the side parking lot. Please remain in your car until your child is brought to you.
Early Dismissal
Our teachers use every minute of the instructional day early releases create a disruption for students. NO students will be dismissed after 2:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. for Pre-K). Exclusions to this policy include religious training, doctor/dentist visits, guidance sessions, or other activities approved by the principal. Our school cares about the safety of your children. Therefore, children will not be dismissed from their classrooms. All parents and visitors must come to the office to sign a student out of school. Office personnel will then call the appropriate classroom and have the child dismissed to the office. Students will only be dismissed to adults listed on the student profile form. Anyone picking up a child must show identification. If it is necessary to dismiss early or close schools due to weather, local radio and television stations will notify the community.
Transportation
Changes in Transportation
We do not accept changes to a child’s transportation over the phone. You must send a note to the teacher if there is a change.
Bus Rider Information
Please be sure to wait at the bus stop with your child. Kindergarteners are required to have an adult at the bus stop for pickup and drop off. If an adult is not at the bus stop for drop off, kindergarteners will be brought back to the school. No school supervision is provided at the bus stops. Find your bus stop on the Metro Schools transportation page.
Additional Bus Information
A bus driver’s job is an extremely difficult task. Bus discipline is handled using progressive discipline.
Bus Rules
- Obey the bus drivers’ instructions
- Remain in your seat on the bus
- Keep your hands, feet, and objects to yourself
- Talk quietly
- Students who live at least 1.25 miles from school may ride the bus
- Bus drivers must approve any requests for additional passengers - this must occur a day in advance of the request
Should a driver bring a child into the office and file a formal complaint, the student is given a warning. Additional trips to the office will result in a gradual loss of bus privileges; in some cases, students may lose the privilege of bus transportation for the remainder of the school year. Please be sure to read MNPS rules for riding the bus with your child.
After-School Care
Lakeview YMCA Fun Company On-site - Lakeview Cafeteria
- Phone 615-259-3418
- Registration on the YMCA Fun Company website.
- Before and aftercare for K-5 Students only.
School Breakfast and Lunch
Free breakfast and lunch are provided daily. Only one extra snack or juice may be purchased each day. Students are not allowed to bring soda or extra snacks unless it is part of a lunch brought from home. If you choose to send a lunch, please be sure it includes a complete meal (protein, fruit, veggie, carb). For example, a turkey sandwich, chips, an apple, and a yogurt. Want to know what's being served? Check the school menu.
Birthday and Classroom Celebrations
Birthday parties are not allowed during school hours. However, parents may choose to send cupcakes or a healthy snack to be eaten during lunch time in the cafeteria. Please be sure you have enough snacks for every child in the classroom. Snacks may not be shared with students in other classrooms. Birthday party invitations may not be given out at school. Teachers will have three classroom parties per year: a Winter Celebration, a Valentine’s Day Celebration, and an End of the Year Celebration.
Pre-K to 5th Grade Dress Code Policy
Uniforms are not required. School clothing should appropriately reflect the entire academic, social, and safety of the students’ learning day.
- All shirts must have short or long sleeves and fit at the waist. Spaghetti straps, strapless, tube tops, off-the-shoulder, open backs, or muscle shirts are not allowed. Midriff “tummy” must be covered.
- T-shirts with inappropriate or offensive content are not allowed.
- All pants must be pulled up to the waist.
- All shorts, capri pants, skirts, skorts, or jumpers should be no shorter than mid-thigh.
- Leggings and yoga pants should be covered by a skirt or a shirt that falls to the middle of the student’s thigh.
- No denim jeans with rips or tears in inappropriate areas or are higher than 7 inches above the knee. Holes equal to or larger than the palm of your hand are not allowed.
- No Pajamas or slippers.
- No oversized coats, hoodies, or jackets with hoods can be worn inside the classroom. Please send a light sweater or light jacket without a hood for students that may get cold inside the classroom.
- No headwear (except for religious reasons). This includes caps, sweatbands, bandannas, skull caps, baseball caps.
Attendance
Regular attendance is extremely important. Please make every effort to have your child at school each day. If a student has five or more unexcused absences, a referral will be made to the Metro Schools Attendance Office or to the Attendance Review Board, an arm of the Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County Juvenile Court.
Excused Absence student illness, family quarantine, death in the family, religious holiday, or family emergency when the student is needed to help with family responsibilities. Vacations are unexcused. Teachers are not required to give make-up work. It is recommended that students miss no more than 7 days during the school year.
Absences
Always bring a note when your child returns to school to explain the absence. Please send an excuse note with your child upon his/her return to school if the absence is to be excused. The note can be written in your native language, and our interpreters can translate it for you. If your child is absent for three or more consecutive days, they must bring a doctor’s note. Parents may only send three written excuse notes per semester. After three parent notes, the child must bring a doctor’s note for any additional absences. Excuse notes must include the student’s name and the date(s) they were absent.
When Your Child is Sick
Your child’s health is extremely important to us, and we need your help in maintaining a healthy environment for all of our children. Please be protective of your child and other children by not sending your child to school if he/she exhibits any of the following signs of illness
- Fever above 100 degrees
- Diarrhea or vomiting
Any child with these symptoms must be kept home a full 24 hours without symptoms before returning to school.
Head Lice
If your child should become infested with head lice, it is the policy of the district that he/she may not return to school until you have obtained a statement from your doctor or the Health Department stating your child is nit-free. A student’s absence will only be excused three days following being sent home for lice.
Communication with the School
The school will often communicate by sending notes home in your child’s folder. Be sure to check your child’s folder EVERY night. If you would like to talk with your child’s teacher, it is best to make an appointment. You can do this by sending a note (even in your own language) or by calling the office. Teachers can meet before or after school during their planning time, but they are not available during classroom instruction. The school often uses our phone system to share information with parents. The message will be read in English, Spanish, and Arabic. Please remain on the line to hear your preferred language. Please be sure to alert the school anytime your phone number changes.
Lakeview P.A.W.S
Positive Attitude, Act Responsibly, Work Hard and Show Respect
School Rules
Lakeview Design Center rules for faculty, students, and visitors
Classroom Expectations
- Positive Attitude
- Act Responsibly
- Work Hard
- Show Respect
- Stay in assigned area
- Bring all material to school
- Use school and personal property appropriately
- Listen and follow directions the first time
- Raise your hand accordingly
- Complete your assignments in a timely manner
- Come prepared & ready to work
- Focus on your work so that you do not disturb others
- Be truthful, polite & work cooperatively with others
Hallway Expectations
- Positive Attitude
- Act Responsibly
- Work Hard
- Show Respect
- Be kind and courteous
- Use finger wave as hallway greeting
- Be aware of your space (three spaces from wall on the right, level 0 and stop at each paw print)
- Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself
- Know where you are going
- Walk purposefully to your destination
- Maintain a calm body
- Listen and follow directions
- Raise your hand for an adult
- Level 0
Cafeteria Expectations
- Positive Attitude
- Act Responsibly
- Work Hard
- Show Respect
- Use your manners (say please, thank you)
- Enter and Exit quietly
- Raise hand when needed
- Get all lunch items before sitting
- Remain in your seat while eating
- Have good table manners (Food on your own tray, use utensils appropriately, throw trash in bins)
- Clean your area/Put everything in trash
- Stay with your class
- Line up calmly and quietly
- Cup System (Red-Level 0/ Blue-Level 1)
- Listen to adults & follow directions the first time.
Playground Expectations
- Positive Attitude
- Act Responsibly
- Work Hard
- Show Respect
- Show Sportsmanship (i.e., Kind word)
- Wait your turn patiently
- Resolve conflicts quietly
- Take turns
- Use equipment appropriately (i.e., down the slide, swings front to back)
- Tell an adult if someone is hurt
- Exercise your body
- Level 0 leaving and entering the building
- Use appropriate language
- Use kind hands
- Listen to adults and follow directions the first time.
- Line up quietly and quickly
Restroom Expectations
- Positive Attitude
- Act Responsibly
- Work Hard
- Show Respect
- Wait patiently
- Use appropriate language
- Wait your turn at level 0
- One person in the stall
- Do your business, wash your hands, and go back to class
- Keep sink and floor areas clean/DO NOT write on walls
- Always Flush
- Use no more than two pumps of soap and two paper towels.
- Give people privacy.
- Keep hands and feet to yourself
- Throw paper towels in trash
- Use restroom hand signal (finger cross)
Arrival/Dismissal Expectations
- Positive Attitude
- Act Responsibly
- Work Hard
- Show Respect
- Be kind & courteous
- Wait patiently
- Always walk calmly
- Have all your belongings
- Walk directly to your classroom at arrival
- Walk directly to your dismissal area with the teacher
- Listen and watch attentively at a level 0 for your number or group to be called
- Keep hand and feet to yourself
- Listen to adults and follow instructions the first time.
Positive Reinforcement
- Ticket System
- Students can receive tickets from faculty members for positive behavior
- Bi-weekly office drawings
- Classroom ticket system
Toys
Toys, games, trading cards, music players, game players, headphones, and other like items should not be brought to school. If an item of this nature is brought without the teacher’s permission, it will be held at school until picked up by a parent. The school is not responsible for any toys that are lost or stolen.
How to Help Your Child At Home
- Check your child’s backpack and folder every night for homework.
- Homework may be different for each grade level.
- All students should read for 20 minutes every night, even if there is no other homework.
- If your child is not a reader yet, you can read to him/her in English or your native language. We have books in both Spanish and Arabic available in our library for check out.
- Before starting the homework, have a conversation with your child about what he/she learned in school that day.
- Have a consistent area where your children can keep their schoolwork and supplies.
- Minimize distractions (TV and cell phones off, keep other children busy).
- Be sure your child gets to bed at a reasonable time (8 or 9 p.m.) to ensure they are well-rested and ready to learn at school.
Emotional Support at Lakeview
If your child is struggling with a concern or problem, please reach out to our school counselors. They can help connect your child to a variety of services including:
- School Social Worker
- Center Stone Counselor
- Behavior Support
- Uniform Support
- Food Boxes
- And more!
School and District Calendar
The Metro Schools district calendar is published on our school website calendar. You also can download a PDF translated into several languages on the district calendar webpage.