Following are general protocols and important info to know to prepare new and returning students for the school year:

General School Information

BELL SCHEDULE

School campus opens daily at 7:30AM and parents should plan to have students dropped-off before the late bell rings at 8:16AM. If you arrive to campus at 8:16 or after, your child is considered late.

UNIFORMS

Rosewood STEM Magnet is a uniform school, meaning unless you have applied for an exemption, all students are required to be in a school uniform daily. Each year, the principal sends home a parent homework packet that includes more details on various school protocols as well as the school uniform policy. That policy specifies that the uniform consists of a polo shirt (navy/light blue, white or gray) and bottoms (pants, shorts, skirt or jeggings in either navy/light blue, khaki or blue plaid - including a jumper or uniform skort). For girls, a solid-colored light blue or navy, gray or khaki-colored dress may also be worn, together with plain leggings, socks and shoes in blue, white or gray. On Wednesdays, in addition to uniform clothes, students may opt to wear any T-shirt with Rosewood on it including 100th Day shirts, “I Know My Sight Words” or other Rosewood spirit-wear. On Thursdays, it’s College Day so any college attire representing your child’s favorite future college or university will help earn them “Husky Bucks” to redeem toward rewards at school on a later date, and on Fridays it is School Spirit Day so students may wear either their black “I Love My School” or “My School Rocks” T-shirt (both available for sale via the school’s main office).

VOLUNTEER

Parent and community volunteers are welcome and appreciated.  Those wanting to volunteer time may do so in the main office, library, garden, parent center, reorganizing the lost & found, and inside the classroom.  Please check with the principal if you’d like to volunteer time on school campus and fill out a volunteer application through the Parent Center, or submit your application online here.  All volunteers must be approved through LAUSD which includes verification of a current TB test (valid for four years) and making an appointment through the Office Manager for fingerprint clearance. In addition to general school volunteering, Friends of Rosewood hosts several fundraising events throughout the year and is always in need of helping hands. If you have a specific skill or just want to help make our events more fun, please consider joining our events committee by reaching out to hello@friendsofrosewood.org.  Whenever volunteering on-site, please check-in at the main office to sign in and get a visitor’s pass. School volunteers that have previously been cleared must still continue to fill out a new volunteer application every year.

SAFETY VALET

Rosewood is located in a very densely populated neighborhood and thus parking can often be challenging.  To ensure students arrive on time to school, the Safety Valet opens daily at 7:30AM and is located along Croft Avenue. Please do not park on Croft Avenue or pull into a neighbor’s driveway to drop off your student.  Parents are asked to enter the car line via Alfred Street, move up until you reach the front of the line, ask your child to remove their seatbelt and wait until your child is greeted by the friendly adult staff member or volunteer.  Please have your child’s backpack and any personal items ready prior to arriving at the point in the line when the volunteer opens the car door.  At no point while in the car line should the parent stop their car to remove items from the trunk as it slows down the progress. During Covid protocols, please also have your Daily Pass (available here) ready to be scanned by the time you reach the front of the Safety Valet line, and promptly exit once your child has left the vehicle.  

School Pickups via walk up can be done by proceeding straight to the Croft Avenue gate located toward the beginning of the Safety Valet line for grades 1 - 5. Kinder students can be dropped off/picked up at the Kinder Gate, located outside the kinder playground. At the start of the school year, parents should proceed to the auditorium to drop-off their children who will be greeted by their classroom teacher.

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Children enrolled in Rosewood’s after school programs - including Beyond the Bell’s LA’s Best and LAUSD Youth Services programs, Orchestra, Parker-Anderson Enrichment and Opening Night Theater - should plan to report to each program directly. Only kinder students will be picked up from their classrooms and personally escorted to their respective activity. Parents should plan to pick up students after school at the Croft gate located by the start of the Safety Valet line.

ROOM PARENT

A Room Parent is a parent that volunteers to work as a liaison for the classroom teacher and fellow classroom families.  The classroom teacher selects a Room Parent at the beginning of the school year based on the needs of the classroom.  A Room Parent may be asked to develop a classroom contact list and telephone tree, help with class parties by finding parents to donate items or time, help assemble homework packet assignments or cut/glue/or organize class projects, find parents to chaperone class trips, etc.  The principal and Parent Center representative oversees all Room Parents.   

BACK-TO-SCHOOL-NIGHT

Come and meet teachers who will review your child’s class curriculum, procedures, homework, behavioral expectations, and other important information. THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR A PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCE; should you require individual one-on-one time, please schedule a conference with your child’s teacher at a later date.

Back-to-School-Night is for parents only; when planning to attend, please make necessary arrangements for childcare.

For your convenience, FoR will provide childcare during Back to School Night for a nominal fee, but pre-registration is required and spaces are limited. Students will have a snack and watch a movie.  Registration forms for childcare will be on the back of the Back-to-School Night invitation. Please check your child’s backpack.

OPEN HOUSE

This is an evening to acknowledge creativity and academic accomplishments.  Open House is a time for all stakeholders to come together as a school community to celebrate the work being done at the school site.  Families are urged to visit all classrooms, the Science Lab, Music Room, Makerspace Lab, the Book Fair, and the Computer Lab. Open House is typically held during the second half of the school year.

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES

Parent Teacher Conferences are conducted twice annually at the end of the first and second grade-reporting periods.  The conference allows parents to monitor the academic and social development of students and to involve them one-on-one in the educational processes. Individual parent conferences are conducted at the school site, or via Zoom, and written records of parent participation are kept by the school.

NEED TO IMPROVE NOTICES

Need to Improve Notices are distributed to students 6 weeks before the end of each reporting period, only if the student is at risk of receiving a 1 or 2 on their report card.  Students receiving a Need to Improve Notice have 6 weeks to improve their grade.  The parent, teacher, and student should work together to develop strategies to best help the student. Check your child’s backpack the week these are distributed to see if this applies.

MATH NIGHT AND LITERACY NIGHT

At Family Math Night and Family Literacy Night, children encourage their parents to participate in a variety of activities involving math and literacy. The children are often quite surprised on the occasions when they realize they know more about a particular topic than their parents do. The children involve their family in hands-on activities which include a variety of disciplines pertaining to math and literacy, under the facilitation of a teacher.  Family Math Night and Literacy Night create a great environment for children and parents to learn together.  

CONNECT-ED ATTENDANCE CALL

Attendance messages are sent twice a day to the parent/guardian of students that have an absence or tardy that day by the Connect-ED notification system. 

Calls are made based on the attendance information in LAUSDMAX. Attendance information is taken from LAUSDMAX at 9:00AM to generate the morning call to the parents/guardians. This call provides parents/guardians an early notification of absence and tardies, so that an effort can be made to get the student to class. The evening call is based on attendance data in LAUSDMAX as of 3:30PM and reflects attendance information for the entire day.

Attendance is taken each morning at 8:16AM by the classroom teacher. 

TRUANCY LETTERS

Parents/guardians of students between the ages of 6 and 18 years old who have accumulated three or more unexcused absences will be mailed an Initial Notice of Truancy (NOT) Letter.  The Initial NOT Letter lists up to ten dates of qualifying unexcused or uncleared absences, along with the name of the school at which the absences occurred. Unexcused or uncleared absences accumulated at any LAUSD school within the same school year are counted toward the classification of truancy. Unexcused tardies of 30 minutes or more count as an absence.  

STAY IN THE KNOW

If you haven’t already, sign up for the Friends of Rosewood mailing list here to receive future email communications. You can find us out on the yard on the first day of school and on most Fridays at the school-wide morning assembly, and we often bring free Starbucks coffee too. Another great way to help give back to Rosewood is to sign up for our shopping programs so a portion of every dollar spent goes back to the school or speak to your work’s HR department about enrolling Friends of Rosewood in your employee’s matching program. Some employers will match your charitable donations which doubles your contributions at no cost to you. Please inquire as employee matching is a great way to make every tax-deductible dollar count!