RANDOLPH TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS

RANDOLPHSCHOOL NURSES

Center Grove School 25 Schoolhouse Road Randolph, NJ 07869

Lead Nurse

Mary Sharon Lopez, RN

(973) 361-7835 x1206 FAX: (973)328-4705 email:

January 2017

Dear Parents:

Kindergarten registration will take place at the elementary school your child will be attending in September of 2017. The following days are designated for children who will enter Kindergarten at their home school in September 2017:

Shongum: January 30-February 3Ms. Susan Lisky973-895-2322 x4200

Center Grove: February 6-10Ms. Jolyn Russell973-361-7835 x1200

Ironia Elementary: February 21-24Ms. Karen Sauer973-584-8588 x3200

Fernbrook: February 27-March 3 Ms. Carol Swenty973-361-0660 x2200

Please call the school contact personnel listed above starting two weeks before the week of registration (Shongum – beginning January 16; Ironia – beginning February 6; Center Grove – beginning January23; and Fernbrook – beginning February 13) to arrange for an appointment for registration. It is not necessary to have the child attend the registration. In the spring, a Kindergarten orientation program will be offered for you and your child. If your child has a medical concern, and you wish to speak to the school nurse about your child, please indicate that as you make your registration appointment. The nurse will contact you to arrange for a meeting.

In order to facilitate the registration process, please pick up and complete the registration packet from the home school your child will be attending or download from the website at (REGISTRATION)

We are asking parents of all children who meet the qualifications listed below to register on these days so that we may plan adequately in determining teacher needs, bus routes and the school your child will attend.

The Board of Education rules governing qualifications for enrollment are:

Parent or guardian MUST present:

  1. Proof of residency. Please see PROOF OF ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION in the Registration packet.
  2. The pupil’s OFFICIAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE WITH RAISED SEAL (not hospital certificate) or a valid passport. A child must be five years of age on or before October 1st and must be in attendance during the first ten days of school.
  3. Completed immunization documentation SIGNED BY MEDICAL AUTHORITIES indicating:
  1. The dates of four doses of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus immunization (DPT or DTAP). There must be a minimum of four doses with one dose having been administered on or after the FOURTH birthday. Alternatively acceptable are the dates of five doses of DTP, DTaP, DTP/Hib, DTaP/Hib or DT (with a valid medical contraindication).
  2. The dates of a minimum of three doses of live, trivalent, oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), or inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) either separately or in combination. One dose must have been administered on or after the FOURTH birthday or, alternatively, any appropriately spaced combination of four doses.
  3. A titer level or the administration of two doses of a live measles-containing vaccine, preferably MMR. The first dose must be administered on or after the child’s FIRST birthday and the second dose must have been administered no less than 28 days after the first dose.
  4. A titer level or one dose of live rubella virus vaccine or any vaccine combination containing rubella vaccine. This must have been administered either on or after the FIRST birthday
  5. A titer or one dose of live mumps virus vaccine or any vaccine combination containing mumps vaccine administered either on or after the FIRST birthday.
  6. The dates of three doses of hepatitis B vaccine or any vaccine combination containing hepatitis B virus appropriately spaced or a titer level or a physician’s written certification of past hepatitis B disease.
  7. One dose of varicella vaccine on or after the FIRST birthday or proof of disease immunity will be required of children 19 months of age or older in a child care center and those pupils entering Kindergarten or Grade 1 (whichever occurs first) born on or after January 1, 1998. Children, whose physicians or parents submit a statement of past history of varicella disease or serologic evidence of immunity, will also be in compliance with the new rules.
  8. “Mantoux testing will be required for Kindergarten students entering the school system in the United States for the first time, if born in a high TB incidence country or transferring to the New Jersey school system directly from a high TB incidence country.”
  9. Students with documented negative Mantoux tuberculin skin test on or after age four will be exempt. Kindergarten students with a documented positive Mantoux will be required to submit documentation of the positive Mantoux and medical evaluation.
  1. A physical examination documented on the approved school district form, dated and signed by the child’s physician or nurse practitioner. This examination must be done no more than 365 days prior to school entry, September 2017.

The above items must be completed in order for a child to begin school in September. It is recommended that the above records be submitted by June 1, 2017 in order to complete the registration process.

If your neighbors have qualifying Kindergarten children and are not aware of these registration dates, kindly inform them. It is of great importance that we register all qualifying Kindergarten children at this time. We appreciate your cooperation.

Respectfully,

Mary Sharon Lopez, RN

Lead Nurse

Randolph Township School District