ANNOUNCEMENTS

Daily Bell Schedule

7:30 Dismissal from Commons
7:35 Warning Bell
7:40-7:55 Homeroom
7:59-8:47 1st Hour
8:51-9:39 2nd Hour
9:43-10:31 3rd Hour
10:35-12:08 4th Hour
12:12-1:00 5th Hour
1:04-1:52 6th Hour
1:56-2:44 7th Hour

Lunch Schedules – 4th Hour

First Lunch Second Lunch Third Lunch
Lunch  10:35 – 11:05 Class 10:35 – 11:05 Class  10:35 – 11:38
Class  11:05 – 12:08 Lunch 11:05 – 11:38 Lunch  11:38 – 12:08
  Class 11:38 – 12:08  
* Teachers must show Channel One during 4th hour.

InTouch Updates
Just so you know --

InTouch updates every evening between 6:00 and 6:30.  During that time, InTouch is unavailable for viewing and an error message will occur stating that your password is invalid.  If that happens, please try again later.

If you do not have an InTouch, account please register on-line at www.goddardusd.com.

In order to activate your InTouch account, visit the school office and present a photo ID or call 794-4230.  You will then be given the password for your child's account to access his/her attendance, grades, class schedule, discipline, and other information. 


Free Tutoring
HomeworkKansas provides expert tutoring in core subjects to every Kansas student, Grades 4-12. HomeworkKansas, a service of the State Library of Kansas, allows students to connect to an expert tutor for one-to-one homework help. Tutoring is provided by a live tutor via the Internet. Students simply to the HomeworkKansas website at www.homeworkkansas.org and enter their Kansas library card number. Students can register and receive a Kansas library card number instantaneously at the same site. To better match students and their homework needs with the best available tutor, students are asked for their grade level and their homework topic. The student then enters the online classroom and, using chat technology and an online whiteboard, the tutoring sessions begins. All tutors are certified and have completed a third party background check. Tutors are available seven days a week from 4:00 pm – 11:00 pm.
Medicaid/Healthwave Dental Offer
Small Smiles Dental Clinic of Wichita is accepting patients, ages from first tooth to 21, with Medicaid or Healthwave insurance. Small Smiles is located at 650 N. Carriage Parkway #60 in Wichita (intersection of N. Edgemoor & East Central). You may contact them at 686-2721. 

They will be happy to provide a complete dental evaluation and all necessary treatment to any child with Medicaid or Healthwave. Their staff features experienced, Kansas licensed general dentists and a bilingual staff. 


Health/Dental Insurance
If you do not have health/dental insurance and would like to enroll in Healthwave, please contact the school nurse for information and assistance. 
Kansas School Safety Hotline
The State of Kansas, in cooperation with the Kansas Highway Patrol, has established a statewide "Kansas School Safety Hotline" for reporting any information that might threaten the safety of our school or students.  The statewide hotline is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to report any potential threat of school violence to the Kansas Highway Patrol.  Information received on this hotline will immediately be shared with local law enforcement and school officials.  Help keep our schools safe!

Stay Safe!  Speak Up!  Stop School Violence!

1-877-626-8203
This is an anonymous Toll-Free Number.


Absence Procedures
Anytime your student is absent please call the front office by 8:00 am at 794-4230.  Our voice mail is on 24 hours a day. If you leave a message, please state the reason for the absence with the student's full name.

Anytime you need to take your child from school for an appointment, please send a note with your child to bring to the front office in the morning so that we will not interrupt classes by using the intercom to dismiss students.


Change of Address Procedures
ANY changes to your address and phone number, including cell phones, business phones and e-mail addresses, need to be updated as soon as possible.   You can send a note with your child or call Retta Wyssenbach at 794-4245.  Voice mail is available 24 hours a day.
Moving Procedures
Please notify the school registrar at 794-4245 if you will be moving out of the Goddard district so that we may update our records.  If school is in session, please call at least one day before the student's last day of attendance to complete check out process.
Lunch Business
Checks for lunch money can be made out to RGMS Nutrition Service.  Please include your student's first name, last name and grade in the memo area of your check.  Remind your child to have all lunch business taken care of in the front office before 9:45 each morning.  Any money dropped off after 9:45 will NOT be entered into your child's account until the next day.

Don't forget that you can also deposit lunch money online by using the district website MYNUTRIKIDS.COM.