ES - Kindergarten Half Day

Parent/Guardian's may request a kindergarten student only attend school part time. We are required to accept this request and document it appropriately. Please use the form below to document this request.

Student must attend a minimum of 50% of the student day and the student's schedule must be the same every week. A parent cannot choose to have their child attend alternating days or only specific days each week.

	Task	Who	When

	Task	Who	When
1	Parent must make the request in writing. The Kindergarten Half-Day Attendance Form is provided at the top of this page. The notification should indicate whether the child will attend AM only or PM and the effective start date the student will start attending part-time. The notification must be signed and dated by the Parent/Guardian. NOTE: If there is an IEP that indicates that the student will be attending less than part-time, upload that page of the IEP to the documents tab in lieu of the parent letter.	Parent	Before student starts attendance part time.
2	Principal must also sign and date the notification form, indicating that they received this notification.	principal	After parent submits the form to the school.
3	Notify the Area Superintendent via email that the student will be moved to Half Day and document this on the Kindergarten-Half Day Attendance Form.	principal or SECRETARY	After Principal Signs the Form.
4	Notify the Early Childhood Education Director/Director of Literacy (Jennifer Ey) via email that the student will be attending Half Day and document this on the Kindergarten-Half Day Attendance Form.	principal or SECRETARY	After the Area Superintendent is notified.
5	Upload the completed form to the student's document tab in Infinite Campus.	principal or SECRETARY	After approval received from Area Superintendent and Early Childhood Director.
6	Submit a TDX Ticket to request the student’s schedule be updated to half day and the enrollment percentage be updated.	principal or SECRETARY	After submitting the TDX Ticket.
7	Once the schedule has been updated, the teacher will need to take attendance on both AM and PM sections of his/her attendance.	TEACHER	Every morning and every afternoon.

How to correct schedule in Infinite Campus:

If Approved for Half Day Attendance, the student's schedule on Infinite Campus must reflect the student is only attending Half Day.

Students that arrive to school after their designated start time or depart school prior to their designated end time must be reflected on the late arrival/early release logs and recorded in Infinite Campus.

To schedule a student for half day attendance, the secretary must create a new section under the course N00035 Half-Day Attendance. If this course is not available on your course deck, please submit an Infinite Campus Support Ticket to have it added to your school.

The period placement for the course sections must correlate with the half day as seen below:

AM Half Day - ONLY check the start of the day. Example Period H1 through H3
PM Half Day - ONLY check the end of the day. Example Period H5 through H7

You will also add a section to the course N00907 Partial Day Blocker to fill in the rest of the day for these students as seen below:

AM Half Day – ONLY check the end of the day. Example H4 – H7
PM Half Day – ONLY check the start of the day. Example H1 – H4

AM Half Day

PM Half Day

The teacher will be required to take attendance in the morning for both Kindergarten Full Day and AM Sections. The teacher will need to mark the AM students absent in the PM after saving the AM attendance as well.

The teacher will be required to take attendance in the afternoon for Half Day Kindergarten PM students. The teacher will need to make sure to mark the students in the full day section absent on the section for the AM and the section for the PM.

Teacher Directions for Entering Attendance if they have a Half Day Section:

Teacher Directions for Entering Attendance if they have a Half Day Section:

if a teacher has a full day section of attendance and a half day section of attendance, they will need to enter attendance following these steps:

Click attendance office
Under Teacher Attendance, click Attendance

Click Attendance
Select their full day Elementary Attendance Section
Click on the AM periods (H1-H4 in this case)
Take attendance on their full day section
Take Attendance on their half day section
Save attendance

Click on the PM periods (H5-H7 in this case)
Take attendance on their full day section again. If they marked any student absent in step 6, they need to do it again here or the student will only have a half day absence.
Save

If the teacher has a PM half day, the same thing will need to be done for the full day section.

If the above steps are not completed, students in the all day section of attendance will not be marked absent for the entire day, which will result in underreporting absences for the student.

**If you have questions, please consult your Student Data Specialist.

If student returns to Full-Time status, submit a Ticket to update their enrollment. Once the Ticket is processed, then the school should update the student’s schedule.

If the student is in Grades 1-12 and is going to be attending Half Day due to their IEP, this must be uploaded to the Documents Tab and a ticket submitted to have the schedule and enrollment percentage updated.