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Harlan Family Handbook 2025-2026

Dear Students and Parents:

Welcome to another amazing year at Harlan! Your Harlan Handbook is available here.

As always, we follow the Harlan Habits of Respect, Responsibility and Kindness. Please take the time to sit down with your family and get acquainted with the information in this resource guide. It is very important that you are familiar with our school policies.

Electronic Communication Devices - Cellphones, Smart Watches, Etc.

I am raising the wording from the handbook regarding forbidden articles such as electronic devices at school. Some of our students are recieving text messages, having a ping go off or also using these devices during the school day. Please see the wording in our handbook. If these devices become a problem, students could be asked to keep them at home.

Forbidden Articles

There are certain items that children cannot have in their possession on school property. These items are not safe for use at school. Forbidden articles include: knives, guns, matches, baseballs, baseball bats, skates, skate boards and pets (unless prior permission has been obtained). Larger sums of money, expensive jewelry, toy guns, laser pointers, radios, cellphones, Smart watches, other electronic communication devices (ECDs), Pokemon Cards and other toys are also prohibited (unless prior permission has been obtained for electronic devices). While not generally used by elementary students, cellular phones or ECD’s may be carried provided that the phone or ECD is switched off during school hours or set to academic mode. Student possession of any type of weapon is an extremely serious offense which may lead to the expulsion of the student from district schools.

Noon Aides Needed especially for indoor recess

We would love to add noon supervisors to our fabulous crew either as volunteers or official noon aides. We especially need help when the weather is bad and we have indoor recess. If you are interested in volunteering or joining our crew, please click on this Sign Up Noon Aide Helpers Needed.

PTA

Hi Harlan Families,

We’re excited to share a new, easy way to keep track of all of our school events this year — from 🎃 Fall Fest and 📖 Family Literacy Night to 🚶‍♀️ Walk to School Day and ⏰Half Day

✨ Subscribe once, and your calendar will always stay up-to-date automatically. Any time we add or change an event, it will appear right in your calendar.

👉 How to subscribe:

· Google Calendar users: Click here 

· Apple (iPhone/iPad/Mac) users: Copy the link here

Go to Settings > Calendar > Accounts > Add Subscribed Calendar

· Outlook users: Go to Add Calendar > From Internet Link here

✅ That’s it! No need to download files again — your calendar will always stay synced

ABCD Calendar

This year our ABCD calendar is changing to the following:

  • Monday - A Day
  • Tuesday - B Day
  • Wednesday - C Day
  • Thursday - D Day
  • Friday - Rotate Between Days

👉 Download 2025-2026 ABCD Calendar

Attendance Reporting

As a reminder for all families, we have a new way to report absences, late arrivals and early dismissals to the office. All can be done directly through our attendance reporting form.

Drop Off Reminder

We are seeing many cars dropping off in the front of the school during the first and second bell. Please use our drop off lane in the back of the school, staff will be at the back doors to welcome your child. Please only drop them off in the front of the school if your child arrives after the 8:50 a.m. bell. Your child will then need to come to the office and sign in.

Building Visitors

For the protection of the children, the school must identify all adults visiting the school. All visitors, volunteers, and parents are required to sign in at the school office and wear a visitor’s badge before visiting our school. Please do not go directly to your child’s classroom without an appointment, without checking in at the school office.

Harlan Volunteer Clearance Forms

We require any adult that is planning to volunteer in the classroom or visit the school to complete a student privacy document and criminal history check. This includes volunteers who are working with students in the building, hosting classroom parties, and attending field trips. This does not include volunteers who have arranged a time with the teacher to read a book to the entire class with the teacher present. A new form must be completed for every school year. Forms must be submitted 1 week prior to the date you will be volunteering.

Please read the documents, fill them out, and return them to your child’s teacher or the main office in person or email to kstevens@birmingham.k12.mi.us. 

👉 Volunteer Clearance Forms

Medication Reminder

Just a friendly reminder that we must have the Permission to Administer Medication form with a parent’s signature on file to keep any over-the-counter medication on site. Prescription medications require both a parent’s signature and a doctor’s authorization. If you need a copy of the medication forms, please reach out to Kali Stevens at kstevens@birmingham.k12.mi.us and she’ll be happy to assist you!

Junior Kindergarten 2026-2027

If you or someone you know, are interested in Junior Kindergarten for next school year (26/27), please complete the JK Interest Survey found on the BPS website. This is not an official registration, but will help gauge interest for resource planning. The survey results will also help identify which schools may be subject to a lottery.

***Look under the Next Steps tab on the site***

https://www.birmingham.k12.mi.us/enrollment-services/junior-kindergarten

Food Resources in Oakland County

With the impending lapse in SNAP funding, if you know of someone in need of food assistance, please share the following resources:

Pantry.net (interactive map to find food pantries near-by)

GCFB.org/food-assistance-programs/ Gleaners Mobile Pantry Drive Up Distribution Events

OLHSA.org/en-us/ Oakland Livingston Health Service Agency

Mi211.org Michigan 211 Food Assistance Programs and locations

Forgotten Harvest https://www.forgottenharvest.org/find-food/

Food and Other Resources Hotline call 1-888-544-8773

Findhelp.org