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GENERAL INFORMATION
Daily Announcements
The first period instructor reads the Daily Announcements each morning at the beginning of the academic day. The announcements are also published on the Announcement Board outside the school biology lab and student lounge. It is the responsibility of each student to relay any relevant information to his parents/guardians.
Office Hours
On academic days (school days), the main school office is open from 6:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Summer office hours are from 7:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. During the week of July 4th, all school offices are closed.
Emergency Conditions/School Closing
Announcements of school closings due to inclement weather or other emergency conditions will be made on radio stations WJR (760 AM) and WWJ (950 AM) by 7:00 a.m.; either “Orchard Lake St. Mary’s Preparatory” or “West Bloomfield Schools” will be identified. Major local television news networks may also deliver this information.
Telephone Messages
Only messages of a critical or emergency nature will be relayed to students.
Nurse’s Office
A student who becomes ill at school can be excused by a teacher or school administrator to see the nurse. Students will then be sent to the School Nurse’s office on the first floor of the dorm building.
Medical Needs, Dispensing of Medication
It is the responsibility of parents and/or guardians to inform the headmaster, school nurse, academic dean and appropriate teachers if a student is subject to any medical need that requires regular or periodic attention while at school.
St. Mary’s Preparatory personnel will not dispense or administer any medicine to students without both parent permission and physician instructions. If prescription or non- prescription medicine must be taken during school hours, the headmaster or his designee will supervise the taking of the medicine by the student in the presence of another adult.
In accordance with Public Act 10 of 2000, the school will allow students to possess and use metered dose asthma inhalers or epinephrine auto-injector (epi-pen) or epinephrine inhaler provided written approval to possess and use these devices from the physician and parents is received by the headmaster, along with a written emergency care plan. The headmaster or designee will notify the student’s classroom teachers.
