Kaye Ellington

End of School Year Information

It's hard to believe it is almost time for school to be out.  Before we go on vacation, I wanted to remind you of some end of the year information.  Student Statements will be printed on May 25th and placed with report cards for mailing on June 4th.  These are statements that will be needed for your 2012 taxes next April.

Outstanding balances (ASP, Media Center Charges, etc) need to be cleared up before Thursday, May 24th.   

All summer payments will need to be cash or money order only.  We are unable to accept checks during the break.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

2011 Tax Information

You should have received a statement in early January 2012  that will showed all payments to Baker (with the exception of lunch and ASP).  All donations for field trips are tax deductible, so you will need this statement as you prepare your 2011 taxes.  ASP will provide statements upon request.    For ASP statements, please contact Debra Justice by email at debra.justice@cobbk12.org  or you may call the school and ask to speak to her. 

You will receive a statement covering January - May 2012 with your student's final report card. 

If  you have any questions about the statement, please contact me.

Recycling Is Important At Baker

Recycling helps our environment and our school.  When you recycle here at Baker, you help our instructional program.  We use funds from our recycling program to enhance our instructional program.  We recycle a wide variety of items such as aluminum cans, newspapers, copy paper, magazines, ink-jet cartridges, laser cartridges, cell phones, ipods, game controllers, and digital cameras.  Newspaper, paper, magazines and aluminum cans can be brought to school at any time.  All of these bins are located outside of the school.  Drop off ink-jet cartridges, laser cartridges, cell phones, ipods, game controllers and digital cameras in the office at anytime.  You can check out our partner for recycling the ink-jet/laser cartridges, cell phones, ipods and game controllers at www.cartridgesforkids.com .  If you have any questions about our recycling program, please contact me at 770/975-6629.   

How To Send Payments To School

Baker is a very active school.  Currently, students can bring money to pay for ASP, Breakfast, Lunch,  Field Trips, Special School Activities, Lost Books and PTSA sponsored events.

Any money sent to school should be "clearly labeled."  Printing the student's full name, teacher and grade level are very important in making sure the payment is applied properly.  Also, please be sure to indicate the amount enclosed and date the payment is sent to school.  It is important to remember that we are unable to return change. 

Breakfast and Lunch money should be sent in a green envelope like this one.  Payments can be dropped in the drop box in the cafeteria.

ASP Money should be returned to school in an ASP envelope only.  You may enclose payments for more than one child.  Please be sure to indicated on the envelope who the payment is for.  If more than one student is listed, indicate how much should go on each account.  These payments can be dropped in the black ASP Payment box by the inside gym doors.

Payments for field trips, lost/damaged books, book clubs, and special school activities should be placed in a white student payment envelope.  One envelope can contain payment for more than one activity (for instance a lost  book payment can be included with a field trip payment as long as it is clearly indicated on the envelope).  Cafeteria and ASP payments should never be placed in a white student payment envelope.  These payments should be placed in the large white safe by the inside gym doors.

Often, PTSA will sponsor an event for which you need to make reservations or they will collect money for a specific purpose (ex. spirit wear).  Parents/guardians will need to supply an envelope to return the reservation/payment to school.  Please be sure to mark the envelope with the student's name, teacher, grade, purpose of the payment, amount enclosed and date returned to school.

If you have any additional questions about sending payments to school, please contact me at 770/975-6629.