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This pre-registration/orientation event is held for students who will be entering kindergarten in the fall or for students who will be attending first grade and who have attended an approved kindergarten.

Parents are requested to accompany their children to the school where they will be attending next fall. The round-up is designed to acquaint students and parents with schools and to provide information to parents concerning entrance requirements.

If you will be unable to attend, you are requested to phone the principal of the school and give pre-registration information concerning your child. It is important that the school system obtain a relatively accurate census of students entering school so that plans can be made to serve the students' needs.

The following will be required for all children entering school for the first time:

• A birth certificate or officially acceptable evidence of date of birth at the time of registration. The name used on the records of a student entering school must be that as shown on the birth certificate unless evidence is presented that such name has been changed through a court as prescribed by law.

To obtain a copy of the birth certificate, you may contact the Health Department of the state your child was born or you may contact the Vital Records Department of the state where your child was born. Include: father's name, mother's maiden name, child's birth given name, county of birth, and date of birth. In Tennessee, this must be submitted on the official request form that can be obtained from your local health department. Payment must be sent with your request. The charge for the short form is $5.00, long form is $10.00, each additional copy is a charge of $2.00. Phone requests will be charged to a credit card (VISA, Discover, American Express, or Master Card) for an additional $10.00. The credit card number is 615-741-0778. The direct number is 615-741-1763.

• Social Security numbers are requested on all students entering school for the first time.

• Tennessee school entry medical examination. The school system will usually accept physicals done during March through August of the current year. The school system encourages parents to get these physicals completed early in order to have them ready when school starts.

• Evidence of state-required immunization which shall be the permanent (green) or the temporary (white) certificate. A child will be issued the permanent certificate if he/she has had the following:

DTP-DTaP-DT-DTP/Hib-Td
4 or more doses, one of which was given on or after the fourth birthday. If age seven or older three doses are required.

Polio (OPV/IPV)
4 doses of OPV or IPV. If the 3rd dose was given on or after the fourth birthday, the 4th dose is not required. However, if a combination of IPV/OPV (2IPV/2OPV) is used, all 4 four doses are needed regardless of age.

MMR (Mumps, Measles, Rubella)
2 doses, given on or after the first birthdayrequirted, for entrace into grades K, 4, 8, and 12. The dose should be administered at least 30 days following the first dose.

Hepatits B
3 doses, for entrance into kindergarten (effective July 1, 1999).

A child will be issued a temporary certificate, if at least one dose of each vaccine has been administered. The temporary certificate will not be valid seven days after the next dose is due.

Any child who is five (5) years of age on or before September 30 of the current year, may enter kindergarten. Any child who is six (6) years of age on or before September 30 of the current year, may enter the first grade if he/she has attended an approved kindergarten.

If parents have any questions regarding entrance requirements, they should contact their school principal or the Pupil Personnel Department of the Hamblen County School System at 586-7700.