SCHOOL SAFETY PROGRAM

The mission of Prince Street School is to provide a safe and nurturing environment where all individuals are free to learn, grow and pursue their personal best while striving to be responsible for their own behavior and respecting the dignity and self-worth of others.

The Eastern School District's Caring Places to Learn policy is a wide-ranging comprehensive policy designed to ensure that schools in the Eastern District provide a healthy, safe, and supportive working and learning environment for every student and staff member.  The Caring Places to Learn is an "umbrella" policy which supports each school's own policies and practices in this area.

Countless  personal interactions occur in Eastern District schools every day, and these interactions are the focus of this policy. The policy guides the way people in our school communities treat each other, and the expectations for behaviour for all members of the school community are similar: that we will demonstrate regard, concern, and respect for each other in all our interactions - both inside and outside the classroom - and that we respect the unique differences and worth of every individual.

Achieving and maintaining this positive climate is the responsibility of everyone involved in education in Eastern District schools - students, parents, teachers, support staff, and trustees. There are high expectations for all members of Eastern District school communities, and these expectations are met and exceeded daily on a regular basis. We continually strive to do better at this, and work hard to make sure that our schools are inclusive, supportive, an healthy for all.

The Caring Places to Learn policy covers such specific areas as abuse, violence, bullying, discrimination, sexual abuse, threats, trespassing and weapons. Within these areas, the policy dictates what steps should be taken when allegations of violations of this policy are made. These allegations may involve student to student incidents, student to staff incidents, staff to student incidents and staff to staff incidents.

Parents in particular are encouraged to inform us immediately about situations which would negatively affect the school's healthy and supportive environment.  Sometimes parents are reluctant to contact the school when students may be having a difficult time with a situation, and the situation worsens.  We can't guarantee that we can "fix" every situation, but if the school knows about problems early, we can often take steps to prevent the problem from becoming worse.

Parents are encouraged to become involved with their school to help maintain its safe and caring atmosphere.  It's a responsibility of the entire school community.

                        SCHOOL HOMEWORK POLICY

Studies have shown that the regular completion of homework assignments has a positive effect on a student's success.   With a view to reinforcing skills taught in the classroom, homework is judged to be an important element of the curriculum. If parents/guardians notice that their child is consistently struggling with homework, please contact your child's teacher as this would be an additional opportunity to monitor your child's progress between parent/teacher interviews. The following is our policy on work assigned as homework:

1. Homework assigned should arise out of lessons taught and be a meaningful extension of classroom activities.

2. Homework will be assigned on a regular basis.

3. Homework completion will be monitored regularly.

4. Teachers will record each student's homework performance and may make use of this record when evaluating the student's term work.

5. Students, with parental support, are responsible for completion of homework.

6. Parents will be notified in those cases where students frequently do not complete assigned homework.

7. If a student does not complete assigned homework, the teacher may require the student to remain in class at recess or noon break, or after school, and/or complete it at home that evening.

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