School Procedures

To guarantee a smooth and safe operation of the school the following procedures have been put in place:

Hours of Operation

Please ensure that your child does not arrive at school prior to 8:30 a.m. For safety reasons, students are not to wait at the office doors but are to proceed directly into the yard. Attendance is taken twice daily. Children who arrive after 8:50 a.m. and after 12:50 p.m. are to check into the office and are marked as late in their agendas.

8:45 - Supervision in the School Yard Begins
9:00 Morning Bell
10:10 - 10:25 - Morning Recess
11:45 - 12:45 - Lunch Hour
2:05- 2:20 - Afternoon Recess
3:30 - Dismissal

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Reporting Absence

Telephone: (905)529-1002 Fax:(905)522-0787

Attendance at school is compulsory as stated in the Education Act. It is the parents' responsibility to see that their child attends school and is punctual. Parents are to contact the school:

  • to report the absence of their child each day of their absence.
  • to send a note to the school when their child returns after an absence.

Regular and punctual attendance contributes greatly to a student's success at school. If your child is to be absent, we request that you phone the school to give the following information:

  1. Child's name and spelling of surname.
  2. Teacher's name and grade.
  3. Reason for the absence and duration of the absence.

Please call the school answering machine to report your child's absence. It is on at all times to record your message. In cases where no phone call or note has been received, the school will try to contact the parents of the absent students (either at home or work) as soon as possible. On days when bus transportation is cancelled, parents of bus children need not phone in the absence.

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Lunch Procedures

  • There should be no students in the hallways. Students are not to visit other classrooms during the lunch hour.
  • Students must not leave the school grounds for any reason, at any time during the noon hour without written permission from parents/guardians. A letter of permission must be dated and signed by the parent/guardian of the student leaving school grounds.
  • Students must clean up their eating area and leave the room tidy.
  • Students are required to sit down while eating and observe the rules of courtesy and good manners.
  • Students will be dismissed from the lunchroom as a group at a set time.
  • Students are expected to treat the lunchroom Supervisors with the same respect and courtesy as the rest of the school staff.

Repeated misbehaviour will result in an alternate location for your child to eat his/her lunch, a phone call home or a suspension.

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Early Departure

If you are picking up your child during school hours, please come by the office and we will have your child dismissed to you. If you are sending someone to pick up your child/ren, please inform the office of this intent, and have the person come to the office. If you are picking your child up after school, please wait outside the appropriate school door until your child arrives to you.

For safety reasons, parents should not wait outside their child’s class or loiter in the hallways.

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Code of Conduct

PLAYGROUND RULES

The general and specific playground rules are a part of living the CODE OF SUCCESS, which simply states:

  • Do your BEST at ALL TIMES
  • Stay on TASK
  • RESPECT: yourself, others, property of others, and the environment
  • TREAT OTHERS the way YOU want TO BE TREATED

General Playground Rules:

  • walk and move slowly
  • follow directions
  • show respect
  • keep the schoolyard clean by putting garbage in the garbage cans

Specific Playground Rules:

  • no large balls are allowed on the playground
  • tennis balls are to be used for games, not for whipping against the wall
  • baseball bats and hockey sticks are not allowed anywhere in the yard, except during adult supervised games
  • walkmans or radios should not be brought to school
  • scooters or skateboards should not be brought to school
  • adhere to the boundaries of the Primary, Junior and Intermediate Yards
  • all students are to stay in the fenced playground area at all times during outdoor recesses

Recess-Lunch-Indoor

When the weather is inclement a decision will be made as to whether there will be indoor/outdoor recess. During indoor recess, the teachers on duty will patrol their respective halls. The students are expected to finish their work, play a game, read a book or chat quietly. Games involving balls or any type of movement activity are considered unsafe and unacceptable.

There should be no students in the hallways. Students are not to visit other classrooms during the lunch hour.

Recess-Lunch-Winter

Throwing snowballs is forbidden for safety reasons. All students are to play away from snow hills and icy areas.

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