Code of Conduct

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Bonaccord Code of Conduct

We expect all students at Bonaccord Elementary to conduct themselves in a responsible, respectful manner that supports everyone’s right to learn in a safe and positive environment. Students are expected to follow these guidelines while under the jurisdiction of the school, including: to and from school, at school sponsored events, in classrooms, on school buses and on school grounds. Students are provided many opportunities throughout the school year to learn and review these expectations.

RESPECT LEARNING – caring about your own learning and the learning of others.

Some examples include:

allow others to work without distractions
have materials, be prepared
be on time and ready to work
complete your class work and homework

RESPECT OTHERS – be considerate of others’ personal feelings and property, treat others the way you would like to be treated.

Some examples include:

be polite and use your manners, use respectful language
treat others with respect, be kind and inclusive
use good listening skills
make good choices
behave in ways that keep us and other safe from harm
walk on the right side of hallways

RESPECT OURSELVES – caring about the type of person you want to be.

Some examples include:

always do your best
make good choices
set a good example for other students
use manners, polite language and body language (e.g., not eye rolling)
have a positive attitude
do your homework and use your planner
be on time and ready to work – our welcome bell rings at 8:30

RESPECT PROPERTY – caring about your school and your environment.

Some examples include:

take good care of materials and equipment
clean up after yourself
keep hands off walls and displays
play in designated areas
use garbage cans, recycle and compost
use washroom facilities properly

Although our expectations apply to all learners, there is a progression of expectations held for them as they gain experience and develop a deeper understanding of our Guiding Principles and our Code of Conduct. Bonaccord staff members expect learners to become increasingly responsible for monitoring their own decisions and therefore, developmentally appropriate interventions and/or consequences are applied as they move up through the grades.

Student Learning Environment

All members of the school community must:

Walk and play safely inside and outside.
Using respectful language with everyone.
Be an active learner in all classes.
Do their best on all schoolwork.
Arrive at school on time and attending daily.
Solve conflicts in a respectful and calm way.
Cooperate with all adults in the school.
Look after school property and keeping the school and grounds clean.
Treat themselves with respect and dignity.
Encourage and welcome all students into school and classrooms, keeping in mind personal circumstances outside the control of students.

School Community and Relationships

All members of the school community must:

Respect their self, the rights of others, respect the differences in people, their ideas, and their opinions; show proper care and regard for school property and property of others.
Demonstrate honesty and integrity.
Contribute to a safe, caring, positive, inclusive, and peaceful environment.
Seek to prevent violence and potentially violent situations and demonstrating social responsibility by reporting such situations.
Respect and comply with all applicable federal, provincial, and municipal laws

USE OF TECHNOLOGY

Our school district recognizes the value of using digital tools and devices to enhance student learning throughout the K-12 curriculum.
Students are permitted to use district supported technology and their personal digital tools or devices for educational purposes in classrooms/learning spaces, as directed by an educator, and other spaces where students gather to do their work.
Inappropriate use of technology and/or personal digital tools and devices may result in the removal of these devices from the above-mentioned spaces and the suspension of the use of devices in the school.
Internet use, including the use social media sites, which is contrary to the intent of a school’s Code of Conduct is strictly prohibited. This includes all forms of violence, threats, and harassment and discrimination directed at staff members, students, or any member of the school community. This applies to school, work and personal internet use.

PERSONAL DIGITAL DEVICES

At elementary schools, it is expected that personal digital devices are to be put away during non-class time such as recess and lunch. Exceptions to this are for students who need digital devices for medical or health reasons, translation, accessibility, or other student-specific reasons.
Personal Digital Devices should not be used during lock down procedures or drills. The use of personal digital devices during this time may impact the emergency safety response.
Surrey School District staff and students should not be recorded, visually or audibly, for any reason (e.g, using phones, watches, or anything else).
The Surrey School District is not responsible for lost, missing, or damaged personal digital devices that students choose to bring to school.

Note: A Principal or Vice Principal may conduct or authorize a search of a student, personal property or desk/locker if there are reasonable grounds to believe that policy has been or is being violated, and that evidence of the violation will be found in the location or on the person of the student searched. The search should be conducted in a sensitive manner and be minimally intrusive.

CULTURAL SAFETY

In a culturally safe learning environment, each learner and staff member feel and know their unique cultural background is respected and they are free to be themselves without being judged, put on the spot, or asked to speak for all members of their group.
Cultural safety is also intended to prevent harm caused to students, staff, and community members.
All staff and students have a right to feel safe and a right to culture and religion. Discrimination of others’ culture or religion is unacceptable.

LEAVING SCHOOL GROUNDS

Students must have written parent permission to leave for lunch or during the day
Students must sign out and sign back in at the office

DRESS CODE

Our dress code attempts to balance individual liberty, social convention, functionality, community standards and school community values. (Policy 9410 – Safe and Caring Schools)
Staff and students are expected to dress in ways that are appropriate for their particular roles in the school and that show respect for themselves, for others and for the school.
In the case of student dress, there should be a partnership between student, parent and school that provides sufficient, but not excessive, guidance so students not only dress appropriately, but also learn to make good independent decisions regarding dress.
Inappropriate dress or appearance is defined as dress that is either obscene, promotes alcohol or drugs, displays offensive language or images, encourages racism or bigotry, presents a health or safety problem (fashion concealing identity), or causes disruption to the educational process.

OUTSIDE PLAY:

Students are asked to dress appropriately for our Canadian climate. In the winter months you will go outside for fresh air, but we will shorten the time if the weather is unseasonably cold or wet.

Students must be safe, able to be seen and supervised at all times. The following areas are out of bounds at recess and lunch:

the front of the school
the black -topped area between the east side of the school and the fence

Student conduct on the playgrounds will be such that ensure the safety and security of all students, such as:

Students must walk bicycles, skateboards, roller blades, scooters on school ground. Students should also wear protective head gear when travelling to and from school on any of the aforementioned
Throwing of sand, rocks, sticks, snowballs or any other projectile is dangerous and therefore not permitted
If sports equipment goes off the school grounds, students must receive supervisor ‘s permission to retrieve it
Games involving teasing, unfair or unsafe practices inevitably lead to problems and are therefore not permissible for our students

INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR

Inappropriate behaviour may consist of, but is not limited to:

being out of assigned zones• swearing or using obscene gestures
lack of respect for others• refusal to comply or rudeness
play fighting

All members of the school community must not:

Participate in or encourage plagiarism, misrepresentation of original work, lying, or the false representation of identity.
Engage in acts of bullying (including cyber-bullying), exclusion, teasing, harassment, intimidation, violence, or abuse of any form (verbal, physical, sexual)
Discriminate against others on the basis of Indigenous identity, race, religion, color, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, family status, age, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or physical or mental disability/ability, or for any other reason set out in the Human Rights Code of B.C., nor shall a student publish or display anything that would indicate an intention to discriminate against another, or expose them to contempt or ridicule, on the basis of any such grounds.” Racism and discrimination are not permitted in our school by students, staff, and/or any community members. (i.e., including but not limited to the N-word and other racial slurs and insults, homophobic and transphobic slurs and insults, and other exclusionary behaviors and/or language.)
Engage in Illegal acts, such as possession, use or distribution of illegal or restricted substances.
- Weapons or replica (toy) weapons (including laser pointers); explosives (including fireworks) and pepper or other obnoxious sprays.
- Intoxicating or banned substances (including alcohol, cigarettes, e-cigarettes (vaping), and drugs).
Engage in theft or damage to property.
Wear offensive clothing or unacceptable slogans imprinted on clothing, including the showing of weapons, violence and/or drugs.
Engage in behaviours that interfere with the learning of others, interferes with an orderly environment, or create an unsafe environment.
Intruders or trespassers are not permitted on school property (all visitors must first report to the office).

Serious breaches of conduct include but are not limited to:

Physical assault
Sexual assault
Possession of weapons or replica weapons or threatening to use weapons
Threats to a student or staff member
Acts of hate
Retaliation against a student

Progressive Consequences

Progressive consequences are an approach that makes use of a continuum of interventions, supports, and learning consequences, building upon strategies that promote positive behaviours, while taking into account considerations or diverse abilities. When inappropriate behaviour occurs, strategies or measures are applied within a framework that shifts the focus from one that is solely punitive to one that is both corrective, restorative and supportive of the harm that is caused. It provides an individualized approach supportive of each student. With all student conduct and information, confidentiality of individuals is strictly adhered to.

Consequences will take into account the age, maturity and individual needs (e.g. intellectual, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioural disability), severity and frequency of actions. Consequences will be progressive and will focus on being restorative rather than punitive in nature. Depending upon these and other factors, one or more of the following actions may be taken:

For minor misbehaviours: a problem-solving discussion with an adult, an apology, practice of

expected behaviour, reflection and problem solving.

For more serious or repeated misbehaviours: parent contact, reconciliation with the other party, removal from activities until safety is ensured, loss of privileges, re-teaching of expectations and skills, or behaviour support with school staff.

For serious offences: formal documentation of the incident, parent conference, restitution,

behavioural plan, or referral to school counsellor; if needed, school suspension in accordance with Section 26 & 85 of the BC School Act and Surrey School Policy 9410.

The school district will respond to any behaviour that discriminates based on Indigenous identity, race, religion, colour, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, family status, age, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or physical or mental disability/ability.

Restorative Practices

We encourage students to reflect upon, take responsibility for their behaviour, and to restore and repair incidents which cause hurt and harm. A progressive consequence approach will be used to intervene and support appropriate behaviour. This may include, but is not limited to: verbal reminders, review of expectations, co-constructed behaviour commitments & agreements; conferencing with parents/guardians; loss of privilege(s); conflict mediation and resolution, peer mentoring, differentiated instruction, social and emotional learning interventions to promote positive prosocial student behaviour; and/or referral for support to a community agency or supportive services.

Suspensions

In accordance with the School Act, Sec. 85 (2) (ii) and (d), the Board authorizes the principal or designate of any school in the district to suspend a student from attendance at school for up to five days.

Suspensions over five days are made in consultation with the appropriate Director of Instruction as per District Student Code of Conduct, AP 350. As per AP 350 7.7 an educational program must be provided to the student.

If an Assessment of Risk to Others (ARTO) is initiated, prior to which, Fair Notice will be issued to the individual student, their parents/ guardians and the outcome of the assessment could result in suspension from school.

Further information regarding how suspensions are determined can be found in the above Progressive Consequences section.

Notifications

The principal or designate has a responsibility to inform other parties of serious breaches of the code of conduct. These parties include:

Parent(s)/Guardian(s) of student offender(s) exhibiting serious behavior difficulties and parent(s)/guardian(s) of student victim(s) who is the target of another student’s serious behaviour difficulties – in every instance;
Assistant Superintendent, Safe Schools Department and/or other District Staff as appropriate;
Ministerial agencies and/or School Liaison Officer (local police agency) as necessary;
School community, when deemed necessary, to reassure members that school officials are taking appropriate action.

REPORTING INCIDENTS OF BULLYING, HARASSMENT, AND/OR DISCRIMINATION (INCLUDING RACISM)

All students are encouraged to report all incidences of bullying, harassment, and/or discrimination directly to their teacher, counsellor, vice-principal and/or principal. Students can also report any incidences using the Protecting Surrey Schools Together (PSST) website, (http://www.psst-bc.ca) which can be done anonymously. Interrupting and preventing all forms of bullying, harassment, discrimination and violence is a priority of all staff members of our school community and school district.

Students are encouraged to report concerns of relating to physical, emotional and/or cultural safety as it relates to themselves or others.