Admin

SUBJECT:                            Student Resources

EFFECTIVE:             March 4, 2002

REVISED:                 August 23, 2005; August 19, 2013

PURPOSE:                           To ensure that students have access to the necessary curriculum resources at no cost.

REGULATION:

1. Required curriculum materials must be provided to students free of charge.

2. Students must not be engaged in any form of fundraising to support the purchase of regular curriculum materials.

3. This regulation does not preclude the use of instructional support materials which augment, supplement, or enrich the curriculum, and which are acquired at no cost  to the pupils or their parents.

SUBJECT:                Advertising and Distribution of Advertising Material

EFFECTIVE:             March 4, 2002

REVISED:                 August 19, 2013

PURPOSE:                           To prevent the exploitation or use of pupils and schools for purely commercial purposes or gain.

REGULATION:

Principals must ensure that businesses, individuals, corporations, or similar organizations are not permitted to use or exploit pupils, the school, the school premises, or the school name to promote, advertise, or sell goods and services for profit or gain.  Principals must refer questionable cases to the Senior Education Officer for advice and/or action.

SUBJECT:                            Fundraising by Schools

EFFECTIVE:                         April 26, 2005

REVISED:                             August 23, 2005; August 19, 2013

PURPOSE:                           To monitor fundraising.

REGULATION:

1. Fundraising by pupils, teachers, or students is permitted only to support co- and extra-curricular activities and is restricted to that purpose.

2. Students from kindergarten to grade five inclusive are not permitted to be involved in any door-to-door solicitation sales on behalf of the school.

3. All schools are encouraged to seek alternatives to door-to-door solicitation and sales as a means to raise funds for co- and extra-curricular activities.

4. K-8 schools can only be involved in one major fundraiser per each school year.  High schools may consider a second major fundraiser, if necessary.  In September, each principal must submit a plan of fundraising activities for the year to the Senior Education Officer for approval.  The plan must include details of use of instructional time.

5. Fundraising in support of charities is at the discretion of the principal, subject to approval by the Senior Education Officer.

SUBJECT:                School Zones – Placement of Students in Neighbourhood Schools

EFFECTIVE:             March 4, 2002

REVISED:                 August 23, 2005; August 1, 2008; August 19, 2013

PURPOSE:                           To establish and regulate the placement of students in neighbourhood schools.

REGULATION:

1. The fundamental guiding principle regulating the placement of students in schools is that students will normally be placed in the school(s) designated to serve the neighbourhood in which they live.

2. School boundaries will be defined and described by the Superintendent and will be subject to periodic revision as circumstances dictate.

3. In the event of a school closure, school(s) will be designated by the Superintendent to serve students living in neighbourhoods affected by such school closure(s).

4. Exceptions to this school-placement principle and regulation will be considered only if room permits.  A decision to place a student in a school other than his designated neighbourhood school must be approved by the Superintendent or his designate, and the reason(s) for such a placement and conditions of placement must be recorded in writing and kept on file.

5. The transfer of students for disciplinary reasons must not occur without prior consultation between both principals concerned and a district office representative.  Such transfers must be the exception rather than the rule.

6. A student, who is attending a school other than his designated neighbourhood school, will be required to meet the bus or contractor at the designated loading point.  Existing conveyance runs will not be altered to meet the transportation requests of these students.

7. All requests for exceptions must be made in writing to the Superintendent.

SUBJECT:                Emergency Response (Crisis Intervention)

EFFECTIVE:             March 4, 2002

REVISED:                 August 19, 2013

PURPOSE:                           To provide for the development, maintenance, and training of school and district emergency response (crisis intervention) teams.

REGULATION:

The district, and each school within the district, will provide for the development and training of district and school crisis intervention teams.

Specifically,

1.         The district will have a crisis intervention team.

2.         Each school will have a crisis intervention team.

3.         The district and each school must develop protocols, communication strategies, training programs, workshops, and procedures to follow in the event of a crisis.

4.         Protocols should be developed in respect to a death in school, a death outside school, a death of a relative of staff or student, an attempted suicide or parasuicide, and accident in school, a bus accident, natural or man-made disasters, threats to security, and any other crisis, in general.

5.         Community and external resources to be invoked in a crisis should be identified, catalogued, and involved in planning for emergency response.