Safety
A safe and welcoming school environment is essential for students to grow and develop in mind, body and spirit. Establishing and maintaining this positive and safe atmosphere is achieved by staff, students, parents/guardians and the community working together.
Security and Signing In
All doors to the school are locked during the day, including the Front Doors. All visitors (parents, relatives, resource personnel, etc.) will be required to activate the intercom outside the school located on the right hand side of the entry doors. A camera has been installed and our wonderful office staff can buzz you in. Everyone is required to report to the office immediately upon their arrival.
If a student is being picked up at a specific time throughout the day a written note in the agenda book is required by the parent to inform the teacher. Please do not contact the school after 2:30 p.m. in hopes of getting a message to a child. We are trying to limit the number of interruptions to the class.
Parents may wait for their child outside between the hours of 3:00 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. If you are simply picking up your child, the office will call the student down to the office and will send your child to you. If you are simply dropping something off, please wait until 3:25 p.m., when the secretary is allowed to let you in. This limits and tracks who has access to our students, minimizing interruptions and increasing the safety of all students.
Visitors must sign in and wear a visitor identification tag. When leaving, visitors must sign out at the office and return the tag.
Thank you in advance for helping us to keep our students safe.
Other Ways That We Keep Our Students Safe
We teach our students about Catholic Virtues and conflict resolution strategies.
All members of our community support our Code of Conduct .
All parents and visitors state their business at the office upon arrival.
Students are supervised at all times.
Alcohol, smoking, and illicit drugs are strictly prohibited on school property.
Medications are distributed and logged according to Board Policy.
When students are not going home in the usual manner, a morning note or phone call is required.
A safe arrival procedure is in place to alert staff to unexplained student absence.
The school community works cooperatively with bus operators to ensure safe bus transportation.
Skateboards, scooters, roller blades, and bicycles must be walked on and off of school property.
Emergency Response Plans are in place for at-risk students.
A School Emergency Preparedness Plan for Crisis Response including evacuation is up-to-date.
Fire drills are conducted each term.
The school site is inspected regularly.
WHMIS protocols are followed.
The Kids Help Line number (1-800-668-6868) is included in the student agenda.
We seek assistance from Board Social Work personnel.
We seek assistance from Board-approved community agencies.
Students must sign an Internet Acceptable Use Agreement form for each division of their education at PVNC Catholic District School Board.
Student Acceptable use of Technology
Click HERE for more information on Student Acceptable use of Technology Information.
Leaving School Property
Students who will be going home for lunch daily, are required to supply a note to the school at the beginning of the school year.
Other occasions of leaving school property require the following:
Kindergarten to Grade 6
All students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 are to remain on school property until dismissed at the end of the day - exceptions are those who go home for lunch and those picked up by parents at the office for personal appointments.
Students must have notes to leave the school for any reason.
Grade 7 and 8 Students
A form signed by a parent/guardian is required when a Grade 7 and 8 student is going to leave school property at lunch.
At the beginning of each year a Parent Permission Lunch form goes home with each grade 7 & 8 student. It is required that a parent or guardian signs this form and returns it to their homeroom teacher prior to leaving for lunch. The Teacher will then send the note to the office where it will be filed.
When parents give permission for their child to leave school property, the parent is assuming responsibility for their child's actions.
The school will assume responsibility for the child once they have returned to school.
Once the child is back on school property, they will not leave again.
For those parents who do not give their child permission to leave school property at lunch, we expect that children do not bring items or food back to school for them. Should students not adhere to this request, their parents will be notified, and they will lose the privilege to leave school property at lunch for 1 week.
Please review safety issues and your parental expectations with your child.
Bikes, Scooters, Skateboards, and Roller Blades on School Property
The safety of pedestrians, students, and staff, and those on bicycles, scooters, skateboards, and roller blades is a huge concern for staff, parents, and bus operators. While we promote our students to be both eco-friendly and physically fit by walking, riding skateboards, scooters, bicycles or roller bladding, we must ensure Safety is our number one concern. All skateboards, scooters, roller blades, and bicycles must be walked on and off of school property.If students choose to ride their bikes, scooters, skateboards, and roller blades on school property, they are compromising the safety of other students, parents, and staff. Parents will be notified in writing.
Should a second infraction occur, students will have their bike/skateboard/scooter/roller blades confiscated until the end of the next school day. A third infraction of this rule will result in your child not being allowed to ride to school for a determined number of days.
Please support the school in trying to provide a safer environment for all.