School Climate

I-Care Rules:
1. We listen to each other.
2. Hands are for helping, not hurting.
3. We use I-Care language.
4. We care about each others feelings.
5. We are responsible for what we say and do.

The pledge is repeated each week by students and staff:
This week, I promise to listen to others with kindness and respect.
I will use I-CARE language.
I will have the personal courage to do what I know is right.
I will tell an adult if I see something damaging, dangerous or destructive.
I will use my hands to help others, not to hurt them.
I am responsible for what I say and do.

September: Respect
October: Service Learning
November: Caring
December: Friendship
January: Tolerance
February: Responsibility
March: Courage
April: Cooperation
May: Honesty
June: Citizenship

“A person is bullied when he/she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more persons.”

This program provides a structured approach to the prevention of bullying. It promotes increased understanding of the issues involved with “bullying” behaviors and provides a coordinated plan for addressing these issues. It also includes strategies for bystanders to use when they observe bullying behaviors. The goals of the program are:
• To reduce (and ideally eliminate) existing bully/victim problems
among children.
• To prevent the development of new problems
• To achieve better peer relations at school

There are four essential rules that we teach:

We will:
1. Not bully others
2. Help students who are bullied
3. Include all students who are left out
4. Tell an adult at school and home when someone is bullied
 

• Increasing children’s abilities to think and solve problems for themselves
• Increasing children’s abilities to use their thinking skills to act responsibly and maturely
• Improving children’s understanding of themselves and others
• Improving children’s feelings about themselves and others
• Increasing children’s abilities to learn more effectively in the classroom environment