School Expectations & Rules
Expectations From
Pupils
1. Our School Community expects that you will:
- Wear the school uniform correctly and with pride
- Take advantage of every opportunity to learn.
- Not take part in unacceptable behaviour such as swearing, abusive
language, spitting, fighting, littering, damaging school property.
- Show respect for your physical well-being by refraining from
smoking, taking alcohol and drugs.
- Show pride in your school and present a good image, especially by
behaving yourself when in public, and particularly on your way to and from school.
- Speak positively of your school and your teachers.
- Co-operate with all staff members.
- Show school spirit by participating in school activities.
- Read or listen to messages and do as instructed.
- Move quickly and quietly from class to class, avoiding unnecessary
disturbances.
- Be on time for all classes.
- Bring correct text books for all periods.
- Stay in your place during class.
- Be present in class for all lessons.
- Not leave the school without the written permission of parents and
Principal.
- Make full use of the library. Maintain silence in the library at all
times.
- Keep off verandahs, stairwells and out of classrooms before school
and during recess.
- Be familiar with campus and traffic rules and follow them.
- Make the necessary arrangements to stay back after school hours to
participate in academics, sports and co-curricular activities whenever required.
- Respect school property and report immediately any damage to school
property.
- Not introduce objectionable books, magazines or periodicals to the
school. Transistors, video games, mobile phones, pagers, cameras and other electronic
gadgets are prohibited.
- Not meet any visitor in school, without the written permission of
Parents and Principal.
- Not drive motorized vehicles inside the school compound at any time,
nor drive cars, motorcycles, scooters and mopeds while coming to or returning from
school.
- Keep your cycle locked in the cycle parking area only.
- Not use unfair means during tests and exams. Such improper conduct
is unworthy of a student and can lead to severe penalties.
2. Your Teachers expect that you will :
- Show them respect and courtesy at all times.
- Accept their authority, and their right to give instructions, and to
allocate suitable correction to those who break rules.
- Come to class on time and bring all necessary materials with
you.
- Complete the set work carefully and on time.
- Listen attentively when teachers or other students are speaking.
Indicate your desire to contribute by raising your hand.
- Avoid any distracting behavior during lessons.
- Stay in your place and do not pack up at the end of the lesson,
unless directed to do so by your teacher.
- Cooperate with the class monitor in maintaining proper order and
discipline during a change of periods and when the teacher happens to be absent or
late.
- Put up your hand to ask or answer questions, do not call out in
class.
3. The members of the school community, especially your
fellow students expect that you will:
- Not interfere with their person by bullying or violence.
- Not detract from their good name by insults or spreading
rumours.
- Not interfere with their chances to learn by disrupting the
classroom environment.
- Not take and spoil materials belonging to others. Speak to them with
courtesy and respect.
- Be responsible for your actions and accept the consequences of them.
Expectation From Parents / Guardians
1. The School Management expects that
you will:
- Be familiar with the School's expectations of pupils and will back
up those expectations with your children, particularly at the time of enrolment.
- Be available, if it is necessary, to discuss aspects of your child's
behavior at school.
- Sign messages, progress reports or other similar documents when
requested to do so, so as not to put your child to any inconvenience.
- Check the school diary daily, as it forms a link between the school
authorities and the parents.
- Offer support to school activities and be present to support and
motivate your child on Sports Day / Annual Day.
- Support the work of the school, particularly by enforcing regularity
and discipline and by extending the fullest co-operation to participation in school
activities.
- Inculcate respect for person, property and the environment, in your
children.
- Ensure that your child is not absent on the first and last day of
the School Term without prior permission and that any leave taken is duly sanctioned.
2. The teaching staff expect that you
will:
- If you wish to discuss matter of concern to you or your child, feel
free to contact an individual teacher during his / her free periods, by taking prior
permission from the Principal.
Not visit any teacher in the classroom, as this may disturb the class.
- Be open to listening and considering the teacher's opinions
regarding your child, even when the comments may be less than complimentary.
- Be supportive of their actions in dealing with your child. Avoid
undermining them in the eyes of your children by making generalized scathing comments
about individual teachers, or of
the teaching profession in general.
- Find ways of letting teachers of the school know when you are
particularly pleased with your child's progress or activities.
- Advise about your child's absence, if known before-hand.