Social Learning - Parent/School Agreement
Agreement Between Parents and Jarvis Traditional School
It is a requirement of the Jarvis program that parents have someone available to pickup their child from school at short notice (no more than 1 hour).
It is very important that our positive behaviour plans are supported at home. By Grades 4 - 6, students are beginning to develop the ability to regulate their emotions and behaviour by using the strategies we directly teach, rehearse and reinforce. These strategies include taking a break, taking deep breaths or going for a walk or run (or other personalized supports including calling parents.) We provide encouragement, prompting and direct support.
Some days, despite everyone’s best efforts, students are not able to use any strategies to control their behaviour. We sometimes find out afterwards that they are not feeling well, have had a very late night, an issue at home, or forgot their medication. These are called Setting Events. On these days your child is not capable of learning at school anymore than if they were physically ill. This loss of control is very stressful for the child experiencing the behaviour and for those around them.
If your child repeatedly escalates to the point of losing control (more than 2 times in a 3 hour period), cannot calm down after 40 - 45 minutes, or is repeatedly physically or verbally aggressive (including swearing), you will be asked to come to school immediately and pick them up.
We will not use restraint or seclusion as a calm down technique or strategy.
These are extreme measures which should only be used to stop a child from injuring themselves or others and can lead to physical or emotional injury of the child or supporting adults. After being sent home your child may return to school the next day and we will problem solve with them. It is helpful for you to determine if there were any events that could be changed at home to help prevent further incidents.
We have found that our students like coming to school and do not want to be sent home. Your help in not encouraging the behaviour which required the student to be sent home is important. No videos, games, computers, TV, outings or treats should be available at home on these days. We will send home a package of work that they should complete when they are physically and/or emotionally feeling better and before they return to school. We ask that you are consistent in setting and following through on homework expectations.
If your child is repeatedly unable to cope at school, the school's discipline policy will be followed while we try to determine the cause and make changes or access supports.
Please provide us with a contact number for school hours and have a designated person(s) available to pickup your student as soon as possible.
It is a requirement of the Jarvis program that parents have someone available to pickup their child from school at short notice (no more than 1 hour).
It is very important that our positive behaviour plans are supported at home. By Grades 4 - 6, students are beginning to develop the ability to regulate their emotions and behaviour by using the strategies we directly teach, rehearse and reinforce. These strategies include taking a break, taking deep breaths or going for a walk or run (or other personalized supports including calling parents.) We provide encouragement, prompting and direct support.
Some days, despite everyone’s best efforts, students are not able to use any strategies to control their behaviour. We sometimes find out afterwards that they are not feeling well, have had a very late night, an issue at home, or forgot their medication. These are called Setting Events. On these days your child is not capable of learning at school anymore than if they were physically ill. This loss of control is very stressful for the child experiencing the behaviour and for those around them.
If your child repeatedly escalates to the point of losing control (more than 2 times in a 3 hour period), cannot calm down after 40 - 45 minutes, or is repeatedly physically or verbally aggressive (including swearing), you will be asked to come to school immediately and pick them up.
We will not use restraint or seclusion as a calm down technique or strategy.
These are extreme measures which should only be used to stop a child from injuring themselves or others and can lead to physical or emotional injury of the child or supporting adults. After being sent home your child may return to school the next day and we will problem solve with them. It is helpful for you to determine if there were any events that could be changed at home to help prevent further incidents.
We have found that our students like coming to school and do not want to be sent home. Your help in not encouraging the behaviour which required the student to be sent home is important. No videos, games, computers, TV, outings or treats should be available at home on these days. We will send home a package of work that they should complete when they are physically and/or emotionally feeling better and before they return to school. We ask that you are consistent in setting and following through on homework expectations.
If your child is repeatedly unable to cope at school, the school's discipline policy will be followed while we try to determine the cause and make changes or access supports.
Please provide us with a contact number for school hours and have a designated person(s) available to pickup your student as soon as possible.