EPS is
a Great
Place to Shine
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• Evergreen Park School is a Professional
Learning Community. The main
responsibility of all staff members is to
ensure that all children are learning in a
safe and orderly environment.
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Evergreen Park School
• Mission
Building a strong foundation for the future
• Vision
Fostering an inclusive environment focusing on respect, fairness and
integrity
• Values
Be a good citizen, be kind, be responsible and always do your best
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Effective Discipline
“Enforced rules can make the difference between law and
order for all and the reign of terror that exists in many
schools. If rules vary from one teacher or one setting to
another, the students can, with some justification,
challenge them. Variations provide an alibi for rule
infringements. Consistent enforcement of the code of
conduct requires active vigilant supervision and is one of
the most effective and economical prevention strategies.”
Schools where Everyone Belongs
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Focus on Prevention
• Discipline isn’t what you do when students
misbehave; it is what you do so they won’t.
• Rules and limits are established so
students will understand that some
behaviours are strictly out-of-bounds.
• Revisions and improvements must
constantly be made in response to changes
in student behaviours and needs.
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EPS is a Great Place
to Shine
for Elementary (K-4)
Sharing and caring
Hands are for helping
Do the right thing
If it hurts; It’s wrong
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For Middle School (5-8)
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Fairness
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Responsibility
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Citizenship
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Trustworthiness
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If it hurts; It’s wrong
Caring
Respect
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Classroom Expectations
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Post and reinforce class expectations.
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Students are to clean up after themselves
(food, paper, etc., after recess).
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Gum, sweets, trading cards and toys are asked
to be kept at home.
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Skateboards, heelies and rollerblades should
only be used outside school hours.
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Classroom Expectations
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Arrive on time. If a student is late they should be
respectful of the class that is already in session. They
should knock on the door and wait to be invited to enter.
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Lateness—Middle school—(teams/teacher) to decide on a
consequence for students who arrive late to class (ex.
going to locker, too much time in locker room).
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Be prepared for class and have necessary supplies/books.
Middle school students should get all materials from their
lockers for Per. 1 & 2 at morning entry, materials for Per.
3 & 4 before they have their recess break and materials
for the afternoon at the end of the lunch break.
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Hallways
• Walking at all times.
• When coming up and down the stairwell students
need to stay to the right and remain in single file.
• Transition times need to be quiet.
• Middle school teachers (6, 7 and 8) need to
monitor the hall during transition times to ensure
that the noise level is at a minimum.
• Grades K-6 teachers need to walk with their
students to and from their exploratory classes.
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Hallways (con’t)
• Grades K-6 teachers need to walk
with their students to and from their
exploratory classes.
• If you have a prep and you are in
grades 7-8 (including exploratory
teachers) please walk your students
and go pick up your next class a few
minutes prior to the end of your prep
(same expectation as teachers in
grades K-6).
Outside: Grades K-6
(Playground – Morning Entrance)
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Students will line up according to whether their class is upstairs
(line up on the left) or downstairs (line up on the right). The doors
will open at 8:00 am. One of the duty teachers selects two
students to open the doors. These students should be chosen prior
to the bell ringing and asked to go and wait inside the building;
they will be able to open the doors as soon as the bell rings.
Students will stand behind the cement divider. Duty teachers, and
EAs will be positioned at the doorway divider. There will be
teachers and EAs in the middle of the 2 lines (halfway down and
also at the end of the line) to encourage the students to maintain
separate lines as they enter.
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The last teacher on duty entering the building will ensure that the
doors are closed and locked.
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Outside: Grades 7-8
(Playground - Morning Entrance)
• Students are to wait outside until the bell rings.
• Students enter through the parking lot doors in an orderly
manner and go to their lockers to prepare for Per. 1 and 2.
• The last teacher on duty entering the building will ensure
that the doors are closed and locked.
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Morning Entrance
(Inclement / Cold Weather)
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K-1 students will go to the computer room.
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Grade 2 will go to the library.
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Grade 3 and 4 students: gather at the back of the cafeteria.
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Grade 5 and 6 students: sit at tables in the cafeteria.
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There should be 4 students to a round table
Students are not allowed to sit on the window sills
Students in the cafeteria will be dismissed 3-4 minutes before the bell
Dismissal will start with the grade 3-4 students
Grade 5 and 6 students will be dismissed one table at a time. Upon
dismissal of each table, students are expected to place their chairs up on
the tables if the cafeteria floor gets wet due to rain or snow on students’
boots.
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Morning Entrance
(Inclement / Cold Weather)
• Grade 7 and 8 students are to go directly to room 137
(Tech. 1) and wait for the duty teacher to dismiss them at
the bell.
• Students are not to use the computers at this time.
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Cafeteria Duty - Grades 7-8
Morning Recess 9:45am - 10:00am
• Students are not to eat their snacks in the hallway; they
must wait until they are in the cafeteria.
• Students should choose a seat and remain in that seat for
the duration of the break.
• Unlike lunch time, there may be more than 4 to a round
table.
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Electronic Devices
• Cell phones and any other kind of electronic
devices are to stay in the student’s locker.
Students should not carry electronic devices
between the hours of 8:00am and 2:35pm
(Department of Education Policy 311—District
Policy Statement 350).
• If the expectation is not followed these devices
will be taken and kept in the office. A parent
must come to school in order to retrieve the
electronic device.
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Cafeteria Duty – Grades 7-8
Morning Recess 9:45am - 10:00am
• At the bell students are to walk in an orderly
manner to their class. They are not to go to their
lockers.
• Students serving detention or receiving extra
help need to ensure that they have all required
materials prior to the 10:00am bell. Only
Alphastar students who help on the K-4
playground will be allowed to use their lockers.
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Cafeteria Duty – Grades 7-8
Morning Recess 9:45am - 10:00am
• A few students will be selected to help place
chairs accordingly.
• At the bell, students who have Tech. (1 or 2) or
Physical Education will line up at the back doors of
the cafeteria leading to the gymnasium. The
receiving teacher will pick them up and walk with
them to class. Students are to respect the
designated walking path through the gymnasium.
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Indoor Recess / Lunch
(Inclement / Cold Weather)
• Grades K-6 students will remain in their homerooms at
recess.
• Grades 7 and 8 students will go to the cafeteria as usual
• At lunch, ALL students are to remain in their homerooms
during the times when they would normally be outside.
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No wandering in the hallways!
• All grade 7 and 8 students will go to the cafeteria at the
12:00pm bell.
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Noon Hour Schedule
11:00am - 11:30am Gr. K, 1 and 2 (eat in)
11:30am - 12:00pm Gr. K, 1 and 2 (outside)
11:30am - 12:00pm Gr. 3, 4, 5 and 6 (eat in)
Gr. 7 and 8 (outside)
12:00pm - 12:30pm Gr. 3, 4, 5 and 6 (outside)
Gr. 7 and 8 (eat in)
Bell will ring at 12:00pm. K-2 students will enter
the building at 12:00pm when the bell rings.
Students in grades 3 and 4 can begin preparing
for outside at 11:50am but should line up in their
classrooms until the duty teacher dismisses them
at 12:00pm.
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K-2 Cafeteria
11:00am - 11:30am
• Students sit on their “bottoms” with legs under the table.
• Round tables sit 4 students.
• Students should choose a seat and remain in that seat for
the duration of the lunch period.
• Students should stay seated until the teacher instructs
them to clean up their trays/garbage and line up.
• If you order your meal at the cafeteria, you eat your meal
in the cafeteria (exception: unopened milk, a cookie or an
unopened bag of chips can be taken back to class).
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K-2 Cafeteria
11:00am - 11:30am
• Students will line up at approx. 11:20am - 11:25am as
instructed by the duty teacher and then dismissed to
prepare for outside.
• If at 11:25am all students have finished with their lunch and
the cafeteria is empty, the teacher on duty will help the
other duty teachers supervise and help students get ready
to go outside.
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Gr.3-6 Cafeteria
11:30am - 12:00pm
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Students sit on their “bottoms” with legs under the table.
Round tables sit 4 students.
Students should choose a seat and remain in that seat for the duration of
the lunch period.
Students should stay seated until the teacher instructs them to clean up
their trays/garbage and line up.
If you order your meal at the cafeteria, you eat your meal in the cafeteria
(exception: an unopened milk, a cookie or an unopened bag of chips can be
taken back to class).
Lunches from home are eaten in the classroom (Gr.3-5).
All grade 6 students eat their lunch in the cafeteria.
Starting at approx. 11:50am, students may be dismissed to go back to class
and get ready to go outside.
Grade 6 students are only dismissed at 12:00pm.
All grade 3-5 students will stay in their class until the 12:00pm bell.
If all students are gone from the cafeteria before 12:00pm, the teacher
on duty in the cafeteria will choose to either go to the 3-4 hallway or the
5-6 hallway and help the other teachers on duty prepare the students to go
outside.
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Gr.7-8 Cafeteria
12:00pm - 12:30pm
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Students are to sit in their chairs.
Round tables sit 4 students.
Students are not to sit on the window sills.
Students should choose a seat and remain in that
seat for the duration of the lunch period.
• Students should stay seated until the teacher
instructs them to clean up their trays/garbage.
• All 7-8 students eat in the cafeteria; students
should not be wandering in the 7-8 hallway.
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Food Concerns and Clarifications
• Any types of beverages are not to be brought back to
class. They will be finished in the cafeteria before students
are permitted to go back to their classrooms.
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Only unopened packaged items will be taken back to class
(i.e.: cookies, milk, baked chips). Subs and sandwiches
bought in the cafeteria will be eaten in the cafeteria.
• Students in grades 7and 8 are not to bring any food back
with them after the 10:00am bell. Food must be eaten
prior to leaving the cafeteria.
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Food Concerns and Clarifications
• Due to medical conditions of various students
there is no eating to and from class.
• Grade 7 and 8 students that have written
permission to go home to eat need to enter
through the main entrance door upon their return.
If they arrive before 12:25pm they are to sit and
wait in the cafeteria.
• In order to maintain a clean school environment
gum chewing is not allowed in school.
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Some Friendly Reminders
• Our school expectation is that students are
coming to class prepared and not visiting their
lockers during / in between classes.
• All teachers need to respect dismissal times
throughout the day in order to help facilitate
quiet and orderly transitions.
• Teachers need to be at their door when
receiving and dismissing their students.
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“ If you want to block certain
behaviours from entering your
classroom, you have to be at
the classroom door when the
students are arriving.”
It makes a difference!!!!!!
Ron Morrish
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Some Friendly Reminders
• Students must go to their homeroom at 2:30pm
and then be dismissed to go to their lockers
when the bell rings at 2:35pm.
• Bus students that have a locker in the 3-4 wing
may exit the building using the staircase leading
to the K-4 playground.
• All teachers need to continue to be visible in and
around the school (ex. hallways, intersections,
staircases, doors, parking lot doors, outside
parking lot, etc.)
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Some Friendly Reminders
• Students are encouraged to regularly use their
assigned entrance door in the morning unless
inclement or cold weather.
• When walking to and from exploratory classes
teachers need to stop at the intersection in the
hallways.
• Exploratory teachers need to ensure that the K-5
homeroom teacher is waiting at the door prior to
dismissing the class.
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Some Friendly Reminders
• In the winter, students still need to
take off their hats when entering
the building.
• When getting ready to leave the
building, students are allowed to wear
their winter hats on their way out.
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Some Friendly Reminders
• Baseball caps are not allowed to be
worn in the building at any time, with
the exception of hat days.
• Trading cards and toys are to be left
at home. If students want to play
math games, they can borrow a deck
of cards from their classroom
teacher.
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Some Friendly Reminders
• Educational assistants should not be
picking up students from their
exploratory classes. Homeroom
teachers are expected to walk their
children to and from these classes.
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After School Dismissal
K-2
• Bus students are walked to the bus by their
teacher.
• Daycare students are taken to the cafeteria to be
picked up.
• Walkers are dismissed at the front doors.
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After School Dismissal
(Gr.3-4 Hallway)
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Teachers in grades 3 and 4 will ask their students to collect their
personal belongings from the hallway and start getting dressed in
their classroom (approx. 2:30pm) prior to the dismissal bell at
2:35pm. Students need to be prepared to exit the building when
the bell rings in order to avoid congestion.
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When the bell rings, students in rooms 215 and 214 will leave the
building by the front entrance staircase. All other students in
that hallway will leave by the staircase exiting to go to the K-4
playground.
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Middle school students need to use the main entrance staircase
and then walk through the K-1 hallway to get the bus or to meet a
younger sibling.
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Middle school students (along with their teacher) that have
lockers in this hallway need to line up near the water fountain.
Their teacher will signal to them when it is safe to go to their
lockers.
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After School Dismissal
(Gr.3-4 Hallway)
• Teachers are to be visible and help
monitor the safe and orderly movement of
students within the building and on the
grounds from 2:35pm to 2:45pm.
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After School Dismissal
(Gr.5-6 Hallway)
• Students are to be dismissed at 2:35 pm.
• Students are to exit through the 5 -6 playground
door or through the main entrance door.
• Teachers are to be visible and help with the
orderly movement of the students from the
building and on the grounds from 2:35pm to
2:45pm.
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After School Dismissal
(Gr.7-8 Hallway)
• Students are to go to their homeroom class at
2:30pm.
• Students are to be dismissed at 2:35pm when the
bell rings.
• All teachers and administration will be visible and
help monitor the safe and orderly movement of
the students in the building and on the grounds
from 2:35pm to 2:45pm.
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Teachers and administration
will be visible in and around
the school (ex. hallways,
intersections, staircases,
doors, parking lot doors,
outside parking lot, etc…).
All teachers will have an
assigned place to monitor.
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Behaviours that will be
Modeled by Teachers
• All beverages need to be in a spill proof
thermos.
• No gum chewing in front of the students.
• No use of cell phone during class time.
• During transitions, please use a low voice
when communicating with colleagues and
students in hallways, and stay on the right
hand side of the hallway.
• Be at your door during transitions.
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Behaviours that will be
Modeled by Teachers
• Respect our district’s dress code.
• Model what we expect of children (ie: don’t sit on
tables and desks, don’t stand on chairs, etc…).
• Notify your neighbour in case you need to leave your
classroom.
• Be on time (20 minutes before instruction).
• Leave no earlier than 20 minutes after the 2:45 bus
leaves. If there’s an emergency and you need to leave
earlier, please advise an administrator.
• Be on time for you duties.
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Gym Expectations
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Grades K-4
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Grades 5-8
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Arrival:
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Arrival:
If you have a prep period, you are to walk
the students you have to the gym. If
possible, pick up students at the end of their
gym class.
Students are to arrive on time.
Students are to change into appropriate gym
attire (t-shirt, shorts or sweat pants and
indoor sneakers properly laced/attached).
No sock feet.
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Homeroom teachers are to bring
their students to the gym prepared
(appropriate gym attire and
footwear).
Equipment:
Pick two reliable students to go into
the equipment room to pick up light
equipment.
When picking up equipment for
outdoors (make sure the equipment
is for outdoors, see Mrs. Browne
for verification) the teacher is
responsible for picking up and
returning all equipment
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Equipment:
Staff, please get equipment before class in
the morning, recess time or during lunch
time.
Please do not send a student with a note to
get equipment during class time as this
interrupts the teaching that is going on.
When returning equipment please return to
the proper spot.
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Gym Expectations
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Grades K-4
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Dismissal:
Homeroom teachers are to
pick up their students at the
designated area either the
office door or cafeteria door.
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Grades 5-8
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Dismissal:
Students must change into
their regular clothes after
gym class.
After changing they are to
wait in line by the tech. room.
At 2:30pm the phys-ed
teacher will help the
homeroom teacher supervise
any remaining students in the
locker room and clean up any
leftover equipment not
already in place.
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Our visibility will improve
the behaviours of the
students. This will take
some time. CONSISTENCY,
however, will ensure and
bring about success.
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Climate Change
Research suggests that it takes
approximately three years to
change the culture of a school,
so be prepared to maintain your
efforts.
Eventually, most students will
stop pushing the limits and
realize that certain behaviours
are simply not acceptable at
school.
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Keys to Success
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Visibility
Consistency
Teaching and Modeling Behaviour
Continue with what works!
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Thank you for all your work
and for all your efforts!!!
Your continued support and vigilance
will ensure that all students of EPS
feel safe in their learning
environment.
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Thank You!
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