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Sheridan School has adopted a school wide
discipline plan that we have named "Make the
Connection." We have based this plan
around studies and research incorporation a
non-coercive philosophy for responsibility
training with the teaching of life skills
necessary to live together in this world.
The Sheridan staff with input from Sheridan Site
Council spent much of the 1993-94 school years
developing the plan which is divided into the 3
basic parts described below:
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School Mission, Rules,
and Guidelines |
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Mission Statement
The Sheridan School Community shares
responsibility for a successful academic and
social transition to the next level for all
children.
WE
ACHIEVE WHAT WE BELIEVE IN!
Rules
1. Respect all others, yourself, and
property.
2. Be in control of yourself and your personal
property.
3. Accept responsibility for you actions and
words.
Guidelines
The Lifelong Guidelines and Life Skills which
follow are implied in the rules and will be
taught and practiced throughout the year.
Lifelong Guideline
1. Put downs are prohibited
2. Show respect and trust toward one another
3. Always do your personal best
4. Discuss and listen actively
5. Expect and give truth and honesty
Life Skills
1. patience: To wait calmly for someone or
something
2. Organization: To work in an orderly way
3. cooperation: To work together
4. Caring: To show/feel concern
5. Effort: To do your best
6. Sense of Humor: To be playful without harming
7. Flexibility: To be playful without harming
8. Curiosity: To investigate and seek
understanding
9. Integrity: To act according to what is right
and wrong
10. Common Sense: To think it through
11. Problem Solving: To seek solutions
12. Perseverance: to keep at it
13. Friendship: To have mutual trust and caring
14. Initiative: To take action when needed
15. Responsibility: To do what is right
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Lunchroom Rules |
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1. Respect those around you. Keep hands,
feet, and other objects to yourself.
2. Use your 12 inch voice at the table
3. When lunchroom monitors place a cup on the
table, the student need to be quiet and finish
eating in order to return trays and go to
recess.
4. Please Walk at all times.
5. Students are expected to observe table
manners as posted in the lunchroom.
6. Students in need of assistance should raise
their hands and they will be helped by the
supervisor or aide on duty.
7. Students are not to leave the lunchroom for
any reason without permission.
8. Students are expected to see that their area
is clean and free of litter before they leave
their table.
9. Students are not to take any food from the
lunchroom unless it is in their lunch sacks or
lunch boxes.
10. After food is served on a tray, children are
not allowed to trade or give any food on the
tray to another person. This is a state
regulation.
11. Carbonated soft drinks and glass containers
are not allowed.
12. We cannot microwave lunches.
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Playground Rules |
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1. Permission is needed before going into the
building. Students need to ask playground
monitors for restroom passes.
2. Stay off the "hill" and away from private
property.
3. If a ball goes off the playground do not go
after it unless you ask permission. Then
go around the fence not over the fence.
4. Keep hands, feet and other objects to
yourself.
5. During times when there is snow on the
playground, the snow stays on the ground.
Snowball throwing or sliding on icy or slick
areas is not acceptable behavior as it may
result in injury.
6. Stay away from the retaining wall.
Students are not to sit on or jump from or over
this wall.
7. Students are not to bounce the balls against
the walls of the building.
8. Students are expected to stay away from
classroom windows.
9. Coats/jackets worn outside will remain on the
students.
10. For kick ball on big cement slab- use only
soft balls- no basketballs.
11. Do not hand on rims/nets.
12. Do not sit on rails above scrapers.
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Swings |
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The following actions are not allowed:
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standing, jumping, or twisting our of swings
- playing or walking near the swings
- climbing on the poles
- lying down on the swings
- more than one person on a swing
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Overhead Bars |
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Students are to take
turns going across one way. When playing
on the overhead bars students are not allowed
to:
- sit on top of the bars
- push or pull other students
- hang upside down from knees
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"Big
Toy" |
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- Students are to walk on the equipment - no
running on or under the equipment (includes
tag/chase)
- slide in sitting position facing forward, one
at a time
- students should climb on the rope or pole one
at a time.
- sand/rocks stay on the ground.
- students are not to climb on top of the
equipment or jump from the platform.
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Fitness
Center |
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The fitness center is to be used appropriately
by student at all times. Proper use
instructions will be give periodically
throughout the year by our PE teacher.
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Consequences |
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- 1st offense- on the bench for 5 minutes
- 2nd offense- lose the rest of recess time
- Severe rules broken- go to the principal
- If equipment is misused- equipment is taken
away for a period of time to be determined by
person on duty
- Noon recess problems immediately referred to
the principal
Include: fighting, disrespect to supervisor (talking
back, ect.), use of bad language
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Hallway
Behavior |
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- Walk at all times in the hallways
- keep hands, feet and other objects to yourself
- always keep to the right in the hallways,
walking up the stairs and down the ramps
- use twelve inch voices
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Bathroom Behavior |
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- use restrooms appropriately
- students are expected to wash hands and flush
the toilets
- since both students and guest to our building
use facilities, students are asked to keep them
neat and clean
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Appropriate Dress |
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Students are expected to
exercise good judgment in what they wear.
- hats, caps, hoods, bandanas, or headgear of
any description may not be worn inside the
building except for health or safety, as a part
of religious beliefs, or in connection with
school sponsored programs.
- sunglasses are not allowed to be worn in the
building unless by a doctor's order.
- outerwear must cover underwear at all times.
"Sagging" will not be allowed, nor will the
wearing of strapless (tube tops), midriff tops
or spaghetti strap tops.
- Clothing with advertising for tobacco or
alcoholic beverages is not allowed in school,
nor are t-shirts with swer words or
inappropriate "suggestions" (students wearing
these items may be asked to go to the restroom
and turn the shirt/clothing inside out)
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Growth and Recognition |
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Throughout the year
activities of various kinds will be held both
school-wide and in individual classrooms.
These will be things designed to celebrate
successes and encourage use of the life skills
and guide-lines.
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Behavioral Consequences |
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Students choosing not to
follow school expectations will be involved in
the following procedures:
- First time - There will be a verbal warning by
teacher. The warning will consist of
words that contain your warning.
- Second time - is a Time Out in the classroom
at child's own seat - desk cleared - verbal plan
with teacher at teacher's earliest opportunity.
Students may be sent to the Opportunity Room for
10-15 minutes to allow time for them to get
under control and not write a plan.
- Third time - Student will go to our
Opportunity Room to write a plan for how he/she
will correct eh behavior. He/she will then
settle down to work for a short period of time
to be sure he/she is ready to return to class.
In the event a student writes a plan in the
Opportunity Room, a copy of the plan will go
home to be seen and signed by parents.
Signed plans should be brought back the next
day. Consequences for failing to bring
back a plan will result in a call to parents and
loss of recess until the plan is returned.
- Fourth time - If a student returns from the
Opportunity Room and disrupts again, he/she will
be sent to the principal and may not return to
class that day. IF this happens, a call
will be made and he students will be expected to
stay after school to make up work they miss
while out of the room.
* Note- The only times these steps would not be
followed are in the cases of open/blatant
defiance causing severe disruption of a
classrooms or in the cases of angry or harmful
physical contact.
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Alternative School |
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Students may be assigned
to the 3:15-6:15 program at the Alternative
School at the discretion of the principal.
Possible reasons might
include:
- Continued Opportunity Room referrals
- Blatant defiance
- Continued pattern of failure to turn in
assignments
- As a substitute for school when suspended from
school
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