BHS PASTORAL
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR HANDBOOK
2024-2025
All parents and guardians have the right to:
✓ Be treated with courtesy, respect, and dignity.
✓ Experience a sense of belonging, respect, and connection with the school community and staff.
✓ Receive an email with a copy of the Handbook on Effective Student Behaviour.
✓ Collaborate with educators to provide a supportive environment for their child's learning and well-being both at home and at school.
✓ Have meaningful, frequent conversations with school personnel on their child's behavioural and academic development.
✓ Take part in resolving behaviour-related issues with school personnel.
✓ Speak out for their child and inform someone in charge of any unfair treatment.
✓ File a request for reconsideration for a suspension from school.
* All decisions regarding suspension or expulsion from the school are made by the principal's office.
All parents and guardians have the responsibility to:
✓ Show respect and courtesy to all students, staff, and school visitors.
✓ Thoroughly review and discuss the contents of this Handbook with their child so behaviour expectations are understood.
✓ Work with the school as a collaborative partner. This includes working with staff to maximize their child’s strengths and support their child to make
changes in his/her behaviour as needed.
✓ Inform school officials about any relevant information pertaining to their child’s education and concerns in a timely and respectful manner.
✓ Support their child to resolve problems peacefully while at school in order to contribute to a safe and positive school climate.
✓ Ensure their child is in daily attendance and prepared. Promptly report any absence or tardiness to the school.
✓ Maintain communication through email with their child’s teacher concerning their child’s progress and behaviour.
✓ Provide resources (time, place, supervision, and encouragement) and ensure the child completes homework assignments and is properly prepared
for daily school expectations.
✓ Discuss assignments, report cards, and other school communications with their child.
All teachers have the right to:
✓ Be treated with courtesy, respect, and dignity.
✓ Work in a safe environment that maximizes staff performance and student learning.
✓ Access opportunities for professional development and training to assist in creating and maintaining a thriving classroom environment that is
respectful, engaging, vibrant, and culturally relevant.
✓ Access support for addressing student behaviour when such conduct cannot be handled within the class.
All teachers have the responsibility to:
✓ Provide a learning environment that is equitable, inclusive, and focused on the whole child.
✓ Demonstrate an understanding of children and their development.
✓ Show respect and courtesy to all students, staff, and school visitors.
✓ Encourage enduring, constructive interactions with all parents and students.
✓ Establish communication with families that is responsive and collaborative regarding student progress in demonstrating positive behaviours.
✓ Create a positive classroom and school climate for all students, using effective classroom management strategies.
✓ Consistently maintain a school environment that is safe, secure, and provides each student with the opportunity to learn.
✓ Explicitly teach, acknowledge and reinforce behaviour expectations consistently.
✓ Provide social and emotional skills instruction that meet the learner goals in the classroom and real life.
✓ Intervene promptly when inappropriate behaviour occurs. This includes providing corrective feedback, re-teaching behavioural expectations,
following student Individualized Education Programmes and Behaviour Intervention Plans where applicable, and adhering to procedures for student
removal from the learning environment when needed.
✓ Work with students and their parents/guardians to develop, implement, and monitor behaviour and academic progress, using a progressive system
of support.
✓ Strive to respond to parent communications within a reasonable period of time.
Student behaviour expectations:
✓ Treat others the way you wish to be treated
✓ Take care of private and public property
✓ Solve problems peacefully
✓ Respect the right of others to be different from you and think differently from you
✓ Take ownership of your actions
✓ Be on time and ready to learn
✓ Follow classroom and school rules
✓ Do and/or produce your own work
✓ Behave in ways that make school a positive place
✓ Report bullying, harassment, or unsafe incidents
✓ Refuse to spread rumours or gossip
✓ Find trusted adults who can mentor and support (adviser)
Infants Section Discipline Guidelines
Meet the pupil Warning Parents Parents’ Loss of Break Class reflection In school Out of school Expulsion NB
called email privilege reflection suspension suspension
5 morning lateness sign lateness Miss circle
per month record time
Campus vandalism Pay or replace
for the
damaged
property
First disruptive
conduct
Repeated disruptive
conducts
Fighting and physical
aggression
Bullying
Bad language
Taking someone’s
belongings
Dress code
Frequent interruption
in class
Running in hallways Student is sent
to the starting
point and asked
to try walking
this time
Boys short hair / Girls
tied hair
Not lining up
Off task in class Student will be
verbally
redirected.
Unfinished
classwork will
be sent home or
finished on
break
Social, emotional Student will be
relational dishonesty encouraged to
tell the truth
Poor manners Sent to the
office for
further
measures
Conflict Conflict
resolution
meeting
Lower Primary School Discipline Guidelines
Meet the pupil Warning parents parents’ Break Wednesday in school out of school expulsion nb
called email reflection afterschool suspension suspension
reflection
3 lateness
between classes
5 morning
lateness /month
Cheating
Campus minor
vandalism
Cyber bulling
1 Disruptive
conduct
3 Disruptive
conduct
Fighting Depends
Threat of
violence/physica Depends
l aggression
Bullying Depends
Meet the pupil Warning parents parents’ Break Wednesday in school out of school expulsion nb
called email reflection afterschool suspension suspension
reflection
Harassment Depends
/impropriate (counselor
touching intervention)
Bad language Depends
Theft
Leaving or If without the
skipping school principal’s
without approval
permission
Electronics/smar
t watch
Dress code
Give 1
Week
Short hair for
boys/tied hair
for girls
Give 1
Week
Upper Primary School Discipline Guidelines
Meet the Warning Parents Parents’ Loss of Break Wednesday Saturday In school Out of Expulsion NB
pupil called email privilege Reflection afterschool reflection suspension school
reflection suspension
3 lateness between
classes
5morning lateness
/month
Cheating
Campus minor
vandalism
Cyber bulling
depends
1 Disruptive conduct
3 Disruptive conduct
Fighting
depends
Threat of
violence/physical
agression
Meet the Warning Parents Parents’ Loss of Break Wednesday Saturday In school Out of Expulsion NB
pupil called email privilege Reflection afterschool reflection suspension school
reflection suspension
Bullying depends
Harassment
/impropriate touching
Bad language
Theft depends
Leaving or skipping If without
school without the
permission principal’s
approval
Mobile used Depends
If more
than 1
time
Dress code
Short hair for
boys/tied hair for girls
Upper School Behaviour Sheet
meet the parents parents’ loss of break Saturday in school out of school suspension expulsion N.B.
student called email privilege detention detention suspension
3 lateness between
classes
3 morning lateness
3 detentions in one term Principal
approval
Cheating Zero on the test
Campus vandalism Principal
approval
Computer/ Principal
internet abuse approval
Disruptive conduct
Repetitive Disruptive
conduct
Drugs Principal
approval
Fighting Principal
approval
Harassment / bullying Principal
approval
Depends
Minor inappropriate
touching
Major inappropriate
touching
Bad language
Repetitive Bad language
or disrespectful language
to staff/teacher
Theft Principal
approval
Threat of violence/ or to
school
Smoking Principal
approval
Leaving or skipping school Principal
without permission approval
Possession of any sharp
item at school
At BHS, the Head of Upper School Section Pastoral holds the ultimate authority in decision-making regarding breaches of school rules after the approval
of the school Principal. Additionally, students who receive three suspensions will face potential permanent expulsion from the school.
