Code of Conduct

Maple Bay Elementary Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct is based on expected behaviours and is designed to ensure that everyone is treated respectfully by creating a safe, caring and orderly learning environment. The code is taught, reviewed and reinforced continuously using common language. Students are expected to accept responsibility for their actions and behaviours.   

 Expectations for Student Conduct 

 All members of the school community have an obligation to: 

• Do our personal best in all endeavors.  
• Be safe at all times in all places.  
• Respect the teachers right to teach and of students to learn.  
• Be kind and caring to all.  
• Solve problems peacefully.  
• Support each other in learning and playing. 
• Take responsibility as diligent bystanders to actively stop situations of bullying and misconduct.  
• Respect the property of others, the environment, personal space and privacy. 
• Respect the school and shared community property. 

These expectations apply to behavior at school, during school-organized or sponsored activities, on the bus and behavior beyond these times (including online and mobile device behavior) that negatively impacts the safe, caring or orderly environment of the school, and/or student learning.   

All members of the school community must refrain from engaging in any in-person or digital communication, or behavior that is considered to:  

• Interfere with the learning of fellow students and/or the learning environment. 
• Jeopardize a student’s personal well-being or safety and/or the safety or well-being of fellow students. 
• The use of verbal or electronic hate/abuse (bullying, cyber-bullying, uttering threats, etc). 
• Acts of discrimination on the basis of race, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex or sexual orientation as outlined in the BC Human Rights Code. 
• Wearing inappropriate dress (those with inappropriate logos, unacceptable paraphernalia). 
• Acts of bullying, harassment, intimidation, physical assault, or retribution against a student or person who has intervened to prevent or report incidents to staff. 
• Use/possession/being in the vicinity of illegal/restricted substances and/or weapons.   

Disciplinary Action/Notification/Rising Expectations/Retaliation Prevention 

Whenever possible and appropriate, consequences for breaches of a code are restorative in nature rather than punitive.  Disciplinary Action at Maple Bay Elementary will be determined by each individual situation.

 Any student who violates School Board Code of Conduct or the School Code of Conduct will be subject to disciplinary action. In all instances, the severity and frequency of unacceptable conduct, as well as the age and maturity of students will be considered in determining appropriate disciplinary action.

We recognize that special consideration may apply to students with neuro-diverse needs, if they are unable to comply with the Code of Conduct due to having a disability of an intellectual, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioural nature.

Maple Bay has the responsibility to inform the necessary parties of serious breaches in our Code of Conduct. It is also expected that students, as they become older, are held to an increasing level of personal responsibility and self-discipline. The school will take all reasonable steps to prevent retaliation against a student who has made a complaint of a breach of a code of conduct.

The Maple Bay Elementary School learning community promotes the values expressed in the BC Human Rights Code respecting the rights of all individuals in accordance with the law—prohibiting discrimination based on race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex or sexual orientation – in respect of discriminatory publication and discrimination in accommodation, service and facility in the school environment.

At Maple Bay Elementary:

We Take Care of Each Other :

• We are kind and compassionate
• We help others
• We solve problems peacefully

We Take Care of Ourselves

• We make sure we come to school ready to learn
• We do our best and learn from our mistakes
• We make healthy choices

We Take Care of Our World

• We support our community
• We keep our environment clean and healthy
• We honour the land upon which we live, learn, work and play and give thanks to the Coast Salish People