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Hey Amazing Wildcat Families,
Mark your calendars! November 7,8,9 are conferences! If you haven’t yet connected with your child’s teacher to schedule a conference, it’s not too late. We will be scheduling virtually and in person meetings. It’s a great opportunity for your child’s teacher to show you examples of your child's schoolwork, review recent assessments, and share observations of your child's class participation, academic work, and social growth. Be sure to come ready for your child's(rens) conference, we recommend before the conference you: talk to your child about how school is going for them. What do they love about school? What is a challenge? Make a list! Questions, concerns, areas you want more information on or just anything you don’t want to forget to talk about with your child’s teacher! And finally, keep on communicating! The communication about your child doesn't need to stop at the end of the parent teacher conference. Make sure you share the best way for teachers to communicate with you!
In addition, this week I wanted to take a moment to write about the B word- Bullying.
It’s one of those words that can get thrown around to cover any inappropriate behavior, toward another person, but it actually per Vermont State law has a pretty specific definition.
“Bullying” means any overt act or combination of acts, including an act conducted by electronic means, directed against a student by another student or group of students and which:
a. Is repeated over time;
b. Is intended to ridicule, humiliate, or intimidate the student; and
c. (i) occurs during the school day on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity, or before or after the school day on a school bus or at a school sponsored activity; or (ii) does not occur during the school day on school property, on a school bus or at a school sponsored activity and can be shown to pose a clear and substantial interference with another student’s right to access educational programs.
I would remind everyone that if you see something, hear something- SAY Something! Encourage your kiddos to report to an adult at school if they had something happen to them or saw/ heard something happen to a peer. If they don’t feel like that adult responded: keep telling. Tell another adult and of course report to a parent when they get home. With increased communication we can together work to figure out if bullying is occurring or even if it doesn't meet this definition, if some other inappropriate behavior occurred which needs to be addressed because it doesn’t follow our school rules of: Respectful, Responsible, Safe and Kind!
If you would like to review the whole Bullying/ Hazing/ Harassment Policy in its entirety you can check it out here.
Working together we can keep our school community: Respectful, Responsible, Safe and Kind.
We look forward to seeing you at Conferences!
-Principal Bowen
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