1) Reopening Dates: the school calendar stipulates the opening and closing dates for each academic term. These dates must be strictly adhered to. Any student who does not report to school on the stipulated reopening date will be subjected to disciplinary measures prescribed by the school unless such a student has earlier obtained permission from the Principal in writing.

 

2) Attendance to classes; Formal classes resume immediately after resumption after students must have cleaned their classrooms. The school curriculum and scheme of work are organized in such a way that each school day has its own lessons. The teachers neither wait for the late returnees nor repeat lessons already taught.

 

3) Attendance and Participation in Sports and Co-curricular Activities: All healthy students are expected to take part fully in sports and co-curricular activities. These activities bring joy and make for healthy development of individuals.

 

4) Trespassing: Walking across unauthorized pathways is prohibited. All students must walk through approved pathways. This discourages creation of unsightly paths in the compound, helps in the control of erosion and enhances the aesthetic looks of the school compound.

 

6) Use of Toilets: Students must not defecate or urinate in unauthorized places. The toilets or the urinaries are the only approved places where students may ease themselves. A gentleman or a lady does not expose himself or herself indecently in the public. Urinating in an unauthorized place erodes the dignity of the offender.

 

7) Littering: All pieces of paper, toilet tissue, wood-chips and all other litter must be dropped in the appropriate waste-paper basket or dustbin. Littering is an offence and may attract appropriate punishment as determined by the school.

 

8) Use of Language: Students must use decent language all the time. Use of offensive language is prohibited. Innuendoes, ridiculing phrases and other expressions that are offensive to others must not be used in the school. Students must use a language that is decent, seasoned, up-building, heart-warming and capable of fostering affection, love and oneness.

9) Dressing: All students must dress in the prescribed and authorized school uniform. The uniform must conform to the school’s prescriptions and must be of the appropriate colour and fabric. The school badge must be worn by all students. Boys must tuck in their shirts. All buttons must be appropriately used.  Students must not indecently expose their bodies or underwears.

 

10) Grooming: Students must be of proper grooming all the time. All students are expected to have a low hair cut always. No outlandish hair style is allowed. Finger nails must be properly cut. Painting of nails is prohibited. Plaiting of hair by senior female students may be allowed by individual schools.

 

11) Breaking of Lockers & Chairs: Students’ properties: desks, locker and chair, must be treated with respect. No student should damage another students ‘locker or chair. Breaking any of these items attracts punishment from the school authority.

 

12) Jumping of Walls: Jumping/scaling the school wall is a serious offence. Only thieves and outlaws jump walls to gain entry into unauthorized places or to escape from pursuits. Any student caught jumping any school wall or jumping into or out of a classroom/laboratory/dormitory, office etc through a window is liable to punishment as prescribed by the school authorities.

 

13) Bullying and Fighting: No student is allowed to bully another student or fight with another student. The school compound is a place where students are trained to show love, kindness, consideration and fellow feeling. Senior students must treat the juniors as their younger brothers and sisters, showing them tender loving care. Junior students must show deep respect to their seniors. Any act of bullying or fighting attracts appropriate punishment from the school authorities. Please refer to SRIC ANTI BULLYING POLICY for more details

 

14) Calling of Names: Calling a student a name he or she does not like or imposing a nickname on a student is a serious offence. Any form of verbal abuse on any student or referring to a student with an appellation that renders  the student physiologically defeated is a serious offence. Any student or group of students imposing such a name on another student or poking fun at another student will be punished by the school authorities. On no account should a student or group of students nickname a teacher.

 

15) Seizing of books, shirts, dresses, slippers etc: No student is allowed to seize the property of another student. It is a punishable offence.

 

16) Borrowing& Lending: No student is allowed to lend money to another student or borrow money from another student.

17) Corporal Punishment/Torture: No student is allowed to flog another student or to inflict corporal punishment on another student. No form of torture should be meted out to any student.

18) Instructing/Bribing Others to do Your Portion: No student should instruct another by intimidation of bribe another student to do his or her assigned portion during manual labour or the regular morning duties/charges. Every student must do his or her assigned portion as a way of training the physiomoto domain and raising the dignity of labour. Instructing/bribing others to do ones portion is a punishable offence.

 

• Students should not go out of the school compound without permission of exeat.

 

 

19) Reporting to Parents/Inviting Parents to the School without Clearance from School authorities: Any student who reports a case that is being handled in the school or that invites his or her parents/guardians to the school without the invitation by the school authorities commits a serious offence. Such unauthorized visits to schools by parents/guardians constitute embarrassment to the school authorities and may disrupt normal school activities.

 

21) Living by Example: All students must live exemplary lives. The time spent in school may be the only time a student has the opportunity of living with other people who are not members of his/her immediate family. Students should do their outmost to show exemplary moral conduct.

 

22) Payment of School Fees: All students must pay their school fees on or before the resumption day.

 

24) Loitering During Classes/Use of Class Exeat Cards: No student should be seen loitering about when classes are going on. Any student leaving a class room or laboratory during any regular period of instruction for any pressing need must carry a class exeat card duly assigned by the teacher in the class/laboratory. Only one student may leave a class at any one time.

 

26) Stealing: Stealing is repugnant to the norms of any society. Stealing is a shameful offence and any student caught stealing faces severe disciplinary action.

 

28) Selling and buying: No student is allowed to do business in the school compound. No student is allowed to sell anything for herself, her parents/guardians or her teachers in the school. No student is allowed to buy anything from another student. All buying and selling in the school compound must be done in the school canteen and must be adequately regulated by the school authorities.

 

29) Writing/Illegal Painting on Walls/Cartooning: No student is allowed to write or paint any unauthorized drawing on a wall. Writing/illegal painting on walls is an irresponsible behavior and a punishable offence. No cartoons are allowed on school walls.

 

30) Damage to School Property and Equipment: All school property/equipment must be treated with respect. Any willful damage to school property/equipment must be paid for by the student.

 

31) Body Cleanliness: All students must keep their bodies impeccably clean. Teachers may conduct cleanliness inspections from time to time. A clean student is a healthy student.

 

32) Proper Waste Disposal: All waste must be properly disposed of. Used sanitary pads must be properly and decently disposed. Students must exhibit a high level of environmental cleanliness at all times. Littering of the compound is a serious offence.

 

33) Compound Cleaning: The school compound must be impeccably clean. All students must do/ cut their assigned portions and ensure that the school compound gives an eloquent testimony to the commitment of all students to compound cleanliness. A clean compound makes for a healthy living and creates a conducive atmosphere for learning to take place. Manual labour is part of school curriculum.

 

34) Smoking: Smoking is a serious offence. Remember that the Federal Ministry of Health warns that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health. Any student caught smoking whether in school or outside school is liable to punishment by the school authorities.

 

35) Use of Alcohol: Any student drinking any alcoholic beverage is in for a serious punishment. Abuse of alcohol is a serious social problem and all students must avoid drinking alcoholic beverages.

 

36) Use of Drugs: No student should be seen in the company of drug abusers let alone be seen using such drugs. Any case of drug abuse by any student will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

 

37) Use of Pornographic Materials: No student is allowed to possess, handle, watch or read any pornographic literature material. Pornography is morally debasing and must not be toiled with by any student. Use of pornographic materials/literature is an offence

 

38) Fighting: Fighting is strictly prohibited. No student should fight with another student. All students must report their grievances to the appropriate school authority for handling and settlement. Fighting attracts punishment.

39) Membership of Secret Societies: Secret society is obnoxious. No student is allowed to become a member of any secret society. Any student who is being lured or enticed or intimidated to belong to a questionable society or club or group should promptly report such to the school authorities. No student should succumb to any form of intimidation to belong to any secret society. Secret societies are dangerous to the well-being of any student or family and must be avoided by all students. Membership of a secret society is a very serious offence and may attract expulsion.

 

40)Possession of Deleterious Weapons-Knives, Axes, Pistols, SharpenedNails, Jack-Knives, Daggers, etc: A student found in possession of any of these items or any other deleterious item will be seen as an unfriendly student and will be treated accordingly.

 

41) Demonstrations and Riots: Rioting is a scandalous way of showing lack of discipline. No student is allowed to engage in demonstrations, riots and strikes against the school authorities. Just as no child should engage in a fight or organize a riot against his parents, students should not engage in riots, demonstrations or organized matches against the school authorities.

 

42) Inciting Others: No student should incite others to riot or demonstrate against the school authorities. Any student or group of students who is being incited by another student or by a teacher or teachers should promptly report such to the school authorities. Inciting others is a serious offence.

 

43) School Farm: The school farm must be treated with respect. There should be no unauthorized visit to the school farm and no student should go to the school farm alone.

 

45) Use of Opinion Box: Opinion boxes are provided in schools for use of students to make constructive suggestions to the school. Students should feel free to write any suggestions they think will improve the school life and deposit same in the opinion/suggestion box. Use of opinion/suggestion box should not be abused.

 

46) Exemption from Manual Labour: A student may be exempted from manual labour if in the opinion of the school authorities participation in such labour may jeopardize the health of the student. Presentation of a medical certificate of unfitness may also exempt a student from manual labour.

 

47)Indebtedness to the School: Any student who is indebted to the school may be denied certain privileges and shall not be allowed to claim his or her School Leaving certificate/Testimonial or Transfer Certificate until such debts are paid up.

 

48) Use of Bell: Only the school bell ringer(regulator/time keeper) or any person authorized by him or her should ring the school bell. Any unauthorized ringing of the school bell attracts disciplinary measures.

 

49)Boarding House Rules: All boarders must obey all the rules and regulations in the boarding house and must not leave the boarding house without obtaining signed exit card(s). They must observe all rest/siesta periods; take part in all prep, games and sports, observe waking up times and light outs, must not carry food into the dormitories, must observe dining hall rules and etiquette; must ensure that their beds are properly made/dressed for inspection etc.

 

50) No boarder should sleep outside the boarding house and no two boarders should share one bed.

 

51)No boarder is allowed into the dormitory during school hours, prep periods, games,  or other school functions. The dormitory should be locked during such times.

 

52) Examination Behaviour: Examination is the focal point in any education system. All students must therefore respect examinations in whatever form- quizzes, tests, assignments, projects etc. All formal examinations must be taken seriously by all students. Any form of examination malpractise – stealing of answer scripts, impersonation, collision, substituting worked scripts, copying, giraffing, seeking and obtaining help and bringing unauthorized material(s) into the hall, smuggling of question papers/answer scripts outside the examination hall, swapping of answer scripts, comparing note etc must be avoided. Any involvement in any form of examination malpractise is an offence punishable by the appropriate statues.

 

53) Fighting/harassment of staff: Any student who fights or harasses a member of staff will face immediate suspension and at the final determination of the case, if the student is found guilty, he or she may be expelled from the school.

 

54)Any student who fakes the government/school official receipts stands to be expelled.

 

55) A student should not be in possession of cash of any amount. Pocket money should be lodged into the student’s account in the bursary department.

 

56) Except for language instruction, English is the only medium of communication allowed to be used in the school.

 

57) With the exception of calculators, computers and watches, no electronic is to be brought to the school including mobile phones

 

 

• Students should not be visited by their parents/guardian  except on visiting day between 12:00 noon to 4:00pm

• All students must observe descent table manners during meal.

• All cloths, textbooks and other possessions must be clearly labeled.

• Chewing of bubble gum is banned in the school

• Every student must make his/her bed in the morning before going to the classroom and after siesta.

• All students must do their laundry on the designated laundry day

• No food must be taken out of the dining hall to any place.

• No visitor is allowed to enter any place other than the designated visiting venue.

 

SUMMARY OF OFFENCES

 

1. Absenteeism

2. Lateness

3. Disobedience/Insubordination

4. Entry into unauthorized places

5. Non-attendance to classes/duties

6. Trespassing

7. Abuse of toilets

8. Littering

9. Bad use of language

10. Improper dressing

11. Improper grooming

12. Jumping of walls

13. Bullying

14. Calling of names

15. Fighting

16. Seizing of property

17. Corporal punishment

18. Bribing/Instructing others to do one’s portion

19. Reporting to Parents/ Inviting Parents to school without clearance

20. Fagging

21. Non-payment of school fees

22. Loitering

23. Leaving school before school over

24. Stealing

25. Buying and selling

26. Writing/illegal painting on walls/cartooning

27. Uncleanliness of Body

28. Improper waste disposal

29. Failure to take part in school work

30. Smoking

31. Use of alcohol

32. Use of drugs/drug abuse

33. Use of pornographic materials

34. Membership of secret society

35. Possession of deleterious weapons

36. Taking part in demonstrations/riots

37. Inciting others

38. Unauthorized harvesting of fruits in the school

39. Abuse of opinion box

40. Indebtedness to the school

41. Unauthorized ringing of the school bell

42. Offences in the boarding house

43. Examination malpractise.

 

BREACHES OF THE SCHOOL RULES

General

The School recognises that it is sometimes necessary to take punitive action to correct a student’s

conduct.

 

A serious offence receives individual assessment and the welfare of the School and the student are considered.

 

In keeping with a policy of “each case on its merits”, the Headmaster will practice leniency if

warranted.

 

 THE ADMINISTRATION OF DISCIPLINE

There are various domains of the administration of SRIC discipline procedures.

For the purpose of this document, three are considered:

 Firstly within the classroom; secondly, the playground; and thirdly, serious discipline breaches.

As a teacher enacts the discipline system, a distinction between normal and serious issues needs to be made. Serious incidents are those that include swearing directly at a teacher; smoking; consuming alcohol whilst at school and/or giving it to others; illegal substances such as drug use or possession; fighting; bullying; vandalism ; cyber-crime and seriously disrupting classroom processes. They can occur at any time and need to be dealt with quite separately from a normal escalating discipline sequence. Such serious incidents need to be dealt with by the Vice Principal administration and will result in detention, suspension or an expulsion. In serious offences leading to suspension or expulsion, panel is called and the Principal must be involved in the decision-making process.

 

In the Classroom

There are two areas of classroom discipline to consider: firstly, how to avoid problems;

and secondly, when all attempts to avoid them have failed; what should the teacher

do?

 

 Avoiding Discipline problems

Teachers need to work at averting classroom discipline problems. There is a professional wisdom that suggests that discipline problems can be averted by ensuring:

• Classroom work is appropriate to the needs of the students

• Instruction is interesting

• Instruction is not confusing

• Expectations of students are clear

• Classroom management techniques are good such as even-handedness and enforcement of lateness rules

• Punishments are meaningful and effective.

 

 When all Else Fails:

When a teacher’s normal classroom management techniques are exhausted and a

student continues to disrupt, a teacher needs to initiate procedures to remove the

student from the classroom. A suggested procedure for dealing with any defiance is:

• Define the boundaries before they are enforced. (the rules)

• When defiantly challenged, respond with confident decisiveness.

• Distinguish between willful defiance and childish irresponsibility. Willful defiance needs to be responded to immediately with a consequence/punishment.

• Reassure and teach after the confrontation is over. i.e. the consequence/punishment has been delivered.

 

When a teacher responds to wilful defiance by enacting the agreed predetermined consequence, there is a need to avoid inappropriate anger. It is the consequence/punishment, and not the anger, that stimulates the change response in the child.

 

The Playground:

The teacher can deal with most minor discipline issues immediately and with common

sense. However, when considered appropriate, the teacher is to use the College’s

procedures to ensure that reasonable order is maintained in the yard.

 

Serious Discipline Breaches:

When the discipline problem cannot be resolved within the classroom context, or in the

playground, the Solid Rock International College  discipline procedures:

• Identify students at risk

• Enact consequences that are graded in severity

• Treat each child as an individual

• Provide the structure so that individuals can make decisions for change

• Have clear end points

• Are well documented and communicate to all involved

• Are compassionate and seek a change of heart and are forgiving

• Have the ultimate sanction of expulsion.

 

DISCIPLINE PROCEDURES OUT OF CLASS INCIDENTS

For out of classroom incidences, the teacher is to ensure that there is a staging of instructions so that it is clear that the student is being defiant. If the student fails to comply again, they will be required to meet with the discipline master who will investigate the issue. The consequence will depend upon what level the student is in the discipline system.

 

Note: More serious out of class incidences such as swearing directly at a teacher; smoking;

consuming alcohol and/or sharing it with others; illegal use and/or possession of substances such as drugs; fighting; bullying; vandalism; cyber-crime and seriously disrupting classroom processes do not need a warning.

A teacher witnessing an out of class incident is to:

•  Reported or send the student to the porter/matron

• porter/matron will get the student to write an account of what happened

• Write down names of any other witnesses

• The teacher on duty will record the incident in the duty report book

• The report will be sent to the discipline master who will:

      * Ensure that the incident is thoroughly investigated

      * Ensure that the incident is logged on the discipline book

 

 

DISCIPLINE PROCEDURES IN CLASS INCIDENTS

Teachers have responsibility to use their own methods to manage low level incidents of

misbehaviour within the College. This may involve such things as eye contact, verbal direction,

cleaning the room, litter duty or moving the position of the student in the class using seating plans.

When all attempts at managing a student in the classroom have failed, normal classroom discipline incidents are to be dealt with via an escalating process where there are 5 levels.

For serious disciplinary breaches (for example swearing at a teacher, direct disobedience to a reasonable teacher instruction, fighting, drug or alcohol taking, vandalism, cyber-crime such as hacking into the computer system or accessing pornographic material on the internet), the student is to be escorted to the Heads of Students Centre by the teacher or an administration person and held until a decision is made by either the Deputy Principal (Students) or Principal as to whether they are suspended or expelled.

For other discipline breaches, the teacher is to use the specified process outlined below:

 

For repetitive, deliberate defiance, the teacher is to stamp the Diary with an infringement notice and record the incident on Student Access. In the classroom setting this will entail the following, or the teacher’s own graded warning system:

• Verbal warning with name written on the board.

• Tick against a student’s name on board with a continued warning that continued defiance will result in the student receiving an infringement stamp in the diary. The teacher needs to explain to the student what behaviour the student is engaging in that will result in a stamp and entry on to Student Access. Students also need to understand that if they receive several of these notifications on Student Access, the Discipline System will be enacted resulting in a first level suspension.

 

• Heads of Students are required to monitor Student Access each day and follow up immediately any students who have several entries. The Discipline process must be enacted with the student receiving a suspension.

• For continued disobedience, the teacher is to send the student to the Head of Students Centre. If a student argues, then the teacher is to state: I have asked you reasonably to go to the Head of Students Centre! Are you going to go? Yes or No? If a student refuses, then the teacher is to send a runner to the Heads of Students Centre so that a suspension can be organised for the student. If the Head of Students Centre is unattended, the Deputy Principal (Students) will deal with the issue immediately. The student will be isolated in the interview room until such time that the Head of Students can contact parents.

 

        SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON DISCIPLINE

• As the consequences of an infringement and Student Access entry are profound, a teacher is not to use them for trivial events; rather they are to ensure that the issue is direct and deliberate defiance of authority and not childish irresponsibility.

• The teacher needs to always remain calm and issue the consequences without anger or yelling.

• Even if the infringement is not acted upon and is only issued as a warning, the incident MUST be logged onto Student Access.

• Out of class incidents should always be logged on to Student Access giving as much detail as possible. Include the date of the incident, time of the incident, students involved and the names of any witnesses.

• In serious cases, individual written reports MUST be collected from the students involved

            before they have time to collaborate their stories.

 

SUMMARY OF PUNISHMENT FOR BREACHES OF THE SCHOOL RULES

 

1. Canning

2. Grass Cutting

3. Kneeling down

4. Digging of ditches

5. Sweeping

6. Picking of litters

7. Scrubbing of floors

8. Stumping

9. Surcharge

10. Surcharge

11. Writing of apology and reading it before all students

12. Denial of privileges

13. detention

14. Stripping of prefectship

15. Expulsion

          

 

 

WHEN A STUDENT COMMITS AN OFFENCE LEADING TO DETENTION

1. Anybody witnessing the incident should report the student to the porter/matron

2. The matron/porter and the staff on duty would get the student to write an account of what happened and write the names of the witnesses.

3. The staff on duty would also record the incident in the duty report book.

4. The porter would then refer the incident to the discipline master who would investigate the incident, follow every process as well as the recommendation on the punishment to be giving if detention is proffered      

5. A detention form is completed and forwarded to the VP administration. 

Name of student:

Age:

Class:

House:

Offence committed:

Level of detention: single, double, triple

Parade

Sign:  

1. Schedule of detention is written on the detention board by the discipline master

2. The detainee would wear a detainee’s cloth for as long as the detention last. 

3. The master on duty on the detention day is to administer the detention and fill in the space in the detention form. 

4. The offence is recorded in the discipline book

5. The offence is also recorded in the students file

6. The student is to write an apology letter to those whom is action affected to be read in the students’ assembly. 

7. When the student completes his/her detention the discipline master and the VP administration are to sign and then release the student

8. The parents would be communicated