NQS3 – Physical Environment Policy

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Happy Hive ensures all centres have safe and comfortable physical environments that actively promote children’s wellbeing and learning, development outcomes. Our learning environments promote children’s agency and independent exploration to enrich their learning and development. Happy Hive also takes an active role in caring for the wider environment and contributing to a positive and sustainable future.

Key Happy Hive policies in this area include the following topic:

Sustainability

We see early childhood as a critical period of time to involve children in sustainability and environment education, so they develop lifelong practices that respect and help protect our planet. For children to do this, it is important for them to develop a sense of wonder, belonging to and love of the natural environment, living things and animals.

Tardiness

Being on time is a life skill important to each student’s future, and schools share the responsibility to teach the importance of this skill. Tardiness of individual students interrupts instructional time for all students. Promptness to class allows the teachers to begin the instruction on time for everyone. Tardiness to class is defined as not being physically in the room at 8:00 am.

Three tardies is equal to 1 unexcused absence
Three unexcused absences due to tardiness will result in a 7:00 am detention on the following school day.
If tardiness continues suspension from school will be at the discretion of the administration.

Student’s Responsibilities

To attend school daily, on time and participate fully. The student who has been absent has the responsibility for securing and completing make-up assignments. The class work must be made up within a specific time period equaling one day make-up per one day absence. In case of a pre-arranged absence, the class work is due the day the student returns to school. All work not made up within the time limit will be graded zero.

Administrator’s Responsibilities

To review the attendance of students and to contact parent/guardian when a student has excessive absences.
To take appropriate steps, to insure that students attend school in a timely manner on a regular basis.
5 (five) absences: Parents will be notified of days absent and reminded of the need for regular attendance by letter or telephone.
10 (ten) absences: A mandatory meeting with parents and principals will be held to develop an intervention plan regarding attendance. The intervention plan will be pro-active and problem solving in nature.
18 (eighteen) absences could result in retention (4.5 per quarter).