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Ecole Internationale de Genève International School of Geneva General & Financial Conditions School Year 2018 - 2019 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2018 – 2019 1 SCHOOL CALENDAR 2018 – 2019 1st TERM: 29 August - 14 December 2018 DG’s adress to the Wednesday 29 August 2018 Foundation staff Pedagogical day Friday 31 August Classes begin Monday 3 September Jeûne genevois Thursday 6 September (no classes at La Grande Boissière and Campus des Nations) Jeûne fédéral Monday 17 September (no classes at La Châtaigneraie) Pedagogical day Friday 19 October (no classes) Half-term Monday 22 October through Friday 26 October Classes resume Monday 29 October Classes end Friday 14 December (at 12 noon) Winter break Friday 14 December (at 12 noon) through Friday 4 January 2nd TERM: 7 January - 12 April 2019 Classes resume Monday 7 January 2019 Half-term Monday 18 February through Friday 22 February Pedagogical day Monday 25 February (no classes) Classes resume Tuesday 26 February Classes end Friday 12 April Spring break Monday 15 April through Friday 26 April 3rd TERM: 29 April - 28 June 2019 Classes resume Monday 29 April 2019 Ascension Thursday 30 May and Friday 31 May Whit Monday Monday 10 June Pedagogical day Tuesday 11 May (no classes) Classes end Friday 28 June (at 12 noon) 2 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2018 – 2019 ENROLMENT CONTRACT – GENERAL CONDITIONS Educational Programme and Placement The School undertakes, in accordance with principle 4 of the admissions policy, to guarantee each student who is enrolled, access to the educational opportunities provided by the Foundation, that are appropriate to his/her needs. The School will only accept those students who can benefit from the education that is provided. It is the responsibility of school Principals, within a set of general guidelines laid down by the Director General, to apply this criterion in particular cases. To ensure the application of this principle, the following conditions apply: • The first six weeks of school are probationary and during this period the suitability of courses and classes will be assessed. The school reserves the right to cancel the Enrolment Contract if the assessment shows that it is unable to offer the education that a particular student needs. • If the assessment shows that a student needs educational assistance beyond the general programme provided by the school, the Principal may deem additional support to be required. Any costs incurred by such support services are charged in addition to the regular school fees. • The class indicated on the Enrolment Contract should be considered provisional and may be changed by the Principal if she/he deems this to be appropriate. • The Enrolment Contract is offered on the basis of the information available to Principals at the time of accepting the student. As stated on the application form, the School reserves the right to cancel a place if the information supplied is inadequate or incorrect and it judges that it is unable to offer the education that a particular student needs. School Rules / Expectations of Students Parents undertake to ensure that their children respect all school rules and in particular the obligation to attend classes on a regular basis throughout the school year. Students agree that information regarding school work such as reports and attendance be communicated to the person signing the Enrolment Contract (parent or legal guardian). The School reserves the right to exclude or expel a student who does not respect the school rules. General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2018 – 2019 3 ENROLMENT CONTRACT – GENERAL CONDITIONS Exclusion and Expulsion The School may exclude or expel a student when it believes that this is in the student’s or other students’ best interests. Expectations of Parents The School expects parents to treat other members of the school community with courtesy and respect. The School reserves the right to cancel an Enrolment Contract if it judges that a parent has shown a persistent lack of courtesy and respect to members of the School community. Health All children attending school have to have health and accident insurance coverage. Parents are responsible for having a doctor complete the school’s “medical certificate / physical examination”. If this is not completed, entry to school can be delayed until an authorised doctor has examined the child. The parents are responsible for the cost of this examination. Subject choices For programmes where students are required to select options from a range of subjects offered, for example for the IB Diploma, the Foundation reserves the right not to run classes in a subject if there is insufficient demand. Each school will determine its required minimum number of students for a course to run. International Baccalaureate (IB) Regulations Parents whose children are enrolled in an International Baccalaureate programme (Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme, Diploma Programme, or International Baccalaureate Career- related Programme) accept, in signing the School’s Contract, the IB regulations that apply to these programmes. Copies of the IB regulations for the relevant programme are issued to parents by school Principals and can be consulted on the individual school pages of the web site. 4 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2018 – 2019 ENROLMENT CONTRACT – GENERAL CONDITIONS Living Arrangements Students must live with their parents or a close relative who can be named legal guardian and the School reserves the right to terminate the Enrolment Contract if this is not the case. Policy for the use of images and recordings of students by the school The school may wish to photograph, film or record Public events students for certain events within the context of their Whilst we encourage spectators at our shows and school education. These images may be used in school public events to refrain from recording them, to avoid brochures or other publications, on the public website or disturbing other spectators or the performers, such is in social media channels or displayed around campus, for the nature of our increasingly connected world that this example on digital information screens or posters. We practice has become commonplace. may also use video footage or web camera recordings during interschool conferences or educational projects. Parents/guardians of students who participate in From time to time, our campuses may be visited by events which are open to the public (e.g. school the media who could take photographs, film footage or concerts, dance shows, theatrical productions, sports make recordings. Students may appear in these images matches, end-of-year exhibitions) therefore expressly which may be issued in local, national and international consent to images of their children being recorded and newspapers, and televised or broadcasted programmes. acknowledge that Ecolint cannot prevent third parties from using their own image recording devices (e.g. In the above circumstances, the following conditions smartphones, tablets, digital cameras) to capture images of use of images and recordings of students apply: of students. Parents equally acknowledge that Ecolint has no control of the usage made of these images or 1. Personal details or full names (first name and recordings by third parties. surname) will not be disclosed on pictures or alongside a picture or recordings (of a minor) without the express permission of a parent or legal guardian. Sports fixtures 2. Personal details such as email addresses, postal It should be noted that is has become standard practice addresses, telephone or fax numbers will not be for many schools to film sports matches and to use disclosed. such footage either to live-stream to the internet or to 3. The school will only use pictures of appropriately share on social media channels such as YouTube and dressed students. Facebook. In agreeing for their children to take part in competitive sports against other schools, parents/ 4. The permission to use images or recordings is for guardians expressly consent that their children’s image an unlimited period of time. Archived images and be recorded and used in this way and acknowledge recordings can be used by the school. that Ecolint can take no responsibility for the use made 5. The school will not sell images or recordings to third of images and recordings by third parties whilst our parties. students are engaged in school-related activities in a location outside of our campuses. 6. The school will not pay students for images or recordings. Data protection Whilst in Switzerland authorisation from parents/ Ecolint may collect community members personal data legal guardians prior to the use of photographs or relating to tuition fee payments or fundraising activities. recordings of minors is compulsory, in enrolling It respects the Swiss data protection legislation and your child at Ecolint you are considered to have treats that information confidentially. Ecolint commits consented to such usage by default, unless you not to sell or make this information available to third expressly communicate your disagreement. parties. This data is exclusively used for internal, statistical or fundraising purposes. The school reserves the right to use, without prior The enrolment of your child(ren) at Ecolint implies your permission from parents or legal guardians, images or acceptance of the above. recordings of students for internal use (for example: on the password protected part of the website and publications to be distributed to members of the school community, which includes parents, staff and alumni). General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2018 – 2019 5 FINANCIAL CONDITIONS 1 Fees for New Students Application Fee: Parents who wish to apply for a place for their child need to complete an application form online. A non-refundable, non-deferrable application fee of CHF 250 is payable by credit card for each child. Registration Fee: CHF 2,500. This fee covers the administrative costs of processing the registration, for all new students or students returning to school after an absence of two years or more.