Grades 6, 7, 8 Bayview Glen Is a Community of School Life, Including Routines and Learners That Includes Students, Expectations
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2018-2019 Prep School Parent Handbook Grades 6, 7, 8 Bayview Glen is a community of school life, including routines and learners that includes students, expectations. It is intended to parents, faculty, staff and alumni. be a reference guide and source Clear, inclusive and interactive book for parents to help develop communication plays an essential an understanding of our practices role in helping us to understand and procedures, as well as our one another’s needs and values and school culture. expectations, and is paramount Please note that this is a living when building an informed school document and that additions community. and adjustments may be made This Parent Handbook is designed throughout the year. It will also be to be one of the communication reviewed and updated annually. Welcome to the Prep School at Bayview Glen, a place tools that parents and families It is our hope that once you have where empowering transformations occur every day. can count on for clear, pertinent, read this Parent Handbook, and factual information about you will have a more complete Our Prep School shares the same campus as our Our inquiry-based enriched curriculum enhances the Prep School at Bayview Glen. understanding of all the workings Upper School. In this thoughtfully designed, our students’ curiosity, creativity, and imagination. It has been carefully prepared of the Prep School community at warmly encouraging environment, our children Leadership opportunities, such as involvement to provide details of day-to-day Bayview Glen. grow into vibrant, grounded, self-advocating in the Student Council, experiential trips, and adolescents who are well on their way to a Young Round Square initiatives, inspire students promising young adulthood. to venture outside their comfort zones. Exciting Athletics and Arts programmes motivate In our Prep School, we carefully attend to our students to discover new dimensions of our students’ individual talents, interests and themselves and each other. This, along with a aspirations, while building their confidence, challenging curriculum that offers reach-ahead capability, self-awareness and understanding of credit opportunities and promotes innovation, Whole Child, their responsibilities within this environment, prepares our students for life in the Upper School to the wider community, and eventually to the and beyond. world around them. We also understand that each child develops at a different rate emotionally, We are very proud of our confident, compassionate, intellectually, physically and socially, and attend to inventive and globally-minded Prep School students. Whole Life, all students as individuals. Welcome to their world! Whole World. Kindest regards, Our Mission To provide an excellent education, through high expectations of academic achievement and caring individual support, to enable students to learn, to Eileen Daunt, Dina Astrella, Christopher Federico, grow and to become responsible, productive and contributing members of the Head Of School Assistant Head, Prep School Assistant Head, Academics global community. » To develop the whole person by fostering self-worth and love of learning through a diversified curriculum, promoting intellectual, physical and emotional growth. » To maintain a multicultural community among students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni and friends. » To develop in our students respect and concern for themselves and for others, with the confidence and integrity to meet challenges. PAGE 3 Contents Our History 5 Conduct 24 National Anthem and Land Acknowledgement 6 Guiding Principles 24 Academics 7 Roles and Responsibilities 24 Standards of Behaviour 25 Academic Integrity 7 Consequences for Inappropriate Behaviour 26 Academic Requirements 8 Suspensions and/or Dismissal 27 Assembly, AGP (Homeroom) and Goal Setting 9 Student Safety 27 Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting of Student Reporting Abuse 27 Achievement 9 Peer Relations 28 Reporting Achievement 10 Bullying 28 Parent-Teacher Conferences 10 Clockwise from top left: Where it began • 275 Duncan Mill Road • 85 Moatfield Drive Character Education 28 Student-Led Conferences 10 Co-Curricular Academic Opportunities and Technology in the Prep School 30 Competitions 10 Acceptable Use of Technology 30 The Grade 7 Technocup Challenge 10 The Information and Communication Technology Robotics 11 Acceptable Use Policy 32 Our History Curriculum 11 Communications and Community 34 ayview Glen was founded in 1962 by In 1991, the Doreen Hopkins Foundation was taken Grade Eight Curriculum Considerations 11 Cellular Telephones 34 L. Doreen (nee Barwick) Hopkins as a over by the Macmarmon Foundation and Terry Guest Community Involvement 11 Digital and Online Communication 34 nursery school and day camp housed was appointed Headmaster to preside over the future Reach-Ahead Opportunities in the Prep School 11 Publications 34 End of Year Examinations and Assessments 12 Admissions – Welcome to Bayview Glen 35 in a barn in the Don River Valley, development of the school. The decade of the 90s was Problem-Based Learning 12 Advancement 35 located north of York University’s one of progress and growth, and the student popula- Curriculum Nights 13 Alumni Relations 36 Glendon Campus in North York. Its tion grew from 243 to approximately 950, ranging Extra Help 13 Archives 36 mandate was to provide ‘a nurturing environment from preschool to university entrance. In 1998, Bay- Homework 13 The Parents’ Association 37 inB which each and every child is precious’. view Glen acquired the Upper School Campus. Late Assignments and Missed Tests 13 Leadership Development 14 Daily Routines and General Information 38 By 1964, Bayview Glen had expanded to include In September 2000, the Upper School was officially Absences 38 Adventuring 14 students from age two to Grade 1, and an adjoining opened by H.R.H. The Duke of York. The site was After-School Programme 38 The Grade 6 Trip to Quebec City 14 property was acquired. By 1969, new buildings had complete with a double gymnasium and theatre The Outdoor Adventure and Leadership Trips Allergens and Anaphylaxis 38 been added and the school grew to include students complex. In 2001, Terry Guest left Bayview Glen and took for Grade 7 and 8 Students 14 Arrivals and Departures 39 Attendance 39 through to Grade 6. up the position of Executive Director of Round Square, of The Prep School Student Council 14 Breakfast Options 39 which Bayview Glen is a member. He was succeeded by Young Round Square Opportunities 15 The 70s were a decade of steady expansion and Community Tuesdays 39 Stuart Grainger, who was Headmaster until 2003. Application Process for YRS 15 Concussion Information 40 ongoing renovation for the school. However, Conferences 16 Cellular Telephones 42 in 1980 Mrs. Hopkins died and the L. Doreen Today, the goals and mission of Bayview Glen are Exchanges and Hosting 16 Civvies Days 42 Hopkins Foundation took control of overseeing the championed by Eileen Daunt, who was appointed The Young Round Square Committee 16 Change of Address, Telephone Number and Email Address 42 furtherance of the founder’s dream. The barn was Head of School in 2003. Adventure Place -- Better Beginnings 16 Early Departures 42 closed, so a new, permanent facility was built in its The Learning Centre, Learning Strategist and Learning House Leagues 42 In June 2014, the new Bayview Glen Moatfield Campus Strategies 16 House System 42 place. There was still no room for an Upper School, was complete and officially opened by H.R.H. The Ontario Student Record 16 The Ill Child 43 which had become the wish of many parents. Duke of York. The new site includes a new Prep School, Ontario Student Transcript 17 Illness at School 43 As a result, space was leased from an engineering renovated Upper School, dining hall, recording studio, Study Skills 17 Lice 43 rooftop garden, fitness centre, yoga studio, learning Year-End Academic and Character Awards 18 Lockers 43 firm at 275 Duncan Mill Road. In 1985, four teachers, and a Grade 7 and 8 class made the initial move commons, and more. Gryphons Athletics 20 Lost and Found 44 Snow Day Procedures 44 into the renovated office space, tiptoeing around Throughout our history, Bayview Glen has offered a Athletic Mission 20 Transportation 44 How to Get Involved 20 the design staff who still occupied the bulk of co-educational, multicultural, community-focussed Uniform 44 the building. Throughout the rest of the decade, Mandatory Windsuit 20 Prep School Uniform Checklist 45 environment. We remain true to our mandate of one grade per year was added. In 1989, the valley Sports Teams 20 Additional Uniform Considerations 46 providing ‘a nurturing environment in which each 2018-2019 Athletics Teams 21 Vacations 46 property was sold and the Lower School moved to and every child is precious’. CISAA Code of Sportsmanship 21 Visitors 46 the Duncan Mill Campus. Team Awards 22 End of Year Athletic Awards 22 Memberships 47 Our National Anthem The Bayview Glen Land O Canada! Acknowledgement Our home and native land! True patriot love in all of us command. Giving a Land Acknowledgement recognizes that we are not the first occupiers of the land and that it Academics Car ton bras sait porter l’épée, was inhabited and cared for by Indigenous peoples Il sait porter la croix! for many centuries before the arrival of settlers. The Bayview Glen philosophy Whole Child, Whole is that students are responsible for their own Ton histoire est une épopée The following text is one of three of the Land Life, Whole World is at the core of a Bayview learning and that credit must be given to the ideas Glen education. It focusses on the educational and work product of others. In assigning work, Des plus brillants exploits. Acknowledgements that we use at Bayview Glen. It was developed specifically for our school by a local continuum from Preschool (age 2) through Grade 12, teachers will outline their expectations with God keep our land glorious and free! Indigenous artist and educator: engendering abilities and values that last lifetimes.