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Année scolaire 2021 - 2022 scolaire Année & financières & générales Conditions General & Financial Conditions School Year 2021 - 2022 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2021 – 2022 1 SCHOOL CALENDAR 2021 – 2022 1st TERM: 25 August - 17 December 2021 Director General’s address to the Wednesday 25 August 2021 Foundation staff Pedagogical days Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 and Friday 27 August Classes begin Monday 30 August Jeûne genevois Thursday 9 September (no classes at La Grande Boissière and Campus des Nations) Jeûne fédéral Monday 20 September (no classes at La Châtaigneraie) Half-term Monday 25 October through Friday 29 October Classes resume Monday 1st November Pedagogical days Thursday 25 and Friday 26 November (no classes) Classes end Friday 17 December (at 12 noon) Winter break Friday 17 December (at 12 noon) through Friday 7 January 2nd TERM: 10 January - 8 April 2022 Classes resume Monday 10 January 2022 Half-term Monday 14 February through Friday 18 February Classes resume Monday 21 February Pedagogical day Monday 14 March (no classes) Classes end Friday 8 April Spring break Monday 11 April through Friday 22 April 3rd TERM: 25 April - 24 June 2022 Classes resume Monday 25 April 2022 Ascension Thursday 26 and Friday 27 May (no classes) Whit Monday Monday 6 June (no classes) Classes end Friday 24 June (at 12 noon) 2 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2021 – 2022 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 all 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. In particular cases the School reserves the right to extend this probationary period. • 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/or 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 suspend temporarily or exclude permanently a student who does not respect the school rules. General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2021 – 2022 3 ENROLMENT CONTRACT – GENERAL CONDITIONS Suspension and Exclusion The School may suspend temporarily or exclude permanently 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. Student Emergency Card and health information All children attending school are required to have health and accident insurance coverage. The Student Emergency Card must be filled out online as soon as your child starts school. It must be updated every year and also in case any family details change (address, contact number, insurance, etc.). From the beginning of the school year, students will participate in field trips and outdoor activities. Without a completed or updated Student Emergency Card prior to this, children will unfortunately not be able to participate. Personal Liability The School is not liable for material damage or injury to others caused by your child even if the event takes place on school grounds. Your personal liability, covered or not by an insurance, will apply in such situations. 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 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. 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. 4 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2021 – 2022 ENROLMENT CONTRACT – GENERAL CONDITIONS Data protection Ecolint may collect community members’ personal data relating to enrolment, tuition or fundraising activities. It respects the Swiss data protection legislation as well as the European general data protection regulations and treats the information about its students and parents as strictly confidential. Ecolint commits not to sell or make this information available to third parties. This data is exclusively used for internal, statistical or fundraising purposes. You can find our detailed data protection and privacy policy on our website under www.ecolint.ch/privacy Policy for the use of images and recordings of students by the School The School may wish to photograph, film or record enrolment processes. Permission is solicited annually students for certain events within the context of their and, if granted, can be revoked at any time by writing school education. These images may be used in school to [email protected]. Irrespective of the brochures or other publications, on the public website decision made, the School reserves the right to use or in social media channels or displayed around images or recordings of all students for internal use campus, for example on digital information screens (for example: on the password protected part of the or posters. We may also use video footage or web website and publications to be distributed solely to camera recordings during inter-school conferences or members of the school community, which includes educational projects. parents, staff and alumni). From time to time, our campuses may be visited by Public events the media who could take photographs, film footage or make recordings. Students may appear in these Whilst we encourage spectators at our shows and images which may be issued in local, national and public events to refrain from recording them, to avoid international newspapers, and televised or broadcasted disturbing other spectators or the performers, such is programmes. the nature of our increasingly connected world that this practice has become commonplace. In the above circumstances, the following conditions of use of images and recordings of students apply: Parents/guardians of students who participate in events which are open to the public (e.g. school 1. Personal details or full names (first name and concerts, dance shows, theatrical productions, sports surname) will not be disclosed on pictures or matches, end-of-year exhibitions) acknowledge that alongside a picture or recordings (of a minor) Ecolint cannot prevent third parties from using their without the express permission of a parent or own image recording devices (e.g. smartphones, legal guardian. tablets, digital cameras) to capture images of students. Parents equally acknowledge that Ecolint 2. Personal details such as email addresses, postal has no control of the usage made of these images or addresses or telephone numbers will not be recordings by third parties. disclosed. Sports fixtures 3. The School will only use pictures of appropriately dressed students. It should be noted that it has become standard practice for many schools to film sports matches and to use 4. The permission to use images or recordings is for such footage either to live-stream to the internet or to an unlimited period of time. Archived images and share on social media channels such as YouTube and recordings can be used by the school. Facebook. In agreeing for their children to take part in competitive sports against other schools, parents/ 5. The School will not sell images or recordings guardians acknowledge that their children’s image to third parties. may be recorded and used in this way and that Ecolint 6. The School will not pay students for images can take no responsibility for the use made of images or recordings. and recordings by third parties whilst our students are engaged in school-related activities in a location Parents/guardians are asked to give explicit consent outside of our campuses.