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No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. Notices: You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. A word of welcome at the start of term Dear pupil, You start a new school year in a new school. From this start of term, you are part of the "big ones". This implies new responsibilities and above all a greater personal responsibility, but at the same time, of course, many more opportunities, with new friends, to discover the world and life, to find your place in society – at school as well as beyond. All members of our school community will accompany you, together with your parents, to support you and advise you during your journey here at school. Nevertheless it belongs to you alone to learn and make your decisions; no one can take away this responsibility from you. On the other hand, the whole school community is committed to giving you all the possibilities and setting the framework that will allow you to grow in order that one day not that far away, when you have arrived at the age of maturity and acquired the knowledge, the skills and abilities needed, you will leave school full of self-confidence and succeed in life, professionally, socially and as a human being. Dear parents, You entrust your child in the care of our school. That is the place where it will spend five days a week and a good thirty hours at least. This is why it is obvious that we have the obligation not only to supervise and provide a quality education but also to do everything in our possibilities to see that it can learn with confidence, bring its ideas and personality to fruition, feel appreciated as member a big family and that it can discover its talents and wishes which will lead it to the choice of its school subjects and options and finally to the activity of which it may likely its profession afterwards. As a public school, we are also engaged on a human and social level. Your child is unique to us and we will respect it in its personality. On the social level, we will show it the functioning and values of our society. It will be able to participate actively in the development of our school community at class level as well as in the school parliament. To us, learning and being allowed to live democratic values is one major commitment of our school in order to guide your child towards an emancipated, courageous and confident life as a citizen. Table of Contents The School .................................................................................................................................. 7 School Coordinates ............................................................................................................................. 7 Our principles ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Addresses .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Teachers in Primary ................................................................................................................................................... 9 Teachers in Secondary ............................................................................................................................................... 9 MESA educational service .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Secretariat .................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Direction................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Staff’s phone numbers ............................................................................................................................................. 10 Email addresses of the various services and representative organs ....................................................................... 11 Consultations ................................................................................................................................... 11 Meetings with parents ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Consultations between teachers and parents ......................................................................................................... 11 Consultations between teachers and students........................................................................................................ 12 Consultations between MEAS carers and learners .................................................................................................. 12 Internal rules .................................................................................................................................... 13 Secretariat ....................................................................................................................................... 13 Opening hours of the secretariat to the public ........................................................................................................ 13 Official information by email ................................................................................................................................... 13 Rules in case of absence .......................................................................................................................................... 13 The day itself ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 Absence less than or equal to 3 days .................................................................................................................. 14 Absence longer than 3 days ................................................................................................................................. 14 After 5 days (for Secondary) ................................................................................................................................ 14 Authorization of exceptional absence ..................................................................................................................... 14 Students dropped off at school by parents.............................................................................................................. 14 Pharmaceuticals ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 Technical service .............................................................................................................................. 16 IAM - Identity and Access Management (Secondaire) ............................................................................................. 16 Office365 (Secondary) .............................................................................................................................................. 16 Eduroam (Secondaire) ............................................................................................................................................. 17 myCard ..................................................................................................................................................................... 18 The pedagogy of the EIMLB ...................................................................................................... 19 The Dalton Plan ................................................................................................................................ 19 A bit of history .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Principles and aims of DALTON pedagogy ..............................................................................................................