Année scolaire 2020 - 2021 scolaire Année & financières & générales Conditions General & Financial Conditions School Year 2020 - 2021 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2020 – 2021 1 SCHOOL CALENDAR 2020 – 2021 1st TERM: 26 August - 18 December 2020 Director General’s address to the Wednesday 26 August 2020 Foundation staff Pedagogical days Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 August Classes begin Monday 31 August Jeûne genevois Thursday 10 September (no classes at La Grande Boissière and Campus des Nations) Jeûne fédéral Monday 21 September (no classes at La Châtaigneraie) Half-term Monday 19 October through Friday 23 October Classes resume Monday 26 October Pedagogical day Friday 13 November (no classes) Classes end Friday 18 December (at 12 noon) Winter break Friday 18 December (at 12 noon) through Friday 8 January 2nd TERM: 11 January - 26 March 2021 Classes resume Monday 11 January 2021 Half-term Monday 15 February through Friday 19 February Classes resume Monday 22 February Pedagogical day Monday 8 March (no classes) Classes end Friday 26 March Spring break Monday 29 March through Friday 9 April 3rd TERM: 12 April - 25 June 2021 Classes resume Monday 12 April 2021 Ascension Thursday 13 and Friday 14 May (no classes) Whit Monday Monday 24 May (no classes) Pedagogical day Friday 11 June (no classes) Classes end Friday 25 June (at 12 noon) 2 General & Financial Conditions | School Year 2020 – 2021 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 2020 – 2021 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 before your child starts school. It must be updated every year and also in case any of the 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 prior completed or updated Student Emergency Card, unfortunately, children will 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 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. 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 2020 – 2021 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 of 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 their children as part of the online enrolment and re- students for certain events within the context of enrolment processes. Permission is solicited annually their school education. These images may be used in and, if granted, can be revoked at any time by writing school brochures or other publications, on the public to [email protected]. Irrespective of the website or in social media channels or displayed decision made, the School reserves the right to use around campus, for example on digital information images or recordings of all students for internal use screens or posters. We may also use video footage (for example: on the password protected part of the or web camera recordings during interschool website and publications to be distributed solely to conferences or educational projects. members of the school community, which includes parents, staff and alumni). From time to time, our campuses may be visited by the media who could take photographs, film Public events footage or make recordings. Students may appear in these images which may be issued in local, national Whilst we encourage spectators at our shows and and international newspapers, and televised or public events to refrain from recording them, to avoid broadcasted programmes. disturbing other spectators or the performers, such is the nature of our increasingly connected world that In the above circumstances, the following this practice has become commonplace. 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, telephone or fax 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 4. The permission to use images or recordings is for and to use such footage either to live-stream to the an unlimited