Code of Conduct

INTRODUCTION

Majestic Elementary is an excellent school where the administrators, teachers, students, and staff work together to create a clean, safe learning environment. As we work together, we will have an effective school where students feel confident, safe, and happy while they learn.

Majestic Mountain Lions use their PAWS: Practice Safety, Act Kindly, Work Hard, and Show Respect.

At Majestic Elementary Arts Academy, the following PAWS expectations will be followed:

I am a Majestic Mountain Lion. I use my PAWS in all I do.

Practice Safety — I practice safety. I make safe choices, follow directions, and help keep myself and others safe.

Act Kindly — I act kindly. I use caring words and actions, include others, and treat everyone with kindness.

Work Hard — I work hard. I try my best, stay focused, and keep going when learning is challenging.

Show Respect — I show respect. I listen to others, take care of our school, and treat myself, others, and our community with respect.

SAFE SCHOOL POLICY

The following conduct is considered dangerous and/or disruptive and is prohibited on school property at any time.

1. Possessing or bringing any potentially harmful item (including but not limited to guns, knives, weapons, explosives, poisonous items, or flammable materials).
2. Possessing or bringing any item that cannot be legally possessed by a juvenile (including but not limited to alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or unauthorized medication).
3. Possessing or bringing any facsimile of the items mentioned in #1-2 (including, but not limited to toy guns, pocket knives, drug paraphernalia, or items represented as drugs).
4. Attempting, threatening, conspiring, or committing any act that could result in harm to others or to the school (including but not limited to stealing, vandalism, assault, arson, sexual harassment, bullying, or gang-related activities).

RESTROOM CONDUCT

Students are expected to show good judgment and proper behavior in all restroom areas.

• Cleanliness and good healthy habits are very important. Always flush the toilet and wash your hands.
• Be considerate of the people using the restroom after you. Please leave it clean.
• Restrooms are not places to meet with your friends.
• Students who write on walls or damage restroom property will be expected to pay for those repairs and receive appropriate disciplinary action.

BIKES, SCOOTERS, SKATEBOARDS, ROLLER BLADES

The school cannot assume responsibility for stolen, lost, or damaged bikes or scooters. Majestic provides bike racks and cages to secure bikes and scooters. For added security, however, you will want to provide your student with a bike or scooter lock. Scooters must be stored in the bike rack. There is not enough space in the classrooms to store scooters. Students are not allowed to ride their bikes or scooters during school hours. They must walk their bikes or scooters while on school grounds and while crossing at the cross walks. Students are not allowed to play in or around the bike cages or climb on the fences.
SKATEBOARDS or ROLLER BLADES are never allowed at school due to the danger they pose and because of problems with storage. Few items of play equipment are more responsible for hurting or injuring children than skateboards. For this reason, we would ask you not to allow them to come to school with your student.

Motorized Scooters: We want all parents and students to be aware that motorized scooters are not allowed on school grounds per district policy. Students may bring scooters, bikes and skateboards to school, but students must walk their wheels on the school grounds. Thank you for helping us reinforce this policy.

BUILDING CONDUCT

Running in the school is not allowed. Students will be expected to leave and enter the building in an orderly, quiet and safe manner, using their proper doors. Students are also expected to walk to their activity areas in a line as directed by their teacher. Toys and any other items considered disruptive to the learning environment should not be brought to school.

SPECIAL PROGRAM CONDUCT

We have arranged for some special programs to come to our school. These programs are for the education and enjoyment of all the students. When we are in the auditorium, it is always for a special occasion. Students and parents should show respect to performers in the following ways:

1. Be attentive and remain quietly seated during the performance.
2. It is proper to show your appreciation for a job well done by politely applauding. (Neither whistling nor booing is appropriate).
3. Enter and exit the auditorium quickly and quietly at the direction of your teacher.

PLAYGROUND CONDUCT

Playground rules are necessary to contribute to the overall safety and enjoyment for the entire student body while enjoying recess:

1. Students should not play in the following areas:
   • Front lawns or sidewalks.
   • Any of the parking lots.
   • Black top areas that cannot be seen by the playground supervisors.
   • Bike racks.
   • On trees.
   • By or behind sheds or portable classrooms.
2. Balls, jump ropes, swings, slides, and other equipment should be used properly and safely.
3. Allow all students to participate in organized games (i.e. soccer, basketball, softball, etc.)
4. Contact games that include tackling, tripping, wrestling, or pushing will not be permitted at school.
5. Leave snow and rocks on the ground. Throwing objects of any kind is not permitted on the school grounds.
6. Sliding on the ice or lawns is not permitted.
7. Treat supervising adults with respect.
8. Fighting is not allowed on our campus. No one will be allowed to hit or otherwise abuse another student. Suspension may be given to students and they will be invited back pending a parent conference at school. When this becomes a repeated behavior, exclusion may be recommended to the district administration.
9. Appropriate language shall be used in and out of the building.

Snow Guidelines

1. Students cannot throw snow, snowballs or an ice chunk
2. Students cannot kick snow or ice.
3.  Students cannot put snow on another person.
4. Students can build shapes, towers, huge balls, and walls.
5. When students build structures or shapes, towers, huge balls, and walls students should show their Mountain Pride by respecting what others have built.
6. Students cannot expect the structures to be protected by the staff after their grade is off the field.
7. Students can lay in the snow.

It is advised that student don't eat the snow.

LUNCHROOM CONDUCT

Our lunchroom is designed to be a place where students can come and enjoy a meal with their classmates. While at lunch students are expected to behave in the following manner:

1. Show respect for the supervisors at all times.
2. Use an appropriate volume level when talking to friends. Yelling is not allowed.
3. Help keep the cafeteria clean by picking up all garbage around your table and on the floor. Never throw food or touch another student's lunch.
4. Never run in the cafeteria and don't switch places once you are seated.
5. All food and trash must stay in the lunchroom in order to avoid littering of the playground.

ATTENDANCE POLICY

Regular attendance is the key to academic success and is state-mandated. Students should be in school unless they are sick or otherwise incapacitated. Please call the school if your student is ill and you are keeping him/her home. Habitual absences and/or repeated tardies may result in disciplinary actions.
Students should arrive on campus no earlier than 8:30 a.m. unless they are participating in an early-morning activity or eating breakfast. For safety reasons, please don't send your students to school early. There is no supervision on the playground. Supervision begins at 8:25 am outside so for the safety of your child we ask that students do not arrive to school until 8:25 am unless they are eating breakfast at 8:20 am. Students will not be invited into the building unless weather is intolerable. Our staff uses this time to finish preparations for the school day.

Jordan School District's full attendance policy can be found in the Student Attendance and Teacher Disclosure Statements on the Jordan District website.

DRESS CODE

Majestic Elementary follows the Jordan District Dress Code that requires clean, neat, modest clothing. Students are expected to learn self-discipline and behave appropriately. If serious problems arise at school – the student, teacher, parents, school counselor, and administration work as a team to find the best solution for the student.

CHECKING-IN AND CHECKING-OUT

Our first concern is the safety of our students. Once students arrive on campus, they will not be allowed to leave except with a parent or a parent designee. To check your student out of school, report to the office and sign him/her out. Do not go directly to the classroom to check out your student. At no time will we allow a student to walk home.

CITIZENSHIP PLAN

Majestic Elementary School’s Citizenship Plan is focused on respect. It is based on the premise that teachers have a right to teach and students a have a right to learn. No one has the right to interfere with the teaching/learning process, nor violate the best interest of any individual in the school community.

This plan establishes a consistent, systematic approach to deal with both appropriate and inappropriate student behavior. Students are taught what is expected of them in the classroom, on the school grounds, on the bus, and in the common areas of the building. Students know the consequences for inappropriate behavior and the recognition for appropriate behavior.

This consistent, systematic approach enables each student to be secure in understanding the conduct expected of him/her for kindergarten through sixth grade. Each student is empowered to reach the worthwhile goal of self-discipline!

THE CLASSROOM PLAN

The first component in every classroom is positive reinforcement of proper behavior. Students are frequently recognized for displaying appropriate behavior. Following is a list of ways students may be recognized:

1. Positive praise.
2. Positive phone call or notes home.
3. Classroom/Grade Level rewards.
4. Good "Trips to the Principal.”
5. Good CitizenActivities.
6. Mountain Lion Pride tickets.

Each classroom will have rules and consequences posted. These rules will allow teaching and learning to take place.

THE PRINCIPAL'S PLAN

The focus of the administration is to recognize and encourage positive behavior. Students are sent to the office with good principal notes, and are encouraged to continue with their positive behavior. When a student is sent to the principal's office for negative behavior, it will be handled in the following manner:

1. Conferences with student.
2. Parent contact and/or conference.
3. Reflection Assignment.
4. In-School Suspension
5. Out-of-School Suspension.
6. Behavioral Contract.

Severe or repeated behaviors may result in more severe consequences. Fighting, vandalism, overt defiance, and stopping a class from functioning are all reasons that a student would be sent directly to the principal.

PHONE CALLS

We have a limited number of phone lines. Please talk with your child about what to do if the weather is poor. Students may only use a phone pass for emergencies.