Welcome to the 2023 - 2024 School Year​

Schedule

8:50 AM                                  Warning Bell

8:56-10:30 AM                       Instruction

10:30-10:50  AM                    Recess

10:50-12:10 PM                      Instruction

12:10-12:55 PM                      Lunch Break

12:55 PM                                Warning Bell

1:00-3:00 PM                          Instruction

Teachers will meet students outside at a designated location at the beginning of the day as well as at other transition times. Students will be dismissed from the same location.

Safety First – Safe Arrival Program

Student safety is our top priority at Lynn Valley. The home-school partnership is critical to ensuring the safety of our students.

Safe Arrival Callback systems are in place for both the morning and the afternoon attendance. If your child does not arrive on time for school, and we are not aware of a planned absence, a staff member at the school will attempt to contact you, or any of your approved emergency contact numbers. Please do your best to ensure that your children are at school, ready to start their school day by 8:50 AM each morning. 

If your child(ren) will be absent or late arriving at school, there are two ways you can let our office know.

1          School Messenger App

We ask that you use this App as a first choice as it is the most effective and efficient way for staff to access expected student absences.

2          Phone the school number

604-903-3620 and press 1 to leave a message if your child will be away from school or arriving late due to an appointment. Please include your name, your child's name, and teacher's name or division in your message.

Supervision

All students are encouraged to arrive at school shortly before the 8:50am bell in the morning. Parents should be aware that there is no supervision of students on the playground prior to the start of school. There is no supervision of students provided after the 3:00pm bell.

Independence Starts Here

In order to foster independence, parents are encouraged to say goodbye to students outside the school. Please allow children to enter the school on their own, through the doors closest to their classrooms.

Additionally, please arrange a family meeting spot where your children will meet with the person collecting them at the end of the day.

Litter

As a litter-free school, all students are asked to keep litter in their pockets or to use the trash cans provided throughout our playgrounds. We are now composting food waste and encourage students to take garbage and packaging home. Please support our goal of becoming a “litter-free school" by using re-usable containers as much as possible.

Smoking and Vaping

For the safety and air quality of students, adults who smoke or vape, are asked to refrain from doing so on our school grounds. Bylaws are in place throughout North Vancouver that make it illegal to smoke or vape anywhere on school grounds.

Bicycles, Scooters & Skateboards

We encourage students to walk or ride their bikes to school. Once on school property, bicycles should be walked to racks and locked during school hours. Scooters should be walked or carried into classrooms and put away. The school accepts no responsibility for lost, damaged, or stolen bikes, skateboards and scooters.

Please ensure that helmets are worn by students riding bikes, scooters and skateboards. Safety first.

Valuables

Please do not bring valuables or precious items to school. Our staff is not able to safeguard items, nor are we able to replace anything that is lost, stolen, or broken. The school is not responsible for any lost or damaged valuables.

Students with cell phones, and personal listening devices are asked to ensure that these items are put away in backpacks once students arrive on the school grounds.

Appropriate Attire

School is a place of work for students, staff members and teachers. We request that students dress appropriately to learn and play when they come to school.

Volunteers

We are grateful to parents and community members who are able to work in classrooms or volunteer in the school. Please be reminded to sign in at the office and receive a visitor's tag to wear while in the building, or on the school grounds.

Volunteer training and a confidentiality declaration is required by all parents who volunteer in the school. Training sessions will be offered in the fall or can be arranged with the school principal.

Parents are asked not to be on the playgrounds during recess and lunch breaks as this makes supervision more difficult for staff members.

Parking Lot

Please respect the signs indicating “Staff Parking" and do not park in the parking lot. Please do not use the parking lot as a drop off area for students. Street parking is available on Institute Road and Mountain Hwy.

​Medication

School staff members are not authorized to administer any medication to your children without appropriate paperwork signed by your physician. Students who require daily medication at school, as well as those who require Epi-Pens or other physician prescribed medications for emergencies, need to have a “Medication Management Plan" in place. These forms are available at the office.

Meeting with Teachers

Teachers welcome communication with parents and work hard to establish strong partnerships between home and school.

Your child's teacher may not be available for impromptu conversations or phone calls before and after school due to meetings, coaching, classroom preparations, or prior commitments. Please schedule a time to meet with a teacher. Teacher contacts can be found on our school website.

Field Trips

Field trips are intended to extend and enrich the learning that takes place in the classroom. Costs associated with field trips are charged to students in the classes taking the field trips. Arrangements can be made to support your family so that your child does not miss a field trip for financial reasons. Please contact the Principal directly if there is a financial hardship in your family.

Weekly Events

At the end of each week, a “Weekly Events" list will be sent by email detailing specific events and activities for the upcoming week and important information. Please ensure that our office staff has the most updated email addresses. Our website will also be updated regularly with the most currently available calendar of events.

Code of Conduct

North Vancouver School District's Code of Conduct has been established to maintain a safe, caring, accessible, and healthy learning environment.

It is the shared responsibility of students, staff, parents/guardians, and the broader community, to demonstrate positive conduct while attending any school or district related activity, at any location. 

 All members of the school community are expected to:

• Support learning and attendance.
• Demonstrate safety.
• Respect property, environment, personal space, and privacy.
• Model courtesy, compassion, and respect.
• Value diversity.
• Treat self and all other members of the school and broader community respectfully.
  

All members of the school community must refrain from engaging in any in-person or digital communication or participating in behaviour that is considered to be:

• Interfering with the learning and working of others.
• Bullying, harassing, intimidating, retaliating, discriminating or violent.
• Unsafe or illegal; including the possession, use, or distribution of illegal or restricted substances or the possession of weapons or replicas.
  

All members of the school community are expected to:

• Comply with the purpose and spirit of the BC Human Rights Code, including not engaging in discriminatory conduct based on Indigenous identity, race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age of that person or that group or class of persons.

• Wear clothing that does not promote or symbolize illegal substances or activities, hate or discrimination, profanity, pornography; or that incites violence, harassment, or threatens safety.
• Leave personal digital devices at home, in their bag/backpack, and/or in their locker during instructional time. Allowances may be made by the staff for instructional purposes, digital literacy, appropriate use based on age and developmental stage, accommodations within a student's Individualized Education Plan, accessibility, medical and health needs, and/or equitable support for learning outcomes.
  

Every effort will be made to support individuals and to determine the root causes of behaviour. If the safety or educational program of others is compromised, or if there is an ongoing failure to meet the expectations of the Code of Conduct, a range of consequences will follow. Whenever possible, incidents will be resolved by discussion, community service, restorative processes, referral to counselling and/or support services, mediation, and restitution, but may involve loss of privileges, detention, suspension from school, and/or collaboration with community partners. Confidentiality will be maintained; however, school officials may have a responsibility to advise other parties of serious breaches of the Code of Conduct (e.g. school district officials, law enforcement, and/or other agencies, etc.).

The school will take all reasonable steps to prevent any form of retaliation against a student or staff member who has brought a complaint forward of a breach of the Code of Conduct.  

Factors such as the severity and frequency of the concerning behaviour(s), as well as the age, maturity, and ability of the person(s) involved, will be considered. In most cases, as people mature, there is the expectation of increased responsibility and self-discipline; therefore, progressively increasing consequences for concerning behaviour may apply.  

Considerations apply to those who may not be able to adhere to the Code of Conduct due to having a disability of an intellectual, physical, sensory, emotional, or behavioural nature. ​​

All members of the North Vancouver School District community have the right to be treated fairly and consistently and should know and understand this Code of Conduct.

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