Our Mission Statement
The mission of Brookwood Elementary School, where excellence and community involvement are traditions, is to prepare highly educated, creative, self-reliant students by providing a relevant, innovative education through the combined efforts of motivated students, a dedicated and caring staff, involved parents, and the effective use of community resources.

Our Bill of Rights
All students of Brookwood Elementary have the inherent rights:

•To work in a productive classroom.
•To be respected and to respect others.
•To have their personal property respected.
•To use a clean lavatory in a proper way.
•To attend a neat, clean, safe school free of vandalism.
•To play on a safe playground free from danger, teasing and rough play.
•To eat in a clean, orderly lunch room without being bothered by others.
•To work in a quiet media center and use books free from damage.
•To walk to and from school without being bothered by others.
•To walk in the building without being pushed, shoved, or having objects thrown at them.
•To take part in all school activities to the best of their abilities without being belittled.

State of Utah Office of Education

Our Code of Conduct
Attendance | Daily Schedule | Bicycles, Scooters, Skateboards and Rollerblades | Building Conduct | Checking In and Checking Out | Citizenship | Dangerous or Disruptive Conduct | Discrimination and Harassment | Dress Code | Educational Leave | Exclusion Policy | Homework | Lunchroom Conduct | Parking Lot Safety | Playground Conduct | Restroom Conduct | Special Programs | Telephone Use | Visitors | Volunteers
 
Brookwood is a wonderful school where students, parents, teachers, staff, and principal work together to create a clean and exciting learning environment. Working together, we can have a beautiful school where students feel safe and happy while they learn. Respect is a key word at Brookwood -respect for self, respect for others, and respect for property. Please keep this in mind as you review this Code of Conduct. This Code of Conduct is designed to be a guide for students and parents.

Attendance

Regular attendance increases the opportunities for students to be successful at school. Frequent absences or tardies disrupt the educational process. Students need to be in school, on time, everyday. Students should be in school unless they are or otherwise incapacitated. Please, if your student is ill and you are keeping him/her home, let the school know by calling 944-2962 before 9:00 am. If your child is too ill to go out for recess, he/she is probably too ill be at school. Any student staying inside during recess will need a note from a parent each day he/she needs to be confined indoors. Following an absence, a written excuse signed by the parent should be sent to the teacher. Students should arrive as close to 8:55 a.m. as possible. The teachers use the time before and after school for preparation. Students will be outside until 8:50am. It is difficult to monitor a child during this time. The exceptions are those students who have been invited by the teacher for a class, extra-curricular activities, or other special assignment. At the end of school we encourage the students to go directly home.
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DAILY SCHEDULE
8:55 a.m. -First Bell
9 :00 a.m. -Late Bell / School Begins
1:55 p.m. -School Ends On Friday *
3:35 p.m. -School Ends / Monday-Thursday
 
KINDERGARTEN A.M. SCHEDULE
8:55 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. / Monday-Thursday
8:55 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. / Friday
 
KINDERGARTEN P.M. SCHEUDLE
12:50 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. / Monday-Thursday
11:50 a.m. - 1:55 p.m. / Friday
 
*Important Notice*
Teacher planning/short day are Fridays, unless there is a short week. If the week ends on Friday, Friday is a short day (1:55). If the week ends on a Thursday, Thursday is a short day. If the week ends on a Wednesday, Wednesday is a short day. If the week ends on a Tuesday or Monday, there will be no short day for that week.

Snow Closure Guidelines and Emergency Communications Procedures

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Bicycles, Scooters, Skateboards and Rollerblades

The school cannot assume responsibility for stolen, lost or damaged bikes. Brookwood provides bike racks and cages to secure bikes. For added security, however, you might want to provide your student with a bike lock. Students are not allowed to ride their bikes during school hours. They must walk their bikes while on school grounds and while crossing at the cross walks. Also, students are not allowed to play in or around the bike cages or climb on the fences.

Skateboards, scooters, or Rollerblades 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 Rollerblades, scooters and skateboards. For this reason, we would ask you not to allow them to come to school with your student.

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Building Conduct

Running in the school is not allowed. Students should enter and leave the building from their grade-level door. Grade doors are secured during the day for safety and security. The main door is open before, during and after school and may be used when returning to retrieve items. Toys, electronic games, gum, and candy are not allowed.

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Checking In and Checking Out

Students are not allowed to leave the school grounds during school hours except with a parent or a parent designee. Please check your student out of school by sending a note to the teacher and then, at the agreed time, coming to the office to get the child. All students must be checked in or out through the office.

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Citizenship

Each child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe and without disruptive influences. It is expected that each child will act in a manner that allows all children the opportunity to learn. This requires responsible behavior in class, on the bus, walking to and from school, and in all school related activities. If situations occur where a student's behavior is so disruptive that it interferes with the learning and safety of others, appropriate action will be taken. Teachers have a responsibility to teach, encourage responsible, appropriate behavior and to deal with student misbehavior in their classrooms. Therefore, each grade will implement a set of rules based on the school's philosophy that children should be reinforced for appropriate behavior and receive consequences when necessary for inappropriate behavior. Every effort will be made to deal with problems fairly and in a manner that demonstrates respect for students. Principal intervention might include one or more of the following and will depend upon the seriousness of the offense, number of repeated offenses, and other mitigating circumstances:

•Principal/student conference
•Temporary denial of privileges
•Detention at Recess
•Time out in a designated area
•In-school/out-of-school suspension
•Principal/teacher/student/parent conference
•Restoration/restitution of damaged property

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Dangerous or Disruptive Conduct

The following conduct is defined as "dangerous or disruptive conduct" and is prohibited on school property, at school-sponsored activities and while traveling in school-funded or school-dispatched transportation.

1. Possessing (regardless of intent), using, selling or attempting to possess any firearm, weapon, knife, explosive device, fireworks, chemical weapon, martial arts weapon, or other instrument including those which eject a projectile or substance of any kind, or any replica or facsimile of any of the above, whether functional or nonfunctional, whether designed for use as a weapon or for some other use. This includes toy knives, toy guns, and squirt guns.

Possessing a Facsimile of a Weapon May Result in 180-day Suspension from School
Students and parents are reminded that a new federal law prohibits the use or possession of a weapon or a facsimile of a weapon on school premises.  The most popular facsimile of weapons to date include the popular Air-soft guns. The law is very clear that students possessing a facsimile of a weapon at school, regardless of intent, may be suspended for 180 days.

2. Causing or attempting, threatening or conspiring to cause damage to personal or real property, or causing or attempting, threatening or conspiring to cause harm to a person, through:
a. Drugs or alcoholic beverages.
b. Sexual harassment.
c. Arson- the willful and malicious destruction of any part of a building or its contents or occupants by use of fire or explosives.
d. Burglary- breaking, entering or remaining in a structure without authorization during the hours when the premises are closed to students.
e. Larceny or Stealing- the intentional, unlawful taking and/or carrying away of property belonging to/or in the lawful possession or custody of another .
f. Criminal Mischief- willful or malicious injury or damage in excess of $200.00 to public property or to real or personal property belonging to another.
g. Battery- the unlawful and intentional touching or striking of another person against his or her will.
h. Assault- placing another person in fear or apprehension of a harmful or offensive touching, whether or not touching is actually intended.

3. Involvement in any activity which violates federal, state or local law or regulation, disrupting normal school proceedings, or causing or attempting, threatening or conspiring to cause other students to violate federal, state or local law or regulation or to disrupt school proceedings, or attempting, threatening or conspiring to do any of these.
 
4. Laser pointers, toys, electronic games, pagers, phones, and stereo equipment are not allowed at school.
 
5. The use of foul, profane, vulgar or abusive language is prohibited.

6. Possession of a cellular telephone by a student is a privilege that may be forfeited by any student that uses their cell phone inappropriately. A student who possesses a cellular phone shall assume responsibility for its care. At no time shall the District be responsible for preventing theft, loss or damage to cell phones brought onto school property. Cellular telephone use during classroom time, instructional activities and field trips is prohibited. Cellular telephones must remain off during these times. Exceptions to this policy may be granted by school administration on a case by case basis to accommodate family emergencies or medical necessity. Students violating these guidelines will be disciplined in accordance with District Policy AS 67 Discipline of Students.

7. Any use of an electronic device that exploits personal information, disrupts the educational process, invades personal privacy or
compromises the integrity of educational programs is strictly prohibited. Students violating these guidelines will be disciplined in
accordance with District policy AS67—Discipline of Students.
 
Violations of any of the above may result in suspension or expulsion from school.

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Discrimination and Harassment

Jordan School District is committed to providing an educational environment that is free from illegal harassment and other forms of discrimination based upon sex, race, color, ethnic background, national origin, religion, gender, creed, age, citizenship, or disability.
1. Discrimination: Conduct, including words or gestures and other action, which adversely affect a student's learning environment or results in disparate treatment based upon their immutable characteristics such as sex, race, color, ethnic background, national origin, religion gender, creed, age, citizenship, or disability.
2. Harassment: Unwelcome conduct of an offensive nature that is demeaning or derisive or occurs substantially because of the race, color, ethnic background, national origin, religion, gender, creed, age, citizenship or disability and which creates a hostile educational environment.
3. Students who participate in discrimination or harassment and students who witness but do nothing to prevent the behavior or alert an adult will be subject to disciplinary action.

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Dress Code

Students shall dress in a manner that shows respect for the educational environment and is befitting the day’s activities. Students’ clothing and jewelry must not present a health or safety hazard or distraction, which would disrupt the educational mission. Disruption is defined as reactions by other individuals to the clothing or adornment, which causes the teacher/administrator to lose the attention of the students, to modify or cease instructional activities, or to deal with the student confrontations or complaints.
1. Items that disrupt the educational mission shall not be allowed. Personal items such as clothing, paraphernalia, jewelry, backpacks, fanny packs, gym bags, water bottles, etc., shall be free of writing, pictures, or any other insignias, which are crude, vulgar, profane, violent, or sexually suggestive.
2. Items which bear advertising, promotions and likeness of tobacco, alcohol, or drugs or which are contrary to the educational mission, shall not be allowed.
3. All students shall maintain their hair, mustaches, sideburns, and beards in a clean, well-groomed manner. Hair, which is so conspicuous, extreme, or odd that they may draw undue attention, disrupt, or tend to disrupt, interfere with the learning atmosphere at the school, shall not be allowed.
4. All students shall wear clean clothing. Clothing, jewelry, accessories and piercings which are so conspicuous, extreme, or odd that they may draw undue attention, disrupt, or tend to disrupt, interfere with or pose a health or safety issue to the learning atmosphere at the school, shall not be allowed. Pajamas are not appropriate for school activities.
5. Student shall not wear clothing that are mutilated, cut off, or immodest, e.g., short shorts, mini skirts, bare midriffs, halter-tops, spaghetti straps, tank shirts, or similar clothing. Clothing shall cover the midriff, underwear, backs, and cleavage at all times. Skirts, dresses and shorts must be at least mid-thigh length or longer when seated.
6. Military clothing or insignias which are part of the official uniform of the U.S. Armed Forces are not to be worn except where authorized by law. (Wearing of the military uniform is regulated by provisions of Title 10, UCS 771-772, and Army Regulation 670-1 29-4).
7. Hats of any kind are not allowed within the building except as part of an approved activity, or for religious, or medical purposes.
8. Possession of a cellular telephone by a student is a privilege that may be forfeited by any student that uses their cell phone inappropriately. A student who possesses a cellular phone shall assume responsibility for its care. At no time shall the District be responsible for preventing theft, loss or damage to cell phones brought onto school property. Cellular telephone use during classroom time, instructional activities and field trips is prohibited. Cellular telephones must remain off during these times. Exceptions to this policy may be granted by school administration on a case by case basis to accommodate family emergencies or medical necessity. Students violating these guidelines will be disciplined in accordance with District Policy AS 67 Discipline of Students.
9. School officials may require students to wear certain types of clothing for health or safety reasons in connection with certain specialized activities.
10. Gang-related clothing, colors, and paraphernalia shall not be allowed in schools or activities. School officials will determine what constitutes “gang” clothing, colors, and paraphernalia after consultation with law enforcement agencies as needed.
11. Shoes shall be worn at all times that insure personal safety and hygiene. Flip-flops are not appropriate for school activities.

http://www.jordandistrict.org/pdf/aa419final.pdf

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Educational Leave Guidelines

1. A student may be counted present up to 10 days (maximum for Travel/Vacation in any one year.
2. Parent/Guardian must make homework arrangements with the teacher at least one week prior to the absence.
3. The student will receive a comparable number of days to complete homework in order for absences to be considered excused. Example: If a student is absent five days, homework will be due 5 days after the end of the vacation.
4. Students who take educational leave will be disqualified from receiving awards associated with attendance (100% attendance awards, etc.).
5. Parent must use the Student Request for Educational Leave form for 3 or more days. This form is available in the office.

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Exclusion Policy

Jordan School District students and employees are entitled to a learning/working environment which is free from unlawful and violent acts. Students whose action pose a threat to the health and/or safety of a student or staff member shall be suspended and/or excluded from school (Board Policy AS 67).

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Homework

Homework is an important part of each student's education. Most students will have homework each day. Homework is designed to help reinforce difficult concepts, practice what has been learned in class, complete work that was assigned class and give students opportunities to explore new concepts and skills. In addition, homework is used to help the students learn responsibility. Most often students will be able to complete homework on their own. Occasionally, parents will need to help with homework. Please allow your child to be responsible for their homework. Please do not write notes excusing your child from completing homework or classroom consequences.

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Lunchroom Conduct

1. Show respect for lunch workers and supervisor at all times.
2. Loud voices are not to be used in the cafeteria.
3. Students will help keep the cafeteria clean. Be responsible for your area. Never throw food or touch another student's lunch.
4. Students will always walk--NEVER RUN in the cafeteria.
5. DO NOT take food, milk cartons, cans, bottles, or straws out of the cafeteria.
6. Please take everything you will need for recess with you to the lunchroom, including coats and playground equipment. Students will not be allowed to go through the halls after they have arrived at the lunchroom.

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Parking Lot Safety

The students' safety is the primary concern in our parking lots. Our slogan is "Safety Over Convenience". Be patient when picking-up or dropping-off students. We encourage you to use other areas around the school to alleviate congestion: the church parking lot, west of the school, Snowbird Drive, or Snow Mountain Drive (we have a walk-way in the back of the grounds). Please note that the lane closest to the school is for busses only. When you enter the lot, form a single line and as the cars move forward, move with them. Students being picked up at the front of the school are required to wait by the school until the car picking them up moves past the Kindergarten door. After you have collected your riders, carefully pull into the exit lane to leave. If it will take some time to load or unload passengers, or if you need to come into the school, please park on the east side of the lot or on Snowbird Drive. Please observe the directions from the Student Safety Patrol and the Parent Parking Patrol (PPP).
During peak traffic hours--approximately fifteen minutes before and after school-- we ask that all pedestrians use the crosswalk. We request that all adults, as well as students, observe this rule. Parking along the west side of the parking lot in front of the school is allowed during school hours; however, please be aware that this area is off limits immediately before and after school when this area becomes the drop-off and pick-up lane.

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Playground Conduct

No area on our campus poses a greater risk to the students well being than the playground. We would like to review some rules that will help keep you safe and contribute to the overall safety and enjoyment for the entire student body:
1. Playing will not be permitted in the parking lots, near windows and entry ways, on the front lawns or sidewalks.
2. All students will be allowed to participate in organized games (soccer, basketball, etc.). Games will not be "locked."
3. Contact games which include tackling, shoving or pushing will not be permitted on the playground. Tackle football and hard ball are not allowed.
4. Snowballing, snow-sliding, white-washing and rock-throwing are prohibited in all areas on the playground. Students are not allowed to stand or slide on the top of the hill when it is covered with snow.
5. Students are not allowed to leave school grounds to retrieve playground equipment.
6. Students will treat all supervising adults with respect and follow their directions at all times.
7. Fighting will not be tolerated at anytime on the playground or in the building. Possession of knives, guns, drugs, alcohol, or tobacco is in violation of our district policy and is reason for expulsion.
8. When swinging, students will not twist chains, swing double, or jump out.
9. Walking on, jumping over, or sitting on the wall surrounding the kindergarten playground is not allowed.

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Restroom Conduct

This is an area of our school where each student is expected to show good judgment and proper behavior. You are expected to act in the same way you would in your bathroom at home. Cleanliness and good health 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. Do your visiting somewhere else.

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Special Programs

Assemblies and other programs in the Kiva or auditorium are designed to enhance a child's education. It is a privilege to participate. Please observe the following guidelines:
1. Show respect to the people performing by being attentive, remaining quiet and staying seated during the performance.
2. Show appreciation for a performance by applauding in a polite manner. Please, no whistling or booing.
3. Enter and exit quietly.
Those who choose not to follow these guidelines will be asked to leave the program.

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Telephone Use

School phones are not for student use, except in emergencies. A note or pass from the teacher allows a student to use the phone.

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Visitors

All visitors must report to the office. If you are going beyond the office, you will be asked to wear a visitor pass. This is for the safety of our students. If you have family or friends visiting, they cannot attend school with your child.

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Volunteers

We welcome volunteers to our school. Please make sure to record your hours in the volunteer book. No children (babies or toddlers included) are allowed in the teacher workroom. We are unable to accommodate anyone other than adult volunteers on field trips. Please find a sitter for your other children when you are volunteering. It is very distracting for the class when other children are in the classroom.

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