Mentioned in our weekly update this past Monday, the second week of school involves teaching the expectations for the BE NICE part of our school mission. Our school mission statement is simple and to the point: Be Nice • Work Hard • Learn Well. While working hard and learning well are constant companions of academic settings, establishing guidelines for friendship, play and day-to-day communications at school are different from other settings.
At Georgetown, we not only want all children to welcome one another, we also want to make sure that children know how to identify when they are teased or bullied. In addition, we want to teach children how to respond to teasing or bullying done to them or to others.
We have a common set of lessons that we teach throughout the week in grades K-5. We call them the BE NICE • BE SAFE lessons. Each grade modifies these to meet the development needs of their class. Also, these lessons serve as a kick off to lessons that occur throughout the year. At the end of the week, your child will bring home a school pledge to share with you. Our hope is that you will go over this with your child and sign it and return it to school next week. The BE NICE BE SAFE lessons are below. Please feel free to review this with your child.
