Be a Bright Knight!

New Hope’s School-Wide Discipline Plan for 2022-2023 School Year

Strive to be Bright Knights!

• Our schoolwide discipline program is based on a point system and students must earn 85% of the month’s total points to earn Fun Fridays. We use Class Dojo to communicate and track student points. 
• The rules are as follows:

Be a BRIGHT KNIGHT!

Keep your hands, feet, and objects to yourself

Never give up

Include others

Give your best everyday

Have work completed

Talk only at appropriate times and places

Show respect for yourself and others at all times

• Every month teachers will tally points for their students. Students can earn 10 points a day. It is more positive to refer to them earning points. The consequences are as follows: warning, 10 minutes off recess or ½ of recess, miss all of recess (students will walk instead of play), timeout in another classroom and phone call to parent, and office referral. To earn Bright Knight rewards, a student must earn 85% of the month’s points. Students are not penalized for being absent as part of the discipline program. If a student misses days, the percentage needed for Fun Friday is 85% of their days present at school for that month.
• Daily notes will be sent home to parents in agendas and communicated through Class Dojo noting loss of point(s).

• At any time it is up to the teacher to determine if a student’s action warrants skipping consequences and resulting in a behavior referral.

               Students may get points taken from our media specialist, paraprofessionals on duty, specials teachers, lunchroom staff, and staff on duty during morning room and bus dismissal. Students should be on their best behavior at all times!