2 WELCOME TO WEST SALISBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! The staff of West Salisbury Elementary School are pleased to have you as a member of our school family. Your time with us will be a pleasant and rewarding experience. West Salisbury Elementary School is a Title I school that instructs approximately 350 students in grades Prekindergarten-4 through 2nd grade. This handbook provides information that will answer questions you may have about school policies and procedures. We encourage you to read it and file it for future reference. We also welcome feedback from you that will help us make this handbook more “user friendly”. MISSION STATEMENT The mission of West Salisbury is to prepare students to be ready to learn, respectful to all, and become responsible and contributing citizens in our community and beyond. BELIEF STATEMENTS ✓ Student development is the foremost priority of our school. ✓ Education is multicultural. ✓ All students can learn and will be challenged to reach their full potential becoming confident, selfdirected, life-long learners. ✓ Each student is a valued individual with unique physical, social, emotional, cultural, and intellectual needs whose diversity and talents will be respected. ✓ Students learn in different ways and will be provided with a variety of effective instructional approaches to support learning. ✓ Challenging expectations increase individual student performance. ✓ Students learn best when they have appropriate opportunities for success. ✓ Positive relationships and mutual respect will be the norm between students, parents, educators and the community. ✓ A safe and physically comfortable environment promotes student learning. ✓ Students learn to make appropriate decisions given a supportive and challenging learning environment. ✓ Students need not only be able to demonstrate their understanding of essential knowledge and skills in meaningful ways, but also need to be involved actively in problem solving and producing quality work. ✓ Students, parents, educators, and the community share the responsibility for advancing the paired school mission. SCHOOL SCHEDULE 8:15 A.M. Students may enter the building 8:45 A.M. Instruction begins 3:15 P.M. School Dismissal Begins 3:45 P.M. School Building Closes
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