We ask for your support and diligence, parents and guardians, in ensuring that Stirling remains a safe and caring place.  Your children’s safety is our priority; however, keeping children safe goes beyond the school boundaries and is everyone’s concern and responsibility.   

At school, the following safety measures are in place:

• • Security cameras outside
  • All exit doors are locked
  • Visitors report to the main office;
  • Staff use walkie talkies when outside with students for direct communication with inside the school
  • Staff wear fluorescent coloured safety vests while outside on supervision so that they are more easily seen by students;
  • Continue our relationship with Toronto Police Services;
  • Implemented a Peer Mediation Program
  • Continuing with our character development program
  • Have a number of in-school programs focusing on social skills - Primary and Junior Boys to Men; Junior Girls to Women; Intermediate Girls Club
  • Conduct regular fire and lockdown drills
  • Continuous review with students concerning school rules/policies and the kinds of precautions they can take to safeguard themselves
  • Encourage students to walk to and from school with a buddy partner

Safety supports you can provide at home include:

• • Reviewing street proofing tips with your children – helping them to know what to do if they find themselves in an uncomfortable or dangerous situation.
  • Maintaining daily conversations with your children concerning their school day, particularly when they leave to go home
  • Picking up your child on time at lunch and at dismissal
  • Stressing the importance of your children going straight home when dismissed at the end of the day
  • Ensuring that your children do NOT bring game cards, toys, and bicycles to school in order to avoid the risk of theft
  • Ensuring your children do NOT bring any kind of gun replica to school, such as water guns, bibi guns, cap guns, etc. 

Personal Computer/Internet Safety Rules to Review with Your Children

Never give information out on the network that someone could use to find you in person e.g., your phone number and home address.

• Never give out information about anyone else unless you have their permission and you know that the information will not be used to harm them e.g., YouTube
• Never share your personal password with anyone
• Do not pretend to be someone else or use another person’s account on the network.
•  If a message, a picture or anything else you see on the computer makes you uncomfortable, tell the teacher or a parent/caregiver immediately.

  TDSB computers are not to be used for any purpose that is illegal, pornographic, hateful material, threatens someone or is obviously offensive to an individual or group. 

Unacceptable Sites and Materials

TDSB computers are not to be used for any purpose that is illegal, pornographic, hateful material, threatens someone or is obviously offensive to an individual or group.

Results of Misuse

Before any student has used the Internet at school, they have returned a signed copy of the TDSB Internet Acceptable Use Policy -  the Code of On-line Conduct. We have ensured that students understand that they are responsible for what they choose to view, read, and respond to. As a result, they are to avoid inappropriate activities on the Internet. Failure to do so will result in a loss of this privilege.