Freyberg Digital House Responsibilities

We believe in treating students with respect. However, respect is a two-way street and comes with responsibilities and expectations.

Responsibilities to maintain a clean environment:

​- No eating during class. Eat only during break times.
- No gum!
- Cell phone in your bag during class.
- Placing rubbish in the rubbish bin (even if it is not yours).
- Putting equipment back where you found it.
- Talking quietly with your neighbour when doing class work.
- Using deodorant outside to mask body odor (relevant for all of us, even the teacher!)
- Ensuring that equipment is treated with respect.
- Water only AND only in a drink bottle with a lid.
- "TOUCH THE BENCH!"
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Responsibilities to maintain a safe learning space.

- Be encouraging when others offer their opinion in class discussion.
- If you have an interesting thought, be courageous and share it.
- Ensure that others do not tamper with equipment or digital files that do not belong to them.
- Stopping others from using mean put downs and being overly critical.
- Do your best to accept constructive feedback from other people.
- Don't call out and don't talk over others during discussion
- Try to keep jokes friendly and not let them get mean.
- Speaking up when you have a problem with how you are being treated by others.

Responsibilities to learn
- Remain focused on learning at least 80% of the time in any given lesson.
- Ensure that you have arrived on time with the right equipment.
- Help others with their learning or encouraging them to focus on learning.
- Regularly backing up work and taking notes.
- Catch up on work that has not been completed in class time.
- Ask the teacher for assistance after asking a classmate.
- Starting assessments early and attempting to finish them well before the deadline.
- Recognise and eliminate barriers to your learning (phone, friends, games)
- Genuinely attempting all learning, even when it is difficult.
- Ensure that assessments you hand in are 100% yours and that none of it is copied from the web, friends, etc.