Purpose

The Jones County Public School system, its students, parents and staff work in partnership to support and improve teaching and learning through a variety of programs and activities promoting the safety and well being of all students. These efforts include:

• Improving instruction through effective reforms and best practices

• Promotion of wellness through good nutrition and physical activity and school-health programs

• Equipping children with knowledge and skills to make wise choices

• Maintaining safe learning environments

Whole School Whole Child Whole Community
The goal is to create students who are healthier, in school, in class, and ready to learn. Students who are healthier are more alert, more focused on learning, and miss less school. They not only learn better in every class, but they also learn lifelong healthy behaviors. It just makes sense. The education, public health, and school health sectors have each called for greater alignment that includes, integration and collaboration between education leaders and health sectors to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. Public health and education serve the same children, often in the same settings. The Whole School Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model focuses on the child to align the common goals of both sectors to put into action a whole child approach to education.

Useful Information

• Jones County Public Schools Safe Schools Plan for 2009-2012

• Jones County Public Schools Student Code of Conduct

• Sex Offenders

• Registered Sex Offenders Training Power Point

• The North Carolina Sex Offenders and Public Protection Registration Program

• Discrimination, Harassment, and Bullying

• Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying – Policy Code: 11710/4021/7230 Training Power Point

• Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying Complaint Procedure

• Documentation of Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying Complaint

• Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying – Request for Appeal of Investigative Findings

• Glossary of Terms

• What Parents Should Know About Emergencies at School

• Teens and Cyber Bullying

• What Parents Can Do About Cyber Bullying

• WSCC Model

• NCDPI WSCC Implementation

• WSCC Benefits & Impact

Useful Links from the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)

• www.ncpc.org (Provides information about stopping cyber bullying before it starts.)

• www.stopcyberbullying.org (Has a fun quiz for youth to rate their online behavior, information about why some people cyber bully, and how to stop yourself from cyber bullying.)

• www.wiresafety.com (Provides information about what to do if you are cyber bullied.)

• www.stopbullying.gov (Has information about what you can do to stop bullying.)

Jones County Public Schools Board Polices:

• 1510/4200/7270-School Safety

• 1510/4200/7270-R-Responding to Bomb Threats

• 1710/4021/7230-Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying

• 1720/4015/7225-Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying Complaint Procedure

• 1730/4022/7231-Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disabilities

• 4152-Unsafe School Choice Transfer

• 4210-Release of Students from School

• 4230-Communicable Diseases

• 4240/7312-Child Abuse-Report and Investigations

• 4260-Student Sex Offenders

• 5020-Visitors to Schools

• 5022-Registered Sex Offenders

• 5026/7250-Smoking and Tobacco Products

• 5027/7275-Weapons and Explosives Prohibited

• 5050-Emergency Closings