Severna Park Middle School Fosters
A Safe and Orderly Learning Environment
Severna Park Middle continues to work very hard to ensure a safe school environment that is free from disruptions and distractions. It is the responsibility of each of us - parents, students, and staff members - to create a secure learning environment for all students.
Following are what we do to ensure student safety:
- Maintaining an eight member School Safety Team to assess our strengths, identify areas of safety that need to be improved, and implement a plan to strengthen our safety
- Keeping all outside doors locked during school hours
- Requiring identification of adults picking up children during school hours to be scanned by the Raptor System, a visitor tracking system.
- Having a supervised, designated parent drop off and pick up area behind the school, away from the bus traffic
- Maintaining a Volunteer Greeting table at Exit 17 to sign in visitors and direct them to approved locations
- Requiring all visitors to sign in
- Requiring staff members, substitute teachers, and all visitors to display appropriate identification badges
- Having walkie-talkies throughout the building for regular and emergency communications
- Communicating to all staff written emergency and crisis plans
- Communicating clear expectations for appropriate school bus behavior
- Sharing expectations for prompt and consistent attendance
- Enforcing zero tolerance for drugs and weapons
- Enforcing an appropriate dress code that limits distractions and supports a positive learning environment
- Responding immediately to all tips of inappropriate behavior and involving students in immediate interventions (Anger Management, Peer Relations, Conflict Resolution, etc.) as deemed appropriate.
This page was last updated on October 24, 2008