Information for Students

M-TEL has a tradition of excellence and the staff is ready to assist all students in the pursuit of this goal. Your teacher will work with you in setting educational goals throughout the year. You will be involved in the STARS (Strive to Achieve Reading Success) program, a school initiative that reflects our belief that regular focused reading improves literacy. We expect our students to:

• Strive to do their best academically;
• Attend all classes regularly and punctually;
• Complete all homework assignments as required;
• Be involved in co-curricular activities;
•  Follow the rules and regulations of the school;
• Adhere to the school uniform.
• Consider other people’s feeling,
• Be honest in all situations,
• Respect other people’s space,
• Ask permission to use other people’s property,
• Be just and fair to each other and try to understand why others act as they do,
• Pay attention when others are communicating with you,
• Express yourself with clarity
• Share your opinion with others,
• Respect the rights of others to disagree,
• Work in harmony for the benefit of all those involved, work together using critical thinking and problem-solving strategies,
• Assess a situation before making value judgments,
• Be flexible and willing to accept change
• Be polite with others, remember to say “please, thank you and excuse me!”
• Express your appreciation to others,
• Participate readily and be prepared for study,
• Take responsibility for our own actions,
• Be clean and neat and wear the appropriate school uniform during the class,
• Exhibit good conduct in canteen area and safety practices on school buses or at school organized activities,
• Do not move any classroom furniture unless you are told to do so.
• Keep your classroom clean
• Do not eat or drink, do not chew gum or sugar cane in the class and do not take any food into the classroom.
• Listen to teacher attentively.
• Do not interrupt anybody while speaking, when another student is answering a question, giving a report or an explanation. You should listen to him/her quietly and give them your attention.
• Treat the others, as you like to be treated
• Raise your hand before asking questions or to speak.
• Don’t leave your desk without permission.
• Poster, bulletin boards, or any other materials hanging on the wall is considered a property of the school and shouldn’t be written on or removed without permission.
• It is not acceptable to put up any sign, announcement or advertisement on boards without getting permission from the school administration in advance.

Under no circumstances you are given a right to do anything unrelated to the flow of the lesson.

M-TEL operates a closed campus. This means that all students are required to stay at school at all time during the school day.

DRESS CODE

M-TEL is a uniform school. It is the goal of every school to create an environment that is conducive to learning and is distraction free. The purpose of our uniform is to ensure student safety and build a sense of community.

M-TEL’s Uniform listed as below:

Regular School Year
School Uniform	Black Shoes
Summer  Enrichment Program (S.E.P)
S.E.P T-Shirt	Black Shoes

At M-TEL, students are expected to attend every day that the school is in session. Any absence not related to illness will be considered as unexcused. Attendance is taken during the first 15 minutes of period 1 and the administration is informed of absentees. If a student misses more than TWENTY days of school in one academic year, he/she maybe required to repeat the year.

If a student is to be away from school for unavoidable reasons, the homeroom teacher and the administration should be notified ahead in writing, or a phone call should be made to the administration. The students will receive a form to take to all teachers to get assignments to be done while away.

If a student needs to leave early for any reason, he/she must bring a note from home, and give this to the administration or secretary to receive the pass to give the guards at the school gate.

If the administrator determines that a student should be sent home, a leaving-campus pass will be issued to the student.

When a student returns after one or more days of absence, he/she must bring a written note from parents explaining the reason for the absence. This note is given to the homeroom teacher and later collected by the main office.

If a student is going to be absent for a period of time, the homeroom teacher and administration should be advised in writing. The student will receive a form to be filled by all teachers indicating assignments and materials covered.

M-TEL considers absences for any reason other than illness or emergency to be unexcused absences. When absent from school, students miss participating in discussions, working collaboratively in groups, asking and responding to questions, working with manipulative and other educational materials, interacting with the learning environment, exposure to the teachers instruction, and social interaction with peers. It is student’s responsibility to know about the homework given by his/her teacher from his classmates during his/her absence from school. It is not the teacher’s responsibility to remind student of missed assignments.

A student may be disciplined for repeated absences for reasons other than academic or medical reasons. Upon the student’s failure to comply with the attendance requirements, the school will conduct a meeting between administration, the student’s parent/guardian, and the student in an effort to resolve the attendance problem.

Students who are late for school must report to the main office upon arrival to get a late slip in order to be admitted into class. Repeated unexcused lateness may result in detention or other consequences.

Morning Time	Period	Afternoon Time	Period
8:00 – 8:50	PERIOD 1	2:00 – 2:50	PERIOD 1
8:50 – 9:00	BREAK #1	2:50 – 3:00	BREAK #1
9:00 – 9:50	PERIOD 2	3:00 – 3:50	PERIOD 2
9:50 – 10:00	BREAK #2	3:50 – 4:00	BREAK #2
10:00 – 10:50	PERIOD 3	4:00 – 4:50	PERIOD 3
10:50 – 11:00	PREP FOR HOME	4:50 – 5:00	PREP FOR HOME