Student Well-Being

Escarpment View Public School is committed to creating and maintaining a safe, caring, respectful and inclusive learning environment that is free from bullying. We model model behaviour that inspires empathy, respect and positive connections and place a strong emphasis on Kindness, Connection, and Community. We believe that every student has the right to feel safe and have a sense of belonging at EVP. We monitor our student’s feeling of safety and sense of belonging at school through conversations, observations, and the annual Have Your Say Survey. 

Educators uphold every student's right to learn in environments that are safe, inclusive, respectful and free from bullying, discrimination, harassment and racism. Educators recognize and uphold the distinct Rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis students, while ensuring that all students experience learning environments where their identities, cultures, languages and lived experiences are respected. Caring adults strive for classroom conditions that are physically, emotionally, culturally and psychologically safe by building authentic relationships, modelling respectful interactions, emotionally validating students' experiences, and responding consistently and compassionately to reports or observations of bullying, discrimination and exclusion. Every disclosure is treated as a vital opportunity to strengthen trust by listening without judgment, affirming the student’s experience, and upholding their right to be heard and protected from reprisal through timely, compassionate and appropriate action. Through daily interactions, educators explicitly teach, model and reinforce prosocial behaviours such as kindness, perspective-taking, respectful communication, conflict resolution and responsible bystander behaviour. Educators work proactively to identify and address individual, interpersonal and systemic barriers that contribute to bullying, discrimination and exclusion.