At Kingston Elementary School CHARACTER COUNTS!
At Kingston Elementary School CHARACTER COUNTS!
This year at Kingston Elementary School we will continue to emphasize the Character Education program CHARACTER COUNTS! Character Education is a school-wide effort to create a community where positive traits such as respect and caring are modeled, taught, expected, celebrated and continuously practiced in everyday interactions. The Vision Plan for Educational Excellence written by community members, staff, students and the Board of Education during the spring of 2006 included six goals; one of which deals with the implementation of Character Education
Character Education is one of the fastest growing educational movements in the nation today. We believe that our school and our students’ academic achievement can be improved through a quality Character Education program. This year, we will start the year with friendship and then focus on the Six Pillars of Character from the CHARACTER COUNTS! program:
·August/September-Friendship
·October-Trustworthiness
·November-Respect
·December/January-Responsibility
·February-Fairness
·March-Caring
·April/May-Citizenship
Throughout the year, students will be involved in classroom lessons related to these traits, reading and discussing literature that focuses on these qualities, writing about them and participating in community service activities. Students displaying these traits will be recognized and awarded with mini-certificates. Names will be drawn, announced on our Morning News each Friday and small prizes awarded.
We thank you in advance for your support at home in building these behaviors and attitudes in your children. Not only will these qualities benefit our students during their school career, but in all aspects of their lives.
