Rules & Regulations

General Rules

The following rules are required to be strictly adhered to:

• *** Maintain punctuality for all the students along with teachers and staff strictly. Not allow to take leave without prior written information to the HOI. Absentees should be maintained regularly.Teachers and staff are not allowed to sign the arrival and departure at a time in the attendance register. Nobody can do the any type of business in the school premises and nobody can sell or take the prohibited drugs, tobacco, cigarettes, alcohol and even the betel nuts. “Clean and Green School” is our theme. 

• Pupils must attend the School regularly and punctually. Late-comers will normally be sent back home.
•  A clean and neat uniform must be worn at all times. Pupils in dirty or untidy uniforms may not be allowed to attend classes. Pupils of Classes V to X must wear the Karate uniform on the days they have Karate.
• Pupils are not allowed to attend School when sick and/or suffering from an infectious disease. Any pupil found appearing for a class work/test with an infectious disease will have her class work/test cancelled.
• Pupils must complete their homework regularly.
• Pupils are required to address their teachers and all other members of teaching and non-teaching staff with due respect and politeness. They are expected to behave always in a proper manner, befitting the dignity of the School.
• Students should always participate in all co-curricular activities and cultural functions.
• No pupil is allowed to leave the School premises earlier than the scheduled leaving hours.
• Pupils necessarily will be allowed to leave only with their guardians or escorts, on production of their identity cards. No pupil will be allowed to leave alone.
• No book, periodical or newspaper of any objectionable nature shall be brought to School.
• Pupils are not permitted to wear watches or gold jewellery and to carry with them any expensive valuable objects to School.
• Any change in the pupil’s profile, including change of address, phone no. Mobile no. etc. should immediately be informed in writing. For change in address, the application must be signed by both parents/guardians.
• Pupils are to bring their own tiffin, avail the mid-day meal from the kitchen of the school as per Mid-day meal distribution rules and guidelines. 
•  No programme or party is to be arranged in the School without prior permission of the authorities.
• It is not possible for the School personnel to deliver individual articles (water bottle, tiffin box, sweater, etc.) to the classroom of the concerned pupil if for any reason she has forgotten to bring it. Kindly ensure that the pupil is carrying the required articles.
• Girls must wear only BLACK or white rubber bands or hair bands. Use of no other colour will be allowed.
• Plastic water bottles without straps and metallic water bottles (now available in the market) are not allowed.
• Students need to take permission in writing, to carry a camera to photograph the school activity in or outside school. They are not allowed to upload any such photograph (On the social media). Any student indulging in such an activity on the social media will face disciplinary action.
• Hair must be regularly trimmed. It must not cover the forehead or touch the collar. Girls may tie their hair in neat ponytails or plaits.
• Students should never be cruel and should know that cruelty is the trait of a bully while kindness is the mark of a gentleman. Bullying is strictly prohibited inside the school premises and no such act will go unnoticed or unpunished. Depending on the gravity of misconduct, punishment will be given as per Government of West Bengal's guidelines.

• Pupils should always accept and complete whatever work is assigned to them.

• Pupils should face difficulties  courageously and confidently.

• Pupils should always be ready to lend a helping hand at home to their parents, brothers and sisters; in school to teachers, companions and any unattended visitor whom they happen to meet on the school premises.
• Pupils should never cheat, be unfair, steal from others or borrow others’ belonging without taking permission.
• Pupils should stand when any teacher or visitor enters the classroom.
• Pupils should be truthful.
• Pupils should respect the aesthetics of the classroom and of the school premises and report any damage caused, to the teachers.
• Students should never hesitate to say ‘NO’ when asked or tempted to do a thing, which they know is wrong.
• Students should respect the liberty and rights of others
• Students should keep their classrooms clean and take care of the school furniture.
• Instead of lamenting and grumbling over the evils of the world they should try to contribute in making the world a better place to live in.

• Students should look upon people from all parts of the world and all walks of life as their brethren irrespective of their caste, colour and creed.
• Pupils should not waste their time in idle gossip.
• Pupils should take pride in wearing their school uniform. They should not wear the school uniform in any public place outside school, without prior permission.
• No shouting or whistling is allowed in or around the school building. Running in corridors is strictly prohibited.
• Students must not litter classrooms, subject rooms, laboratories, office room, portico, verandas and corridors.
• Throwing things outside the window, physically hurting anyone inside the classroom, in the corridor or outside the school, throwing any object at anyone is strictly forbidden.

Discipline

Students belonging to the younger age groups require to be handled with considerable tact and patience. In Onda Girls' High School, we believe in firm but empathetic handling instead of corporal punishment in order to instil discipline.

Guardians are to note that:

• Special emphasis is given to inculcate a high degree of discipline amongst the pupils. Any kind of disobedience or objectionable behaviour may result in the removal of a pupil from the School.
• Strict action may be taken if School property, including library books, is willfully damaged or destroyed. In such cases, a heavy fine may also be imposed.
• Use of unfair means in any test / exam will result in the annulment of one’s entire term result. A pupil, who renders unfair assistance to another, will be equally liable for punishment.
• A friendly attitude is to be maintained with classmates. Strict disciplinary action, like suspension, may be taken against any pupil who fights with others and causes injury to them. Pupils injurious to the moral tone of the School may have to be withdrawn.
• Guardians are requested not to permit their wards to be absent from the School except for illness or other equally valid reasons.
• The school would like the parents to maintain a rapport with the teachers. Parents are advised to meet the Headmistress, the President or the teachers according to the schedule given below after taking prior appointments. All appointments should be routed through the school diary.

Absence

• Pupils, absent from School, must produce a letter and an entry in the Regularity Record of their School Diary by their guardians explaining the cause of absence.
• A formal letter, accompanied by a medical certificate, is necessary in case of sickness for over three days. If there be an appointment with a doctor, the pupil must not be sent to the School on that day.
• Pupils afflicted by infectious diseases or exposed to such diseases must complete the QUARANTINE PERIOD of 15 days before rejoining School. A medical fitness certificate by the attending physician must be handed over to the class teacher at the time of rejoining the classes.
• All leave applications, addressed to the Headmistress, clearly stating the name of the pupil, class, section and session, should be deposited at the office or class teacher.
• Irregular and insufficient attendance may prevent promotion. Minimum attendance must be 75% of the number of School days.
• Willful absenteeism before any test / exam without grant of leave is strictly discouraged as the absentees miss valuable revision lessons and helpful suggestions, entirely to their disadvantage. Thus such pupils may be debarred from taking the respective examination.
•  due to certain emergencies, a student has to leave the school campus during school hours by her own risk, the following rules have to be observed    :  Give a written application to Headmistress or (in her absence )T.I.C.,  then sign the School Leaving Register. 
• In case of ailment during Block Tests, guardians are to see the Headmistress (during visiting hours only) with the leave applications and necessary medical certificates etc.