AP 156: Remembrance Day
Background
The Superintendent expects the Principal to arrange appropriate Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Procedures
- Principals shall ensure that they are in compliance with the Remembrance Day Act, specifically:
- arrange for a remembrance ceremony that will encompass at least the time period from 11:00 a.m. to 11:05 a.m., or
- ensure the observance of 2 minutes’ silence from 11:00 a.m. to 11:02 a.m.
- If a ceremony referred to in subsection 1.1 is held at a school, all pupils shall either attend the ceremony or remain in the school, silent, during the ceremony.
- In the event Remembrance Day falls on a day on which the school is not open, the board shall comply with subsection (1) on the school day immediately preceding Remembrance Day.
- The ceremony will apply the protocols defined in Administrative Procedure 155.