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Student Wellbeing

Student Welfare Policies

Curl Curl North Public School's Student Welfare Policies support student wellbeing across the school so that the academic and social needs of students are met through teaching and learning programs that support each student. These policies are the basis on which the happiness and success of students at school relies.

There are a number policies that are relevant to student wellbeing. They include:

• The School Discipline Policy
  This policy includes the school rules, strategies to promote discipline and effective learning, strategies for dealing with unacceptable behaviour and an anti-bullying plan.
• The Recognition and Achievement Policy
• The Reporting Policy

The School Rules

Our school rules only need common sense and care to ensure that the school is a safe and harmonious learning environment for everyone.

• Treat everyone with dignity and respect
• Always behave safely, considerately and responsibly
• Care for property belonging to yourself, the school and others
• Be at school, follow the rules, be polite, do what’s right!

The House System

The house system fosters trust, confidence and a team spirit among students, their house leaders and teachers. It applies in the sporting context as well as in and out of classrooms. A competition is run throughout the year and a progress report is given each week in assembly.

The Year 6 Prefect System

Curl Curl North is unique in that all year 6 students are prefects. This allows every student in their final year of primary school the opportunity to develop both personally and socially in areas such as leadership, responsibility and nurturing.

The students are rostered to assume various responsibilities and roles including the running and organising of the Year 3-6 Assembly each week, the collection and administration of the points system for the House, Class and Uniform Competitions and other duties that contribute to the smooth running of the school.

School Captains and Vice-captains are elected each year by the students and staff.

The Buddy Program

Year 6 and Kindergarten students are teamed up as buddies or partners from the beginning of each year. Year 6 students assist with the orientation and induction of the Kindy boys and girls and are involved in ongoing activities such as the Easter Hat Parade and the Teddy Bears’ Picnic as well as assisting in classrooms when time is available.

Strategies to Deal with Unacceptable Behaviour

The staff at Curl Curl North believe that collegial support and collective problem solving are essential elements of a successful discipline policy. There are consequences for unacceptable behaviour and discipline is corrective intending to stop misbehaviour.

A system of sanctions is in place for students who show serious or persistent behaviour problems. These behaviours may result in a “Yellow Card” being issued and a lunchtime detention supervised by a member of the executive staff. It should be noted that very few students at Curl Curl North are issued with a yellow card.

Anti-bullying Policy

This forms a key part of the school’s Discipline Policy. Teachers, students and parents need to share the same understanding of what bullying means and how to deal with it. There are many negative social situations that are not bullying.

Strategies to prevent and deal with bullying can be found in the policy. Go to the link below to view our Discipline Policy.

Cyber bullying

Technology has provided a new medium which can be used to attack, intimidate and reject others. Following are some practical tips for kids dealing with an online bully:

• Tell the bully in simple terms to leave you alone. Tell them not to contact you again. Log off immediately and stay offline for at least 24 hours. Report the incident to your parents. If it occurs at school or on your DET account, report the incident to your teacher as well.
• Do not reply to any future mail from the bully. Do not reply to taunts, emails or gossip written about you. By ignoring taunts, you take the power away from the harasser and refuse to play their game. You are now in charge. Report the incident.
• Never give your password or logon details to anyone, even your best friends. It's really easy for someone to log on to your Facebook, Bebo or MySpace site and post anything if they know your password. If you make a Wiki make sure it is locked and keep your password secure.
• Stay out of chat rooms.
• Keep all harassing emails (and any replies you've made) as evidence
• If you feel you are in physical danger or if the bully has made physical threats against you, tell your parents immediately and they can decide if it's appropriate to contact authorities.

The following information from the DET website is on cyber bullying

"Bullying, No Way"

The "bullying, No Way" website is an excellent resource for teachers and parents

Star Cards

The K-2 students are rewarded with star cards inside and outside the classroom. Star cards are awarded for good behaviour, being helpful and kind, improvement in any area and for being a coooperative class member. The star cards are collected and at the weekly assembly 2 cards are drawn from each grade. The winners receive an ice block award from the canteen.