Student heath and safety
We are committed to ensuring a safe and happy environment for your child.
We support your child’s health and safety through a range of strategies including:
- the behaviour code for students, which outlines the standards of behaviour expected in all NSW public schools
- anti-racism education
- anti-bullying programs
- conflict resolution and mediation training
- peer support
- road safety education
- the Healthy School Canteen Strategy.
For more information, visit the student wellbeing section of the department’s website.
At North Rocks, we take the time to make sure that our community knows that bullying is not accepted in our school. Please read our Anti-Bullying Plan (PDF 180KB) for more information.
Like all NSW public schools, we promote the healthy development of students through:
- school programs and practices that protect and promote health and safety
- supporting individual students who need help with health issues
- providing first aid and temporary care of students who become unwell or who have an accident at school.
Like all NSW public schools, we provide safe learning and teaching environments to encourage healthy, happy, successful and productive students.
The department is committed to creating quality learning opportunities for children and young people. These opportunities support wellbeing through positive and respectful relationships and fostering a sense of belonging to the school and community.
The Wellbeing Framework for Schools helps schools support the cognitive, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development of students and allows them to connect, succeed and thrive throughout their education.
We know that a 'one size fits all' approach to education does not work in responding to learner diversity, educational outcomes and educational complexity.
This concept is further developed by John Hattie (2015) in What doesn't work in education: The Politics of Distraction" June 2015.
Hattie outlines that students thrive in schools that have high-impact instructional leaders who:
- know and engage, formally and informally in classroom observations each year
- use data with teachers to inform decision making
- insist teachers collaborate in planning and evaluating programs across grades
- insist teachers have high expectations of their students, both academically and socially
- insist and know that the staffroom and classroom atmosphere is conducive to learning for all students
- insist and know that student and parent/carer voice is essential in addressing learner diversity.
The Wellbeing Framework for Schools is a contemporary strengths-based approach so that every student in NSW public schools can connect, succeed and thrive at school and beyond.
Schools play a very important role in supporting, enhancing and building the wellbeing of every child. Wellbeing contributes significantly to the learning outcomes of children and young people in our schools. It builds resilience, facilitates self-determination and participation.
Wellbeing enhances our self-worth, self-awareness and personal identity. Every staff member has an important role in contributing to the wellbeing of the children and young people in their school.
For further information, see the following pages: