However, if your child does need to bring a mobile phone or other digital device for a family reason, it must be handed in to their classroom teacher upon arrival at school (before 8.50am) for safekeeping. The device will then be available for collection after 3.00pm. Your child is not allowed to use their phone on the school grounds unsupervised. Cybersafety agreements will be issued to all students this term. Parents will also be provided with cybersafety information.

We ask parents/caregivers to carefully monitor their children’s use of social media, email and messaging accounts. Unfortunately, we have had to deal with some irresponsible and disrespectful use of digital devices in the past which has occurred outside of school hours. This behaviour has a negative effect on student relationships and interferes with our learning programmes. We appreciate your vigilance and support with this issue.

The Year 7 Boostrix immunisation and the first dose for the Year 8 HPV immunisation will be administered on Thursday 21 March. This will be followed by a second dose for the Year 8s on Thursday 19 September.

Students will be bringing home a form that needs to be completed and returned even if you do not want your child to receive this immunisation at school.