Our school collects information about students and their families when necessary to:
- educate students
- support students’ social and emotional wellbeing, and health
- fulfil legal requirements, including to:take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of reasonably foreseeable harm to students, staff and visitors (duty of care)
- make reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities (anti discrimination law)
- provide a safe and secure workplace (occupational health and safety law)
- enable our school to:communicate with parents about students’ schooling matters and celebrate the efforts and achievements of students.
- maintain the good order and management of our school
- fulfil statutory functions and duties
- plan, fund, monitor, regulate and evaluate the schools policies, services and functions
- comply with reporting requirements
investigate incidents in schools and/or respond to any legal claims against the school.
Primary purposes of collecting information about others
Our school collects information about staff, volunteers and job applicants:
- to assess applicants’ suitability for employment or volunteering
- to administer employment or volunteer placement
- for insurance purposes, including public liability and WorkCover
- to fulfil various legal obligations, including employment and contractual obligations, occupational health and safety law and to investigate incidents
to respond to legal claims against our school
When do we use or disclose information?
Our school uses or discloses information consistent with Victorian privacy law, as follows:
for a primary purpose – as defined above
for a related secondary purpose that is reasonably to be expected – for example, to enable the school council to fulfil its objectives, functions and powers
with notice and/or consent – including consent provided on enrolment and other forms
when necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to:a person’s life, health, safety or welfare
the public’s health, safety or welfare
when required or authorised by law – including as a result of our duty of care, anti-discrimination law, occupational health and safety law, reporting obligations to agencies such as Department of Health and Human Services and complying with tribunal or court orders, subpoenas or Victoria Police warrants
to investigate or report unlawful activity, or when reasonably necessary for a specified law enforcement purpose, including the prevention or investigation of a criminal offence or seriously improper conduct, by or on behalf of a law enforcement agency
for Departmental research or school statistics purposes
to establish or respond to a legal claim.
You consent for the school to add your contact number/s to the relevant WhatsApp group, this is to keep you informed about the school activities. Time and again we have a change in timings communicated either in advance or through WhatsApp group. We encourage Parents / Guardians to keep monitoring this group to stay informed.
Punctuality in pick up and drop is taken seriously by the school. We require all students to be dropped off and signed in on time and picked up / signed out in time as well.