Meadow Flat Public School

Opportunities for all students to succeed in their areas of interest.

Telephone02 6359 5259

Emailmeadowflat-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Student health 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:

For more information, visit the student wellbeing section of the department’s website.

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.

Student wellbeing

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.

The school is able to assist students with long or short term health conditions or illnesses by administering medications prescribed by doctors. All requests will need to be supported by the parent request for student health support application. 

All medications need to be clearly labelled and tablets in blister packs from the chemist. 

If your child is unable to attend school due to illness or a family commitment, you must either call the school or submit a digital leave form via the SkoolBag app. Alternatively a signed and dated note can be given to the classroom teachers.

Students must attend school every day, unless:

·         the student is too sick to leave the house

·         the student has an infectious disease e.g. chicken pox, mumps, measles or whooping cough. Refer to “Too Sick for School?” guideline.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/parents-and-carers/wellbeing/articles/too-sick-to-go-to-school

Positive Behaviour for Learning

At our school, we use Positive Behaviour for Learning – a whole-school approach for creating a positive, safe and supportive school climate where students can learn and develop. Our whole school community works together to establish expected behaviours and teach them to all students.