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.
Our school offers a wide variety of wellbeing programs.
- Second Step develops key social and emotional skills with students further supported through positive outreach programs delivered by external services.
- Resilience Doughnut Training provides a research-validated model and framework for building the emotional resilience and wellbeing of children and young people across a range of settings.
- Speech therapists work individually and with small groups weekly
- Sue Craig, a Child, Youth and Family Counsellor from Lithgow Information and Neighbourhood Centre (LINC) visits weekly to assist families and deliver the Circle of Security parent group.
- Our School Counsellor provides provides support to students and their families.
- Kindness projects.
Positive Behaviour for Learning
At our school, we use Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) – 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.
Student leadership
Student leadership helps young people find their voices, participate in decision-making, and understand their rights and responsibilities as active citizens. It helps students have a real impact on their learning and school environment and prepares them to participate meaningfully in their community.
Students can be leaders in the classroom, through their actions in the playground, through their support for others, or their involvement in academic, sporting, cultural or local community events or projects.
For more information about opportunities in NSW public schools, visit Student voice and leadership.
Our school's leadership programs is available for students in all year groups with student voice represented through our Student Representative Council.
