Guiding Principles
- The safety, dignity, privacy, and wellbeing of every student guide all decisions.
- Students are informed of the concern and given a reasonable opportunity to explain what happened.
- Physical punishment, humiliating treatment, discriminatory action, and collective punishment are not permitted.
How a Concern Is Addressed
- A staff member records or receives the concern and takes any immediate steps required to keep people safe.
- Relevant students and witnesses are spoken with separately, available information is reviewed, and confidentiality is maintained as far as reasonably possible.
- The responsible school authority considers the facts, the student’s age, intent, impact, prior incidents, and any additional learning or wellbeing needs.
- The student and parent or guardian are informed of significant findings, actions, and expectations for improvement.
- Follow-up checks are completed to support restoration, prevent recurrence, and confirm that agreed actions have been followed.
Possible Support and Consequences
- Reminder, reflection, restorative conversation, apology, counselling, skill-building, or an agreed behaviour plan.
- Loss of a specific privilege, supervised activity, correction of damage, parent meeting, written warning, or increased monitoring.
- For serious or repeated misconduct, temporary removal from an activity or class, suspension, or another action permitted by school policy and applicable rules.
- Where safety, safeguarding, or law requires, the school may contact appropriate authorities or specialist services.
Review and Re-entry
- A parent or guardian may request a review by the next designated school authority when material information was not considered or the process appears inconsistent.
- After a significant consequence, a re-entry plan may set clear expectations, support, monitoring, and a review date.
- Records are kept securely and accessed only by authorised persons for legitimate educational, safety, or legal purposes.