Mobile Phone Policy Reminder

Your child is not allowed to use their mobile phone or any personal digital device while they’re at school. This ban applies during class, recess and lunch. 

Mobile phones must be off and away in a student’s bag for the entire day. Students must not use their phones until they have left the school grounds. Phones will be confiscated and given to the Deputy Principal and parents contacted. 

Exemptions may be applied for through the Principal for health reasons. 

 Improper use of Digital devices: 

• If a staff member has good reason to suspect that a student has been using a digital device inappropriately during the class, the staff member has the right to take the device from the student.
• The digital device will be given to the Deputy Principal and kept until the end of the school day.
• A record will be kept of the students whose devices have been confiscated. 

Collection of the device will be according to the following criteria: 

First offence –The device may be collected by the student from the Deputy Principal at the end of the school day.  

Second offence -The device may be collected from the Deputy Principal at the end of the day by a parent/carer.

Third offence -The device may be collected at the end of the school day by a parent/carer of the student.

Further disciplinary action will take place through the Deputy Principal. 

Further offences will result in use of the school behavior code and suspension policy.

Emergency Contact 

Students must not call home to be collected when sick; students must report to Office A 

• If a parent or caregiver needs to contact a student at school because of an emergency, they are required to call the school’s main office, and a message will be sent immediately to the student. 
• If a student needs to make emergency contact with parents/caregivers, they can do so through the school’s main office.