By Mrs Anna Hardy, Acting Deputy Principal

Week 8 of Term 3 is Child Protection Week. Below are some activities that will be taking place in the College during the week.  We have been randomly selected to participate in the survey.  Students will complete this at school during PC time and we ask that parents also partake in the survey.  The link will be provided in the coming weeks.

Child Protection Week (1-7 September 2019) - Activities

The safety and wellbeing of students is something that we care about deeply. As part of Child Protection Week there will be a number of activities occurring in our school, as well as other schools across the Diocese. These include:

• Lessons from the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum for students in Prep – Year 9
• Presentation of a 4-minute video that was filmed with students from our Catholic schools, called “It’s OK to Speak Up”. This video encourages students to tell someone about any worries they may have.
• Display of Child Protection Week posters
• Some schools will be randomly selected to participate in a survey of staff, students and parents about student protection matters. This state-wide project is being coordinated by the Queensland Catholic Education Commission and 17 of our schools will participate.

We encourage parents to use this week to promote safety messages with your children. Further information will be provided closer to Child Protection Week.