Code of Conduct
Bannister Creek Primary School aims at helping each student develop a sense of self-worth, pursuit of high standards and self-management skills. Trust, mutual respect, and dignity are key aspects to promoting a positive, safe, and supportive learning environment where values and virtues are integral to our school culture.
Our school community believes that:
- All members of the school community have the right to feel safe and secure in the school environment.
- Students have the right to learn, and teachers have the right to teach without disruptions from others.
STUDENTS
RIGHTS - Students have the right to:
- Learn in a purposeful and supportive environment.
- Work and play in a safe, secure, friendly, and clean environment.
- Be treated with respect, courtesy, and honesty.
- Be heard.
RESPONSIBILITIES - Students have the responsibility to:
- Ensure their behaviour is not disruptive to the learning of others.
- Ensure that the school environment is kept neat, tidy, and secure.
- Ensure that they are punctual, polite, and prepared.
- Display a positive manner.
- Behave in a way that protects the safety and wellbeing of others.
- Communicate issues and concerns to parents and teachers.
- Value and respect the whole school community.
- Follow school rules.
- Accept consequences for their actions.
STAFF
RIGHTS - Staff have the right to:
- Be treated with respect, courtesy, and honesty.
- Teach in a safe, secure, and clean environment.
- Teach in a purposeful and non-disruptive environment.
- Receive cooperation and support from parents.
RESPONSIBILITIES - Staff have the responsibility to:
- Model respectful, courteous, and honest behaviour.
- Ensure that the school environment is kept neat, tidy, and secure.
- Establish positive relationships with students.
- Ensure good organisation and planning.
- Report student progress to parents and students.
- Implement the school behaviour management plan.
- Know the school rules and incentive programs and show consistency when enforcing them.
PARENTS
RIGHTS - Parents have the right to:
- Be treated with respect, courtesy, and honesty.
- Be informed of course and curriculum material, behaviour management procedures and decisions affecting their child’s education, health, and welfare.
- Be informed of their child’s progress.
- Access a meaningful and adequate education for their child.
- Be heard in an appropriate forum on matters related to the rights of their child’s education.
RESPONSIBILITIES - Parents have the responsibility to:
- Model respectful, courteous, and honest behaviour.
- Ensure that their child attends school and is punctual.
- Ensure that their child’s health and welfare is at an optimum for learning.
- Ensure that their child has the materials to participate in all learning activities.
- Support the school in the education of their child.
- Value and respect other members of the school community.