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As valuable partners in promoting and maintaining child safety and wellbeing at William Ruthven Primary School, we welcome and encourage your feedback. If you have any suggestions, comments or questions in relation to our child safe policies and practices, please contact the Principal, Donald Eddington via email, donald.eddington@education.vic.gov.au.
Student safety at Wiiliam Ruthven Primary School is our highest priority and the safe and appropriate supervision of students is an important element of our duty of care to students. Part of this duty is ensuring parents and students are aware of our student supervision arrangements before and after school.
Before school: School grounds are supervised from 8:40 am until 8:50 am. Students are not to use the oval before school as this area is unsupervised. (If students arrive between 8:20 am and 8:40 am, they will supervised by a teacher in the library space.)
After school: School grounds are supervised from 3:00 pm until 3:10 pm. Students are not to use the oval after school as this area is unsupervised.
Students on school grounds outside these times will not be supervised (unless they are attending a after school care program or supervised extracurricular activity).
Parents/carers are requested to ensure that students do not attend school outside of these supervised times unless they are attending after school care, or a pre-arranged supervised activity (i.e. sports practice).
Families are encouraged to contact OSH Club on 0478 100 412 or refer to https://www.oshclub.com.au/vic/william-ruthven-primary-school for more information about the after school care facilities available to our school community.
If you would like any further information about our student supervision arrangements including a
copy of our school’s Yard Duty and Supervision Policy, please contact the school office on 9460 1668. This policy includes William Ruthven Primary School’s student supervision arrangements across the school day, including before and after school.
The Yard Duty and Supervision of Students policy will be communicated to our school community in the following ways:
Related Department of Education and Training policies
The Yard Duty and Supervision of Students policy will be updated if significant changes are made to school grounds that require a revision of William Ruthven Primary School’s yard duty and supervision arrangements.
