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Annual Privacy Reminder
Annual Privacy Reminder
Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy
Please take time to remind yourself of the school’s collection statement, found on our website. For more information about privacy, see: Schools’ Privacy Policy – information for parents.
COVID-19 UPDATE
Dear Parents,
All schools take their lead and act on advice from the Department of Education and Training. Planning for all possible contingencies often happens quickly after advice from the Victorian Chief Health Officer and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Government school closures are not at the principal’s discretion. School closures will be made on the recommendation of Victoria’s Chief Health Officer. Once this occurs, DHHS will inform DET, who will then work with the school to implement the closure. I will inform parents via COMPASS as soon as any decision is made.
Below I have listed the most current information I have and how Kismet Park will proceed into the future.
Following direction from the department the following school activities are cancelled or postponed:
- GRIP Leadership Conference on 17/3 – postponed
- Regional swimming on17/3 – postponed
- Interschool Athletics on 19/3 - postponed
- P-2 Cross Country on 20/3 – postponed
- 3-6 Cross Country on 25/3 – postponed
- Easter Bonnet Parade – cancelled
- Colour Run on 27/3 – postponed
- School Assemblies are cancelled until further notice.
*Details of future activities will be confirmed as further advice is received from the Department of Education.
You may find the video below useful on talking to your children about the current situation. https://schooltv.me/wellbeing_news/special-report-coronavirus
REMINDERS
- Everyone arriving into Australia is now required to self-isolate for 14 days. If this is your child, yourself or a visiting relative you must not visit the school or pick up children during this period of time.
- Some children’s anxiety may be heightened by things they see and hear. Please try to keep adult conversations between adults and avoid watching sensationalized news programs when little children are around. The staff will talk about these feelings in their classrooms.
Thank you to everyone for their support. These are challenging times, but in the end we are all working to ensure the safety and wellbeing of not only our staff, students and families but the wider school community as well.
As new information is made available to me I will keep you updated as quickly as possible
Kind regards
Glenn McConnell
Principal
ENROLMENT FORMS
Our school zone
Our school zone is available on findmyschool.vic.gov.au. Findmyschool.vic.gov.au hosts the most up-to-date information about Victorian school zones for 2020 onwards.
Students residing in this zone are guaranteed a place at our school, which is determined on the basis of your permanent residential address.
The Department provides guidance through the School Placement Policy to ensure that students have access to their designated neighbourhood school and the freedom to choose other schools, subject to facility limitations.
You can find more information and answers to frequently asked questions on the Department’s website under School zones.
Read MoreCompass Guide
Please see our Compass Guide to help navigate your way through our parent portal.
COMPASS GUIDE
Term Dates
PLEASE FIND ATTACHED 2019, 2020 & 2021 TERM DATES
https://www.kismetparkps.vic.edu.au/uploaded_files/media/term_dates.pdf
2020 & 2021 Victorian School Term Dates
2018 KPPS Annual Report
Please click on the link below to open our 2018 Annual Report. Our Annual Report provides an overview of our achievements during 2018 along with a summary of school improvement initiatives being introduced throughout 2019.
CHILD SAFE STANDARDS
KISMET PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL
STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT TO CHILD SAFETY
Kismet Park Primary School is committed to child safety and implements policies and procedures that support our leadership team, staff and volunteers to achieve commitments outlined in Ministerial Order No. 870 (available at www.vrqa.vic.gov.au/childsafe ).
Our community is committed to the safety, participation, happiness and empowerment of all children, supporting and respecting all children, staff, volunteers and members of the wider community. We are committed to:
- the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- the cultural safety of children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds
- providing a safe environment for children who are vulnerable or who have a disability.
At Kismet Park Primary School there is zero tolerance of child abuse. All allegations and safety concerns are treated very seriously and consistently with our policies and procedures.
We are committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early to remove and reduce these risks. We have human resources and recruitment practices for all staff and volunteers. Our school is committed to regularly training and educating our staff and volunteers on child abuse risks.
Ministerial Order No. 870 (available at www.vrqa.vic.gov.au/childsafe ) states that Child abuse includes;
a) Any act committed against a child involving -
A sexual offence; or
An offence under section 49 B (2) of the Crimes Act 1958 (grooming); and
b)The infliction, on a child, of –
Physical violence; or
Serious emotional or psychological harm, and
c)Serious neglect of a child.
At Kismet Park Primary we meet our legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about a child’s safety. Please speak with Cynthia Schumann, our Child Safety Officer if you have concerns about the welfare of any child.
You can access the key policies on our Child Safe page in the Parent Information section of our site.
Help Your Child Achieve
One way to help your child achieve at school is to work together with your child’s teacher. The parent-teacher partnership takes work from both sides to become a reality. Click on the link to see some ideas that will help.
Compass App
Kismet Park Facebook Page
Keep up to date with happenings at Kismet Park Primary School www.facebook.com/kismetparkps
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