Student wellbeing

The safety and wellbeing of our students is paramount. To alleviate some concerns about safety issues at the end of the day at the Junior and Senior School gates, we ask that all parents please do the following:

• When possible, please park further away from Shelford and walk up to Hood Crescent for student collection.
• Where appropriate, please encourage students to walk/bike/scooter/take public transport to school.
• If your daughter is in JDC (Prep–2) please collect your daughter from her classroom
• If your daughter is in Junior School, Year 3–6, please collect her from the Junior School gate (Gate 3) not from across the road.
• If your daughter is in Senior School, please do not double park in Hood Crescent. Following pick-up, please continue driving slowly (less than 40km per hour) with an awareness of the Junior School gate, to ensure the safety of Junior School parents and students crossing Hood Crescent.
• Please do not park in the Doctor’s surgery car park or our staff car park.

Thank you in advance for your support of these measures which will help to ensure the safety of our students and their families at the end of each school day. 

Resources 

 Article: Children’s sleep: 20 frequently asked questions 

The FAQs at the following link will provide answers to all you ever wanted to know about children’s sleep – suitable for young people 3–18 years old. 

Article: 50 questions to ask your teens 

Author Daisy Turnbull’s new book is about ‘helping teens become kind, fully functioning adults’. In this extract she explores the question, What can you (parents) help with?   

Pauline Cutajar

Deputy Principal – Student Wellbeing and Development