Right to Disconnect

Communication between school and home comes in many different formats but one of our major forms of communication is via email.

Our wonderful and dedicated school staff are very good at communicating with parents about concerns or information about our students as needed.

As some of you may be aware, Fair Work Australia as of the 26th August will be introducing a new act that gives employees the Right to Disconnect outside of their designated work hours. This is a great step forward to ensure the wellbeing and mental health of all workers in Australia.

As a result of the Fair Work Act, St Andrew's will now be implementing email and communication policies in line with this. As a school, our policy on returning emails is that emails are responded to within a 48 hour time frame and within the hours of 8.00am-4.45pm. This will be added to the email signature of staff as a reminder.

This will apply to our school staff as well, when communicating with each other.

We know there are many times that parents need to email school staff due to many family and work commitments, which can continue as normal, but please allow staff 48 hours to respond, between the designated hours. With this new act, as a school we will be enforcing this with our staff, so we thank parents for your continued support as we transition to this change. Policies will be added to our school website, under the Policy tab, when finalised.