Principal's Reports

Trivia Night:

Thank you to our Parents & Friends committee for all of their hard work organising such a great fundraiser and social event for our school community. Teacher's Table 1 were hot contenders for the win but were pipped by 2 points. Huge thanks also to Kate Stoll for being our Trivia Master and to our school office staff Kate and Amy for all the extra work they did to support P&F.

How to support your child under 16 with the new social media age restrictions:

From 10 December 2025, the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 will require social media platforms to:

· prevent children and young people under 16 from having a social media account

· deactivate or freeze existing accounts held by people under 16.

Delaying access to social media protects the health and wellbeing of young people and gives them extra time to build real world connections and digital literacy skills.

The responsibility will be on the social media platforms, not parents, carers, children or schools, to implement these new restrictions.

Most popular social media platforms will be age restricted. These include Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), Reddit and YouTube.

Messaging services and online games, as well as apps and platforms that support health and education, can still be used.

How to help under 16s prepare for the change:

Parents and carers play an important role in supporting their children to be safe online.

To help get under 16s ready for the social media minimum age requirements, you can go to the eSafety website to learn more about the social media age restrictions and find tips on how to talk about social media age restrictions with young people.

What the change means for our school:

At our school, all age-restricted social media platforms are blocked for student use on the school network.

To keep up to date about the new social media age restrictions, visit the eSafety website and subscribe to their newsletter.

Parent Opinion Survey:

We appreciate the feedback given to us by our parent community. We had about a 30% return rate. The survey results highlighted some real strengths and some areas where we need to do some more work to keep parents informed. One area of concern is the percentage of parents reporting that their child has not experienced bullying. This percentage is much higher than what our students themselves report so this raises some questions for us to investigate further. Parents are encouraged to discuss these issues with us at all times. We are really happy to see the high percentage of positive results for student connectedness, high expectations for success and confidence and resiliency skills.