2023 Key dates & Policies

Key Dates & Information

Annual privacy reminder for our school community

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 read our school’s collection notice, found on our website Publications & Policies - School Policies - Strategic Plan - Sandringham College 

We ask parents to also review the guidance we provide on how we use [Microsoft 365/COMPASS safely at the school and what parents can do to further protect their child’s information. If after reviewing the guidance, you have any questions or concerns regarding your child using [Microsoft 365/COMPASS], please contact the school.

For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in ten community languages:

• Amharic
• Arabic
• Dari
• Gujarati
• Mandarin
• Somali
• Sudanese
• Turkish
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

[Note that the parent guidance documents links  from the paragraph above are for the department provided version of M365 and Google. Schools can use these or link to their own guidance, whichever applies.]

COLLEGE AMBULANCE ATTENDANCE POLICY

1. Purpose & Rationale

At times of accidents or illness Sandringham College may be required to call an ambulance to transport a staff member, student or community member to hospital.  As the ambulance service is a potentially expensive option for families and, as the ambulance service is a vital community resource which should not be used in a frivolous manner, processes for requesting the attendance of the ambulance service must be followed.

2. Policy Goals

The Sandringham College Ambulance Attendance Policy aims to ensure that all members of the school community understand the school’s position and processes regarding the attendance of the ambulance service.

3. Implementation

All staff and families will be encouraged to be members of the ambulance service, with annual reminders and membership details being printed in the College newsletter.

If the situation or time permits, the staff member in attendance should confer with a member of the Principal team, or the next most senior staff member available, who will make a decision as to whether or not they should request the attendance of the ambulance service.  In doing so, the health and safety of the patient will be the only determining factor. Ambulance membership, or potential costs to families will not be a point of consideration.  Such a decision will always be made with a conservative ‘better safe than sorry’ attitude.

Parents (or next of kin) will be contacted as soon as possible so that they may be in attendance when the ambulance arrives.

The member of the Principal team, or next most appropriate senior staff member, will be responsible for communication with the ambulance service.  Contact with Department Education and Training (DET) Emergency and Security Branch should also be made.

A safe entry point will be made available for the ambulance, and students will be kept away from any accident scene.

The school’s administrative staff will ensure the injured student or staff member’s personal contact and health details as appropriate are printed and made available to ambulance officers upon arrival.

A familiar staff member will often accompany a student to the hospital if the attending ambulance officers approve or require, and an appropriate family member is not available, or cannot meet the student upon arrival at the hospital.

Staff members accompanying a student to hospital will be collected by the school, by another adult, or will be returned to school via taxi which will be paid for by the school.

The principal will ensure that they are aware of the hospital to which the patient is being transported in case they need to inform parents or next of kin, or in case they have to arrange the collection of the accompanying staff member.

4. Monitoring & Review

This policy was last updated on May 2020. Please refer to the Sandringham Policy Schedule for the next review date.

5. Definitions

DET – Department of Education and Training

6. References

This policy should be read in conjunction with the following policies: 

School Policy and Advisory Guide (http://www.education.vic.gov.au)

Ambulance Victoria Membership

https://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au