Child Safe

Our Commitment to Child Safety

At St Raphael's, Child Safety is of paramount importance. This page is to keep you informed and up-to-date in all Child Safety directives.

The following statement, from Catholic Education Melbourne, outlines Catholic Education's commitment to Child Safety. 

Please see above for St Raphael's policy on Child Safety.

eSmart School

St Raphael’s has recently become an eSmart School with the Alannah and Madeline Foundation.

eSmart is an initiative where schools follow a framework to set up cybersafe environments. Completing the Framework takes roughly 4 years and once completed the Foundation gives schools the status of being a Sustaining eSmart School.

St Raphael’s is proud to have completed this framework over the last 4 years and will now be in the sustaining period. Work that our school has implemented to achieve this includes:

effective school organisation

school plans, policies and procedures

respectful and caring school community

effective teacher practices

an eSmart curriculum

partnerships with parents and the local community

The framework integrates cybersafety with the school’s existing knowledge and practices about student wellbeing and child safety.

As an eSmart school St Raphael’s will be supporting students to embrace the benefits of technology while reducing their exposure to and improving their ability to respond appropriately to cyber risks, such as cyberbullying.

eSmart will provide our school with a set of tools for:

how to tackle bullying and cyberbullying

training, lesson plans and activities for students

Parents support for seeing signs of cyberbullying and how to get help.