We are committed to ensuring a safe and happy environment for your child.
We support your child’s health and safety through a range of strategies including:
- the behaviour code for students, which outlines the standards of behaviour expected in all NSW public schools
- anti-racism education
- anti-bullying programs
- conflict resolution and mediation training
- peer support
- road safety education
- the Healthy School Canteen Strategy.
For more information, visit the student wellbeing section of the department’s website.
Like all NSW public schools, we promote the healthy development of students through:
- school programs and practices that protect and promote health and safety
- supporting individual students who need help with health issues
- providing first aid and temporary care of students who become unwell or who have an accident at school.
Student wellbeing
Like all NSW public schools, we provide safe learning and teaching environments to encourage healthy, happy, successful and productive students.
The department is committed to creating quality learning opportunities for children and young people. These opportunities support wellbeing through positive and respectful relationships and fostering a sense of belonging to the school and community.
The Wellbeing Framework for Schools helps schools support the cognitive, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development of students and allows them to connect, succeed and thrive throughout their education.
Positive Behaviour for Learning
At our school, we use Positive Behaviour for Learning – a whole-school approach for creating a positive, safe and supportive school climate where students can learn and develop. Our whole school community works together to establish expected behaviours and teach them to all students.
School wide expectation
At Epping North Public School the positive behaviour engaging learners (PBEL) welfare system has provided a proactive school wide approach to defining, teaching and supporting appropriate student behaviours. PBEL is seen as a fundamental process in the promotion of positive behaviours, teaching of appropriate social skills and management of problem behaviours.
Students are taught the skills to enable them to actively participate in the development, implementation and review of our school's behaviour codes and to be involved in decision making processes within the school.
Behavioural expectations
We promote the behavioural expectations of ‘respect, responsibility and resilience = success' within the school and across the wider community. Visual posters in each classroom and in the playground help to reinforce these expected behaviours and inform students about what it looks like to behave in these ways.
Environment monitors
The school has an active environmental program led by a class teacher and elected environment monitors. The environment monitors meet fortnightly to discuss different ways to implement to improve their school environment. Initiatives include tree planting, weeding, veggie patch maintenance, recycling and composting. Environment monitors have organised sustainability days to raise money for possum boxes, plants and additional recycling bins.