Volunteering
Helping out at school is a great way to get involved in your child’s education as well as get to know the staff and other parents and carers.
Research shows that children benefit when their parents or carers are actively involved in their education and school life.
You can help by:
- listening to children read in the classroom
- volunteering on sports days
- helping supervise excursions
- getting involved in fundraising activities
- joining school committees.
Child Protection
Prohibited employment declaration
The Child Protection Act 1998 aims to reduce the risk of abuse to children by preventing a "prohibited person" from gaining or remaining in child related employment in any private or public capacity in NSW.
Under the Act it is mandatory for schools to require its employees and volunteers to disclose that they are not a prohibited person by completing a Prohibited Employment Declaration (a prohibited person is a person convicted of a serious sex offence). It is an offence for a prohibited person to apply for, undertake or remain in child related employment.
All teachers and staff at Dudley Primary School have completed a declaration and all parents (who have not already done so) are asked to sign a Prohibited Employment Declaration before they,
- assist in the classroom
- join a school excursion
- work in the school canteen, etc
It is only necessary to fill a Prohibited Employment Declaration in once. Declarations are securely retained in the school and a list of signatories is generated and updated for the convenience of parents & staff.
Prohibited Employment Declarations are available at the school office. They take only a minute to complete and I would urge parents who are new to the school or have not already done so (at this school) to assist us by filling one in now.