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School Health and Wellbeing Initiatives

Schools are important places in promoting student health and wellbeing. Not only do they provide safe and supportive environments to ensure that schools are healthy places to learn, play and work - but they are also a key place where comprehensive education takes place in regards to a range of health, personal development and wellbeing issues.

Schools have a responsibility to provide students with opportunities to develop the essential knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that enable them to make informed decisions about their health behaviours. Partnerships and services with other agencies, including support and referral services, can also enhance student health and wellbeing in the school setting.

Learning and Wellbeing Framework

The Department recognises that learning and wellbeing are inextricably linked - students learn best when their wellbeing is optimised, and they develop a strong sense of wellbeing when they experience success in learning.

The Learning and Wellbeing Framework play a vital role in supporting student wellbeing within the school context and highlights that schools can influence both learning and wellbeing through four domains:

• the learning environment
• curriculum and pedagogy
• policies and procedures
• partnerships.

Queensland schools have been very successful in creating positive schools cultures, and the Learning and Wellbeing Framework provides strategies, guidelines and links to information that can help schools maximise the work many of them are already doing to improve wellbeing among students.

Curriculum Activity Risk Management Guidelines

Note for all EQ staff: As part of our commitment to continually improving processes, Curriculum Activity Risk Assessments (CARAs) can now be completed in OneSchool. The Guideline for each activity has been substantially modified to complement the OneSchool CARA process. View the revised guidelines.

The supervision requirements, minimum qualifications, equipment and facilities requirements, and suggested control measures for each activity have generally not changed. Any risk assessments already prepared for activities occurring in 2013 remain valid and do not need to be entered into OneSchool.

The guidelines below will be decommissioned on 30 June 2013. Any new risk assessments prepared after that date should be completed in OneSchool. In the interim, staff may use the new OneSchool process or the templates below.

Department of Education, Training and Employment (DETE) is committed to the health, safety and well-being of students, staff and others involved in all curriculum activities conducted at schools or other locations. Below is a list of activity-specific guidelines outlining risk level, qualifications required, and identified hazards. It is important to note that the actual risk level will vary according to the specific circumstances of the activity and these must be considered when planning curriculum activities.

A Curriculum Activity Risk Assessment template 400k is available for high or extreme risk activities where a guideline for an activity does not appear in the list below. For further information about managing the risks associated with Curriculum Activities, please refer to the department's relevant procedure.

Note: To ensure input on partially completed forms is not lost when selecting links within the form it is important to ensure the Curriculum Activity Risk Management guideline or Assessment template is saved to your desktop/drive before navigating away from the web page.

Alerts:

Schools are reminded that a Curriculum Activity Risk Assessment Register 637k is to be established and maintained for High and Extreme risk activities. A School Curriculum Activity Register can assist schools to record and manage the details of all activities and ensure appropriate authorisations have been recorded for all high and extreme risk activities.

Sample parental permission templates are available to assist schools in their planning for High and Extreme risk activities. See attached Parental Permission Template and Mature Age Student Permission Template 50k.

New: A Chemical Hazards template and related Guidance Notes have been developed to replace all Hazardous materials guidelines, located under 'Science'.

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This page was last reviewed on 12 Apr 2013

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