Mobile Phone/Internet Policy

Xavier High School expects its students to be sound moral decision makers and respectful citizens aware of their responsibilities to others. This expectation of our students extends to their use of mobile devices and virtual world.

• Any student/s found to have used a mobile phone to cheat in exams or assessments will face disciplinary actions.
• Any student who uses vulgar, derogatory or obscene language while using a mobile phone or internet will face disciplinary actions.
• Students with mobile phones and internet access may not engage in personal attacks, harassment of another person (students, staff, community member) or post private information about another person using SMS messages, chat rooms, podcasts, Facebook, My Space, take or distribute photos, video or objectionable images, or phone calls. Students using mobile phones or the internet to bully other students will face disciplinary actions.
• Mobile phones and MP3 players may be used in class time with teachers permission for educational purposes and during lunchtime and recess.
• Inappropriate use of mobile phones and/or MP3 players will result in confiscation. 1st Offence – Lunchtime detention, 2nd Offence – Wednesday Detention, 3rd Offence – Consequences with be negotiated.
• Inappropriate use of the internet could put at risk a student’s ability to successfully complete their chosen course of study.
• It is inappropriate to take or distribute photos or videos of people without their permission.

Standard Collection Notice

1. The School (the Diocese both independently and through its schools) collects personal information, including sensitive information about pupils and parents or guardians before and during the course of a pupil’s enrolment at the School. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the School to provide schooling for your son/daughter and to enable them to take part in all activities of the school.
2. Some of the information we collect is to satisfy the school’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the School to discharge its duty of care.
3. Laws governing or relating to the operation of schools require that certain information is collected. These include relevant Education Acts, Public Health and Child Protection laws.
4. Health information about pupils is sensitive information within the terms of the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act. We ask you to provide medical reports about pupils from time to time.
5. The School from time to time discloses personal and sensitive information to others for administrative and educational purposes, this includes to other schools, government departments, (Catholic Education Office, the Catholic Education Commission, your local Diocese and the parish, schools within other Dioceses/other Dioceses) medical practitioners, and other people providing services to the School, including specialist visiting teachers, (sports) coaches, volunteers and counsellors.
6. Personal information c ollected from pupils is regularly disclosed to their parents or guardians. On occasions information such as academic and sporting achievements, pupil activities and other news is published in School newsletters, magazines.
7. The School may store per sonal information in the ‘cloud’ which may mean that it resides on servers which are situated outside of Australia (if applicable).
8. Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son/daughter by contacting the School. Pupils may also seek access to personal information about them. However, there will be occasions when access is denied. Such occasions would include where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where access may result in a breach of the school’s duty of care to the pupil, or where pupils have provided information in confidence.
9. The School Privacy Policy sets out how you may complain about a breach of privacy and how the school will deal with such a complaint.
10. As you may know the School from time to time engages in fundraising activities. Information received from you may be used to make an appeal to you. (It may also be disclosed to organizations that assist in the School’s fundraising activities solely for that purpose.) We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.
11. On occasions information such as academic and sporting achievements, pupil activities and similar news is published in the school newsletters and magazines, school website and social media. Photographs of pupil activities such as sporting events, school camps and excursions may be taken for publication in school newsletters and magazines, school website, social media and on our intranet. If you do not wish images of your child to appear in any school publications please complete the Photography/Video Permission form.
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12. We may include your contact details in a class list and school directory.
13. If you provide the School with the personal information of others, such as doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to the School and why, that they can access that information if they wish and that the School does not usually disclose the information to third parties.

School Website Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.

• Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
• We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
• We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
• We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
• Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
• We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
• We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

Enrolment Policy

Xavier High School is a living expression of the dynamic and evolving tradition of the Catholic Church. We have a responsibility to provide places for those who wish to experience our Christian approach to education.

Specifically Xavier caters for young people from the Parishes of Albury, North Albury, Lavington, Howlong, Holbrook, Corowa and Culcairn.

Xavier High School is committed to:

• Providing for all baptized Catholics who seek a place where their baptismally-seeded faith may be nurtured.
• Accepting all who seek a place subject to their confirming their support and respect for the Catholic nature of the schools.

To be considered for enrolment:

• All students will need to have completed Year 6 or its equivalent.
• All students will be assessed as to their educational needs prior to the finalization of enrolment.
• Students with identified special needs will have their particular educational requirements identified by an integration support group. This process will specify all support measures which are to be provided by the school. The school reserves its legal right to determine whether any particular enrolment might constitute an “unjustifiable hardship” under the Disability Discrimination Act.
• All families must give a written commitment to respect and support the Catholic nature and practices of the school. This includes participation in the formal Religious Education programme and prayer life of each student.
• All families must give a written commitment to support the school financially in some way. Normally this support would be through the full payment of school fees and levies. Where circumstances dictate that full payment will not be possible, the obligation remains on each family to support the school according to its means with individual arrangements to be set in place.

Discernment Criteria

All eligible applicants will be considered but there is a ceiling to the number of places available in our school; determined by philosophic, financial, physical and industrial factors. If Xavier is unable to provide places for all applicants the following criteria will be applied:

• Preference will be given to baptized Catholics.
• Siblings of current students will normally be accepted for enrolment.
• Baptism within many Christian communions is recognized as valid by the Catholic Church. Special consideration will be given to communicant members of these churches.
• Children accepted for enrolment at a Catholic primary school.
• The Principal has the ultimate discretion in accepting enrolments.

Homework Policy

Homework is considered to be an extension of the core learning of students with the aim of developing autonomous study skills and assisting students in developing effective research, time management and organisational skills. Students are expected to develop a regular pattern of study, particularly in Senior School. The type of homework and study will differ from subject to subject and year group to year group.

Types of homework that meet these requirements include:

• Providing for all baptized Catholics who seek a place where their baptismally-seeded faith may be nurtured.
• Accepting all who seek a place subject to their confirming their support and respect for the Catholic nature of the schools.

Students are expected to complete tasks set by the teacher for homework.

Homework should:

• Be appropriate to the student’s skill level and age
• Be interesting, challenging and differentiated where necessary
• Be purposeful, meaningful and relevant to the curriculum
• Provide an opportunity for teachers to determine student understanding
• Provide an opportunity for teachers to provide relevant, meaningful and directive feedback to activate student understanding
• Be able to be completed within a reasonable timeframe

Teachers setting homework can help their students by:

• indicating clearly the learning intention of the homework;
• specifying assessment and assignment expectations on task notifications;
• setting varied, challenging and meaningful tasks related to class work that are appropriate to the students’ learning needs and to the intended outcomes of the unit of work being taught;
• giving students enough time to complete homework, taking into account home obligations and extracurricular activities;
• coordinating the allocation of homework by different teachers through use of the Schoology calendar;
• helping students develop the organisational and time-management skills needed for them to be responsible for their own learning;
• teaching revision and study skills explicitly; and
• ensuring that students have adequate research, analysing and reporting skills

Consequences of not completing homework.

Students are expected to complete all set tasks. If a student has difficulty in completing tasks they need to seek out the support and advice of their classroom teacher as soon as possible. Parents should make contact with the Class teacher with the provision of a note/email or a Schoology message explaining reasons as to why their child was unable to complete set tasks and the date by which they will expect their child to complete the task eg: illness.

Failure to complete set tasks will result in the following:

1. Class teacher gives warning and provides new submission date for completion of task for the first incident. If there is more than one incident from the same student the teacher may choose to go straight to a teacher set detention.
2. Failure to resubmit set task results in Class teacher creating a detention at recess or lunchtime at a time convenient to the Class teacher for the student to complete set task
3. Failure to attend detention, or resubmit the set task will result in a Wednesday lunch detention being issued to the student. The Wednesday Lunch Detention is supervised by the Leadership team. At this time the class teacher is to notify the relevant KLA and HOUSE Coordinator via email and record the incident on Academy. The class teacher will notify parents/guardian via email of this consequence being issued.
4. Failure to attend the Wednesday lunch detention will result in an email being sent home to parents notifying them that their child will be expected to attend a Wednesday afternoon detention.
5. Failure to attend Wednesday afternoon detention will result in a meeting with class teacher, KLA Coordinator and Assistant Principal. It may also involve a meeting with the parent/guardian to discuss further consequences and the implementation of appropriate strategies to assist the student in their learning and organisation.