Greystanes Public School

Education for Life!

Telephone(02) 9631 4000

Emailgreystanes-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Student health and safety

We are committed to ensuring a safe and happy environment for your child.

Anti Bullying Plan

Please click here for the Greystanes Public School Anti- Bullying Plan.

We support your child’s health and safety through a range of strategies including:

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.

To find out more about how we support wellbeing at Greystanes Public School, please visit our wellbeing section.

Social and emotional learning

Throughout the year we teach social and emotional learning (SEL) in all classes, using the friendly schools plus program.

Lessons incorporate the five key social and emotional learning skills of:

  • self-awareness
  • self-management
  • social decision making
  • relationship skills and
  • social awareness.

SEL skills (PDF 573KB) has a table which identifies the skills the lessons aim to develop in students.

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.

Student representative council at Greystanes Public School 

The student representative council (SRC) is made up of students from Years 1 to Year 6. The members of the student representative council are selected by their peers to represent the class and be in line of communication with all members. There are two representatives from each class. Meetings are held fortnightly with stage one meeting independently from stages two and three. At meetings, students have the opportunity to discuss and raise ideas for school improvement as well as discuss and implement student led initiatives. The student representative council executive is made of our school captains and senior councillors. They attend a fortnightly meeting as well as an executive meeting to plan for and evaluate projects the student representative council are leading.