Alcohol and Drugs Policy

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that Cobham Intermediate School provides the information necessary for our students to make sensible and rational choices and decisions about their use of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs as outlined in the Health Syllabus.

OBJECTIVES

1. To foster in students social and personal skills to give them confidence to make responsible choices about alcohol and drug use.
2. To ensure those students with alcohol and drug related problems are helped in a professional and caring way.
3. To ensure sensible use of medicines at School.
4. To model sensible use of alcohol by adults at School and School related functions.
5. To reflect the law in regards to cigarettes, drugs and alcohol.

GUIDELINES

1. The Health Syllabus will aim to develop general, personal and social competence with the focus on healthy living.
2. Before any medicines such as aspirin are administered to students by the designated staff first aid person, parents or guardians must be contacted.
3. All medicines kept on the School premises will be put into the locked cupboard in the office.
4. Adults consuming alcohol at staff and School functions must be aware of the role models they present to children, and on such occasions non-alcoholic drinks and food should be available.
5. Any student who consumes or is affected by alcohol or drugs at School, or on any School activity, will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action and counselling.
6. Recognising that alcohol is accepted as an optional part of the adult world, students will be given the information and skills needed to help them establish responsible drinking behaviour.

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Chairperson: John Talbot

Approved Date: 16 October 2006

Review Date: October 2009

Cobham Procedures

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Code of Conduct

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Members of the Board will:

1. Ensure that the needs of the students and their learning are given full consideration when planning, resourcing and implementing the school’s curriculum.
2. Ensure that all students are provided with an education which respects their individuality and which challenges them to reach the highest standards of personal achievement.
3. Serve their school and their community to the best of their ability and be honest, reliable, trustworthy, loyal and fair.
4. Act with fairness and integrity in all matters concerning staff, the principal, parents and students.
5. Maintain the confidentiality and trust vested in them.
6. Ensure strict confidentiality of papers and information related to the Board’s position as employer.
7. Ensure that individual trustees do not act independently of the Board and its decisions.
8. Accept that the Principal is the professional leader of the school who is responsible to the Board.

PRINCIPAL

The Principal will:

1. Ensure that the needs of the students and their learning are given full consideration in planning, resourcing and implementing the school’s curriculum.
2. Show commitment to the belief that each student is of equal value and is entitled to an education which respects her/his individuality and challenges her/him to reach her/his highest standards of personal achievement.
3. Be loyal to the charter and fully committed to achieving its purpose, aims and objectives.
4. Act fairly and with integrity in all matters concerning staff, members of the Board of Trustees, parents and students, and show a commitment to the continuing development of the staff’s professional skills.
5. Work co-operatively with school staff, but take final responsibility for decisions within the Principal’s authority as delegated by the Board.
6. Provide all information about a student to any person with legal rights to the information who requests it and respect confidentiality by keeping information about a student from people who have no right to it.
7. Not vote in Board of Trustees’ decisions in relation to the Principal’s employment.

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