新金山中文学校校长信箱 (26/05/2023）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message

老师、学生和家长共同努力建设安全校园

各位老师、同学和家长：

大家好！近来，我校校园内发生了一些学生争吵、打架等儿童安全方面的事情，涉及的学生从低年级到高年级都有。我们的老师、儿童安全员和学校领导等都会在第一时间及时处理，向有关学生和目击证人了解了情况，并及时进行教育，而涉事学生也都认识到自己的错误，并向对方道歉。尽管如此，我觉得有必要要向所有老师、同学和家长们强调建设安全校园的重要性。

我们新金山中文学校是获得教育部认可的旨在保护儿童安全的社区语言学校，所有教职员工（包括志愿者）都参加了有关儿童安全的培训，签署了儿童安全行为准则的文件，并持有有效的从事与儿童相关工作的检查Working With Children Check证件在校区内进行行政管理和教学方面的工作。

学校根据教育部的规定还制定了一系列的有关儿童安全方面的规章制度，如《儿童安全条例》、《儿童安全行为准则》、《反欺凌条例》、《儿童歁凌事件上报流程》、《学生纪律规范条例》、《家长/监护人投诉流程》等，还特别为小学生和中学生特别提供了适合他们阅读能力的《保护自己的安全》文件，并为家长提供了中文版本的《保护儿童免遭虐待：父母和照顾者须知》文件，这些文件都可以在学校的官方网站上查阅（https://xjs.vic.edu.au/child-safety/）。

同时，学校根据维多利亚州社区语言学校的儿童安全管理要求，在各个校区都安排了一位儿童安全员，如果学生或家长有儿童安全方面的担忧或者遇到有关儿童安全方面的事件，可以随时与各校区的儿童安全员联系，也可直接联系校长。

学校在发现或接到有关儿童安全方面的投诉后，会根据儿童安全相关规定及时处理，会上报给维州社区语言学校协会儿童安全专员，并在儿童安全专员的指导下与学生家长进行沟通，最终达到教育孩子、各方和解的目标。

我感谢老师、家长的配合，也肯定当事学生承认错误并向对方致歉的态度。对我们学校的老师们来说，所有的学生都是孩子，在学生的成长过程中有些过错只要认识到改过了，我们一如既往教育他们成才。我也想在此提醒家长注意，随时留意孩子在学校的学习情况和行为举止，放学后与孩子聊一聊，谈一谈，这不仅是增进亲子关系的机会，也能随时了解孩子的成长经历，帮助孩子健康成长。如果您对孩子的儿童安全方面有任何问题或担忧，请及时与学校联系。

总而言之，我们要对校园内的语言和暴力行为说“不”，我们要建立是一个安全的校园。

最后，冬天即将到来天气会越来越冷，请大家注意保暖，注意安全驾驶、安全停车，以免受罚。我们周末校园见！

胡培康

校长

新金山中文学校是一所教育部认可的旨在保护儿童安全的社区语言学校，如果您对我校的有关儿童安全相关政策有任何疑问或建议，请登陆我校网站 https://xjs.vic.edu.au/child-safety/或致电98881688进行查询，也可发邮件至[email protected]

Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School

Principal’s Message

Dear teachers, students and parents,

I would like to let you know there have been a couple of students dispute and fighting incidents on campus in the past few weeks involving students in primary and secondary levels. Our teachers, child safe officers and school managers have handled the incidents at the first place, interviewed the students involved and witnesses onsite and helped the students understand the mistakes they have made and the students have apologized to the victims. I would like to hereby remind all the teachers, students and parents the importance of campus safety.

Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School is a DET-accredited Child Safe community language school. All our teachers, admin staff and volunteers have participated relevant child safety training, signed Child Safe Code of Conduct with active Working With Children Check before conducting teaching and admin work on campus.

XJS has developed a series of child safe policies such as Child Safe Policy, Child Safe Code of Conduct, Anti-bullying Policy, Child Abuse Reporting Procedures, Behaviour Management Policy, Guidelines of Parent/Guardian Complaints etc, and brochures for students with different reading abilities such as How To Be Safe – For Primary School Students and How To Be Safe – For Secondary School Students and also Chinese version brochures for parents. Please feel free to read these documents on our school website (https://xjs.vic.edu.au/child-safety/)

Meanwhile, there is one child safe officer available for each campus as required by CLV. If you have any concern on child safety or experienced or witnessed any child safe incident on campus, please feel free to contact the child safe officer on campus immediately. You could also contact the school principal directly.

The school management team would react any child safe incident report immediately, report to the Child Safe Officer of CLV and handle the incident under the instruction of CLV trying to negotiate with parties involved and support families in child safe education.

We sincerely appreciate the cooperation and support from teachers and parents and acknowledge the positive attitude of students involved and their apologies to the victims. Students are still learning and we are pleased to see that they could recognize the mistakes they have made and promise they would never do it again. We would support them as usual and grow with them together. I would also like to remind parents to pay attention to your child’s learning experience at school. Have a bit chat with them on the way home after picking them up which is an excellent opportunity to strengthen parent-child relationships and understand each step of your child’s growth and development. If you have any concerns regarding your child’s safety at school, please feel free to contact us.

We have zero tolerance to language and behaviour violence on campus. Let’s try to build a safe learning environment for all our students.

It’s getting colder as winter is coming. Please keep warm, drive safely and park carefully. Let’s see you on campus this weekend.

Yours sincerely,

Kevin Hu, Principal

Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School is a DET-accredited Child Safe community language school. If you have any concern and suggestions regarding the school’s child safe policy, please feel free to visit  https://xjs.vic.edu.au/child-safety/ or call us at 9888 1688 or email us at [email protected].