Welcome to our Staff Handbook
Offsite Information
Table of Contents
Absences
- Call through absences to the main site by 9:15am every day. If there are no absences still call to record all present.
- Early departures and late arrivals will be entered via Passtab.
- Complete and sign the attendance register (deliver to main site fortnightly). Use appropriate codes
- Integris is not available at the offsites.
Budget
- The early childhood budget is allocated per year level. The year level teams should plan for spending collaboratively and the budget is overseen by the Team leader. Any purchase requests should be emailed to Fran for
Gates
- Gate closest to the carpark remains unlocked all day. All other gates are to be unlocked 10 minutes prior to start and finish time. Gates are re-locked at 9:15am and 3:05pm
Lunch orders
- PP lunch order day is Thursday. Students order online via QuickCliq. Lunch orders are delivered and sorted by the EA on lunch duty at 12:30pm. The duty EA distributes the lunch orders to all classes.
Morning tea
- All students sit outside the PP4 veranda. Students finish eating and may go to play. Two staff are on first duty 10:40am – 10:50am. Remaining staff are on duty from 10:50 – 11:10am. Cow bell outside PP is rung to end play. Students line up outside their own rooms.
Lunch
- All students sit outside the PP4 veranda. Students finish eating and may go to play. Two staff are on first duty 10:40am – 10:50am. Remaining staff are on duty from 10:50 – 11:10am. Cow bell outside PP is rung to end play. Students line up outside their own rooms.
Fault reports
- Reports are written in the faults folder stored in the red cupboard in PP3. Call to report the fault. The number is 13 24 34
- The premises number is 6432
- Advise them of the fault and its location, they will assign a priority. You can request a priority 1 if it is urgent.
- Advise Fran Billing of the reported fault.
Visitors to site
- All visitors, including parent helpers to site must sign in using Passtab located in PP3 (pre-primary) or Unit 2 (Kindy)
Visitor induction
- All non-parent helpers must complete an induction.
- Process to be advised
Parent helpers
- All parent helpers must complete a parent child volunteer declaration on their first session each year. These are in the red file. Other family members including grandparents, aunts etc must have a current Working with Children card. Applications can be signed at the Normanby Road site.
Relief staff
- Relief staff must sign-in via Passtab.
Emergency procedures
- Evacuation and Lockdown procedures are in located in the evacuation folder stored in each classroom. Please familiarise yourself with them and the location of the air horn.
Photocopier
- There is no code for the photocopier, please use sustainably.
- A4 and A3 paper is available from the main site.
- Photocopier faults are called through to the main site – 9223 9900
Medication
- The giving of any medication must always be in accordance with the directions given by the physician prescribing the dose.
- There must be two people to check the dose that has been given is correct.
- Students who are required to take daily medication MUST have a medical form completed by parent/carer/doctor on a yearly basis.
- Medication is given out in the office ONLY and records are kept.
- Change of medication can only be made with a doctor’s note.
- Medication such as paracetamol, aspirin etc. CANNOT be given to students without prior written authorisation as above, through the front Office.
Afterschool care
- Students are dropped off and picked by after-school care. They should be collected from and delivered their classroom. At the end of the day students that are collected by afterschool care must be recorded and signed out by the afterschool care provider on clipboards located in the classroom.
First aid
- First aid supplies are in all classrooms. When first aid is administered it must be recorded in the first aid files in each classroom.
- If additional assistance is required please call the main site on 9223 9900.