Our Child Safeguarding Statement

Shore has been guiding and educating children and young men for over 130 years.

Shore has a strong Christian foundation, and this lies at the heart of our approach to meeting this responsibility. As a Christian school, the wellbeing and safety of our students are paramount. At Shore we seek to provide an environment that is dynamic, inclusive, and effective in the delivery of quality education and outstanding co-curricular opportunities, while also teaching the importance of embodying tolerance, compassion, and grace to our students, as they walk through life and build community.

At Shore, our culture and faith environment take child safeguarding very seriously and we seek to always provide an environment of safety, caring, collaboration and transparency when dealing with children, young adults, staff, volunteers and families. We have zero tolerance for abuse of any kind, bullying, threatening behaviour or any practices of endangerment.

We are continuing to build a culture of proactive care, endeavouring to ensure that opportunities for wrongdoing are removed, and the prevention of abuse and harmful behaviours underpins all practices across the school. It is of utmost importance to Shore that we excel in upholding our duty of care to our students. To this end, we also ensure that we are compliant and educate ourselves continually around our legislative and safeguarding responsibilities duties under the guidelines of the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian, thus and providing peace of mind to all families, and the community, that students at Shore are respected, heard and safe.

Everyone in the Shore community is aware of the grave consequences abuse, bullying and unsafe practices can have on children and young people and how these carry into later life.

It is our commitment to our students to provide a safe environment in which all may thrive and grow toward a bright future.

Our Policies and Procedures

As a provider of education and a child safe organisation, Shore has policies and procedures in place which promote strong governance and leadership, the importance of compliance to legislation and relevant regulators, and endorses a safe learning and working environment. 

At Shore, we aim to provide a safe and caring environment. The value and significance of each child is acknowledged, and individual differences are respected. It is an environment where each child is to take responsibility for how each other is treated. All students have a right to feel safe at school and are encouraged to speak up if they are being victimised or see it happening to others.

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This Child Safeguarding Policy applies to all members of the Shore Community. This policy applies to the protection of students in both physical and online environments. It is also relevant to all school activities conducted onsite at Shore or at any venues and locations where excursions or school organised and sanctioned activities are being conducted.

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At Shore, we ground our culture and operations in Christian belief and ethics. The principles of justice and fair treatment of all within the Shore community is central to the process by which Shore operates. To ensure that Shore provides the best opportunity for fair outcomes for all members of the Shore community in relation to the School's operations, Shore has the following policy for dealing with complaints.

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At Shore, the health, safety, and well-being of all students is a priority. Shore has in place a series of policies which detail the School’s approach to these matters and this policy is focused on Concussion. (PDF 348.9KB)

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Discipline is necessary to ensure the safety and welfare of all our students, teachers and staff and to provide a conducive learning environment. This Discipline Policy and its associated Procedures are part of the framework through which school manages student discipline.

Many of Shore’s strategies involve positive reinforcement and reward or appropriate sanctions as an outcome to behaviour. These are designed, differ and are appropriate through the learning stages of the school. Shore also observes the principles of procedural fairness and prohibits discrimination when dealing with investigations to disciplinary situations.

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This Collection Notice explains in general terms how we protect the privacy of the personal information you provide, when you are enrolling or already have students enrolled at Shore.

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Our Privacy Policy details how we protect your privacy and how we comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act and the 13 Australian Privacy Principles and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act.

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The NSW Registration Manual requires that the Headmaster must demonstrate that the School has enrolment and attendance procedures that comply with all relevant laws and are detailed in written documents in a clear and concise manner. The Policy and its procedures applies to all Shore students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

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Shore requires all staff comply to a code of conduct and standard of behaviours that are intended to prevent staff misconduct and reportable conduct offenses from happening. Staff are also encouraged to report any breaches of these codes and standards.

The safety and wellbeing of all students and staff is of utmost importance, as is ensuring we are compliant with legislation and fulfilling duty of care. Shore has a legal obligation to investigate and report to the NSW Children’s Guardian all allegations of reportable conduct made against any member of staff at the school and/or as defined by the Children’s Guardian Act 2019 (NSW).

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Shore prides itself on setting high standards in integrity and ethical behaviour in all areas of operation. Shore’s policy for Whistleblowing is in place to provide protection to those individuals who make disclosures over wrongdoing within the school. Via the coverage the policy provides they may do so safely and with confidence they will have support and protection during disclosure, investigation and outcome.

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This procedure provides guidance on how to make a disclosure - confidentially and anonymously if requested - with our independent whistleblower service provider Your Call.

Your Call operates under a Service Agreement with Shore and acts as the intermediary, providing the means for a discloser to retain anonymity. Disclosures received by Your Call are reported to us in accordance with our Whistleblower Policy. Your Call also enables us to obtain further information if required and enables the discloser to receive updates from us.

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