Child Safety
Earlier this year Catholic School Parents Victoria conducted research of parents to understand areas of concern for them when it comes to their children's learning. One of the areas of concern was online safety. The eSafety Commissioner provides opportunities for parents to be more engaged in their children's safety online through a series of webinars on specific topics that are challenging for parents to monitor and manage.
eSafety’s parent guide to popular apps
Free webinar for parents and carers of Primary and Secondary school students
Understand the risks when using apps like Tik Tok, Snap Chat, YouTube and Instagram. This webinar also covers strategies for staying safer on social media and how to report if something goes wrong.
Our actions as drivers & parents is one of the most important ways for children to be safe around our school.
We can all work together to:
- Follow the signs
- Keep the pick-up zones moving
- Be courteous and aware
- Use school crossings
- Reduce car trips
Drivers are responsible for understanding parking restrictions in our school zone and to ensure they obey the parking rules to keep our school children, pedestrians and other road users safe. Parking Compliance Officers from the City of Casey patrol schools during the morning and afternoon. A fine will be issued for any breaches of the Road Safety Road Rules.
- Follow signs, road rules and parking signs:
- Signs are there to keep our children safe.
- Please see the map for parking restrictions around our school.
- No stopping signs mean “Do not stop your vehicle for any reason”.
- No Stopping zones are there because it is dangerous for a car to stop there for any amount of time.
- No stopping signs are often in areas where there are blind corners, narrow streets, crossings or intersections.
- Dropping off a child in a No Stopping zone is illegal and dangerous.
- The 5-minute parking zones operate from 8:00am – 9:30am and 2:30pm – 4:00pm on school days.
- These zones are there for quick parking while picking up or dropping off your child.
- Don’t arrive early and park in these spots – remember, you can only stop here for 5 minutes.
- Do not park on nature strips or in front of people’s driveways.
- It is illegal and is very unsafe for children and other road users.
- It blocks the road and children can’t see any approaching dangers.
- Be patient.
- If you choose to drive to school, remember many other parents are doing the same thing.
- Be extra careful and patient.
- Slow down and be alert!
- Children can be unpredictable and there are LOTS of children around schools, especially at drop off and pick up times.
Getting children to school safely is everyone’s job.
Think before you park
Think as you drive
Think before you drop off and pick up!
All children deserve to get to school safely.
For more information on safe parking around schools, see this video from City of Casey https://youtu.be/g2FkyhZbKQI
The City of Casey has kindly provided a Parking Restrictions map as below.
