Oak Flats High School

Your place to learn and grow

Student health and safety

Student leadership

Student leadership helps young people find their voices, participate in decision-making, and understand their rights and responsibilities as active citizens. It helps students have a real impact on their learning and school environment and prepares them to participate meaningfully in their community.

Students can be leaders in the classroom, through their actions in the playground, through their support for others, or their involvement in academic, sporting, cultural or local community events or projects.

For more information about opportunities in NSW public schools, visit Student voice and leadership.

We are committed to ensuring a safe and happy environment for your child.

We support your child’s health and safety through a range of strategies including:

For more information, visit the student wellbeing section of the department’s website.

Like all NSW public schools, we promote the healthy development of students through:

  • school programs and practices that protect and promote health and safety
  • supporting individual students who need help with health issues
  • providing first aid and temporary care of students who become unwell or who have an accident at school.

Student wellbeing

Like all NSW public schools, we provide safe learning and teaching environments to encourage healthy, happy, successful and productive students.

The department is committed to creating quality learning opportunities for children and young people. These opportunities support wellbeing through positive and respectful relationships and fostering a sense of belonging to the school and community.

The Wellbeing Framework for Schools helps schools support the cognitive, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development of students and allows them to connect, succeed and thrive throughout their education.

Positive Behaviour for Learning

At our school, we use Positive Behaviour for Learning – a whole-school approach for creating a positive, safe and supportive school climate where students can learn and develop. Our whole school community works together to establish expected behaviours and teach them to all students.

Oak Flats High School promotes a range of school-wide strategies for achieving social and learning outcomes, whilst encouraging positive behaviour. That are placed underneath one initiative called the positive behaviour support (PBS).

The PBS program rests on teaching and promoting the core values of respect, care and responsibility.

- respect: having high regard for other people, belongings and yourself.

- care: concern for the wellbeing of yourself and others.

- responsibility: being accountable for your actions towards others, the environment and yourself.

These values and corresponding behaviours are taught to all students. PBS creates a school environment which publicly acknowledges and rewards appropriate behaviour.

Download the guidelines demonstrating appropriate behaviour (PDF 808KB) for further details.