St Joseph's School
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Health education at St Joseph's School supports our objectives to ensure students are able to achieve their highest possible standard in educational achievement, and to ensure the school is a safe and inclusive place for all students and staff. We comply with legislative requirements for the development and delivery of health education, including:
Our school has completed the consultation process and adopted a written statement. See our Health Curriculum Statement 
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Community consultation
As required by the Education and Training Act 2020, the board consults with the school community about how the health curriculum is implemented (s 91).
We consult with parents of students enrolled at the school and our proprietor. The consultation process may also include other people the board considers to be part of our school community.
Consultation process
The board prepares a draft statement on the delivery of the health curriculum, or may delegate this responsibility to the principal, and shares the draft statement with the school community. The board may use any method of consultation that it considers fit for purpose. The aim of consultation is to:
The board gives the school community a reasonable amount of time to comment on the draft statement, and then considers any feedback received. The school takes all feedback into account but does not negotiate on requests that would conflict with our legislative responsibilities.
Once the board has considered feedback from the school community, they adopt a final statement on the delivery of the health curriculum and inform the school community. The final statement describes how the health curriculum will be implemented, and notifies parents that they may request to withdraw their child from parts of the curriculum related to sexuality education.
The board ensures that a health curriculum statement is developed and adopted in consultation with the school community at least every two years.
Student participation and release from tuition
Students take part in the following areas of learning as part of our health education programme:
Once we have adopted a health curriculum statement, the school is not required to seek permission for students to participate in the health education programme. Parents/Guardians can however request that their child is released from specific parts of the health education programme relating to sexuality education. Parents/Guardians are required to send a request to the principal in writing.
The principal must ensure that any student excluded from specific parts of health education is appropriately supervised. The school is not required to ensure that students who are excluded from sexuality education are also excluded if related questions are raised by other students in different areas of the curriculum.
The principal assures the board that at least once every two years, a consultation with the school community has occurred, and a statement on the delivery of the health curriculum has been adopted. See Review Schedule and Board Assurances.
Release history: Term 1 2024, Term 4 2022, Term 3 2022, Term 2 2022
