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.
The Riverside community is committed to ensuring that a culture of wellbeing underpins each student's educational program, building young women who confidently support one another, gaining skills that endure for a lifetime.
Riverside is a collaborative community. Students are encouraged to feel ownership of their education and everything they do strengthens this connectedness.
The staff team that supports student wellbeing consists of:
- Both deputy principals
- Head teacher student wellbeing
- Learning and support teacher (LaST)
- Year advisers 7 - 12
- International student co-ordinator
- School counsellor.
They are committed to providing personalised support to ensure all students feel a connection with the school.
Together with building leadership skills appropriate to their age, students are given opportunities and guidance, taking on leadership roles as class monitors, sport's team captains, leaders of co-curricular groups, sports house captains and members of the student representative council. At Riverside, students learn that an individual really can make a positive difference.
