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We are required by regulation to contact parents for absentee notes. All absences should be explained either verbally or in writing. Letters will be sent home to parents requesting an explanation of any unexplained absences. Each Semester the school has to submit a return to the Regional Office.

For supervision purposes, students should not arrive before 8.30am and need to leave the school grounds promptly after the siren at 2.55pm. Arrangements for care of students outside of these hours can be made with our onsite before and after school care group Camp Australia.

Complaints Policy

Staff at this school are responsible for managing the resolution of complaints lodged with us. We will make every effort to promptly resolve disputes and complaints lodged with us according to the principles of procedural fairness. Where we cannot resolve a complaint, the complainant, Principal or Regional Director of Schools can forward written complaints to the Director General of the Department of Education.

West Morley PS has established a dress code for all students attending this school. By enrolling your child/children in our school you are entering into an agreement to abide by the policy that governs the uniform of West Morley PS based on the guidelines set down by the Department of Education.

Please see the Uniform Shop section of the website for information regarding pricing and opening times.

The school’s Homework Policy recommends students complete homework on a regular basis to support the classroom learning programs. Whilst we accept that homework is not compulsory we realise that this is an important avenue for parents to see what their child is doing at school. We would hope that parents would actively encourage the completion of all homework. The amount and type of homework is important. Children will be set work that teachers can reasonably expect them to be able to complete without undue assistance from parents.

In the junior year levels, any homework will be largely of an informal nature e.g. home reading, talking about their day or perhaps activity sheets. As the child moves into the middle and senior year levels, the recommended amount of homework gradually increases, however, the amounts are still relatively small i.e. 15 – 20 minutes in the middle levels, increasing up to 20 – 30 minutes per night by Year 6. If at any stage homework begins to cause individual or whole family pressure, please contact the school. Learning, particularly at this level, should be enjoyable.

Crunch & Sip

West Morley Primary School is an certified Crunch & Sip school. All students and teachers at West Morley Primary School enjoy a Crunch & Sip® break and eat fruit or vegetables and drink water in the classroom every day.

Parent Code of Conduct

It is expected that all in our school community display appropriate behaviour whilst on school grounds which would encompass language, violence, verbal threats and abuse, and non-compliance of Department and school policies.

Failure to comply can ultimately result in any person not displaying appropriate behaviour being requested to leave the school grounds by the Principal. Should the behaviour continue the person can be banned from entering the school premises via serving of a legal order.

Positive Behaviour 

The school has formulated a behaviour policy that is reviewed regularly. It protects the individual child’s right to learn and feel safe in the school. Students are expected to take responsibility for their own actions. One set of procedures applies to the classroom and another for the playground.

West Morley PS is a Sun Smart school. Students are required to wear a school endorsed Sun Smart hat when undertaking outside activities and apply sunscreen when outside for a long period of time. The students playground equipment, sand pit and nature play areas are all filtered from the sun for safe play during extended high UV periods.

Mobile Phones in School

The Department of Education does not permit student use of mobile phones in public schools unless medical or teacher directed educational purpose. 

Mobile phones must be switched off and taken to the administration office before the school day begins and collected at the end of the school day. 

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Edgewater Primary School Homework Policy

These guidelines sit within the context of the Department of Education's Policy for homework which is  available here .

Communication Plan

Communication between home and school and school and home is an important aspect of our parents as partners strategy. The school has produced a Communication Plan which has been endorsed by the School Board and ratified by the school staff.

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Supporting Positive Behaviour Plan

Department of Education schools provide every student with the educational support they need to learn and maintain positive behaviour.

The Supporting Positive Behaviour Plan has been designed in accordance with the Department’s Policy and Guidelines. At Edgewater Primary School our aim is to maintain a culture in the school where students are actively engaged in the curriculum and feel cared for by school staff and develop a sense of belonging to the school.

Our plan highlights positive relationships between staff, students and the wider community characterised by trust, mutual respect and tolerance. Our focus is to teach students to take responsibility for their own behaviour and to have respect for the rights of others.

Edgewater Primary School Supporting Positive Behaviour Plan

Sandalone Bushfire Plan

Edgewater Primary School has been placed on the Department of Education Bushfire Zone Register, as it is located in a designated bushfire risk area.

In the event of a bushfire, school personnel will initiate the Standalone Bushfire Plan. Text messages will be sent to parents to communicate our response to any potential bushfire threats.

As part of our preparation and planning, students will learn about fire safety in class and our school will regularly practice on site evacuation procedures.

Please keep the school informed of any changes to mobile numbers and contact details.

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The purpose of this policy is to ensure all schools work with their school communities to develop and communicate a considered homework policy.

• Victorian government schools are required to have a homework policy and communicate it to staff, parents/carers and students.
• The content of this policy is not prescribed, but should be evidence-informed and comprehensive, and must be developed in consultation with the school community.
• School council approval of a school’s homework policy is not required.
• A homework policy template is available on the School Policy Templates Portal External Link (staff login required); schools are encouraged to adapt this template to suit their needs.

Victorian government schools are required to have a homework policy.

The content of this policy is not prescribed by the Department, but should be evidence-informed and comprehensive, outlining:

• a rationale for the elements of the school’s policy
• the responsibilities and expectations of teachers, students and parents/carers in setting, completing, monitoring and responding to homework

The school’s homework policy must be developed in consultation with the school council, as representatives of the school community, and school staff and students. School council approval of a school’s homework policy is not required.

Victorian government schools must periodically communicate their homework policy to staff, parents, carers and students through available communication channels (such as the school newsletter, or by placing the policy on the school’s website).

The setting of homework can be seen as one way of:

• complementing and reinforcing classroom learning
• fostering good lifelong learning and study habits
• developing self-regulation processes such as goal-setting, self-efficacy, self-reflection and time management
• supporting partnerships with parents/carers by connecting families with the learning of their children

The effectiveness of homework can be enhanced when:

• it is set at an appropriate level for each student, supporting those who are experiencing difficulty and extending those of high-ability
• it is related to essential learning at school
• choice in tasks is provided
• it is assessed by teachers, either formally or informally, with feedback provided
• it supports students to have a balance of school-related and non-school related activity in their lives (i.e. where the amount of homework set provides sufficient additional time for students to engage with family, sport and recreation, cultural pursuits and employment, where appropriate)

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Homework Tasks assigned to students by school teachers that are meant to be carried out during non-school hours.

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Right to disconnect laws have begun. Here's what you should know

By Georgie Hewson

Topic: Small Business

Flexibility to work from home has allowed more people to join the workforce.  ( Pexels: Vlada Karpovich )

Australia's right to disconnect laws for non-small business owners have now come into effect. 

It means Australians will have the legal right to ignore all work communications out of working hours when deemed reasonable. 

So what does it mean and what are your rights?

What is the right to disconnect?

This means that outside their working hours, employees can refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact or attempted contact from :

• their employer, or
• another person if the contact is work-related (for example, work-related contact from clients or members of the public)

Who do the new laws apply to?

It applies to all Australian businesses with over 15 employees.

So wait, can employers no longer contact staff after hours at all?

Not quite. 

The law will not restrict managers from contacting employees whenever they wish .

But it does give employees the right to refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact from their employer outside work hours unless that refusal is deemed unreasonable. 

For example, a manager can send an email after work hours but the employee is not obliged to respond unless it is deemed 'reasonable' for them to do so . 

Rulings over the “reasonableness” of an employee refusing to respond to work communications out of hours will ultimately be determined by the Fair Work Commission.

When is the employee's refusal unreasonable?

The employee's refusal to monitor, read or respond to contact or attempted contact will be unreasonable if the contact is required by law. 

If it is not required by law there are certain matters to consider when deciding if the employee's disconnection is unreasonable. 

the reason for contact.

how the contact is made.

how much disruption the contact causes the employee.

any compensation the employee receives to be available to work when the contact is made or to work outside their ordinary hours.

the employee's role and their level of responsibility.

the employee's personal circumstances, including family and/or caring responsibilities.

What are the penalties?

If an employee raises concerns regarding an employer's continuous contact out of work hours, the employer could receive a fine of $18,000. 

What if there is a dispute?

Disputes about an employee’s right to disconnect should first be discussed and resolved at the workplace level.

If that isn’t possible, employees or employers can go to the Fair Work Commission to deal with a dispute.

You can read more about that on the FWC's right to disconnect disputes page . 

Do they do this overseas?

Other countries have adopted right to disconnect laws of varying degrees in the past few years. 

France is a pioneer, making it mandatory for companies with more than 50 employees to establish parameters for after-hours communication in 2016. 

Other countries that have adopted such laws are Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Slovakia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Ireland and the Philippines. 

What about small businesses?

There is a little more time for small businesses in Australia. 

The laws for small businesses will come into effect August 26, 2025.

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Fact-checking warnings from Democrats about Project 2025 and Donald Trump

This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact .

Project 2025 has a starring role in this week’s Democratic National Convention.

And it was front and center on Night 1.

WATCH: Hauling large copy of Project 2025, Michigan state Sen. McMorrow speaks at 2024 DNC

“This is Project 2025,” Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said as she laid a hardbound copy of the 900-page document on the lectern. “Over the next four nights, you are going to hear a lot about what is in this 900-page document. Why? Because this is the Republican blueprint for a second Trump term.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has warned Americans about “Trump’s Project 2025” agenda — even though former President Donald Trump doesn’t claim the conservative presidential transition document.

“Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” Harris said July 23 in Milwaukee. “He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. Like, we know we got to take this seriously, and can you believe they put that thing in writing?”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, has joined in on the talking point.

“Don’t believe (Trump) when he’s playing dumb about this Project 2025. He knows exactly what it’ll do,” Walz said Aug. 9 in Glendale, Arizona.

Trump’s campaign has worked to build distance from the project, which the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, led with contributions from dozens of conservative groups.

Much of the plan calls for extensive executive-branch overhauls and draws on both long-standing conservative principles, such as tax cuts, and more recent culture war issues. It lays out recommendations for disbanding the Commerce and Education departments, eliminating certain climate protections and consolidating more power to the president.

Project 2025 offers a sweeping vision for a Republican-led executive branch, and some of its policies mirror Trump’s 2024 agenda, But Harris and her presidential campaign have at times gone too far in describing what the project calls for and how closely the plans overlap with Trump’s campaign.

PolitiFact researched Harris’ warnings about how the plan would affect reproductive rights, federal entitlement programs and education, just as we did for President Joe Biden’s Project 2025 rhetoric. Here’s what the project does and doesn’t call for, and how it squares with Trump’s positions.

Are Trump and Project 2025 connected?

To distance himself from Project 2025 amid the Democratic attacks, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he “knows nothing” about it and has “no idea” who is in charge of it. (CNN identified at least 140 former advisers from the Trump administration who have been involved.)

The Heritage Foundation sought contributions from more than 100 conservative organizations for its policy vision for the next Republican presidency, which was published in 2023.

Project 2025 is now winding down some of its policy operations, and director Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, is stepping down, The Washington Post reported July 30. Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita denounced the document.

WATCH: A look at the Project 2025 plan to reshape government and Trump’s links to its authors

However, Project 2025 contributors include a number of high-ranking officials from Trump’s first administration, including former White House adviser Peter Navarro and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.

A recently released recording of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 author and the former director of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, showed Vought saying Trump’s “very supportive of what we do.” He said Trump was only distancing himself because Democrats were making a bogeyman out of the document.

Project 2025 wouldn’t ban abortion outright, but would curtail access

The Harris campaign shared a graphic on X that claimed “Trump’s Project 2025 plan for workers” would “go after birth control and ban abortion nationwide.”

The plan doesn’t call to ban abortion nationwide, though its recommendations could curtail some contraceptives and limit abortion access.

What’s known about Trump’s abortion agenda neither lines up with Harris’ description nor Project 2025’s wish list.

Project 2025 says the Department of Health and Human Services Department should “return to being known as the Department of Life by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care.”

It recommends that the Food and Drug Administration reverse its 2000 approval of mifepristone, the first pill taken in a two-drug regimen for a medication abortion. Medication is the most common form of abortion in the U.S. — accounting for around 63 percent in 2023.

If mifepristone were to remain approved, Project 2025 recommends new rules, such as cutting its use from 10 weeks into pregnancy to seven. It would have to be provided to patients in person — part of the group’s efforts to limit access to the drug by mail. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a legal challenge to mifepristone’s FDA approval over procedural grounds.

WATCH: Trump’s plans for health care and reproductive rights if he returns to White House The manual also calls for the Justice Department to enforce the 1873 Comstock Act on mifepristone, which bans the mailing of “obscene” materials. Abortion access supporters fear that a strict interpretation of the law could go further to ban mailing the materials used in procedural abortions, such as surgical instruments and equipment.

The plan proposes withholding federal money from states that don’t report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention how many abortions take place within their borders. The plan also would prohibit abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds. It also calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that the training of medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, omits abortion training.

The document says some forms of emergency contraception — particularly Ella, a pill that can be taken within five days of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy — should be excluded from no-cost coverage. The Affordable Care Act requires most private health insurers to cover recommended preventive services, which involves a range of birth control methods, including emergency contraception.

Trump has recently said states should decide abortion regulations and that he wouldn’t block access to contraceptives. Trump said during his June 27 debate with Biden that he wouldn’t ban mifepristone after the Supreme Court “approved” it. But the court rejected the lawsuit based on standing, not the case’s merits. He has not weighed in on the Comstock Act or said whether he supports it being used to block abortion medication, or other kinds of abortions.

Project 2025 doesn’t call for cutting Social Security, but proposes some changes to Medicare

“When you read (Project 2025),” Harris told a crowd July 23 in Wisconsin, “you will see, Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.”

The Project 2025 document does not call for Social Security cuts. None of its 10 references to Social Security addresses plans for cutting the program.

Harris also misleads about Trump’s Social Security views.

In his earlier campaigns and before he was a politician, Trump said about a half-dozen times that he’s open to major overhauls of Social Security, including cuts and privatization. More recently, in a March 2024 CNBC interview, Trump said of entitlement programs such as Social Security, “There’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.” However, he quickly walked that statement back, and his CNBC comment stands at odds with essentially everything else Trump has said during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump’s campaign website says that not “a single penny” should be cut from Social Security. We rated Harris’ claim that Trump intends to cut Social Security Mostly False.

Project 2025 does propose changes to Medicare, including making Medicare Advantage, the private insurance offering in Medicare, the “default” enrollment option. Unlike Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans have provider networks and can also require prior authorization, meaning that the plan can approve or deny certain services. Original Medicare plans don’t have prior authorization requirements.

The manual also calls for repealing health policies enacted under Biden, such as the Inflation Reduction Act. The law enabled Medicare to negotiate with drugmakers for the first time in history, and recently resulted in an agreement with drug companies to lower the prices of 10 expensive prescriptions for Medicare enrollees.

Trump, however, has said repeatedly during the 2024 presidential campaign that he will not cut Medicare.

Project 2025 would eliminate the Education Department, which Trump supports

The Harris campaign said Project 2025 would “eliminate the U.S. Department of Education” — and that’s accurate. Project 2025 says federal education policy “should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” The plan scales back the federal government’s role in education policy and devolves the functions that remain to other agencies.

Aside from eliminating the department, the project also proposes scrapping the Biden administration’s Title IX revision, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It also would let states opt out of federal education programs and calls for passing a federal parents’ bill of rights similar to ones passed in some Republican-led state legislatures.

Republicans, including Trump, have pledged to close the department, which gained its status in 1979 within Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s presidential Cabinet.

In one of his Agenda 47 policy videos, Trump promised to close the department and “to send all education work and needs back to the states.” Eliminating the department would have to go through Congress.

What Project 2025, Trump would do on overtime pay

In the graphic, the Harris campaign says Project 2025 allows “employers to stop paying workers for overtime work.”

The plan doesn’t call for banning overtime wages. It recommends changes to some Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulations and to overtime rules. Some changes, if enacted, could result in some people losing overtime protections, experts told us.

The document proposes that the Labor Department maintain an overtime threshold “that does not punish businesses in lower-cost regions (e.g., the southeast United States).” This threshold is the amount of money executive, administrative or professional employees need to make for an employer to exempt them from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

In 2019, the Trump’s administration finalized a rule that expanded overtime pay eligibility to most salaried workers earning less than about $35,568, which it said made about 1.3 million more workers eligible for overtime pay. The Trump-era threshold is high enough to cover most line workers in lower-cost regions, Project 2025 said.

The Biden administration raised that threshold to $43,888 beginning July 1, and that will rise to $58,656 on Jan. 1, 2025. That would grant overtime eligibility to about 4 million workers, the Labor Department said.

It’s unclear how many workers Project 2025’s proposal to return to the Trump-era overtime threshold in some parts of the country would affect, but experts said some would presumably lose the right to overtime wages.

Other overtime proposals in Project 2025’s plan include allowing some workers to choose to accumulate paid time off instead of overtime pay, or to work more hours in one week and fewer in the next, rather than receive overtime.

Trump’s past with overtime pay is complicated. In 2016, the Obama administration said it would raise the overtime to salaried workers earning less than $47,476 a year, about double the exemption level set in 2004 of $23,660 a year.

But when a judge blocked the Obama rule, the Trump administration didn’t challenge the court ruling. Instead it set its own overtime threshold, which raised the amount, but by less than Obama.

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