Emergency Management Plan
Documents Related to our Emergency Management Plan Below:
Billanook Primary School Emergency Management Plan 2024 – 2025
The BPS Emergency Management Plan covers all potential emergency management situations, not just fire. We annually update this and send it to DET for approval.
Billanook Primary School is on the DET ‘Bushfire At Risk Register’, along with most schools in this area. This means we must close on days forecasted by the Bureau of Meteorology as Catastrophic FDR in their fire weather district. We are assured we would receive warnings of potential Catastrophic days several days prior. The closures will be generated through DET, determined by the Emergency Management Commissioner, based on Bureau of Meteorology reports. This is not purely temperature based.
Our Shelter-In-Place is the Multipurpose Complex which according to the information received from DET is our safe place for all students. It is also large enough to accommodate all staff and students with tank water, toilets and several break out room spaces for students if required.
Parent pick up will be activated by advice from CFA and DET Emergency Management advice and parents will be notified via Compass and/or phone as to how and when to pick up children. We have a phone not reliant on a power source for this purpose and a phone tree with staff designated for specific families.
As a school we have a yearly planner of evacuation drills so our students and staff are very familiar with how and when they move to the prescribed areas depending on whether we practice internal, external or lockdown procedures. The idea behind extensive drill practice is to ensure confidence in the procedures and less chance of panic should a real situation develop.
We regularly place emergency management information in the school newsletter that all families need to be aware of.
We are confident that we have good procedures in place and are well prepared and equipped should there ever be a real emergency.
Please do not hesitate to contact the school if you have any queries.
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Our School Values
Within our learning community our Values underpins teaching and learning, guides our interactions and relationships and is modelled in all operational processes of the school. The Billanook Primary School community has a consistent and positive approach to behaviour and uses our Values and Restorative Practices, to foster a school climate where personal responsibility and self-discipline are developed.
Values activities can be adapted to be a part of any lesson whether it be Literacy, Numeracy, Inquiry or the specialist areas. Using reflection time, appreciation statements, cooperative learning activities or ‘energisers’ to keep concentration levels up are all part of the engagement process.
Inclusion activities are used extensively at the beginning of a school year through our Settle In Program to ensure that children know each other well and build bonds of friendship and respect.
Wellbeing Assemblies
Each fortnight students at Billanook meet for a wellbeing Assembly, with members of our community in attendance. This whole-school assembly is held on a Monday afternoon and is a platform used to celebrate students who are following our school valuess and also to deliver a wellbeing message.
Wellbeing foci that we cover include:
- Bucket Filling – Have you filled a bucket today?
- Cyber safety
- Anti-bullying – don’t be a bystander
- Qualities of good friends – Friendship soup
- Celebrating diversity
- Acts of kindness
- Team building challenges
- Mindfulness
These Wellbeing Assembly messages are followed up our classrooms after assembly and often at Year Level Assemblies later in the week. Our wellbeing messages are ingrained into the curriculum to ensure that they are not token efforts. We believe it is important to explicitly teach the skills and strategies students need build their capacity to be resilient, socially responsible and respectful in their relationships.
Respect - Show courtesy to ourselves, others and our environment
Affirming the value and uniqueness of each person. Treating others the way you would like to be treated; recognising and appreciating individual and cultural differences; and offering feedback that encourages growth.
Kindness - Always be friendly, generous and considerate of others
Treating others with care; stating appreciation for unique qualities, gifts, skills and contributions; avoiding negative remarks, name calling, hurtful gestures and behaviours.
Grit - Keep working towards your goals, even when they are challenging
Keep working towards your goals, even when they are challenging.
Aspiration - Strive for your personal best in everything you do
Striving for your personal best, reaching for the sky!
Aiming to improve on your own personal efforts; striving towards an optimum level across all aspects of the curriculum.
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