The attendance of students enrolled at the college is to be documented as required under the ‘Education Act 1990’ Education Amendment (School Attendance) Bill 2009 and as required by the Minister from time to time. School attendance is essential to ensure that educational outcomes for College students are met. It is important that students and their parents are made aware of the necessity for regular attendance and that any failings in this regard are followed up promptly with the family concerned. Please refer to the St Pius X College Attendance Enrolment Policy below.

For more information please read the

Attendance Policy

Sick Leave and short term non-attendance

Attendance Rolls are marked in morning administration or assembly time 8.42 – 8.57am.

Students are marked absent or present by their Homeroom Pastoral Care Teachers on the Sentral timetable. Subsequently an email to the nominated parent’s address is generated if the absence has not been explained by mid-morning.

Parents should therefore contact the College to explain any student absence, at their earliest opportunity, and preferably before roll call, by:

1. Ringing and leaving a message on the Attendance line:  9414 4377
2. Emailing The Attendance Roll Manager: [email protected]
3. Using the Sentral portal to explain an absence : sentral.stpiusx.nsw.edu.au/auth/portal  Instructions Below
4. Providing a written/printed note explaining the absence on the next available opportunity.

To add an explanation for your son’s absence, please log into the Sentral Parent portal and navigate to the absence tab.  

1. Click on the absence you want to send an explanation for. 
2. Enter the absence reason in the text box provided. 
3. Please note this will only be available for 7 days from the absence. 

Please address the communication appropriately to the College staff and include the student’s full name, date/s of absence, student’s year and class group, reason for absence, likely return date, your signatory’s details, relationship to the student, and return contact means.

If a student is absent for more than two consecutive days, or a pattern of concern arises, Pastoral Care staff should ensure that contact is made with the parents of the student to seek clarification and express our concern.

Application for Leave/Exemption from Attendance at School

This form is to be completed preemptively where a student is planning to be absent from the College for three or more days. Complete the following Application for Leave/Exemption from Attendance at School Form and return to the relevant Year Coordinator or Head of Junior School for his/her signature.

Student Development

It is the policy of this College to set regular homework in all subjects. Homework tasks usually involve one or more of the following:

• Set work based on the daily work in the subject.
• A task related to revision of the day’s lesson and/or some past work – this might be revision for a test for example.
• Major assignments and tasks which need to be worked on over a lengthy period. The student needs to budget his time for such a task and record this in the diary, otherwise rushed last-minute efforts are made with little benefit to the student.

Work that is poorly presented or reveals little effort on the part of the student may be required to be presented again.

A consistent disregard of homework tasks will be considered a serious matter.

Assessment details for Years 10, 11 and 12 are given by each Subject Department at the start of courses and reminders issued at appropriate times.

A Guide to Recommended Times for Homework

These times indicate the amount of time the average student would need to spend on home study if he wished to keep up with his work.  Parents are encouraged to communicate with subject teachers via the diary when issues about homework arise.

Introduction and Purpose

All students regardless of what year level have access to the computer resources that are available at St Pius X College.

However before they can access the computer resources available at SPX they must agree to the Acceptable Use Policy for Students and Technology. Each student is entitled to use the resources
for educational purposes only. Users are responsible for their own actions with computer resources. They should be aware that access may be reduced or other consequences applied for any misuse of the computer resources.
Cyber bullying is not acceptable in any form. (See end of document for detailed description of Cyber Bullying.)

It is each user’s responsibility to ensure:

• His password is kept unique and confidential
• That any computer he is using is completely logged off when finished
• A current backup of his own files are maintained (Personal Drive)
• No use is made of programs, simulations or games of a non-educational content (i.e. those not provided by your teacher)
• That he is responsible for the data on his own media (i.e. USB Thumb Drives, CD/DVD ROMs and any other media)
• That the discovery of a virus or any malicious software is reported to the teacher or IT staff immediately
• That they inform teachers or IT staff immediately of any inappropriate files on the network
• He is not in a computer room without supervision
• That he does not take food or drink into any of the computer rooms
• Computer failures are reported to teachers or IT staff
• Printing is not misused and the use of printer paper is kept to a reasonable and responsible level for the completion of stipulated educational activities and, where possible, the paper is recycled

The following activities are not acceptable:

• Cyber Bullying in any form
• Attempts to access, harm, modify or delete the data not belonging to you
• Using another student’s or teacher’s user account, with or without that user’s permission
• Sharing your password with other students
• The changing of another’s password
• Disrupting computer resources through vandalism or electronic means
• Movement of any computer resources without a teacher’s permission
• Contaminating the computer resources with a virus or malicious software
• Transmitting or deliberately accessing data that is threatening, obscene, bigoted, abusive, defamatory, racist, sexist or discriminatory
• Commercial use of the college resources
• Breaching copyright laws (http://www.copyright.org.au)
• Using materials without due acknowledgment
• Gaining access to computer systems that you are not entitled to. (i.e. Hacking)
• Undertaking any other illegal activities as defined under the Australian Commonwealth GovernmentTelecommunications Act 1989

Email Guidelines:

• Email communication can only be initiated by a teacher
• Emails to other teachers or students must relate to school work

Notebook Usage Guidelines:

• School Notebooks should be treated with care, any damages will be the liability of the student (student’s family) and repair charges may be incurred. The Notebook is the property of St. Pius X College
• Students are responsible for getting Notebooks from trolleys and placing them back in the trolleys, ensuring the power cable is plugged in
• The use of Notebooks within particular lessons is at the discretion of the subject teacher
• A student who is allocated a Notebook is responsible for it; they are not to allow any other students to use it

St. Pius X College makes no guarantee of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the computing services it provides. The College will not be responsible for damages a user suffers, including but not limited to the loss of data.
The provision of computer resources at St. Pius X College is made for the benefit of all. Users identified as being a security risk, who create problems for other users or with the system, as indicated above, will be penalised. The College reserves the right to review any material to determine whether specific uses of resources are appropriate.By signing this policy in you diary you are agreeing to the above rules for the use of technology at St Pius X College.

Cyber Bullying

The National Crime Prevention Council’s definition of cyber-bullying is “when the Internet, mobile phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.

Cyber-bullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the sender, but it may also include threats, sexual remarks, pejorative labels (i.e. hate speech), ganging up on victims by making them the subject of ridicule in forums, and posting false statements as fact aimed at humiliation.

Cyber-bullies may disclose victims’ personal data (e.g. real name, address, or workplace/schools) at websites or forums or may pose as the identity of a victim for the purpose of publishing material in their name that defames or ridicules them. Some cyber bullies may also send threatening and harassing emails and instant messages to the victims, while others post rumours or gossip and instigate others to dislike and gang up on the target.

Though the use of sexual remarks and threats are sometimes present in cyber-bullying, it is not the same as sexual harassment and does not necessarily involve sexual predators.
(Information taken from http://www.ncpc.org/topics/cyberbullying/what-is-cyberbullying)

St Pius X College welcomes feedback from all members of the College community and takes all complaints or concerns that may be raised seriously. This Complaints Handling Guide is designed to assist in understanding our complaints handling process.

EREA Complaints Handling Policy

Complaints Handling Guide-EREA

COMPLAINTS FLOWCHART

Bullying Policy

Harassment Policy (udent Against Student)

Hair Policy April 2025

St Pius X College maintains a register of all injuries and near misses relating to Staff Members, Students, Volunteers, Visitors or Contractors whilst they are at school or undertaking a school related activity .

In regard to student travel the College has a strong tradition of policy and practice in pastoral care and student management. On this point we remain ever vigilant and alert in our management.

To Update your Family Contact details please email [email protected]