NQS4 – Staffing Arrangements Policy
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At Happy Hive, we ensure legislated staffing ratios and qualification requirements are met at all times. We are also committed to ensuring our workforce is appropriately motivated and experienced for its critical role in enhancing children’s learning and development. They achieve this by developing warm, respectful relationships with children, by creating safe environments for children, and by encouraging children’s active engagement in their learning programs.
Rostering staff
Happy Hive Centre Directors ensure that centre staff rosters are prepared in accordance with National Laws and Regulations and the Happy Hive Enterprise Agreement (EA). When preparing the centre staff roster, consideration is given to the staffing levels and qualifications required to operate the service. This includes:
- Requirements if an educator who holds (or is actively working towards) an approved Certificate III or Diploma level qualification, or an Early Childhood Teacher (ECT) or suitably qualified person (SQP), is absent
- Responsible Person requirements
- First aid qualification requirements
- Licensed capacity of the centre
- Room configurations (age and room capacity)
- Educator-to-child ratio requirements
- Positions and qualifications required
- Time allocated for programming
- Staff learning program induction and professional development
- Completion of the Performance Excellence Program (PEP)
- Trainee and apprentice study
- The number of children booked daily per room throughout the week
- Group sizes
- Educator breaks
- Non-contact hours for contact Directors
- Inclusion support requirements
- A centre’s requirement for Cooks, Trainees, and Bus Drivers
Tardiness
Being on time is a life skill important to each student’s future, and schools share the responsibility to teach the importance of this skill. Tardiness of individual students interrupts instructional time for all students. Promptness to class allows the teachers to begin the instruction on time for everyone. Tardiness to class is defined as not being physically in the room at 8:00 am.
- Three tardies is equal to 1 unexcused absence
- Three unexcused absences due to tardiness will result in a 7:00 am detention on the following school day.
- If tardiness continues suspension from school will be at the discretion of the administration.
Student’s Responsibilities
To attend school daily, on time and participate fully. The student who has been absent has the responsibility for securing and completing make-up assignments. The class work must be made up within a specific time period equaling one day make-up per one day absence. In case of a pre-arranged absence, the class work is due the day the student returns to school. All work not made up within the time limit will be graded zero.
Administrator’s Responsibilities
- To review the attendance of students and to contact parent/guardian when a student has excessive absences.
- To take appropriate steps, to insure that students attend school in a timely manner on a regular basis.
- 5 (five) absences: Parents will be notified of days absent and reminded of the need for regular attendance by letter or telephone.
- 10 (ten) absences: A mandatory meeting with parents and principals will be held to develop an intervention plan regarding attendance. The intervention plan will be pro-active and problem solving in nature.
- 18 (eighteen) absences could result in retention (4.5 per quarter).