Sun Smart
Sun Smart Guidelines
These guidelines have been adopted to ensure that all staff and students attending the Junior School are protected from skin damage caused by exposure to the sun. They apply throughout the year and while on camps, excursions, carnivals and co-curricular activities.
Encouraged Behaviours
Students are required to wear a wide-brimmed College hat whenever they are outdoors. (The cap is only permitted for JPSSA sport for Year 4 and 5 boys.) A no-hat, play in the shade statement is widely articulated and enforced.
- Staff are required to wear brimmed hats while outdoors, on camps, excursions and on duty.
- Students without hats must obtain a uniform note from the Junior School Administration which is placed in their Student Diary. Students without hats are directed to a designated shaded area.
- Visitors and guests are encouraged to wear hats when attending outdoor events.
- Students are educated about wearing sunscreen cream/lotion prior to arriving at school and to reapply 20 minutes prior to recess and lunchtime.
- Students are encouraged to take responsibility for applying their own sunscreen.
- Sunscreen is provided in large tubs in the classroom and during carnivals and other outdoor events.
- Regular reminders to reapply sunscreen are issued by teachers.
- Students are encouraged to wear sun protective clothing such as rash shirts, shirts with collars and broad brimmed hats.
Curriculum
The children are taught and reminded about sun safety through formal lessons and incidental teaching moments throughout the year. Sun protection is also promoted to families throughout the year in the weekly notices and diaries.
Teacher reference materials and resources are provided to support sun protection strategies.
Environment
The College ensures and maintains adequate provision of shade (natural and man-made). Wherever possible, indoor areas are used for daily physical education lessons which may occur during inclement weather or where sporting events are being conducted on the playing fields by the other campuses, such as the Inter-School sports programme. Shade is provided at all outdoor carnivals.