Rydalmere East Public School

We are and look forward to welcoming your family into our community. Page Guidelines

The intent of this page is to provide a hub for responsible community engagement that celebrates the daily life of our school. We proactively support participation in social media to develop digital citizenship throughout our community. Rydalmere East Public School values the responsible use of social

media articulated in a range of policies and guidelines that govern the expectations of online behaviour. We reserve the right to remove any content that we believe is in breach of these policies, guidelines and the values of our school. All comments on Rydalmere East Public School’s page are bound by the following:
• Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
• Our school code of conduct
• DEC Social media policies

Rydalmere East Public School will remove content if it contains:

• Offensive abusive, obscene, profane, hateful or racist content, links or images

• Comments that threaten or defame any person or organisation

• The direct, full name or descriptive reference to an individual, irrespective of the post’s tone

• Solicitations and advertisements by other organisations or endorsements by other organisations or endorsements of other organisations

• Multiple or repetitive posts by a single user

• Repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by single or multiple users

• Anything else that the school deems inappropriate and does not align with our values, standards, policies and guidelines. In relation to Tagging, Naming and Posting:
For students’ privacy and protection, please do not tag photos of children, and please do not name them in your comments. On rare occasions and with parental permission, students may be named by the school Facebook administration team. Tagging of parents or friends within the comment box is permitted, with the understanding that all other rules of engagement are followed. Parents are asked to refrain from posting photos of other children that are not their own, in accordance with Facebook Code of Conduct. We want to remind you that this is simply another form of communication between parents and the community and their local school and we expect that remarks will be on-topic and respectful of the rights and opinions of others. For further information regarding the use of our official page, please contact the school directly (02) 96382250.