We are committed to ensuring a safe and happy environment for your child.
We support your child’s health and safety through a range of strategies including:
- the behaviour code for students, which outlines the standards of behaviour expected in all NSW public schools
- anti-racism education
- anti-bullying programs
- conflict resolution and mediation training
- peer support
- road safety education
- the Healthy School Canteen Strategy.
For more information, visit the student wellbeing section of the department’s website.
Like all NSW public schools, we promote the healthy development of students through:
- school programs and practices that protect and promote health and safety
- supporting individual students who need help with health issues
- providing first aid and temporary care of students who become unwell or who have an accident at school.
Student wellbeing
Like all NSW public schools, we provide safe learning and teaching environments to encourage healthy, happy, successful and productive students.
The department is committed to creating quality learning opportunities for children and young people. These opportunities support wellbeing through positive and respectful relationships and fostering a sense of belonging to the school and community.
The Wellbeing Framework for Schools helps schools support the cognitive, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development of students and allows them to connect, succeed and thrive throughout their education.
School Behaviour Support and Management
Our school values an approach for creating a positive, safe and supportive school climate where students can thrive and achieve their personal best. The School Behaviour and Support Management Plan (SBSMP) adopts a strategic, integrated whole-school approach that incorporates a multi-tiered care continuum to support all students, focusing on prevention, early intervention, and targeted individual interventions. It sets high expectations for student behaviour in line with the Behaviour Code for Students. The plan includes effective strategies to model, explicitly teach, recognise, and reinforce positive, inclusive, and safe behaviours. Additionally, it outlines methods to identify, prevent, and respond to disruptive student behaviours, including bullying and cyber-bullying, and addresses behaviours of concern when they occur.
Follow this link to view the full School Behaviour Support and Managementy Plan: Callaghan College Wallsend Campus 2025
Our commitment to anti-racism education
With your support, we do the very best we can to ensure culturally inclusive, cohesive, safe and engaging learning experiences for all our students. If at any time you find that you have a concern about racism in our school, you are encouraged to come to the school and talk with a member of staff so that your concern can be resolved.
The NSW Department of Education has a Complaints Handling Policy to ensure that complaints are handled fairly. In the case of complaints relating to racism in schools, you can also contact the school Anti-Racism Contact Officer (ARCO) on telephone 02 49511 811 or via email - subject line: Attention ARCO wallsend-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au