Bulahdelah Central School

BCS was established in 1868 and since then has served a supportive community between Forster, Booral and Tea Gardens.
The school is located below Alum Mountain, with spacious well laid-out grounds. BCS is the state's largest central school, serving the needs of students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

Rules of Engagement
In joining our community on Facebook, Bulahdelah Central School follows both the DEC Code of Conduct and Facebook terms and conditions.
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.

Bulahdelah Central 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.

Bulahdelah Central 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,

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

• Anything else that the school deems inappropriate and does not align with our values, standards, policies and guidelines.

For further information regarding the use of our official Facebook Page or any other of our social media channels please contact the school directly (02) 4997 4329.

Students
Please note that the Facebook terms and conditions state that no one under the age of 13 years should have a Facebook profile. Therefore, any primary students who 'Like' or comment on the Bulahdelah Central School Facebook page will be deleted immediately.
In short, please do not ask to friend a member of staff on Facebook as refusal often offends.

Friending Staff on Facebook
Please note that the Department of Education and Communities has this advice for teachers 'Friending' parents on Facebook:
“The line between your professional and personal life could become blurred making it difficult to manage your professional relationship with the parents when that becomes necessary.
You also need to bear in mind that becoming a Facebook friend with a parent could result in their children getting access to your account as well.
You also need to be mindful that you need to be careful what you say on Facebook if you have parents as friends as comments made online can be misunderstood and could result in parental complaints made to your principal”.