Paparoa Street School
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At Paparoa Street School we are committed to creating a safe online environment for our kaimahi and community. When kaimahi use social media in their professional role, they work to preserve confidentiality and maintain professional standards. Kaimahi operate under the assumption that all information published on social media may become public, regardless of privacy settings. We encourage kaimahi to also consider privacy issues in their personal use of social media.
Kaimahi are vigilant about safe and appropriate out-of-school contact with ākonga, including through social media, texting, and emails. The following guidelines promote the positive use of social media by kaimahi.
Kaimahi with concerns about how to use social media can discuss this with the tumuaki. Complaints or concerns relating to kaimahi use of social media are dealt with through the Concerns and Complaints Policy and/or Responding to Digital Incidents guidelines, as appropriate.
Kaimahi use of social media in professional roles
Kaimahi may use kura approved social media platforms as part of their role to communicate with the kura community, for example, in classroom blogs, the kura website, and kura social media sites. Appropriate use of social media encourages ākonga to use technology confidently and understand the issues involved.
Our kura only uses online tools, platforms, and apps after we have considered and approved their terms and conditions, privacy settings, data collection, and content ownership agreements.
Social media administrators are considered 
online content hosts under the Harmful Digital Communications Act and may be legally responsible for social media posts. Kaimahi follow Digital Technology and Online Safety and any use agreements.
At Paparoa Street School kaimahi using social media:
safe harbour process when dealing with any complaints about content (see Responding to Digital Incidents).Kaimahi should not comment publicly on a serious incident or crisis situation within the kura. Any media enquiries should be redirected to the appointed spokesperson.
Kaimahi use of personal social media
Paparoa Street School encourages kaimahi to consider how they use social media in their personal life. Personal use of social media should also be governed by confidentiality and professional standards. We recommend kaimahi keep privacy settings appropriate, and understand the terms of service for their personal social media platforms, particularly how their content may be accessed, re-used, or republished.
Kaimahi must meet any legislative requirements, including not sharing personal information collected as part of the operation of the kura.
We also expect kaimahi to maintain professional boundaries. They should:
Release history: Term 4 2022, Term 4 2020, Term 2 2020
