You can customise these scripts and letters to suit what’s happening at your school.

There are standard scripts for all schools in South Australia.

There are parent letters for schools with:

• the Department for Education
• Catholic Education SA
• Association for Independent Schools South Australia.

Each Independent school can adapt their letters to suit their own school context.

There is one standard parent information ‘insert’ for all schools in South Australia.

Script for leaders – to let students know

• Script for leaders to students (about sudden death)

Letters and attachments to inform families

• Catholic Education SA parent letter (DOCX 54 KB)
• Association for Independent Schools SA parent letter (DOCX 54 KB)
• Department for Education parent letter (DOCX 54 KB)
• Sudden death: information for families (parent letter insert) (DOCX 52 KB) . For use by all sectors.
  The parent letter insert is included as the second page of the above letters, but can be downloaded separately.

Other prepared messages

• Message from education directors to site leaders (about sudden death)
• Message from sector offices to site leaders (about a former student's sudden death)