IMPORTANT PARENT AWARENESS: KHDA has alerted all private schools about observations regarding dangerous physical behaviours among students, including choking, breath-holding, applying pressure to the neck, forceful contact to the head, and participation in social media trends such as the ‘skull breaker challenge’. These actions are often presented as joking or play but they pose serious immediate risks to students’ health and even have the implications of being life threatening.

We have attached an infographic from DHA regarding these dangerous physical behaviours. We are strongly urging ALL parents to have age-appropriate conversations with your children about the risks involved with various dangerous physical behaviours which could also be life threatening. The school would also have to report any of these to the relevant external authorities.

Parents are strongly reminded to kindly monitor your child’s online usage and use of social media including online games so that you are aware of the content that your child is accessing.

St. Mary’s Catholic High School has a strict ‘NO TOUCH’ policy wherein NO STUDENT is allowed to TOUCH another student or have any PHYSICAL CONTACT with another student even as a form of play, a joke, a game etc. Kindly reiterate this to your children. It is for this reason that games like tag, black shoe etc are strictly prohibited because what often starts out as a game ends up with someone getting hurt.