Victoria’s ‘Government Schools Reference Guide’ (which obviously only applies to government schools, but which nonetheless is often useful as a reference for all teachers and schools when it comes to standards and practices) is pretty implicit on the issue.
Section 4.6.l.2
Whenever a studentteacher relationship exists, the teacher has a special duty of care. This is defined as: A teacher is to take such measures as are reasonable in the circumstances to protect a student under the teachers charge from risks of injury that the teacher should reasonably have foreseen. (Richards v State of Victoria (1969) VR 136 at p. 141)
