Administration News
Newsletter 2022
Welcome to our 1st newsletter for 2022. Our newsletter format is emailed to families, via Compass and archived on our website. Please take the time to read the Newsletter each fortnight as it has valuable information on events and latest news within the school.
A Parents Guide to Compass
Please read the attached guide to help you navigate the Compass App. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to come into the office or give us a call.
Working With Children Check
We require all parents and volunteers who would like to attend school excursions or volunteer in the classrooms, to have a Working with Children Check. You can now fill WWC Check application online. Please go to http://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/
After you fill out your details, print out your application form and take it to an Australia Post outlet with your proof of identity and a passport size photo for processing.
Please bring your WWCC card to our school office when you receive it and we will do an induction so that you can attend excursions and help in the classroom.
This induction only takes 5 minutes, is only done once a year and is conducted from our school office.
Camps, Sports & Excursions Funding (CSEF)
Dear Parents
In 2015 the Victorian Government unveiled a new $148 million initiative to ensure all Victorian students can take part in school trips and sporting activities. The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) provides payments for eligible students to attend camps, sports and excursions.
Families holding an eligible Centrelink Health Care, Pensioner Concession or Veterans Affairs Gold card or are a temporary foster parent are able to apply. The cards must be valid as of the first day of term 1(28th January 2022) or term 2 (26th April 2022).
$125 per year will be paid for eligible primary school students. Payments will go directly to the school and be tied to the student. These funds can only be used for school camps, swimming, excursions, incursions and outdoor education programs. Any money unspent at the end of the year will carry over to the next school year for the same purpose.
If you are eligible to receive this payment, please collect a form from our school office or down load the form from the attached link
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact our office on 5256 1411.
Excursion Payment Options
Each family has their own personal log in & password details for Compass. You can use these details to consent and pay for excursions. Most events/excursions will show on your Compass home page in My News. Click on the blue hyperlink for more information and you will have access to either print the form or Process Now, which will take you directly to a consent and payment form to provide permission and payment.
Please note that you will still receive a hardcopy of all excursion notes for those families who wish to pay cash, use their CSEF or have prepaid at the start of the year.
Payments can not be made via Compass from your phone, only computers.
Please note that it is no longer possible for teachers or office staff to accept payment or ring to ask for permission for students to attend an excursion on the day of the event. This causes a lot of disruption within the classroom particularly if the excursion is taking place at the beginning of the day.
If you have any questions or concerns please call into our school office.
Student Absences
Dear Parents,
An SMS notification will be sent to the primary family member’s mobile number at approximately 9:30am each school morning, if your child/children are not at school and their absence is unexplained.
Please make sure that you call the school or enter your child’s/children’s absence through the COMPASS Parent Portal, prior to 9am on the day of their absence, to ensure you do not receive the text unnecessarily.
If you have any questions regarding this message please call our office on 5256 1411.
School Hours
Start: 8:45am, Finish 3:15pm Recess 10:45-11:20am, Lunch 1:15-2:15pm
Please ensure your child/children are at school prior to 8:45am.
All students who arrive late must sign in at the office and take a late pass to the teacher.
Students leaving early must be signed out by a parent at the office.
If your child is leaving school early could you please email the class teacher, giving a time that you would like your child to be at the office ready for pick up. Unfortunately we are unable to call students over the intercom, unless it is recess, lunchtime or from 3pm.
Labelling Personal Items
Please check that your child’s school uniform & all lunch containers have their names clearly marked on them. We often have a lot of unnamed items in our lost property cupboard that could easily be returned to their rightful owners if they were named!
Our lost property cupboard is located in the corridor of room 3 & 4 if you need to take a look.
Picking Up & Dropping off Students
For the safety of children, parents are reminded to take care and obey parking signs when picking up or dropping off children around schools.
Council’s Parking & information Officers regularly patrol schools areas during start and finish times and motorists detected breaching parking regulations risk being issued with a Penalty Infringement Notice.
Remember, as soon as you stop to let your children in or out of the car, you are deemed to be parked. You do not have to leave your car or turn the engine off to be fined.
At children’s crossings, you must remain stationary at the stop line while any person (including an adult or supervisor) is crossing or the stop sign is displayed. Do not let your child alight at this time, ensure that they wait until you are safely and legally parked.
If you breach a parking regulation the Parking & Information Officer assigned to monitor the crossing will usually record your registration number and details, and the Penalty Infringement Notice will be posted to the registered owner of the vehicle within the next three days.
Parking is available in John Dory Drive and at the Shell Road oval. The Staff car Park is for Staff only.
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