Principal's Report
Parent and Carer School Saving Bonus
The Victorian Government is delivering the School Saving Bonus – a one-off $400 support for government school students from Prep to Year 12 in 2025. From Tuesday 26 November 2024, you will receive an email from the Department of Education with your unique $400 School Saving Bonus code. The School Saving Bonus will help families cover the cost of uniforms, textbooks, excursions, activities and more.
If you have multiple children enrolled in Victorian government schools for 2025, you will receive one School Saving Bonus code email per child. These emails might arrive on different days. Please make sure to check your spam/junk email folder.
Parents and carers can use the School Saving Bonus code in store at school-nominated suppliers. Parents and carers can also choose to access the School Saving Bonus online system, where they can allocate part or all the $400 bonus to use at school nominated-online suppliers or for school activities.
To learn more about the School Saving Bonus, visit School Saving Bonus | vic.gov.au (www.vic.gov.au). A step-by-step user guide will be available on the webpage on 26 November. If you have not received your School Saving Bonus code via email by Friday 29 November, please contact the Department of Education by emailing school.saving.bonus@education.vic.gov.au
Class Construction and Step Up
2025 class construction is underway, and students will have their first step-up session on Monday 2nd December, learning about what the expectations are and some of the wonderful things they will do next year. Students will meet their new teacher on December 16th. Grade construction is an incredibly time-consuming process in schools, taking into account many things including: equal class sizes, the number of males and females, additional needs, parent requests, students’ friendships and academics to name a few. Mr B spends countless hours on this and has done an excellent job.
Expectations
There is still plenty of learning time to go in 2024. We need to ensure that students understand that expectations haven’t changed at LPS. We still need to ensure respect is evident in all conversations and interactions and that school uniform is being worn. I thank all parents in advance for having this conversation with their children.
November 29th – Curriculum Day
Please remember that this is a Curriculum Day and Team Kids are available for care. Our staff will be in their 2025 teams and be planning for the year ahead.
Premier’s Christmas Card Competition
Get your pencils, felt-tip pens and paint brushes ready. The Hon. Jacinta Allan MP, Premier of Victoria, is looking for Christmas-inspired artwork to include in the Christmas card she will send to Victorians this year.
Children aged 12 and under can submit a drawing or painting that shows their Christmas experience. There is no criteria, so please get as creative as you like. Entries are open until Friday 15 November 2024. How to submit your entry.
To submit an entry, you should send your artwork by either:
Email: jacinta.allan@parliament.vic.gov.au
Post: Office of the Premier, 1 Treasury Place, East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002
Please also include your name, suburb and contact details.
Good luck!
Have a great fortnight,
Nicola