Important Notices
Fortnightly Learning Snapshots
Dear Families,
Our Fortnightly Learning Snapshots begin this week! These updates are designed to provide you with regular insights into your child’s learning and what’s happening in the classroom. They can also serve as great conversation starters at home.
In Week 2, you received the Grade Level Overview as the Snapshot. From this week onwards, Snapshots will be shared fortnightly and will include key learning experiences, upcoming events, and classroom highlights.
The snapshots will be posted on this site. Alternatively, the link can be found in the ‘parents’ section of our school website.
We hope you find them valuable in staying connected with their learning journey!
Kind regards,
Riley Hall | Assistant Principal
Annual privacy reminder for our school community
Our school collects and uses student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy and the Schools’ Privacy Collection Notice.
Our Photographing, Filming and Recording Students Policy (see attachment), describes how we collect and use photographs, video and recordings of students. The policy also explains when parent consent is required and how it can be provided and withdrawn.
This information is also available in ten community languages:
* Amharic
* Arabic
* Dari
* Gujarati
* Mandarin
* Somali
* Sudanese
* Turkish
* Urdu
* Vietnamese
Here is a link to the Victorian Government schools Privacy Policy.
We ask parents to also review the guidance we provide on how we use Google Workspace for Education safely at the school and what parents can do to further protect their child’s information. If after reviewing the guidance, you have any questions or concerns regarding your child using Google Workspace for Education, please contact the school. For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents.
School Saving Bonus
Dear parents and carers,
Thank you to everyone who has visited the School Saving Bonus Portal. This week you will start to see events being published on Compass.
If you have not already done so, please log into the SSB Portal to allocate the remaining SSB Funds to "School Activities". This step has to be done for each child in your family. Each student has a unique SSB Voucher number.
Please click on this link that will take you to the SSB Parent Portal Home.
Please note: You will need your SSB Voucher Number and the email address for Parent #1 to complete the above process.
If you do not complete the above step, I will not be able to apply your SSB credit to events as they come up on Compass.
Activities include all BPS events such as:
- Excursions
- Incursions
- Camps
- Sporting Events
- Graduation
Once you have allocated the SSB to School Activities, the funds will be transferred to your Family Account to be used for Camps/Excursions/Activities in 2025. You will not be able to see the SSB credit in Compass, your Family Account is on our internal accounting system. I will be processing the credits for you by reducing the cost of each event in Compass.
If you decline the event in Compass, the SSB funds will revert back into credit for a future event.
If you do not allocate your SSB before the 30 June 2025, the funds will automatically transfer onto your school family account to be used for School Activities. Any balances remaining at the end of 2025 will remain on your family account to be used in 2026.
Kind regards,
Renay Whitehead – Finance
