Administration

Parents of children with Asthma, allergies and Anaphylaxis

If your child has asthma, allergies or anaphylaxis, please ensure the school is provided with a current plan and medication.

Please locate the appropriate plan found on our school website, print in colour and take to your GP to have it completed.

Financial Assistance - Information for Parents

Every Victorian child should have access to the world of learning opportunities that exist beyond the classroom. The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund helps ensure that no student will miss out on the opportunity to join their classmates for important, educational and fun activities. It is part of making Victoria the Education State and the Government’s commitment to breaking the link between a student’s background and their outcomes.

Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF)

School camps provide children with inspiring experiences in the great outdoors, excursions encourage a deeper understanding of how the world works and sports teach teamwork, discipline and leadership. All are part of a healthy curriculum.

CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

The annual CSEF amount per student is:

• $125 for primary school students

• $225 for secondary school students

How to Apply

New applicants should contact the school office to obtain a CSEF application form or download from www.education.vic.gov.au/csef

Student Attendance and Absences

Protecting the safety and well-being of children through the reporting and monitoring of absenteeism is the responsibility of both parents/carers and schools. Parents/carers have an obligation to notify the school of their child’s absence and schools are required to notify parents/carers on the day of an unexplained student absence.

If your child is sick or absent for a whole day/s, you are required to notify their school as soon as possible on the day of absence using one of the following methods:

1. Online: log the absence directly using Compass.
2. Telephone: the school office and let the staff know your child’s name, class, date of absences and reason.
3. Email: the school and provide the staff with your child’s name, class, date of absences and reason.

Notifying the school of your child’s absence either prior to, or on the day that they will be away, helps ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and will fulfil your legal responsibility.

Late Arrivals and Early Departures

Please note - Late Arrivals and Early Departures must not be entered into the future - so if your child has an upcoming appointment and you will be collecting them during the day please do not enter this on Compass until you are at the school office collecting your child.

Not only does this update their class roll to reflect the time they left school, but it is also beneficial for duty of care and emergency management, as Compass will know that the student has departed the school for the rest of the day or it will display when the child is signed back in at the office if returning. This will then display the day and time clearly on the Daily Summary and Emergency Report.

Compass is a tool to accurately track your child's attendance - if you put the appointment absence in and then delayed for whatever reason, we are not able to accurately report when your child leaves and returns to school grounds. 

If you would like to let your teacher know that your child will be late the next day due to an appointment you can, but please do not enter it into Compass until you are at the office signing your child out.

Classroom Roll Marking

It is a legislative requirement that schools must record student attendance twice per day in primary schools and record, in writing, the reason given for each absence. This is necessary to:

• meet legislative requirements
• discharge schools' duty of care for all students
• assist calculation of the school's funding
• enable the school governing body (school council in government schools) to report on student attendance annually

Teachers are required to mark the attendance roll within the first few minutes after 9.00am.  Therefore, if your child arrives in class, even a few minutes late, they will be marked as absent/unexplained and you will receive a system generated SMS advising of this at approximately 10.00am.

If your child will not be in class by 9am, please ensure you accompany them to the office to sign them in on Compass and take a green pass to their teacher. This will then amend the details on Compass to Late/explained.