Dear Parents and Carers,

This weekend is Mothers’ Day, a special day to celebrate with our mums or the other special people in our lives that care for us and nurture us. Thank you to the mums, aunties, nans, grandmas and carers who came to our Mothers’ Day Breakfast this morning.

Child Safety and Wellbeing - Information for families and the school community: Melton West Primary School is committed to providing an environment where students are safe and feel safe. Our responsibilities include ensuring child safety information is accessible to parents and carers and I have included this link for you if you are interested in finding out more about Child Safe Standard 4 – School Family Engagement Family engagement | vic.gov.au.

Our child safety framework explains how we support and maintain child safety and wellbeing at Melton West P.S. It includes the following policies available on our website:

CSS child safety and wellbeing policy template
ChildSafety-RespondingandReportingObligationsPolicyandProcedures-template-Apr-2022 and
Child-Safety-Standards-Code-of-Conduct-August-2025.pdf
which outlines acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for all staff and volunteers at our school.

Our students and families are important partners in providing a child safe environment. These regular newsletter reminders are one of the ways we ensure our school community is aware of:

our commitment to child safety
how to provide feedback or raise child safety concerns

If you have any concerns about child safety at any time, please contact Michelle Costa, Principal, on 9743 5818 or via email at melton.west.ps@education.vic.gov.au. Any child safety complaints or concerns are treated seriously. For more information about our school’s complaints process, see our Complaints Policy. We also welcome your ideas on ways we can improve our approach to child safety and wellbeing. If you have any suggestions or comments please contact Michelle Costa, Principal, on 9743 5818 or via email at melton.west.ps@education.vic.gov.au.

Prep Enrolments 2027 Open: If you or somebody you know has a child turning 5 before 30th April 2027, they are eligible to attend school in 2027. All children have a guaranteed place in their local school, and some schools, like ours, can accept enrolments outside their designated area. If you feel they are ready to start school next year and would like to find out more about what we have to offer, please call the office to join one of our small group tours. These are fortnightly on a Thursday from 9.30am or monthly in the evening at 6.00pm. To help with organising staff and preparing for an effective transition program, enrolments should be received by the end of July 2025.

Application for Year 7 Placement 2027 Form: Our Year 6s recently received a handout about the process of enrolling in secondary school for 2027. The first part of this process is to complete the form which was due TODAY and return to the school. We will now collate the information and pass onto the secondary schools. They will then inform us about who they have accepted, and we will pass this on to parents/carers on WEDNESDAY 24th June 2026. If you do not get your preferred school, you can put in an appeal in writing to the school you prefer by Friday 17th July 2026, with notification of the outcome sent back to the parents by Tuesday 4th August. If your appeal to the school is unsuccessful, you can then appeal to the Region by Tuesday 18th August. You will be notified of a final outcome of the appeal by 16th October 2024. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns, and if you have not returned your form PLEASE ensure it is retuned as soon as possible.

Student Personal Property: The Department (which includes our school) does not have accident insurance. Items of personal property that are lost, stolen or damaged at school is not the responsibility of Melton West Primary School or the Department. Staff and students are reminded not to bring items of value to school.

High Levels of Learning for All

Michelle Costa

Principal

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