School Saving Bonus

In Term 4, 2024, families with a child enrolled in a government school from Prep to Year 12 in 2025 will receive the one-off $400 School Saving Bonus.

The $400 School Saving Bonus provides families with support for education-related costs, such as school activities and/or school uniforms and textbooks.

The School Saving Bonus is not available for full-fee international students, home schooled students, TAFE students and students attending kindergarten in 2025.

Actions for parents and carers

Before 18 October 2024, the Department of Education is asking parents and carers to:

Complete enrolment: If your child, or children are changing government school for Term 1 2025, or starting Prep or Year 7 in 2025. For more information, read about Enrolling in School.
Check your contact information: Ensure your email address and phone number is up to date with us. You can check this information on your Compass account.

We need to ensure your contact information is up to date as the Department of Education will email you twice:

in October, to verify your email address
in November, with your $400 School Saving Bonus.

A reminder that if you are moving on from Ceres PS next year to also notify us by 18 October so the funds are distributed to the correct school.

Sun Protection

As the weather is starting to warm up and the UV levels are reaching above 3 and above, students are to begin wearing hats during recess and lunchtime from next Monday, 2nd September.

Students without a hat will be playing in a shaded area.

School hats are available for purchase from our uniform provider Beleza. Remember to label hats to avoid lost property!

Father's Day Fundraiser

A reminder that pre-ordered Father's Day packs will be ready for collection by an adult at pick up this afternoon.

A big happy Father's Day to all the Dads, Grandfathers and special people for Sunday!

Advanced Notice - Grade 6 Graduation Photos

Please be aware that our Grade 6 Graduation photos will be taking place on Monday 14th October at 8.45am.

Book Fair

Thank you to those who came along to support our 2024 Book Fair. With your help, each classroom was able to select $98 worth of books for each of their classroom libraries!

Book Club Issue 6

A reminder that orders close September 5th for Issue 6 of Book Club! Orders must be placed through LOOP -

(LOGIN (scholastic.com.au))

Entertainment Membership

An Entertainment Membership gives you access to thousands of incredible savings of up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers, so you can save on takeaway, dining, shopping, groceries, gift cards, activities and more! And what’s even better, 20% of every membership purchased goes to support Ceres Primary School!

Purchase an Entertainment membership here:

Fresh Meal Fairy Canteen

A reminder that canteen orders are to be placed by 9pm the Thursday before delivery at school on Friday and are to be placed through the Flexischools app.

If you have any issues with an order, please go here to report a problem:

https://freshmealfairy.com.au/report-an-issue

Stuck on You labels

Avoid lost property by having clearly labeled items. Use the code below to raise money for our school too!

Music Bus lessons

If you wish to take part please complete this expression of interest form: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/ee4627a5204c46158e1ab17e7c8069c6

QKR - support for families

QKR is our payment platform. Please see the attached user guide for more information.

Masterpass Help Desk: 1800 689 562

Compass - support for families

Please see the attached user guide for information on how to use Compass.

Indigenous Artwork headers

For more information on the artwork used for our newsletter headers please see 2023 Issue 10 of our Ceres PS newsletter.

Student Leadership

Updates and recounts of what our student leaders have been up to lately.Artwork by Merindah-Gunya.

Grade 5 Teacher Day Rotations

Updates and recounts of what our student leaders have been up to lately.
Artwork by Merindah-Gunya.