School News
Access to Compass once your child has left Parkdale Primary
Once your child has left Parkdale Primary School you will no longer be able to log into the Compass portal. This means you will not have access to your child's Semester 1 and 2 reports from 2019 onwards. If you wish to have access to a digital copy in order to retain these for your future use, you will need to download and save the reports. Your child will become inactive on Compass at the end of the final school day of 2023 - 1.30pm on Wednesday 20 December.
COVID-19
There is at present an increase in community transmission of COVID-19 in Victoria.
You can help us keep our school as safe as possible by taking 2 important steps:
1. Ensure your COVID-19 vaccinations are up to date. Information on how and where to get vaccinated is available on the Get vaccinated webpage.
2. If your child shows symptoms of COVID-19, please ensure they stay home and get tested. The easiest way to test is to use a rapid antigen test (RAT).
We have RATs available at our school for collection from the office or alternatively free RATs are available from your local council where you can collect 2 packs of 5 RATs and an extra 2 packs for each person in your household. People with disability and their carers can get 4 packs of 5 RATs. You are not required to have a Medicare card and you can collect RATs as many times as you need. You can also buy RATs at supermarkets, pharmacies and other retailers.
If your child has symptoms but tests negative, please ensure they stay home until they no longer have symptoms.
If the RAT test result is positive, please ensure they say home for at least 5 days and until there are no more symptoms.
Thank you for your support – these steps will help us all stay well.
Student Mobile Phones
A reminder that the Department of Education has in place a mobile phone ban that requires students who bring mobiles phones to school to have them switched off and securely put away during school hours.
The department is requiring all schools to ensure this ban is in place and enforced from the start of the 2024 school year.
The ban applies equally to all government schools right across the state.
This helps ensure that school is a learning environment free from unnecessary distractions and disruptions.
By ensuring mobile phones are kept away at recess and lunch times, students can interact with each other face-to-face, without the distractions and social pressures that mobile phones can cause.
We ask for the support of all our families, staff and students in continuing to support the implementation of this policy in our school.
Further information
Exceptions: For a small number of students with particular health needs, an exception to the policy may be granted. Please contact Tracy Richards if you would like to discuss this.
Emergencies: In the event of an emergency or if you need to immediately contact your child, we ask that families contact the school office who will pass on a message as required.
School mobile phone policy: A copy of our school’s local mobile phone policy, which implements the government’s mobile policy in line with our local context, is available here: Parent support: The Mobile phones in schools webpage provides links to resources for families to help them balance their children’s time using mobile phones.
Updated PPS Policies
Our school policies are regularly reviewed by our School Council. All PPS policies are aligned with the current requirements of the Department of Education.
We have recently uploaded three new policies to our website:
Click on the names of each item above and you will be taken to the correct page on our website to view that particular policy.
All our school policies can be found on our website - click HERE for the link to the Policies page.
Lost jewellery
A Pandora bracelet has been handed into the office, if you have recently lost one at school please contact the office and we can identify if it is yours from the charms on the bracelet.
