SSB (School Saving Bonus)

School Saving Bonus is a one-off support of $400 for families of Victorian government school students to help with 2025 school costs.

Your unique SSB code can be used at the following suppliers:

North of the Yarra Bookstore for textbooks
Noone’s for school uniforms
through Macleod College for excursions/activities and camps

By the third week of December, EdRolo should be listed as a supplier option for digital textbooks for the following subjects:

07-10 Maths
11-12 General Maths
11-12 Physics
11-12 Psychology

To use your SSB for a school activity, tick the CSEF/Credit box when paying for an event through your Compass Parent Portal.

The School Saving Bonus can not be used for school fees or resources or music academy fees.

Once you allocate your bonus to an in-store or online purchase or to school activities, it cannot be reversed.

However, if you have unspent funds or don’t use the funds you allocated to purchases, these funds will automatically be available on your child’s school account as an activities credit on 01 July 2025.

Some families have experienced delays in receiving their unique $400 SSB code.

The Education Department is working with Microsoft to resolve this issue. If you have not received your code email, please continue to re-check your email accounts, including junk / spam folders.

To learn more about the School Saving Bonus, visit

School Saving Bonus | vic.gov.au

A step-by-step user guide is available on the webpage.

user guide (DOCX, 945KB)

The School Saving Bonus team is prioritising support for schools.

We recommend using the webform to contact us.

You can also contact us by email: school.saving.bonus@education.vic.gov.au

Parent Payment Arrangements 2025

Parent payment arrangements for 2025 are now available.

https://www.macleod.vic.edu.au/financial-contributions

Please see your Compass Portal to view and pay College contributions and payments for:

Students’ Educational Resources -- year 07: Education Perfect & Eggion Study Skills subscriptions; Student Learning Planner; Combination lock
Students’ Educational Resources -- year 08: Education Perfect & Eggion Study Skills subscriptions; Student Learning Planner
Students’ Educational Resources -- year 09/10: Education Perfect subscription; Student Learning Planner
Students’ Educational Resources -- years 11/12VM: Education Perfect subscription
Elective classes with additional charges (years 09-12)
Macleod College Music Academy

Thank you once again for your ongoing financial support, assistance through fundraising or volunteering your time. This has made a huge difference to the College, the programs and new resources we can offer in 2025.

All payments for your students’ school contributions or extra-curricular items can be made via your Compass Payments Centre. Payment portal opens 06 December 2024.

Should you require any assistance, please contact Accounts on accounts@macleod.vic.edu.au

2025 Resource Information

2025 EDROLO online portal

The portal is open for families to pay for online access for Years 11-12 students in the following classes:

General Maths
Maths Methods
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Psychology

It is recommended to arrange payment by the 20 December 2024 for access to holiday homework

Activation Instructions

1. Go to edrolo.com.au/activate/vsb-mne

2. Enter your surname and check that it recognises your correct first name

3. Enter your email address and choose a secure password that you will remember

4. Click ‘Send Confirmation Email'

5. Edrolo will send a confirmation email to the email address you used above – head to this email and click the activation link within this

6. You'll then be logged into your account!

7. Please start by watching our short training video – you are now ready to go

To log in once you have activated your account, you can skip the instructions above, head to edrolo.com.au, and click 'Log In'. Your login details are the email address and password created in step 3 above.Didn't receive the confirmation email? Double check your spam/junk folder. If not there, please head back to the link in step one and try again (you may have mistyped your email address).

If you have any difficulties logging in or need assistance, please contact Edrolo directly: help@edrolo.com.au

Year 07-10 students, Edrolo update:

The portal is not yet open to year 07-10, 2025 students to pay for the online subscription to Edrolo for Mathematics.

Further communication to families will be sent once the portal has been opened and you are able to access your student’s account.

2025 Education Perfect / Eggion / Student Learning Planner

Once paid via your Compass Portal, electronic subscription codes and student learning planners will be provided to students in class at the start of 2025.

Education Perfect is required for years 07-10, and years 11/12 VM (Vocational Major studies).

Eggion Study Skills is required for years 07-08.

Student Leaning Planner is required for years 07-10.

2025 CSEF (Camps, Sports, Excursions Fund)

The CSEF application form and policy for 2025 is under review and the revised form and policy will be available a week before Term 1, 2025 starts.

A new CSEF Application Form has been created for Students Over Sixteen Years of Age, who hold a valid means tested concession card.

Any new students to Macleod College will need to submit the application form and a copy of current concession card.

2025 CSEF Year 07 Uniform Package

Applications for the 2025 CSEF Year 07 Uniform Package are now open and can be submitted to Reception.

EligibilityStudents eligible to receive the 2025 Year 07 Uniform Package must be a Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund (CSEF) recipient.

What’s in the package?The 2025 Year 07 package contains the following items:

Tops x 2 pcs (i.e. windcheater / polo shirt / rugby top / shirt / summer dress)
Bottoms x 2 pcs (i.e. pants / track pants / trousers / shorts / skirts)
Outerwear x 1 pce (i.e. puffer jacket)
Shoes x 1 pair

Please note:

PE items are not included as part of this package
Shoes must be requested in UK sizes (please see SSR shoe size conversion chart or visit Macleod College Reception)

Cost to families

Where State Schools’ Relief is unable to provide a uniform item directly that contains a logo (due to contractual agreements with uniform retailers) the student will receive a voucher for $85 that subsidises the cost of these items. The voucher can be redeemed at your school uniform shop or independent uniform retailer.

Please note the following:

Vouchers issued have an expiry date and must be used before this date.
Once vouchers have been issued, SSR are unable to exchange items for “change of mind”.

Applications for this package close at the end of Term 1, 2025 (Friday 04 April 2025).

2025 Year 7 CSEF Uniform Package Information for Families

Year-7-CSEF-package-2025_Families.pdf

2025 Year 7 CSEF Uniform Package Application

Year-7-CSEF-package-2025_Order-Form-1.pdf

2025 CSEF Prep SUMMER Uniform Package

For the first time State Schools' Relief is now offering a SUMMER version of our Prep CSEF Uniform Package so that the newest students in 2025 can start their school year all decked out! Applications for the Prep 2025 Summer CSEF Uniform Package are open now and can be submitted to Reception.

EligibilityStudents whose families hold a current/valid health care card are eligible to receive the 2025 Prep Summer Uniform Package.

What’s in the package?

The Prep 2025 summer package contains the following items:

Tops x 2 pcs (i.e. polo shirts / school dress)
Bottoms x 2 pcs (i.e. shorts / skorts / trackpants)
Outerwear x 1 pcs (i.e. windcheater / bomber jacket / polar fleece jacket)
Socks x 2 pairs
Shoes x 1 pair

Please note:

PE items are not included as part of this package
Shoes must be requested in UK sizes (please see SSR shoe size conversion chart or visit Macleod College Reception)

Cost to families

Where State Schools’ Relief is unable to provide a uniform item directly that contains a logo (due to contractual agreements with uniform retailers) the student will receive a voucher for $85 that subsidises the cost of the items. The voucher can be redeemed at your school uniform shop or independent uniform retailer.

Please note the following:

Vouchers issued have an expiry date and must be used before this date.
Once vouchers have been issued, SSR are unable to exchange items for “change of mind”.

Applications for this package close at the end of Term 1, 2025 (Friday 04 April 2025).

2025 Prep CSEF Summer Uniform Package Information for Families

Prep-CSEF-package-2025_Families.pdf

2025 Prep CSEF Summer Uniform Package Application

Prep-CSEF-package-2025_Order-Form.pdf

SSBI (School Student Broadband Initiative)

The School Student Broadband Initiative (SSBI) is a Federal Government initiative offering free home internet to 30,000 unconnected households with school-aged students. Households have until Tuesday 31 December 2024 to apply. Free services will continue until 31 December 2025.

The initiative seeks to boost educational opportunities and narrow the digital divide.

To be eligible, households must:

have a child living at home that is enrolled in an Australian school (up to year 12 including Prep)
not have an active NBN Co. network internet service at home (excludes mobile internet services)
live in a premises that can access the NBN Co. network via a standard connection
not have had an active NBN Co. connection during the previous 14 days.

To be assessed, please contact the NBN National Referral Centre on 1800 954 610 or visit anglicarevic.org.au/student-internet to request a call back. Please note:

NBN will check your nominated home address for an active NBN connection.
You do not need to provide financial information.
Translation and interpretation services are available.

Some families might also be contacted via their school with information about how to apply. The Victorian Department of Education has been working with the NBN to review Victorian school student home addresses. Only home addresses have been provided to NBN to check. No other personal information has been shared with NBN. NBN handles this data in accordance with privacy law.

Find out more

Department of Education SSBI webpage for parents and carers: School Student Broadband Initiative: information for parents and carers
For more information on the SSBI, visit the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts website.

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