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 by the end of November 2024.

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

2025 CSEF Year 7 Uniform Package

Applications for the 2025 CSEF Year 7 Uniform Package are now open and can be submitted to Reception.

Eligibility Students eligible to receive the 2025 Year 7 Uniform Package must be a Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund (CSEF) recipient.

What’s in the package?The 2025 Year 7 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:

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.

Eligibility

Students 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 pce (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

SSB (School Saving Bonus)

As shared with you previously, the Victorian Government is delivering the School Saving Bonus – a one-off $400 support for government school students from Prep to Year 12 in 2025.

From Tuesday 26 November 2024, you will receive an email from the Department of Education with your unique $400 School Saving Bonus code.

The School Saving Bonus will help families cover the cost of uniforms, textbooks, excursions,activities and more.

If you have multiple children enrolled in Victorian government schools for 2025, you will receive one School Saving Bonus code email per child. These emails might arrive on different days. Please make sure to check your spam / junk email folder.

Parents and carers can use the School Saving Bonus code in store at school-nominated suppliers.They can also choose to access the School Saving Bonus online system, where they can allocate part or all the $400 bonus to use at school nominated online suppliers or for school activities.

To learn more about the School Saving Bonus, visit

School Saving Bonus | vic.gov.au (www.vic.gov.au)

A step-by-step user guide will be available on the webpage on 26 November. If you have not received your School Saving Bonus code via email by Friday 29 November, please contact the Department of Education by emailing school.saving.bonus@education.vic.gov.au

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.

Parent Payment Arrangements 2025

Parent payment arrangements for 2025 are nearly complete.

Please keep an eye out on your Compass Portal later this month to view and pay college contributions and payments for:

Students’ Educational Resources -- years 07-10: Education Perfect subscription and Student Learning Planner; Combination lock (year 07 only)
Students’ Educational Resources -- years 11-12: EdRolo subscription
Elective classes with additional charges (years 09-12)
Macleod College Music Academy

Thank you once again to Macleod College families for your ongoing support.

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Issue 8 · 15 Nov 2024

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