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 by contacting us directly.

IMPORTANT:

We ask families to please log into your Compass portal, check and update as necessary, your phone contact details and email addresses by the end of Term 3, 20 September 2024.

At the beginning of Term 4 we will then ensure that this data is updated and transferred to Cases (DET system) in preparedness for the DET emails to be issued to families in October and November this year.

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 and access to an online system.

Please check your junk mail regularly to make sure you do not miss an important email.

To learn more about the School Saving Bonus, download the School Saving Bonus Information sheet for government school parents and carers or visit vic.gov.au/school-saving-bonus.

2024 School Council Approved Contributions

2024 School Council Approved Contributions are available to pay via the Payments Centre on Compass. You can choose to pay Contributions in full or via a payment plan option of three instalments in February, March, and May. If you opt for a payment plan after an instalment date, Compass will deduct payment from your credit card on the following day for past instalment dates with remaining payments in line with the advertised dates. Alternatively, 2024 Contributions and Electives are open for payment via the Payments Centre for the full school year so you do have the option of making part payments at any time during the year when it is convenient to you.

Due to changes in the Parent Payment Policy and functionality within the billing module of Compass, we regret that we are unable to allocate credits on family accounts towards School Contributions. Credits available on your account can either be allocated to outstanding account charges or refunded to a nominated bank account. You can action use of your credits by downloading and completing the 2024 Family Credit Allocation Refund Request Form from the Compass Newsfeed. Completed forms can be returned via email to 7805-accounts@schools.vic.edu.au to allow us to process your request.

If you have any queries regarding School Council Approved Contributions for 2024, please contact the General Office on 9430 5111 or via email, 7805-accounts@schools.vic.edu.au.

Payment Process and Closing Dates for Excursions and Activities via Compass, including payment via CSEF and credit balances

Camps, excursions, and other school based activities that have a financial charge associated with them fall under the Extra-Curricular Items and Activities category of fees and are offered to students on a ‘user pays’ basis. They are offered in addition to the standard curriculum.

Cut-off dates for payment and consent on Compass are set by the school to assist us in meeting our financial and duty of care requirements for each event. In support of meeting these obligations, we will not extend due dates for events or take late payments.

Administration staff send an email to families when the event is published and a reminder email five days prior to the event closing date. Students are also reminded by their classroom teachers about events and when payment and consent must be received. If payment or consent is not received by the due date, your child will be excluded from the activity and will be supervised by teachers at school.

If you have received CSEF funding and would like to allocate it towards a Compass Event, or have credit on your family statement that you would like to use, please contact Jacinta D’Avoine (Revenue Administrator) 9430 5118 or email 7805-accounts@schools.vic.edu.au to arrange for the allocation to be processed.

As Compass now has the functionality to 'Pay with CSEF or credit balance' for Events, if you have insufficient funds on your family account to cover the cost of that event we will allocate the amount that is available and then update the event to show the amount that is still required to be paid. Payment of the balance will need to be completed before the event cut off date for your child to be eligible to attend. If you select to use CSEF or credit to pay for an Event on Compass, please check the Event again before the closing date to make sure that any outstanding balance is paid.

Please ensure that if payment is made via the office with CSEF, credit allocation, credit card or cash, that you log on to Compass prior to the closing date to provide Consent for your child to attend the event.

If you are having issues accessing Compass, please contact the school for assistance.

Thank you for your support with this matter.

CATHERINE ZERNA, Finance Manager

LOST PROPERTY

There is a huge amount of items in lost property.

This is a friendly reminder that anything left in lost property at the end of Term 3, will be donated to those in need, recycled or thrown out.

Please come to the First Aid Room during lunch or recess if you have lost any clothing, books, pencil cases, lunchboxes, drink bottles, jewellery, and shoes.

FIONA CASEY, First Aid Officer

Library News

Our Library supports and reinforces the educational goals of the school and students.

The enjoyment of reading and exposure to different types of literature is encouraged. There is a wide range of reading material available that caters for different reading levels and interests e.g. quick reads, audio books, graphic novels, etc.

The Library Team assists students in the location of resources that are appropriate for the needs of the individual student.

Printing is available in colour and black and white in both A4 and A3 formats.

Paper Size	Colour Print	Grayscale Print	Colour Copy	Grayscale Copy
A3	$0.60	$0.09	$0.60	$0.09
A4	$0.40	$0.07	$0.40	$0.07

2024 Term Dates

Term 1	31 January - 28 March
Term 2	15 April - 28 June
Term 3	15 July - 20 September
Term 4	7 October - 20 December

2024 Clubs and Activities

Volleyball

School Holiday - Volleyball Camp