School Saving Bonus

Everyone should have received their SSB emails by now and it has been great to see so many families allocate their bonus already towards next year’s activities and brand new uniforms.

Please note that to be able to use your bonus for school activities, you must log into your School Savings Bonus Portal and allocate either towards uniform (which will take you to the DCS uniform website) and once at the checkout, enter your unique code in the 'gift voucher' section. If you wish to allocate to future school activities/excursions, please allocate your nominated $ amount towards 'school activities'. This will sit against your child as credit for next year.

Unfortunately, you are unable to use your SSB towards 2025 Curriculum contributions. This is a Departments rule, not a Primary School rule.

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.

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, please contact the Department of Education by emailing school.saving.bonus@education.vic.gov.au or calling the hotline on 1800 338 663

Curriculum contributions for 2025

As we start to wrap up 2024, Rollins Primary School is looking forward to another great year of teaching and learning and would like to advise you of our financial contributions for 2025.Your 2025 Curriculum contributions in Compass, will come under the below steps -

Organisation tab
Student management
Course Confirmation and payments

Please make sure when using Compass on your device that you go to the 'more' button and then select 'open in browser'. This will give you full access to Compass.

To view full details, please log into your Compass for the break down of contributions.

CSEF

CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of excursions, camps and sporting activities. If you hold a concession card/Health Care card, you may be eligible for CSEF.

Please refer to the Compass post for more information and an application form. Please return to the office ASAP.

For families who currently receive CSEF and have a Prep student in 2025, we will automatically add your child to your application, so no need to fill in another form.

Lost Property

This is a friendly reminder to please make sure ALL of your children’s uniforms and other items are clearly labelled with their names.

All uniforms that remain in lost property at the end of the term will be added to the school uniform sale, and any item that is not clearly named eg. water bottles, lunchboxs etc will be thrown in the bin.

We understand that replacing lost items can be expensive and frustrating. Naming items makes them easy for us to return.

Children with Asthma

If your child has Asthma, seasonal or on-going, they must have an up-to-date Asthma plan signed by a doctor and have an in date Ventolin. No student is to have their Ventolin on them or in their bag. It must be stored up in the office for safety reasons and so we can monitor the intake and inform parents if a medical emergency arises.

Thank you to those who have already provided the office with their childs medication.

If we do not have the above for your child, they will not be able to attend upcoming excursions.

Home reading ideas for parents

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State School Relief

State Schools' Relief (SSR) is an autonomous, charitable organisation that assists Victorian government school students who are experiencing financial disadvantage because of short-term crisis or long-term chronic need.

SSR is supported by the department to provide assistance with uniforms and other essential items for students who need assistance to continue their education.

Short-term crisis and long-term chronic need are the primary qualifying criteria for support from SSR, including refugee status, homelessness, family violence, house fire, natural disaster, financial hardship, illness and emergency.

SSR assistance will be provided by either direct supply of uniform items or uniform vouchers for redemption from school uniform suppliers.

Please contact the school office if you would like to apply for any school uniform.

Toys at school

We are noticing a lot of children bringing toys from home to school to play with at recess and lunch. Can we please remind you all that we cannot take responsibility for items that have been brought from home like plush toys, balls and other objects. Children are coming up to the office asking for their lost items and becoming upset. Please be aware of what your child is bringing to school and if they choose to bring something from home, it must be clearly labelled and the responsibility falls onto your child.

Illness and exclusion days

We are noticing a lot of students coming to school who are unwell or who are still showing syptoms from an illness. We understand that it is very hard to keep children home when parents need to work or who have no other arrangments to look after their children, but in order to keep other students and the Rollins community safe and healthy, we ask families to follow the department guidelines on the exclusion from school timeframe as per below -

Conditions	Exclusion of cases
Chickenpox	Exclude until all blisters have dried. This is usually at least 5 days after the rash appears in unimmunised children, but may be less in previously immunised children
Conjunctivitis	Exclude until discharge from eyes has ceased
Covid	Excluded for 5 days
Diarrhoeal illness	Exclude until there has not been vomiting or a loose bowel motion for 48 hours, and for all other diarrhoeal illnesses exclude until there has not been vomiting or a lose bowel motion for 24 hours
Hand, Foot and Mouth disease	Exclude until all blisters have dried
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)	Exclude until 48 hours after initiation of effective therapy
Herpes (cold sores)	Young children unable to comply with good hygiene practices should be excluded while the lesion is weeping. Lesions to be covered by dressing, where possible
Influenza and influenza like illnesses	Exclude until well, this includes running nose and cough.
Meningitis (bacterial other than meningococcal meningitis)	Exclude until well
Meningococcal infection	Exclude until adequate carrier eradication therapy has been completed
Molluscum contagiosum	Exclusion is not necessary
Pertussis (Whooping cough)	Exclude the child for 21 days after the onset of cough or until they have completed 5 days of a course of antibiotic treatment
Ringworm, scabies, pediculosis (head lice)	Exclude until the day after appropriate treatment has commenced
Rubella (German measles)	Exclude until fully recovered or for at least four days after the onset of rash
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)	Exclude until medical certificate of recovery is produced
Streptococcal infection(including scarlet fever)	Exclude until the child has received antibiotic treatment for at least 24 hours and the child feels well

CentrePay

Those who receive payments from Centrelink can choose to set up CentrePay to arange regular fortnightly payments towards the school, which can go towards your vountary Curriculum Contributions/excursions. Families can nominate to have Centrepay paid fortnightly and the amount will be at the discreation of each family. You can collect a form from the office.

Thank you to those families who have payed for their annual Curriculum Contributions. These are still available to pay either via Compass, EFTPOS through the office or you can set up CentrePay. Other contributions for non-curriculum items for our school grounds maintenance and student welfare are also available and are warmly welcomed.

If you are using the Compass app and are having trouble accessing the required forms and information, please select "more" at the bottom of your screen and then "open in browser". You will then have full access and will be easier to navigate.

Conveyance Allowance

Eligible students living in the school zone and residing more than 4.8km from your closest school may be eligible for conveyance allowance.

Forms are available at the office for families to apply.

Attendance

If your child is going to be away sick, has an appointment or family holiday. Please make sure you add an attendance note via Compass. Otherwise you will receive a text message saying that your child has not arrived at school. You will also receive a call questioning why your child has an unexplained attendance.

Please try and enter attendance note prior to 9:00am.

Rollins Primary School recognises that being at school on time and attending every day contributes towards a student's learning and that maximising school attendance enhances academic outcomes.

We take attendance very seriously at Rollins PS and have a goal to have as close to 100% of student attendance as possible.

For more information regarding attendance please follow the link to the Education Department's Attendance Policy

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Smoking

Unfortunately, we have noticed quite a few parents/carers who are smoking within school grounds and at the exit gates. Smoking in these places is a fineable offence.

A person must not smoke cigarettes including e-cigarettes (regardless of whether they contain nicotine) within school premises and within 4 metres of any pedestrian access to school premises.

Dogs on site

Please note that we DO NOT allow dogs within our school grounds. This includes at morning school drop off and in the afternoon.

Court orders

Please inform and provide the office of any current or updated Court orders that may be in place. It is important that we have current, in date orders updated in our system.

Privacy notice

Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy.

Please take time to remind yourself of our school’s collection notice, found on our website http://rollinsps.vic.edu.au/ in the Policies section.

For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in ten community languages:

* Amharic

* Arabic

* Dari

* Gujarati

* Mandarin

* Somali

* Sudanese

* Turkish

* Urdu

* Vietnamese.

Rollins Uniform Supplier -

DCS Uniforms

Orders are ONLINE ONLY and will be delivered to the school free of charge every Thursday. To order please visit www.dcsuniforms.com.au .

Classroom News/Celebrations

Work samples and highlights from our super talented students this past fortnight