Notices/Reminders

Parent Payment Arrangements 2025

Schools provide students with free instruction to fulfil the standard curriculum requirements and we want to assure you that all contributions are voluntary. Nevertheless, the ongoing support of our families ensures that our school can offer the best possible education and support for our students. The environment and resources that we enjoy at Lancefield Primary School represent the contributions made by our parent and carers.  Parent/carer voluntary contributions make a significant difference to the quality of our programs.  This financial support ensures that we can continue to provide the excellent range of facilities and resources for your children for example:

• Provide high quality programs and specific subject materials and equipment for English, Mathematics, STEM, Art, Topics, Auslan and PE;
• Maintain sufficient class sets of books for students to develop their reading skills including phonics program;
• Provide online learning subscriptions as well as Oliver library system;
• Arrange for student supplies and class bulk supplies;
• Develop our Wellbeing School Wide Positive Behaviour approaches including Kimochis;
• Maintain our high quality, bespoke SAKG Prep-6 program.

We want to thank you for all your support, either financial or volunteering your time. This makes a huge difference to our school and the programs we can offer.  If you have yet to contribute this year, we strongly encourage you to do so.  If you are unable or choose not to make financial contributions, your child will not be disadvantaged or denied access to the resources required to deliver the curriculum.  If you choose to make a payment, could you please complete and provide the relevant parent payment form so that we can receipt the payment accordingly.

Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF)

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) provides payments for eligible students to attend activities like:

• school camps or trips

• swimming extension activities and other school-organised sport programs

• outdoor education programs

• excursions and incursions

• graduations/valedictories.

Families can list more than one student in the one application form if they are attending the same school.

Parents/carers wishing to apply for CSEF payments for 2025 must submit their application form to the relevant school by 4 July 2025.

However, a parent/carer will only be required to submit an application form to the school in the following circumstances:

• the parent/carer is applying for the CSEF payment for the first time – i.e. an application form was not lodged with the school in the previous year; or

• circumstances have changed – e.g. there has been a change in the care arrangement of the student, a change of name or CRN, or a new sibling has commenced at the school and the parent/carer wishes to apply for the CSEF payment for the new sibling.

Those that are eligible to apply for the CSEF are:

• families holding a valid means-tested concession card

• a student over 16 years who is considered a mature minor and holds a valid concession card (such as a Youth Allowance Health Care Card or Disability Support Pension Card).

A special consideration category also exists for refugee and asylum seeker families and students placed in temporary care.

Means-tested concession cards must now be valid on either:

• the first day of Term 1 – 28 January

• the first day of Term 2 – 22 April

Conveyance Allowance

Conveyance allowance is a contribution towards transport costs and is not intended to cover the full cost of transporting children to and from school.

The conveyance allowance may be available to students attending government or non-government schools and:

• travelling by public transport or by private car, motorbike, bicycle or bus, and

• whose nearest school is not serviced by a free school bus provided under the School Bus Program

To be eligible for the conveyance allowance a student must reside 4.8km or more from the school/campus they attend. This distance is measured as the shortest practicable route from the student’s residence to the school/campus using all-weather public roads drivable by car.

The Student Conveyance Allowance System (SCAS) assesses this eligibility criteria by:

• determining the shortest route between the student’s address and the school/campus attended (whereas other public mapping tools commonly measure the shortest travel time)

• producing a table showing distances to nearby like schools, for comparison, which assists schools to determine whether the student is attending their nearest school/campus.

The distance measured does not include private driveways.

Applications can be completed using the form below and submitted to the school by the following dates: