The Teesdale Times

Information for Parents

Winter Sports (Senior School)

Friday 30/05/2025

 

Winter Sports Day – Flinders District Schools

Date & Time: Bus departs 9:30am and returns by usual school pick-up time

Venue: Bannockburn College

Cost: $8 (please pay by BPay using your unique family biller code)

 

What to Bring:

  • Lunch, fruit, snacks, and water bottle
  • Full school uniform (weather-appropriate; no jeans or coloured leggings)
  • Raincoat if wet weather is expected
  • Additional sport-specific gear (see below)

Uniform/Sport Requirements:

  • Netball: Teesdale T-shirt, blue shorts or netball skirt, runners
  • Football: Teesdale T-shirt, school footy jumper (provided), blue shorts, runners or football boots, mouth guard recommended
  • Soccer: Teesdale T-shirt, blue shorts, runners or football/soccer boots, optional shin pads (school has some available)

Senior School Urban Camp

Senior students are off to Urban Camp in Melbourne from Wednesday 18th June to Friday 20th June, 2025. The three day, two night camp is a fantastic opportunity for students and we encourage students to take part.

 

This camp has wonderful facilities and activities, which will develop confidence, trust, problem-solving and team-work skills around the city of Melbourne. Please feel free to browse their website for further information https://www.urbancamp.org.au. Some of the outstanding activities students will be participating in are: the MCG tour and Q ‘&’ A with an Olympian, tour of Old Melbourne Jail plus a court room drama session, Science Works and the Planetarium, Melbourne Zoo and a dinner at Universal, a pizza and pasta restaurant. 

 

The students will leave from Teesdale Primary School on Wednesday 18th June at 9:30am and travel to Melbourne by seat belted bus. They will return to Teesdale Primary School on Friday 20th June at approximately 3:15pm. 

 

The cost of the camp is $390 per student. 

(Families can use School Saving Bonus money to pay for camp. Please refer to the separate email which provides further instructions about how to re-allocate SSB to activities and provide permission for the school to allocate SSB to the camp cost or refer to the guide below.)

school-saving-bonus-system-guide-for-parents-and-carers-2975.pdf

 

Payment

Please pay via BPay with your unique biller details. A separate invoice has been emailed to families. 

Families in receipt of Camps, Swimming, Excursion Fund (CSEF) money, please contact the school office to make the appropriate payment arrangements. 

 

Please feel free to discuss any financial arrangements or difficulties with our Principal, Mr Sam Irwin.

 All payment, consent and updated medical information (if required) is due by Tuesday 10th June. 

 

In accordance with Teesdale Primary School’s Code of Conduct, students who are not displaying appropriate behaviours at school will not be able to attend camp and other arrangements will be made.

 

Consent 

To provide consent for your child to attend the camp, please login to the Sentral App and grant electronic permission. This is in lieu of signed paper permission.

 

Medicine

If your child requires medication on camp, a medical form must be completed prior to camp. The medication form will be sent home to students the week leading up to camp. Please fill out all aspects of the form so that your child can be suitably cared for during their time at camp. If your child has medication to take while on camp, it must be clearly named and labelled with dosage requirements and placed in a named container or plastic bag. This will need to be handed to your child’s teacher at Teesdale Primary School before departure on Wednesday morning. 

 

Students with Asthma Plans MUST complete the Camp and Excursion Asthma Form and return it on the morning of the camp along with medications. This form is additional to your child’s Asthma Management Plan and provides up to date information on your child’s current Asthma status. The form will be sent home to students the week leading up to camp and can be completed by a parent.

 

If you have any further queries about this year’s camp, please contact your child’s classroom teacher.

 

Thank you for your support, we are looking forward to camp!

 

School Saving Bonus Allocation to School Activities

The Victorian Government is delivering the School Saving Bonus (SSB) – a one-off support of $400 for eligible government school students from Prep to Year 12 in 2025.

 

The SSB can be used for uniforms and textbooks until Monday 30 June 2025.

 

Any funds remaining after 30 June 2025, including online voucher amounts that have not been redeemed, will become a credit to use on school activities. However, the credit will not be available on your family account at our school until late July.

 

To use any remaining SSB funds to cover the cost of school activities in July, please refer to the SSB online system and allocate the funds to school activities before 30 June 2025.

 

To learn more about the SSB online system, download the step-by-step System guide for parents and carers (DOCX, 945KB) or watch this School Saving Bonus video. 

 

The Department of Education’s SSB contact centre will remain available until 30 June 2025. The contact centre can be reached by:

Families of year 5 and 6 students attending Urban Camp in June who wish to use SSB money towards the camp cost, will need to reallocate SSB money to activities via the Parent Portal before camp. The camp notice will provide instructions on how to give approval to use SSB money to pay for camp. Families will also receive a statement to show the amount of SSB money available to use.