From the Office

CSEF Foundation 2025 uniform package Information

Eligibility: To qualify for the Prep 2025 Autumn/Winter Uniform Package, students must be recipients of the Camps, Sports, and Excursion Fund (CSEF).

What’s included in the package: 

The Prep 2025 Autumn/Winter Uniform Package includes the following items:

• 2 Tops (e.g., windcheater, polo shirt, rugby top)
• 2 Bottoms (e.g., trackpants, leggings)
• 1 Outerwear item (e.g., jacket, parka, puffer)
• 2 Pairs of socks
• 1 Pair of shoes

Please submit your forms to the school office or through your classroom teacher. Applications must be received by the end of Term 3.

Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF)

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) helps eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

If you have a valid means-tested concession card, or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. Means-tested concession cards must be valid on the first day of Term 1, 2025 (Tuesday 28 January 2025) or Term 2, 2025 (Tuesday 22 April 2025).

A student aged 16 years and over who is considered a mature minor and holds a valid concession card is also eligible to apply.

Eligible families will receive a payment of $154 per year for primary school students. The funds will be paid directly to the school to be used towards camps, sports and excursion costs for the benefit of your child.

If you applied for CSEF through our school last year, you do not need to complete an application form this year, unless there has been a change in your family circumstances.

If you would like to apply for the first time, please contact the school office on 03 9782 1333 and ask for an application form. Please return completed application forms to the school office as soon as possible.

School Saving Bonus Reminder and 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 or watch this School Saving Bonus video. System guide translations are also available in 14 languages.

The Department of Education’s SSB contact centre will remain available until 30 June 2025.

 The contact centre can be reached by: 

•  Completing the School Saving Bonus enquiry form
• Calling 1800 338 663, between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm on weekdays.

After this date, please contact our administration team for any SSB related questions.

Changed your address? Changed your mobile number? 

Email the school office to request your details to be updated. 

Please remember to provide Banyan Fields P.S. with any updated information as soon as your circumstances change.

To make changes to your child’s enrolment information, please email banyan.fields.ps@education.vic.gov.au with any required changes and/or request a Student Enrolment Information Form to be sent home with your child, where you can review the information currently on the school system, then make alterations where necessary and return to Banyan Fields PS office for details to be updated.

Office Hours for Banyan Fields Primary School

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:15am - 4:00pm

Wednesday: 8:15am - 3:30pm