General News & Reminders

Youth Myki Information

Nut Aware

Heidelberg Primary School is a Nut Aware School

An allergic reaction or anaphylaxis can occur through ingestion of nut products, cross contamination, breathing nut dust in the air and touching nuts products or surfaces that have been exposed to nuts.

A school that identifies itself as Nut Aware, usually asks for the parents of every child, whether they are allergic to nuts or not, to consider peanut and tree nut alternatives when planning individually packed lunches.

Since this condition can be life threatening, we are asking all members of the school community for their help in minimising the risk to these children by:

1. Avoiding giving children nuts or nut products in their packed lunches.
2. Avoiding giving nuts or nut products or snacks / bars containing nuts for recess snacks
3. Avoiding supplying the school with cakes or food items containing nuts (or traces of nuts) for birthday celebrations.
4. Heidelberg Primary school does not allow students to share food.

 Foods that are labelled “may have been produced in a factory handling nuts and cannot be guaranteed to be nut free”, will be allowed at school.

We thank you in advance for your co operation and support regarding this matter.

Sue Zerna 

First Aid Officer

Heidelberg Primary School

BOOK CLUB 2026

Welcome to 2026. I am always excited to be the teacher-librarian here at HPS. I will be working with students each week in the library, encouraging them to read and enjoy books, listening to and reading stories, doing some fun creative activities, sharing information and basically…. everything bookish. Please keep a look out for latest information here or in our weekly Capers newsletter.

BOOK CLUB Issue 1 is out now!

Scholastic Book Club provides online shopping for the latest popular children’s books and activity packs for Primary School Age children at very competitive prices.  There is absolutely no obligation to make a purchase. 

All purchases enable the school to collect rewards points that we then use to purchase books for free for the school library. Last year I used over $1500 worth of rewards to purchase new library books. There are 8 per year starting with this, Issue 1.

Issue 1 Special: Receive up to 3 FREE books* (choose from the LOOP list) when you order from Issue 1

Purchases are only made online via the Scholastic Book Club Portal. Please use the following link for instructions on how to order online. 

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NO CASH PAYMENTS ARE ACCEPTED.

Online orders for Issue 1 are due Friday 20 Feb at 4.00pm    

Books are delivered to the school with free delivery and then handed out to the students. Books ordered after this time and date will be delivered to your home which includes a delivery charge.  

Denise Pilinis

Teacher-Librarian

Language Translation on Compass

We wish to advise you that our Compass platform has now been enabled with a Google Translate function.  This will allow families to access Compass in their preferred language.

On laptop or desktop computers this appears as a ‘Select Language’ button in the bottom right of your screen.

If using the Compass app on your phone and wishing to access the translate function you will need to follow the following steps:

• From home page tap the ‘More’ menu in the bottom right hand corner
• Tap ‘Open in Browser’ in bottom left hand corner
• Scroll to the bottom of the page
• Click ‘Select Language’ button in bottom right hand corner

Lost Property Locations

Lost Property can be found around the school at the following locations:

• Main Building (Gallery)
• Library (BER)
• Grade 5 Building

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