Curriculum contributions

Curriculum contributions for 2024 are now available to pay via Compass or the Office. Please note that you do not need to purchase any school classroom supplies or book packs for your child, as everything will be supplied by the school. This will be covered in your payment.

Those who receive payments from Centrelink or hold a HeathCare Card, can choose to set up CentrePay to arange regular fortnightly payments towards the school, which can go towards your voluntary 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.

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

Head Lice fact sheet

Parent or carer detection and treatment responsibilities

Parents and carers have the primary responsibility for the detection and treatment of head lice.

Responsibilities include:

not sending their children to school with untreated head lice
using safe treatment practices which do not place their child's health at risk
regularly checking for lice or eggs in the hair of their child and other household members
notifying the school if their child is affected and when treatment commenced.

Term 1 Lunch Clubs

Lunch Clubs have been a fantastic initiative over the last few years at Rollins for our students. This term we welcome back many familiar favourite clubs, as well as some new ones! Miss Lee is running a Prep-2 Colouring Club on Mondays and Matt and Caleb are running a 5/6 NBA Club on Fridays. Below is the timetable for our lunch clubs this term.

Rollins House Challenge

This week we began our new Rollins house challenge for 2024! Students have been learning about the values Respect and Consideration and how they can demonstrate these values in the classroom and yard, to earn points towards their house. Teachers have been giving out house points to students displaying exemplary behaviour in these areas.

It’s been wonderful to see the excitement and house pride from our students. House captains will count up the running total of points on Friday and announce who’s in the lead towards a celebration day at the end of the term!

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

Rollins House colours

CSEF

If you hold a Health Care Card number (CRN) or have a Centrelink pensioner concession card, you may have CSEF funds available to use against your childs Camps, Sporting activities, Excursions etc. Families holding a valid means-tested concession card or temporary foster parents are eligible to apply. A special consideration category also exists. Schools can receive applications from families by June 2024.

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

Please ask for a form at the office and provide your CRN card.

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.

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