Important Information for Parents
Uniform Orders
Our online uniform shop will be opening next week. It will be open for a week for parents to place their orders and items will then arrive at school within 3 weeks. This is an online shop with Fashion Club Warehouse. Details of the online shop will be sent home soon.
Photos
Whole school photos and Year 6 photos are available for purchase at the office.
Working With Children Checks
Working With Children Check
On August 1st 2017 amendments were made to the Working with Children Act. The Act now states that even if a person’s contact with children as part of child-related work is supervised by another person, they will still need a Working with Children check.
Loch Primary School’s Working with Children Check policy states that we require any person undertaking volunteer work at our school to have a valid Working with Children check. This includes helping out in the classroom, participating in working bees, attending camps, accompanying classes on excursions, helping at disco’s etc.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
*If you are volunteering at Loch Primary School and already have a Working With Children Check can you please present it to the School Office where they will take a photocopy and your name will be added to the School register.
*If you don’t have a valid Working with Children check you can fill the form in online and lodge it at Australia Post. The link to the website is provided below for your convenience.
http://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/home/applications/apply+for+a+check/apply+in+victoria
Working With Children Checks are free for volunteers.
People who are exempt from holding a working with Children Check are:
- Student volunteers (e.g. work experience students)
- Registered Teachers who have a permission to teach from the Victorian Institute of Teaching
- Police Officers
- Visitors to the School (e.g. grandparents who visit the school for Grandparents Morning Teas, visitors who come to watch Assembly) The decision on which events require a Working with Children Check is made by the authority of the Principal.
SCHOOL BANKING
Students are able to join the Commonwealth Bank's school banking program. Information has been sent home with students. Please follow the instructions to apply for a YouthSaver account. Bank books are collected Wednesdays at the school. See Lyn in the office for assistance if needed.
Loch Primary School
is now a FARMGATE
How exciting for our community Loch Primary School is a FarmGate! Order your organic or conventional produce online before Monday and collect your order from the school each Thursday! 100% Australian produce sourced as locally as possible and the school gets a percentage of the value of the orders toward their annual fundraising. If you are interested jump online and check out the produce available. We are open to all of the Loch community. Please share https://www.farmgate.online/
TERM DATES
2018
Term 1: 29 January (school teachers start) to 29 March (Thursday) *
Term 2: 16 April to 29 June
Term 3: 16 July to 21 September
Term 4: 8 October to 21 December