Community News
To assist your decision making in relation to your child's education for 2023 and beyond, please find below a link to the 136 page 2022 edition of the Catholic Education Guide.
CLICK HERE: https://victoriaschoolguides.starcommunity.com.au/catholic-education/
Key enrolment dates for students starting year 7 in 2025:
- 27 January 2023 - Applications will open
- 18 August 2023 - Applications will close
- 20 October 2023 - Offers to be posted to prospective Year 7 applicants
- 10 November 2023 - Final date for parents/carers to accept an offer made by a school.
Cheltenham Community Centre's Children Festival
As part of National Children's Week celebrations, the Cheltenham Community Centre is holding a free Children's Festival on Saturday 22 October, 2022 from 10am - 1pm.
The Children's Festival is jam packed with family entertainment - chair-o-plane Ride, Tea Cup & Saucer Ride, Charlie Silly Pants Show, Fire Engine Ride, Face Painting, Art & Craft, Disco, Childcare Open Day and much, much more!!
Bob Stewart Uniform Mentone
On behalf of Bob Stewarts, I would like to thank you for your continued support of our ongoing partnership.
Preparation for 2023 back to school period is well underway, with our manufacturing and procurement divisions working solidly to ensure we are ready to welcome many new families to our stores. While we no longer have mandated Covid restrictions in store, we will continue to offer uniform appointments as this was welcomed by many of your community over the last few years.
Bob Stewart, like all businesses, has faced ongoing challenges over the past few years. Despite these challenges, we have continued to invest in research and development of sustainable fabrics. We will be adding stretch to many of our fabrics to ensure your students can learn in comfort, we will also use a recycled component in many materials, where the use of these materials does not impact on the durability of the garment.
Mindful of the impact of COVID over the last two years we made the decision to largely absorb price increases in raw materials, manufacturing and transport costs. However, given the four-fold increases in freight costs, rising raw material and manufacturing costs, together with wage increases we will need to increase our retail uniform pricing for the 2022/2023 financial year. We appreciate the impact of the rising costs of living on families, and while our costs overall have risen on average by 6-12%, we have kept our price increase to 5-6% .