News From The Office
Includes: Compass support, Scholastic Book Club
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 |
Book Fair
Rollins Book Fair is coming up and will run from: Tuesday 16th May to Friday morning 19th May. Opening Hours will be: Tuesday to Friday 8.30am - 9.00am. Tuesday to Thursday 3.35pm - 4.00pm. Location: Library
Education Week
This year, Education Week runs from Sunday 14th to Saturday 20th May. The theme Active Learners: Move, Make, Motivate celebrates the many ways students learn through physical activity, hands-on learning and student voice.
We will be celebrating Education Week this year through a variety of themed classroom activities from local organisations including the NGV, ACMI, Parks Victoria and more. Students will be encouraged to be active, creative and innovative. Classes have also registered for some inspiring virtual experiences during the week including a bush clock making session with Ballarat Municipal Observatory & Museum (upper students) and a ‘meet the author’ session with Lucinda Gifford for some of our younger levels.
Thursday 18th May will be an official celebration day! Students are invited to dress up in their best ‘active wear’ (think fitness wear, sports attire, dance costumes, karate gear etc). Families are invited to join in the celebrations from 12:30-1:40pm at the main campus. Activities will be planned for you to engage in with your children, and you are welcome to stay and have lunch with them afterwards until 1:40pm. Bring along food and a picnic rug to share with your own family if you wish. There will be a session running at Batesford from 11:00-12:10 for Batesford families, starting with morning tea and then activities.
The Book Fair will also be running during this week (Tuesday 16th to Friday 19th May). Opening hours are Tuesday-Friday 8:30-9am and Tuesday-Thursday 3:35-4:00pm. Cash and Eftpos both available.
Keep an eye out on Facebook and Dojo in Week 4 for photos and videos of us celebrating our amazing ‘Active Learners’!
Term 2 Lunch Clubs
In Term 2 we have introduced some exciting new lunch clubs including an Art club (3-6), Dance club (prep-2), Lego club (prep-2), Nature explorers club (prep-6) and Chess club (2-6). Storytime still runs for all grade levels through the week as well as lunchtime indoor sports for our upper year levels. Lunch clubs are a great initiative for our school and it’s been wonderful to see the positive impact on students. Thanks to all staff involved in running lunch clubs.
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 that 4.8km from the school maybe 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
Toys at school
We are noticing a lot of children bringing soft toys 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 small 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.
Rollins House colours
CSEF
If you hold a Health Care Card number (CRN) or have a Centrelink pensioner concession card, even if it was valid a few years back, you may have CSEF funds available to use against your childs Camps, Sporting activities, Excursions etc. If you are unsure if you have any or want to find out how much you have left, please contact the office and we can hep you out.
Update personal details
Please advise the office if you have moved addresses, have a new phone number or new emergency contacts. It is very important to have all your details up to date in case of an emergency with your child.
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 .