Important Information for Parents
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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.
Have you tried our FARMGATE yet?
WOW! we have already raised over $300 from our farmgate. Many thanks to those families who have been ordering their fresh fruit and veg through this online option. Any one can register and place an order at any time.
Order your organic or conventional produce online before Monday and collect your order from the school each Thursday!
https://www.farmgate.online/
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 with your family and friends. Community outside of Loch are welcome to order also.
Victorian Premiers Reading Challenge
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Loch Primary School is excited to be participating.
The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 7 September 2018.
Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.
All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. If you would like your child‘s name to appear on the Honour Roll, please sign the attached form and return it to your school.
To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc
Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge
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