From staff and the Office 

Term 4 is a SunSmart term

Just a reminder to families and students, Term 4 is a SunSmart term.

That means all students in the schoolyard must wear a broadbrimmed hat during recess, lunch, and when working or playing outside.

We encourage all families to label the hats - we do not share hats for hygiene reasons.

Students who do not have a hat will need to play under the covered areas.

Below is the link for RHS unform who stock the Kalidna school uniform sun hat.

https://www.rhuniforms.com.au/subproduct/school_wear/kalinda_ps/hats

DET Scholarships

Scholarships support students and families to assist with the cost of education and engagement in further study at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.

Scholarships are available for students:

• studying in Victoria and who are citizens or permanent residents of Australia
• enrolled in Years 4-11
• enrolled in Year 12 who plan on undertaking tertiary studies.

Scholarships are awarded to students who can demonstrate:

• excellent academic achievement
• participation in school and local community activities
• financial need as determined by the parent or carer receiving a Centrelink income support payment, or the student themselves receiving the Youth Allowance.

For more information including how to apply please go to this link: https://www.vic.gov.au/student-scholarships

DET Information Policy 

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 For more information about privacy, refer to the Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in nine community languages:

* Amharic

* Arabic

* Dari

* Gujarati

* Mandarin

* Somali

* Sudanese

* Turkish

* Urdu

* Vietnamese

Change of parent or student details

Student Resource Funding is determined by parent codes taken from the self-nominated category on student enrolment forms. This means that funds from the Government are taken from the Parent Occupations. We take this opportunity to remind families to advise the school of any changes to employment. As always, any information is confidential.

In the case of an emergency, we will attempt to contact parents, and if there is no response, then we move to the emergency contacts.

It is important that the office has the most current and correct contact details for any parent, to help ensure this will happen.

Please take this time to check your details on Compass, and if you find them incorrect, email the office at kalinda.ps@education.vic.gov.au and we can amend these for you.

Swimming lessons

There will be a large number of classes attending swimming lessons in the future. Here are some tips that we have found to help students.

• Name everything. Shoes, socks, towels, goggles, undies, and bathers. 
• Put a spare plastic bag in their bag for the wet items to go into.
• Pack extra snacks. Swimming and getting changed is hard work.
• Ensure they have enough fluids. Remember a drink bottle as well. 
• Be prepared for them to be tired. It is tiring work and it is a different type of learning.
• Help them practice dressing, undressing, and putting things away. We cannot help every child in the class. 
• Help them repack their bags every night, ready for the lessons the next day. Towel - tick, undies tick, goggles tick. 
• If your child doesn't like/ has reactions to/ gets sore eyes - PLEASE pack goggles or eye drops ( with the appropriate medication form attached ) It is a lot of swimming.
• Encourage them to have fun! What an opportunity!