Cheltenham East
Primary News
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ART NEWS
Emily and Amity showed initiative by running an art club at lunchtime this week.
2022 SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS
Thank you to the families who have already made payment for this year’s school contributions. Your prompt attention to this is very much appreciated.
A reminder that statements will no longer be distributed to families. All requested payments are available via your Sentral login access. A copy of this year’s parent payment requests is available on our school website at: https://cheltenhameast.vic.edu.au/enrolment/#parentpayment and also via the Sentral portal under the Resources tab.
You can either pay via:
- Sentral Pay (preferred method)
- EFTPOS Facility (at the school office or over the phone)
Please contact the school if you have any questions or concerns.
CAMPS, SPORTS AND EXCURSIONS FUND APPLICATIONS
The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund helps eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.
If you have a valid means-tested concession card, such as a Veterans Affairs Gold Card, Centrelink Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card, or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible. There is also a special consideration category for asylum seeker and refugee families.
Payment amounts this year are $125 for eligible primary school students. Payments are made direct to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions and sporting activities for the benefit of your child.
It is important that funding made available in 2022 supports students to participate in school trips, camps and sporting activities this year rather than being held for future years. This funding can also be used in conjunction with any funding accrued from previous years. Please note these activities will only take place if they meet COVIDSafe requirements.
If you applied for CSEF through our school last year, you do not need to complete an application form this year, unless there has been a change in your family circumstances.
If you would like to apply for the first time, please contact the school office 9583 5746 and ask for an application form.
You can also download the form, and find out more about the program and eligibility, on the Department of Education and Training’s Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund web page.
Check with the school office if you are unsure, and please return completed forms to the school office as soon as possible.
SENTRAL NEWS
We are excited that from 1st February 2022 parents will be able to make payments for excursions, incursions, camps and curriculum contributions via the Sentral platform. Permission for activities will also be done via Sentral, replacing our current paper based system.
This will be a great time saver for families – no more searching in the school bag for lost permission notes as payments and permissions can be done quickly and easily in one transaction via Sentral. A push notification on your smart phone will alert you when you have items that need attention so please ensure you turn notifications on when you set up the app so you don’t miss a thing!
Sentral have made recent improvements to the Sentral for Parents App, making it even easier to login via your smart phone to use the features you are used to accessing (recording an absence, reading reports, booking parent/teacher interviews) as well as the new functionality of payments and permissions. Please follow this link for instructions – for existing app users and those who are yet to use the app.
https://www.sentral.com.au/app-getting-started.
We will continue to use the Qkr app for fundraising payments but all other financial transactions will now be payable via Sentral.
Families new to the school have already been emailed their access codes and login instructions. Please contact the office if you have not received an email or need assistance in logging into Sentral for the first time. A user guide is also available via the link above.
Please bear with us while we are getting used to these new modules as there will no doubt be some teething problems, especially at the busy start of the year. However, we know parents will appreciate the more streamlined, one-step process and thank you for your patience.
Stay tuned for more to come!