General Information
General Office
Office hours: 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
Parents visiting the school or trying to make contact with their children must always make contact with the General Office first.
Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund (CSEF)/State School Relief and Parent Payment
If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. The allowance will be paid to the school to use toward expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities/sports uniform for the benefit of your child. The annual CSEF amount per student will be: $225 for secondary school students.
How to Apply: Contact the school office to obtain a CSEF application form or download HERE
State School Relief: Applicants applying for State School’s Relief must have a valid Health Care Card dated first day of the 2023 school year. Assistance may be available if you are experiencing financial difficulties. Please contact the Wellbeing Team on 9743 3322.
Parent Payments
The 2023 Parent Payment information can be found on the College website.
https://www.meltonsc.vic.edu.au/our-college/policies-reports/ (Payments and Finance)
Compass Pay
Melton Secondary College are now accepting payments via Compass. You can now access your students’ events and parent payments via your compass app.
Attached you will find instructions on how to pay for your student's upcoming events and provide consent through Compass.
This will reduce the amount of consent forms your child will bring home as everything will be in one place for you. Once an event has been created you will receive a notification in your newsfeed advising that you have an Event Consent/Payment requiring action. If an event doesn’t require a payment, you will only need to consent.
Parent payment contributions can also be accessed and paid for via the app. Payments will still be accepted at the office by Cash or Eftpos if this is your preferred payment method.
Please do not hesitate to contact the College office on 9743 3322 if you would like further information.
School Canteen
Students are able to order food for lunchtime before school and order food for recess at lunchtime. By ordering food at these times, it is guaranteed that food is available. EFTPOS is now available for students to use.
Uniform Shop
The Uniform Shop is located at 39 Bakery Square, Melton
Monday to Friday 1pm to 5pm and Saturday 10.00am to 2pm
Contact number 8746 2142
Orders can be also made online at Shop.Buxwear.com and collected from the shop.
Lost Property
If your child has lost any items in school last year, please encourage them to check lost property located in sickbay during their breaks, before or after school. We highly recommend that all clothing is clearly labelled with your child's name.
Locks: All locks are supplied by the school.
Non school locks will be removed from lockers.
Bike Cage: Please encourage your child to lock his/her bike inside the bike cage and not outside.
Student accident insurance, ambulance cover and private property brought to school
Parents and guardians are reminded that the Department of Education and Training (DET) does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. Parents and guardians of students, who do not have student accident/insurance/ambulance cover, are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance attendance or transport as well as any other transport costs. The DET cannot provide advice to parents or guardians on the purchase of individual student accident policy or ambulance cover. Insurance policies can be purchased from commercial insurers. Private property brought to school by students, staff or visitors is not insured and the Department does not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage. This can include mobile phones, calculators, toys, sporting equipment and cars parked on school premises. As the DET does not hold insurance for personal property brought to schools and has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property, students and staff are discouraged from bringing any unnecessary or particularly valuable items to school.
Access to School Grounds
All parents/carers and visitors to the school are unable to drive a car on to the school grounds as the driveways are gated. Parking can be found in the local car parks close to the college.
The decision to restrict car access to school staff has been made in the best interests of student safety. This decision will greatly reduce the amount of traffic at the front of the school site during the times of the day where students are walking in this same area. This increases the pedestrian safety for our students.
We still have disability parking for anyone unable to walk from a local car park to the administration building. Anyone with a medical reason that means they require a disability car park can call the number on the signs on the gate to contact the front office, and the gate will be opened automatically
