IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Annual Privacy Reminder for 2022
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 (click here). 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.
Face mask provision for our COVID Safe school community
As you would be aware, the wearing of face masks by staff and students is required in secondary schools in Victoria.
Students are required to wear a face mask indoors when at school at all times. Outdoors and when eating and drinking, students may remove their mask, but are encouraged to still wear one as a protective measure when they cannot maintain physical distancing of 1.5m.
Staff are also expected to wear a mask except when they are engaging in direct teaching and care for communication purposes.
Please ensure that your child/ren have their own mask with them at school at all times. Whilst the College does have a supply of face masks, this is not enough to provide a mask for all students, let alone daily. There have been a number of students arriving at school without a face mask this week who have been presenting to the Administration Office to ask for one to be provided.
We ask that the community supports this COVID Safe measure in our school by ensuring that your child has a face mask with them on a daily basis at school.
From today (Monday 07 February), the College will commence calling home to alert parents of students who present at school requiring a face mask.
Approvals for mask exemptions must be submitted to the Principal at Erin.Wright@education.vic.gov.au. If a child does not have a noted mask exemption, the expectation will be that they are wearing one at school.
All parents and visitors to the College will also be required to comply with mask wearing indoors. We appreciate your support in ensuring that our community is COVID Safe.
Erin Wright
College Principal
Family Account Payments
There are a number of ways for families to make a payment to the College for their child’s excursion, camp or event. Please see below:
Preferred: Direct Deposit
To make a payment by direct deposit please use the following bank details:
Account Name: Surf Coast Secondary College Council Official
BSB: 313-140
Account Number: 12031136
Please be sure to put your child’s name in the reference and notify us of the payment by emailing us at accounts@scsc.vic.edu.au.
Preferred: BPay
To pay via BPay, please refer to your family statement for your individualised BPay details. Please be sure to put your child’s name in the reference and notify us of the payment by emailing us at accounts@scsc.vic.edu.au
EFTPOS:
Over the phone on (03) 5261 6633 by calling our Administration Office.
If you have a credit on your account and would like to use this, please email accounts@scsc.vic.edu.au.
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.
The payment amount this year is $225 for eligible secondary 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 COVID Safe 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 visit the College’s website at www.surfcoastsecondarycollege.vic.edu.au and download an application form from the Enrolments page. 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.
If you have any questions regarding the Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund please contact us on 5261 6633.
Potential Delays in Stationery Delivery
Like all businesses, Winc are currently experiencing driver and labour shortages due to the current market conditions which includes the high levels of community transmission associated with Omicron.
This week, unplanned and COVID-19 related sick leave has escalated across both their supplier base, transport network and at Winc Distribution Centres. It appears inevitable that this will continue in the coming weeks, so you may experience a slight delay in your Back to School delivery. Winc will however endeavour to meet your intended delivery or as close to it as possible.
Should you have any additional queries relating to your order, please contact customer service on 1800 004 427 or email us on csinboxbacktoschool@winc.com.au.
The Winc team continues to monitor supply chain performance daily and is committed to providing regular updates. We appreciate your patience during this period.
Regards,
Glenn Gunstone
Winc Sales Director
Secondary School Immunisation Program
The secondary school immunisation program offers free vaccines provided by the National Immunisation Program each year to students in Year 7 and Year 10. The local council immunisation service visits the school to provide the vaccination program.
Look out for the information and consent form
Parents/guardians of students in Year 7 and Year 10 should look out for the vaccine information and consent form coming home from school with your child. You need to read the information, complete, and return the consent form. If you choose not to consent for your child to be vaccinated as part of the school-based immunisation program, you also need to return the consent form.
Students who missed school vaccines due to COVID-19 pandemic
Some students now in Year 8 and Year 11 may need to complete their vaccine program this year to catch-up the missed vaccines. The local council immunisation service will advise parents/guardians and work with the school to deliver any catch-up vaccines due to students.
What do I need to know?
Students who are identified as due or overdue for vaccination on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) will be eligible to receive ‘catch-up’ immunisations.
- If your child has since received their vaccines please contact the Surf Coast Shire , Immunisation service on ph. or email]. Please make sure your immunisation provider has reported the vaccination to the Australian Immunisation Register.
- The consent that you provided last year for the school-based immunisation program remains valid and you do not need to complete another consent form.
- You will be informed when the school vaccination day will be held.
- You can contact Surf Coast Shire immunisation service on (03) 5261 0505 to discuss any changes to your child’s health that you think could be relevant for their suitability for vaccination or should you need to withdraw consent.
- You may check your child’s immunisation history statement on the Australian Immunisation Register using your MyGov account. For privacy reasons, anyone aged 14 or older will need to access their own immunisation history statement through their own MyGov account or the Medicare mobile app.
For further information visit Immunisation in secondary schools - Better Health Channel
E-scooters
In cooperation and support with our local police, please take time to have a look at the attached flyer. This flyer will be handed out by police to students if they have been intercepted as a formal warning before adopting a zero tolerance approach in regards to E-scooters.
If you have any further queries, please contact your local police station for further information.
BYOD Device Changes to Applecare+
From 05 October, the law changed on how Add-On Insurance such as Applecare+ can be sold in Australia. As a result, Apple has communicated to all of their BYOD partners to stop selling Applecare+ for the time being. It is our expectation that they will be permitted to resume selling Applecare+ via BYOD portals shortly. While Applecare+ is temporarily unavailable for sale, any customer orders for Apple devices purchased since 05 October will be invited to purchase Applecare+ in a secondary transaction in line with the new regulations.
The new regulatory guidelines on Add-On Insurance can be found via this link to the ASIC website
Once Applecare+ is enabled again, you will be able to purchase a device, nominate your desired insurance policy, you will receive a customer communication advising you of your rights regarding insurance, wait 4 days, and then complete the purchase of the insurance policy.
Sick Bay
If a student is feeling unwell, to keep in line with the Department of Education & Training's Mobile Phone Policy, students are required to go to the Administration Office where a trained First Aid Officer will provide assistance and call parents/guardians if they are too unwell to remain at school and need to go home.
Please note, that the school will only call parents/guardians in regards to an unwell child. The school will never send a text message to advise that their child is unwell and requires collection.
If you have any questions regarding the above or other queries, please call our Administration Team on (03) 5261 6633.
MYKI Card Reminder
An important reminder that students require a MYKI card with sufficient funds to cover their bus journey to and from the College whilst travelling on the below services:
T5: Grovedale
T6: Jan Juc
T7: Ocean Acres
T10: Ocean Views
and all public transport services.
McHarry's Buslines have advised that students may incur a $200 fine if they do not have sufficient funds or have a valid card.
Face Masks on Public Transport
Please note that the community are required to wear face masks whilst travelling on Public Transport.
DET Mobile Phone Policy Reminder
In accordance with the Department’s Mobile Phones Policy issued by the Minister for Education, personal mobile phones must not be used at Surf Coast Secondary College during school hours, including lunchtime and recess (including in the Canteen for payments), unless an exception has been granted.