General Information (2 of 2)

COVID-19 INFORMATION 

The Victorian Government has announced the end of the Pandemic Declaration and associated Pandemic Orders. The following settings, based on advice from the Department of Health, will apply from 11.59 pm Wednesday 12 October 2022.

It is strongly recommended that students:

• who test positive to COVID-19 should stay home and isolate for 5 days
• should not attend school after 5 days if still symptomatic
• who are symptomatic but have not tested positive should not attend school
• advise the school of the COVID-19 positive test result.

Where students become symptomatic at school they should:

• be collected by their parents/carers
• undergo testing for COVID-19.

FACE MASKS

• Students are strongly recommended to wear masks while on school buses, on public transport, and when on excursions, or in rideshares.

CYBERSAFETY

Is your email secure?

The ACSC wants to help protect you from cybercriminals and your email is a common target for cybercriminal activity.

If someone gains access to your email account, they could steal your sensitive information, change passwords for your other accounts, or even send emails pretending to be you.

Cybercriminals will sometimes target emails being sent to and from businesses. This could result in fraudulent activity, with cybercriminals intercepting financial transactions such as invoices. Cybercriminals will use email to abuse trust in business processes to scam victims out of money or goods. This type of email attack is often referred to as business email compromise (BEC).

If you think your email account has already been compromised, you can take the following steps to review your security and remove the attacker:

• How to check your email account security – Outlook
• How to check your email account security – Gmail
• What to do if someone has hacked your email account

CHILD SAFETY 

Child Safety and knowing the child safe standards is a community responsibility.

Child Safe Standards aim to:

• promote the safety of children
• prevent child abuse
• ensure we have effective processes in place to respond to and report all allegations of child abuse.

To read through the school's Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy, please click here

ISV - THE PARENTS WEBSITE

Belgrave Heights Christian School is part of the Independent Schools Victoria network of schools. Independent Schools Victoria offers an initiative called The Parents Website.  Here you will find a range of articles and newsletters.  To learn more, please click here.

CAREERS NEWS

Students are still welcome all throughout Term 4 to book an appointment with Mrs Whitworth (Career Advisor) on Mondays to discuss their future career plans. 

This appointment can be used to ask questions, help with setting goals for the future, and/or talking through a choice already in mind. To book an appointment click here or send an email to Mrs Wolfaardt at cwolfaardt@bhcs.vic.edu.au 

Please see the link to the latest Careers News below.

Careers News

WELLBEING RESOURCES

We know that it can sometimes be hard to find the necessary resources in relation to mental health, bullying and family violence, especially when things are tough. For this reason, the School has a small webpage with links related to health and wellbeing resources. This can be found on the School's website under Other Resources or can be found here.

SCHOOL HATS

During Term 4 it is compulsory for hats to be worn by students during recess/lunch & all outdoor activities. Please ensure your child/children bring their hat to school each day.  Should you need to purchase a hat for your child please visit https://shop.alintaapparel.com.au/web/login

ALINTA (UNIFORM SHOP)

UNIFORM SHOP (ALINTA) HOURS 

• Tuesday: 8.00am - 12.00pm
• Thursday: 12.00pm - 4.00pm
• First Saturday of each month:  9.00am - 12.00pm

If you have any queries, please get in contact with Alinta.

Email: belgraveheights@alinta.com.au 

Phone: 03 9754 6400 alintaapparel.com.au

TREETOPS CAFE 

The cafe will be running every day except Wednesday for Senior School students.  At this point in time, use of the restaurant seating will only be available to staff and Year 11 & 12 students. Year 7 - 12 Students are permitted to purchase takeaway food from the cafe.

BHCS CANTEEN

JUNIOR SCHOOL : The canteen is available for lunch orders on Wednesday & Fridays.  Junior students (Prep - Year 4) can pre-order lunch orders via the Flexischools app. 

MIDDLE & SENIOR SCHOOL: Year 5-12s are welcome to order at the canteen window during recess and lunch breaks from Tuesday – Friday. 

The canteen is closed on Mondays. 

WORLD BEST TEACHER AWARDS 

Do you know a teacher who goes above and beyond to organise educational experiences outside of the classroom for their students?

Acknowledge their hard work and say thank you by nominating them for our World’s Best Teacher Awards. Nominated teachers will go in the draw to win one of three $500 gift cards to be drawn on World Teachers' Day, 28 October. Submit your nomination before 27 October.