From staff and the Office

Please contact 9876 3289 if you have any questions

Holiday Works

During the Easter holiday break, there will be works on the pathways into Kalinda Primary School. New paths will be constructed from the Kalinda Urban Forest and Kalinda Road entrance. Please take care during this time if you are visiting the grounds.

Please help us maintain our grounds, and discourage any damage to our buildings.

If you see any suspicious or malicious behavior, please call Ringwood Police on 9871 3000

Kalinda Working Bee

Thank you to the families who helped move mulch on the weekend.

The front entrance of the school looks amazing.

Our next working bee will be on Saturday 27 May.

Kalinda relies on Working Bees to maintain the extensive grounds that we’re very fortunate to have. We are asking that each family attend at least one Working Bee during the year to help keep the playgrounds and surrounding areas safe and well-maintained for our children.

Not only are Working Bees an opportunity to contribute to your children’s school but they are also a great opportunity to meet other parents at the post-working bee BBQ.

We’ve scheduled Five Working Bees for 2023 including three Sundays to provide flexibility to families who may have Saturday commitments.

Working Bees start at 10.00 am and run for approximately 2 hours. Children are very welcome to attend.

Please enter your details into this google form via this link, which assists with catering.

https://forms.gle/KHm3WX3T99LgdHgk9

Many thanks,

Ted Dugdale

On behalf of the

Facilities Committee

THRASS Charts are here.

Thank you to the families and staff who attended our recent THRASS training sessions.

At the office, we have yellow and blue ( Junior and Senior ) charts for sale, $7.50 each

We have made a Compass event, in which you can pay for the charts.

They will be then taken to your childs classroom, and given to them to take home.

CSEF 2023

Submitting an application

Parents/carers wishing to apply for CSEF payments for 2023 must submit their application form to the relevant school before 23 June 2023.

However, a parent/carer will only be required to submit an application form to the school in the following circumstances:

the parent/carer is applying for the CSEF payment for the first time – i.e. an application form was not lodged with the school in the previous year, or
circumstances have changed – for example, there has been a change in the care arrangement of the student, a change of name or CRN, or a new sibling has started at the school and the parent/carer wishes to apply for the CSEF payment for the new sibling also.

Where a parent/carer is not required to submit a new application, schools can rollover/copy the previous year’s application on the CSEF system to the current school year.

Schools must retain application forms for a minimum of 7 years.

CSEF applications may be audited by the department.

Application forms -

Please use the link below to access these forms, or come to the office.

We will also need to take a copy of your health care card.

Schools are able to accept and process applications up until 23 June.

Attendance matters

In accordance with the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic), schooling is compulsory for children and young people aged from 6 to 17 years unless an exemption has been granted.

Parents/carers must enrol a child of compulsory school age at a registered school and ensure the child attends school at all times when the school is open for instruction.

Students are expected to attend the school in which they are enrolled, during normal school hours every day of each term, unless:

there is an approved exemption from school attendance or attendance and enrolment for the student, or
the student is registered for homeschooling and has only a partial enrolment in a school for particular activities.

Schools must advise parents/carers of unexplained absences, on the same day, as soon as practicable, including for post-compulsory aged students.

We use Compass attendance to record this at Kalinda Primary School.

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

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.