News From The Office

National Ride2School Day

Rollins Primary School is proud to be participating in the national ride2school day which is being held on Friday 25th March 2022. We love having such an active community and can't wait to see this being displayed on the day. Individual registration is not required so get your bikes, scooters, or skateboards ready.

Curriculum Contributions 2022

Just a reminder that the base annual Curriculum Contributions are available to pay via Compass. Other contributions for non-curriculum items and activities such as digital subscriptions, first aid supplies, school grounds maintenance and student welfare are also available and are warmly welcomed. 

If you are using the Compass app and are having trouble accessing the required forms and information, please swipe right on your device to open Compass in browser or select the 3 lines on the top left of the app screen. You will then have full access and will be easier to navigate.

School Sport Victoria Division Swimming Championships

The SSV Swimming Championships are being held at the Kardinia Aquatic Centre in late March. To participate in the event, a student must be able to swim 50 metres using the correct technique (as defined by International Swimming Federation) in time quicker than a designated time. Events are held for boys and girls in the 9/10, 11 and 12/13 years old age groups in Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. Their age is calculated at 31/12/22. If you are interested in your child participating, please contact Doug Ilsley for more information. 

Privacy notice

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 http://rollinsps.vic.edu.au/ in the Policies section. 

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.

Rollins Uniform Supplier - 

DCS Uniforms

**Please note that the DCS Uniform website is currently unavailable. To order, please email sales@dcsuniforms.com.au 

Need some new uniform for the new school year? if so, please check out the uniform website below - order online and delivery to the school is free www.dcsuniforms.com.au . Deliveries arrive each Friday.

**Please note that we have placed another order on some more school hats. We currently only have size small available to purchase at the office. We have ordered more size M, L and XL. If your child is needing a hat, we do have some plain navy wide brimmed hats available for $5.

COMPASS- Support for parents and carers

For access, please click the following link: Compass Login

COMPASS FAQs link

For some general information, please scroll through the information pics below.

CSEF Applications

For families with a current Health Care Card, Government funding is available for a Camps/Sports/Excursions subsidy of $125 per child. Please complete an application form available from the office. If you have received this payment previously, there is no need to fill in a new form unless you have a child to add who has started school recently or your card has expired. Please remember to tick the box on all excursions, incursions and camps to nominate using your funding to cover these. Please return the form into the office, along with your Health Care Card to be photocopied.

Attendance

Rollins Primary School recognises that being at school on time and attending every day contributes towards a student's learning and that maximising school attendance enhances academic outcomes.

We take attendance very seriously at Rollins PS and have a goal to have as close to 100% of student attendance as possible.

For more information regarding attendance please follow the link to the Education Department's Attendance Policy

Court orders

Please inform and provide the office of any current or updated Court orders that may be in place. It is important that we have current, in date orders updated in our system.