CSEF
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.

Payment amounts this year are $150 for eligible primary 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.

If you would like to apply, please download the form on Compass or ClassDojo. Alternatively, you can collect a hard copy form from the school office. When submitting your application to our school email address chelsea.ps@education.vic.gov.au or at the office, please supply a copy of your valid means-tested concession card.

To find out more about the program and eligibility, please go to the Department of Education and Training’s Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund web page.

Check with the school office if you are unsure, and please return completed form to the school office as soon as possible for processing.

IS YOUR CHILD WELL ENOUGH TO ATTEND SCHOOL?

As we all know, attending school is vitally important to all students, BUT it is also important to know when your child is not to attend school due to illness. This can be very difficult at times for parents to judge, especially with COVID around.

As we are aiming to build resilience in all of our students, we want them to learn to put up with minor health issues. If a child is continually attending the first aid room complaining of minor things, it’s usually for one of two reasons: they want to miss out on class time OR they are anxious about something. We will be in touch with you if your child is a regular visitor to the first aid room.

As a school, we have the responsibility to care for all students by preventing outbreaks of any contagious illness.  In doing this, we need students to stay at home when the following has occurred:

-Testing POSITIVE to a Rapid Antigen Test the night before or on the morning of school.  You must keep your child at home.  Once there are no symptoms, your child can attend school again.

 -If your child has vomited at home, please keep your child home from school for a full 24 hours from the last vomit.    

- If you need to administer Nurofen or Panadol to your child in the morning before school, then your child is unwell for school.  These drugs wear off around lunch time and the student starts to feel unwell again.  These drugs camouflage underlying illnesses.
Please be aware the school is not allowed to provide Panadol to students.

-If your child has had diarrhoea within the last 24 hours, stay home. Click on the link below from the Department of Health guidelines for the full fact sheet.

 http://www.health.vic.gov.au/edfactsheets/downloads/gastroenteritis-in-children.pdf  

-Above average temperature (or fever) The average temperature for a child is: 35.9–36.83°C. Return to school when the temperature is back to normal (usually 24 hours later). 

-Contagious diseases or illness (e.g. hand foot and mouth, measles, mumps, chicken pox etc). Please inform the school and then get your doctor's approval before attending school again.

Please discuss personal hygiene with your child.  Remind children to cover their mouth and nose when they cough or sneeze, dispose of any tissues in the bin and wash their hands properly and regularly. 

If your child has been prescribed antibiotics that are to be administered three times per day, these can be administered at home.  

The first dose can be administered between 7am – 8.30am, the following dose can be administered between 3.45pm – 4.30pm.  Then the last dose can be given at 8pm or before bed. 

If your child becomes unwell at school, you will be contacted and required to arrange for your child to be picked up within a reasonable timeframe.    

While a child may feel better at home, if they come back to school too early, they will fall into a heap quickly due to going back into a busy classroom. If you have to give them Panadol before coming to school, then they’re not well enough to come back.  

Thank you for supporting these procedures and helping to contain illnesses and keep our school community healthy.

HAND WASHING

Washing hands effectively is the number one way to stop infections in its tracks.  In fact, it can prevent about 30% of stomach related sickness and about 20% of respiratory infections.  In regards to helping stop the spread of COVID-19, washing hands is highly important too. 

BUT … did you realise how important it is to wash your hands after eating too … to prevent the spread of potential allergens for other who have allergies.  We, here at Chelsea Primary School, are educating our students about its importance to help other students who have allergies.   

Here are a few tips:

• Use soap and running water
• Rub hands together with lather for at least 20 seconds, ensuring you rub between your finger, under nails and the backs of your hands.
• Rinse your hands well under running water.
• Dry thoroughly with a paper towel that you then dispose of in the bin.
• If soap and water are unavailable use hand sanitizer which contains at least 60% alcohol to clean hands. 

Attendance and arriving on time
We all understand there will be occasions when students are absent from school. Parents and carers are asked to report their child’s absence on Compass and provide a note. If a student is absent without a note for 3 consecutive days a member of our office staff will call to check that everything is all right and how we can support a return to school. 

Late Arrivals
When students arrive at school on time they have the opportunity to catch up with friends, play in the yard and transition to the day smoothly. Reminder: Line up bell is at 8:55am and classes start at 9:00am. 

But…when children are regularly late for school they:

• Miss out on socialising with their friends
• Miss out on the introduction to the day, so they don't always know what is going to happen throughout the day, or if there are any changes
• Can be unsetled and anxious about walking into their classroom
• Miss out on learning opportunities 

Some strategies to get to school on time:

• Use an alarm clock or phone to set the alarm. 
• Have children pack their bags and have their uniforms ready the night before
• Early bedtime (this is age dependent of course)

All volunteers need a Working with Children Check
These are free for volunteer's and are valid for five years.

Please make sure that the office has a copy of your WWCC and that you sign in and out of the Compass kiosk when you are onsite. WWCC can be applied for online and are processed at the Post Office. https://service.vic.gov.au/find-services/work-and-volunteering/working-with-children-check

Footpaths- riding and scooting to school
Footpaths are pedestrian walkways (pedestrian means ‘related to feet’). That means those children who are riding bikes or scooting to school have a responsibility to ride and scoot safely and giving those on foot priority. Here are some simple rules to remind your children:

• Use your bell to warn walkers in front that you are coming,or give a polite call. 
• Slow down and do not assume walkers will move aside just because you rang your bell.
• Be watchful of cars entering or exiting driveways. 
• Stop at road intersections and look for cars before crossing the road

Lost property
Please check the lost property container if your child are missing any items.

Please ensure that all children's belongings (including hats, drink bottles and lunch boxes) are clearly labelled with their name (not just initials) and class. Sometimes items are not returned to their rightful owner because they are not labelled correctly or clearly. If you find named belongings in your child's possession, could you please return them to the school office.

Our lost property is stored inside the main building of the gazebo door entrance. 

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