TERM DATES 2024
| TERM | START DATE | FINISH DATE |
| 1 (9 weeks) | Wednesday 31st January | Thursday 28th March |
| 2 (11 weeks) | Monday 15th April | Friday 28th June |
| 3 (10 weeks) | Monday 15th July | Friday 20th September |
| 4 (11 weeks) | Monday 7th October | Friday 20th December |
Curriculum and Reporting Days for 2024
Four curriculum day dates (no students at school)
Monday 29 January and Tuesday 30 January - the first 2 days of Term 1
Wednesday 14 August
Monday 4 November (the day before Melbourne Cup Day)
Common Professional Practice Day (no students at school)
Tuesday 11 June (after Monday 10 June, King’s Birthday Public Holiday)
3 Way Conferences, Term 3 (evenings)
Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd of July and Monday 29th July.
PRIVACY COLLECTION NOTICE
Information for students, parents and carers
The Department of Education (the department) values your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal and health information that schools collect.
All school staff must comply with Victorian privacy law and the Schools’ Privacy Policy. This notice explains how the department, including Victorian government schools (schools), handles personal and health information. On occasion, specific consent will be sought for the collection and use of information, for example, for a student to receive a health service. Our schools are also required by legislation, such as the Education and Training Reform Act 2006, to collect some of this information.
Throughout this notice, ‘staff’ includes principals, teachers, student support service officers, youth workers, social workers, nurses and any other allied health practitioners, and all other employees, contractors, volunteers and service providers of the school and the department.
On enrolment, and during the ordinary course of a student’s attendance at a school, schools will collect information about students and their families for the following purposes:
- educating students
- supporting students’ social and emotional wellbeing, and health
- fulfilling legal obligations, including duty of care, anti-discrimination law and occupational health and safety law
- communicating and engaging with parents
- student administration
- school management
- supporting policy in relation to student education and wellbeing.
If this information is not collected, schools may be unable to provide optimal education or support to students or fulfil legal obligations.
For example, our schools rely on parents to provide health information about any medical condition or disability that their child has, medication their child may take while at school, any known allergies and contact details of their child’s doctor. If parents do not provide all relevant health information, this may put their child’s health at risk.
Our schools also require current, relevant information about all parents and carers so that schools can take account of safety concerns that affect their children. Parents should provide schools with copies of all current parenting plans and court orders about or that affect their children and provide updated copies when they change.
When parents enrol their child in primary school, they will be asked to provide personal and health information in several ways, including via the Enrolment Form, the School Entrance Health Questionnaire (SEHQ) and the Early Childhood Intervention Service (ECIS) Transition Form.
The Enrolment Form is used to collect information that is essential for the purposes listed above, and requests information such as:
- Emergency contacts – Individuals parents nominate for a school to contact during an emergency. Parents should ensure that their nominated emergency contact agrees to their contact details being provided to the school and that they understand their details may be disclosed by the department if lawful, e.g. in the case of emergency communications relating to bush fires or floods.
- Student background information – Information about country of birth, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin, language spoken at home and parent occupation. This information enables the department to allocate appropriate resources to schools. The department also uses this information to plan for future educational needs in Victoria and shares some information with the Commonwealth government to monitor, plan and allocate resources.
- Immunisation status – This assists schools to manage health risks and legal obligations. The department may also provide this information to the Department of Health and Department of Families, Fairness and Housing to assess immunisation rates in Victoria, but not in a way which identifies students.
- Visa status – This is required to process a student’s enrolment.
All schools may use departmental systems and online tools such as apps and other software to effectively collect and manage information about students and families for the purposes listed above.
When schools use these online tools, they take steps to ensure that student information is secure. If parents or carers have any concerns about the use of these online tools, please contact the school.
School staff will only share student and family information with other school staff who need to know to enable them to educate or support the student as described above. Information will only be shared outside the school (and outside the department) as required or authorised by law, including where sharing is required to meet duty of care, anti-discrimination, occupational health and safety, and child wellbeing and safety obligations. The information collected will not be disclosed beyond the school and department without parent consent unless such disclosure is lawful.
When a student transfers to another school (including Catholic, independent and interstate), personal and/or health information about that student may be transferred to the next school. Transferring this information is in the best interests of the student and assists the next school to provide the best possible education and support to the student. For further detail about how and what level of information is provided to the next school, refer to the: Enrolment: Student transfers between schools
Schools only provide school reports and ordinary school communications to students, parents, carers or others who have a legal right to that information. Requests for access to other student information or by others must be made by lodging a Freedom of Information (FOI) application.
To update student or family information, parents should contact their school.
For more information about how schools and the department collect and manage personal and health information, or how to access personal and health information held by a school about you or your child, refer to the: Schools’ Privacy Policy
SCHOOL STRATEGIC PLAN 2021 - 2024
Refer to the 'News' tab for our plan.
ANNUAL REPORT
The Annual Report is written for the previous year, not the current year. The 2023 Annual report will soon be published under the 'News' tab.
Out of Schoool Hours Care is provided by Camp Australia. Before school care commences from 7.30am and after school care runs until 6.30pm. Vacation care is provided during the school holidays. Please see more information on their website at: www.campaustralia.com.au
SCHOOL ENROLMENTS
Refer to the 'Enrolments' tab. Find myschool.vic.gov.au hosts the most up-to-date information about Victorian school zones.
Information on this site is updated in Term 1 each year, ready for the Foundation and Year 6 to 7 transition period.
To visit the site, see: www.findmyschool.vic.gov.au
If you have a question about school zones call the VSBA Hotline on 1800 896 950 or email vsba@edumail.vic.gov.au
CHILD SAFETY
The Victorian Government and Glendal Primary School are committed to implementing the recommendations of the recent Betrayal of Trust report aimed at protecting all children from abuse and neglect. Our school has comprehensive strategies in place and an embedded culture of Child Safety in the school. Our Principal class personnel, in particular our Assistant Principal in charge of Student Wellbeing, are responsible for managing and achieving strategies around maintaining our culture of Child Safety. Our strategies and policies are reviewed regularly.
Please access the following documents and our 'Statement of Committment to Child Safety'. We have more detailed, documented strategies / procedures for responding to suspected child abuse and for responding to other concerns about the wellbeing of a child. You will also find other policies, under Policy Documents.
We note that fullfilling the roles and responsibilities contained in our strategies and procedures does not displace or discharge any other obligations that arise if a person reasonably believes that a child is at risk of child abuse.
Statement of Committment to Child Safety
What Parents and Carers can do to Protect Children from Abuse
School Strategies for Responding to Incidents, Disclosures and Suspicions of Child Abuse
Protecting Children from abuse - Mandarin
Protecting Children from Abuse - Sinhalese
Feeling Safe for Primary School Students:
WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECKS (WWCC)
All adult volunteers and people working in schools must have a current Working with Children Check
Everyone working in any capacity either paid of voluntary in our school is required to complete a Working With Children Check.
The WWC check card needs to be carried with you and also presented to the school office to be copied and added to our register.
Working with Children Checks for voluntary work are free and the application can be made online at the following site:
https://smarteform.auspost.com.au/aponlineforms/servlet/SmartForm.html?formCode=wwcv
Translations for WWCC: http://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/home/resources/translations/
Please note that it can take around 2 weeks for the process to be completed and the WWC card posted to your address.
You cannot volunteer or work in our school without this card.
Glendal Working With Children Check procedures
MY SCHOOL
The Federal Government website "My School" is available at : www.myschool.edu.au
CYBER SAFETY
Cyber smart web sites provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young children, teens and parents enjoy the online world safely.
‘Cybersmart' is part of the Australian Government's cyber safety program and has been developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Childrens' Health and Safety
Please access the following link for the Children's Health Guide: Newborn to Teen published by Drugwatch (Drugwatch.com)
HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD AT HOME
We are often asked by parents for advice on how they can support their child’s learning at home and our school is committed to ensuring that parents and families are valued partners in their child’s learning and development. To assist parents, we place resources and web links on our year level blogs and in the newsletter. The Victorian Department of Education has developed advice on activities and learning ideas for parents interested helping their children with maths and literacy at home. The following link will provide you with transition to Primary School advice and also 201 literacy and maths tips for children from pre-school to year 6. This booklet form is also available in many different languages from the Department website at:
SchoolMate App for parents
The Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET) has developed the SchoolMate APP for parents and students. It can be downloaded onto your mobile device and contains an outline of the curriculum and gives information about how you can assist your child, what is taught at each year level and recommendation on additional resources.
The following links are useful for Mathematics and English (Literacy) ideas to help students at home:
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/parentGuideNumEn.pdf
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/children-and-literacy
