Term 1 Invoices

Students have been invoiced for the following activities:

Letters have now been sent home to families. If you require a payment plan for any of the above, please don’t hesitate to contact the school.

Electronic Visitor Register

We have installed an electronic visitor register in our office! Instead of signing in using the blue folder when visiting and volunteering at the school, you will now sign in through our iPad. Passtab, the application we are now using, is a Departmental approved application to track visitor attendance.

Parents who are signing their children out early do not need to use Passtab, you will still sign your children out through the front office by collecting a slip. The sign-in register is just for parents and visitors (including grandparents, contractors, etc.) who are spending time in the school, whether it is in the Tuckshop, the Classroom or completing facilities works in the school. Parents no longer need to fill out the red folder to sign their children out, they just need to obtain the slip from the office and provide to the classroom teacher.

When signing in for the first time, it can be a little bit time consuming to set up your profile. I would suggest you come about 5 minutes earlier if you can. Once complete, your photo will be captured in the application and a visitor slip will be printed. It is important you carry the slip on you at all times by using the visitor lanyards. At the end of your time here, you will sign out again through Passtab.

We are very excited to have this new system in our school! If you are experiencing any difficulties signing in or out, please don’t hesitate to ask one of our Admin team to assist you.

Payment: Plans & How to Pay

Payment plans are available for all families, whether you are experiencing financial difficulties or you would prefer to pay for excursions / camps in a lengthy timeframe. Payments must be made regularly, and must be completed by 27^th November 2020. This is to ensure all of our excursions are reconciled and meet financial deadlines.

Paying with Cash

Dayboro State School is progressing towards becoming a cashless school, which means paying for excursions by cash is no longer our preferred method of payment.

If students are taking the money to school, they will be required to come to the office before school or at lunch times for payments. Ideally, students making payments should be paid to the office before school, between 8am and 8:40am.

At no time should a student give any money to classroom teachers for excursions, teachers will redirect students to the office to pay for invoices. Students/parents will be provided with a receipt at the time of payment.

Please note – this does not include the Tuckshop or Uniform Shop. As they are run by the P&C, the school cannot accept payments for these two areas. Please contact the P&C directly for questions regarding payment options.

New Payment Method: Qkr! by Masterpass

Dayboro State School will soon be providing another method of payment for parents when paying excursions in the school. Qkr! by Masterpass is another one of the Department of Education’s preferred method of payments, and it is very easy to use.

Click on this link https://vimeo.com/185424067 to watch the demonstrational video on Qkr!

Once QKR! is up and running, we will send information out to families on how to use.

Volunteering in Classrooms

New legislation is coming into place in 2020 surrounding volunteering and Blue Cards. Blue Card Services require parents to hold a ‘V’ Blue Card when volunteering in a class that their child is not enrolled in (i.e. your child is in a Prep class but you are volunteering in a Year 1 class). Grandparents who are volunteering require a ‘V’ Blue Card, regardless of the class volunteering in.

Currently, it is free of charge to gain a Volunteer ‘V’ Blue Card. Copies of the form can be obtained from the office, please don’t hesitate to contact the school for more information.

Facilities Hire

As Dayboro State School has a strong association with the local community, we allow community groups to hire certain areas of the school. Our facilities such as the Hall, Under Covered Area (CSA), Oval and Tennis Court are available to hire at a set cost.

All Facilities Hire arrangements need to be discussed with the Business Manager and are approved by the Principal. All fees go directly into the school, whether that be maintaining our grounds and facilities, or providing additional resources for our students.

For more information on our Facilities Hire, please contact the school office.

Voluntary Contributions

By participating in the Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme, Dayboro SS is able to provide classroom resources, home readers and other consumables to enhance learning activities for Literary, Numeracy, Science, Art and Technology.

The costs involved in the Voluntary Financial Contributions are:

• $50 per student; or
• $100 per family of two or more enrolled students.

Proceeds raised through the Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme will benefit all students, so we encourage parents to participate in the scheme.

The Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme is approved by the P&C each year, and is aligned to the Department of Education policy requirements.

Payments can be made from the following methods:

• Online payments - BPOINT

Click here for a direct link to BPOINT.

• Paying by phone.

If you do not wish to process payments online, you are able to pay by phone using a credit/debit card via BPOINT 1300 631 073.

Please quote the CRN and invoice number below.

• Paying in person.

You can pay in person at the Dayboro State School Administration using EFTPOS, Visa, MasterCard or cash*.

Kind regards,

Clare Gault
Business Manager