Excursions, Incursions and Camps Parent Permissions – Year 7-12

How to give Parent Permission for your child to attend an excursion, camps and other events, please accept events in Parent Lounge. You may decline if you do not wish for your child to participate.

We have many opportunities for students to attend some wonderful incursions and excursions where their classroom learning can be enhanced, and there are other activities that help develop skills and grow good life skills and characteristics like sportsmanship/sportswomanship. A lot of planning goes into these events and the Parent Lounge Permission System is one process that can keep things running smoothly. When this doesn’t happen, it causes planning issues and may even lead to an event not going ahead due to low numbers.

Year 7: School Vaccination Program - 4 June 2024

If your child is in Year 7 this year, you can now provide online consent for their routine school vaccinations.
 
In Year 7, students are offered free vaccines for diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (dTpa) and human papillomavirus (HPV).
In Year 10, students are offered the meningococcal ACWY vaccine.

This year our Year 7 Vaccination Clinic date at GPCC is:
Year 7 - HPV and dTpa                    - Tuesday 4 June 2024

Year 10 – Meningococcal ACWY were conducted in February. Students who missed their vaccination may do a catch-up on 4 June if parent consent has been given.

Vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received.

How to provide consent:

1. To complete online consent for your child’s school vaccinations, visit: https://nswhealth.service-now.com/school
2. Follow the steps to log in to your existing ServiceNSW account. This is the same account you may already use to renew your driver’s licence. If you don’t have a ServiceNSW account, refer to ServiceNSW to create one. 
3. Update or confirm your personal details in ServiceNSW as required. 
4. Complete the School Vaccination Consent Form for your child/ren. You will need to:  
   1. Enter your child’s personal details 
   2. Provide the Medicare card details for you and your child  
   3. Read the linked Parent Information Sheet and privacy statement
   4. Provide consent  

If you or your child do not have a Medicare card, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper-based consent form directly from your child’s school.
The benefits of providing consent online:

• easily update your child’s details
• receive SMS and/or email notifications when vaccinations are given 
• faster upload of vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).

For more information on routine school vaccinations, please visit www.health.nsw.gov.au/schoolvaccination.
If you require information in your language, please visit www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/school_vaccination_language.aspx

Secondary Winter Uniform – White Long Sleeve Under-shirt

As we head into the cooler months, we want students to stay warm and keep comfortable. This year we are again allowing students to wear a plain white long sleeve T-shirt or thermal shirt under their school shirts. This is designed to be an extra layer to be worn under the student’s soft-shell jacket (Years  7-10), blazer (Year 11) or Year 12 jacket (Year 12). It is not to be worn instead of the jacket/blazer.

If a student decides it is warm enough to remove their jacket/blazer they also need to remove their under shirt. An exception will be in class, where a student can remove their jacket/blazer and we do not want to interrupt their learning by requiring students to leave the classroom to change out of their under shirt. As they leave class, they are to wear their jacket/blazer at that time can choose to get changed if they wish.

This temporary change to our policy is relating to plain white t-shirts only. Students are not permitted to wear non-school jumpers, jackets or hoodies underneath or instead of their school jacket/blazer.

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