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Compass
What is Compass?
Compass is a school management solution that allows parents and carers to access up-to-date and meaningful information about your school and your child’s progress. Compass includes many different features, including the ability to:
- Monitor your child’s attendance, and enter an explanation for absence or lateness
- Communicate with your child’s teachers, and update your family contact details
- View your child’s timetable and the school calendar
- Download and view your child’s academic reports
- Book parent-teacher conferences
- Pay and provide consent for events and school fees
https://meltonss-vic.compass.education/login.aspx
Seesaw
Seesaw is a communication app for the classroom. It connects teachers, parents and students who use it to share photos of learning and messages during the school day. Teachers find or create activities to share with students. Students take pics, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio. Families see their child’s work and leave comments and encouragement.
Community Connections
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Support Organisations
Please find some links to community organisations that parents/carers can use for respite, therapy, NDIS and carer support.
https://www.ndis.gov.au/
Department of Human Services – Centrelink, Medicare, Child Support Agency
https://www.humanservices.gov.au/
Melton City Council
https://www.melton.vic.gov.au/Home
Moorabool Shire Council
https://www.moorabool.vic.gov.au/
Carers Victoria
https://www.carersvictoria.org.au/
Children and Young People with Disability Australia
https://www.carersvictoria.org.au/
Association for Children with a Disability
https://acd.org.au/
Autism Spectrum Australia
https://www.autismspectrum.org.au/
https://www.downsyndromevictoria.org.au/
Cerebral Palsy Support Network
https://www.cpsn.org.au/
Pinarc Disability Support
https://www.pinarc.org.au/
McKillop Family Services
https://www.mackillop.org.au/
Merrimu
https://merrimu.org/
Mambourin
https://www.mambourin.org/
Distinctive Options
https://www.distinctiveoptions.com.au/
NDIS Information
‘The Department of Education is committed to supporting children with disability and their families. That is why they are introducing National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Navigators in all Victorian government specialist schools. The NDIS Navigator supports parents and carers to understand, navigate and access the supports available to them under the NDIS. The NDIS Navigator will provide support and advice for parents and carers to build their capacity to understand, and advocate for appropriate NDIS funded support services for their children.’
NDIS Navigators initiative
The role of NDIS Navigators
NDIS Navigators will be employed in specialist schools where they will:
- provide support and advice for parents and carers to build their capacity to understand, advocate for and access appropriate NDIS funded support services available to their children
- develop and maintain relationships with parents, carers, school staff and local services to enable productive working relationships between schools, parents and carers and the NDIS
- support collaborative practices between NDIS funded services and the school, including by providing appropriate information, documentation and logistical support for onsite visits by approved NDIS funded therapists – refer to NDIS Funded Therapy in Schools
- support parents and carers to resolve issues experienced with the NDIS through appropriate channels.
NDIS Navigators will not:
- provide individual student case management or crisis management
- contact the NDIA or NDIS funded providers on behalf of parents or carers except in limited circumstances, following consultation with the principal
- attempt to resolve issues experienced with the NDIS or NDIA, but will support parents and carers to resolve issues through appropriate channels
- make decisions on requests for delivery of NDIS funded therapy services on school grounds or requests for NDIS funded therapists to observe students, or advocate for a particular outcome in relation to these requests – this will remain the responsibility of the principal in accordance with the department’s NDIS Funded Therapy in Schools policy
- implement or perform supports and adjustments in schools
- act as an advocate for parents and carers in matters that are the responsibility of the school.
In some circumstances the NDIS Navigator may need to consult with the principal to prioritise families that have more complex needs that require additional support.’
The NDIS and Schools
The NDIS and schools | vic.gov.au (www.vic.gov.au)
(There is also an easy-to-read PDF of the information in the link attached)
The NDIS and Leaving School
Leaving school | NDIS