Financial Contributions
Macleod College is looking forward to another great year of engaging teaching and learning and would like to advise you of the 2025 voluntary financial contributions.
All schools provide students with free instruction to fulfil standard curriculum requirements. To complement this, Macleod College invites voluntary contributions from our families to ensure that we can offer the best possible educational outcomes for our students. We only request contributions for items that we believe add value to the school experience.
Macleod College proudly lives its values: Achieve, Respect and Connect by delivering comprehensive, and inclusive programs. We rely on your ongoing voluntary financial support to ensure that we continue to cater for the learning and wellbeing needs of all students. Our contribution amounts have not changed for the past few years keeping in mind families’ financial pressures. This has not changed how we provide the standard curriculum and additional educational and physical resources. We have, however, had no choice but to pass on small fee increases to e-learning subscriptions and activity charges due to providers increasing costs.
We thank families for their ongoing support, whether through financial contributions, fundraising or volunteering your time.
In 2025 the Junior School (Prep to year 06) will introduce Auslan sign language classes to engage and promote diversity for our young learners. In 2024, through teacher innovation and your financial support, we provided new exciting student programs such as the Year 10 EnlighTEN Program which allows students to select from a diverse set of electives in each key learning area. This has proven to be very successful, and we are exploring a similar opportunity for Year 9 through the new Nine-finity Program.
Other initiatives include:
Holistic Health & Nutrition Days for students;
enhanced digital learning opportunities;
additional VCE subject offerings;
the completion of new seating, light & sound in the Theatre and Hall;
continuous improvement of our College communication systems;
new outdoor and indoor student seating;
continual refurbishment of classrooms;
new VCE Study Centre in 2025;
student lunchtime activities – sports, dance and other clubs and more.
2025 Parent Payment Contributions Letters
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Eligibility
Students eligible to receive the 2025 Year 7 Uniform Package must be a Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund (CSEF) recipient. To find out more, please refer to the Department of Education website.
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Eligibility
Students eligible to receive the Prep 2025 Summer Uniform Package must hold a valid/current health care card (in lieu of the CSEF eligibility data not being available until the beginning of the 2025 school year).
Financial Assistance
School Saving Bonus (SSB)
School Saving Bonus is a one-off support of $400 for families of Victorian government school students to help with 2025 school costs.
Your unique SSB code can be used at the following suppliers:
North of the Yarra Bookstore for textbooks
Noone’s for school uniforms
through Macleod College for excursions/activities and camps
EdRolo for digital textbooks for the following subjects:
07-10 Maths
11-12 General Maths
11-12 Physics
11-12 Psychology
To use your SSB for a school activity (i.e. camp and excursions):
go to SSB Parent Portal and allocate an amount to be used for school activities. This may take up to 48 hours to process.
then tick the CSEF/Credit box when paying for an event through your Compass Parent Portal. If you do not have that option, please contact 6242-accounts@schools.vic.edu.au for assistance.
The School Saving Bonus can not be used for school fees or resources or music academy fees.
Once you allocate your bonus to an in-store or online purchase or to school activities, it cannot be reversed.
However, if you have unspent funds or don’t use the funds you allocated to purchases, these funds will automatically be available on your child’s school account as an activities credit on 01 July 2025.