ENROLMENT PROCEDURES
For enrolment at Mother Teresa Catholic Primary Schools you need to:
Written Application
- Collect an enrolment package from the school or download it from our website.
- Complete all the required information and return with the required forms the school office.
Interview
- Once all documents have been received by the school you will be contacted to make an appointment to come in and have an interview with the Principal.
Post-Interview
- After your interview, you will receive correspondence from the school regarding positions available and offers.
- Once this is received a $100 deposit is required to secure your child’s position at the school. This deposit is nonrefundable, it will appear as a credit on your first invoice.
- Prior to starting school, you will receive all information required to get started.
FEES AND LEVIES
School Fees
School Fees and Levies are an integral part of Catholic Education Schooling. Catholic schools have fees to help meet the shortfall in Government Funding. A reasonable fee structure is essential for Catholic schools to operate and provide the high-quality education, quality learning environments, and advanced resources that parents/carers rightly expect.
All Catholic schools strive to keep fees as low as possible. The term ‘school fees’ includes tuition fees and levies. Each school assesses the school levies necessary to meet their individual school and community operation requirements. In doing this they firstly guided by the diocesan tuition fees set by Catholic Education Council.
In keeping with the gospel values, no child will be refused a Catholic education due to financial difficulty which has been verified by the school. There are discounts available for multi-student families and for those who have a Pensioner and Health Care Card that are means tested. Please contact the School Office for further information regarding discounts and concessions.
Payment
There are several methods of payment available at the school office which include: Credit Card, EFTPOS, Cash (correct value) as well as Direct Debit and Online banking.
Statements will be issued at the beginning of Term 1. Families have the option to pay in full during Term 1 and receive a 5% discount on tuition fees. Another option is to enter a payment plan agreement and pay in regular installments.
A failure to organise payment plans may lead to an overdue notice and fees recovery notes from an external finance manager. All costs associated with the collection of overdue accounts but not limited to professional collection costs, legal fees, and disbursements will be recoverable by the school in addition to the overdue amount and any interest charged. This can cause upset; however, we have a responsibility at the school to manage budgets.
If at any stage fees present a problem please consult with the Principal.
ENROLMENT FORMS
Please click here to request enrolment forms pack
INFORMATION COLLECTION NOTICES
Information we collect
Catholic Education in the Diocese of the Northern Territory and Catholic schools collects and records personal information, including sensitive information about students, parents/legal guardians and volunteers, before and during the course of a student’s enrolment at our school. Laws governing or relating to the operation of schools require that certain information is collected. These may include Education, Public Health and Child Protection laws. We may ask you to provide medical reports about students from time to time. Health information about students is sensitive information within the terms of the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act (1988).
Purpose of collection
The primary purpose of collecting and recording this information is to enable the provision of quality Catholic education. In addition, some of the information we collect and record is to satisfy the school’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the school to discharge its duty of care to students and parents/legal guardians. This information may also be used for appropriate parish purposes.
Disclosure of information
This information may be disclosed by us for administrative and educational purposes to others including, but not limited to, personnel within Catholic Education Services, other Catholic Education schools, medical practitioners, people providing services to schools, such as specialist visiting teachers and consultants. In addition we may be required to disclose this information to government departments, both State and Federal.
Personal information collected from students is regularly disclosed to their parents/legal guardians. On occasions, information such as academic and sporting achievements, student activities, and other news may be published in newsletters, magazines, and on our website. Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son/daughter by contacting the school.
Students may also seek access to personal information about them. However, there will be occasions when access is denied. Such occasions would include where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where access may result in a breach of the school’s duty of care to the student, or where students have provided information in confidence.
The School Privacy Policy sets out how parents or students may complain about a breach of privacy and how the school will deal with such a complaint.
The school from time to time engages in fundraising activities. Information received from you may be used to make an appeal to you. It may also be disclosed to organisations that assist in the school’s fundraising activities solely for that purpose. We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent. We may include your contact details in a class list and school directory.
If you provide the school with the personal information of others, such as the student’s other parents, doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you inform them that you are disclosing that information to all Catholic Education schools and why. They should also be informed that they can access that information if they wish and that the school does not usually disclose the information to third parties.
Our privacy position: Catholic Education is bound by the Privacy Act (1988), and has adopted the thirteen (13) Australian Privacy Principles. A privacy statement detailing Catholic Education’s practices and procedures for the use and management of the personal and sensitive information it collects and records, can be accessed below. Alternatively a hard copy of the statement may be provided on request.
Information required
If we do not obtain the personal and sensitive information referred to above, we may not be able to enrol or continue to enrol your student.
By completing and submitting an Application for Enrolment Form you have confirmed your understanding of, and agreement with, the above.