ENROLMENT PROCEDURES
For enrolment at Mother Teresa Catholic Primary School you need to:
Online Application
To start our enrolment process please click HERE to complete an online enquiry form. Please note its one enquiry form per child.
Once your enquiry has been submitted our Enrolments Officer will send an email that contains a MTCPS Application form link and a list of required suporting documents.
We require the following supporting documents:
- Birth Certificate
- Immunisation records
- Baptismal Certificate (if applicable)
- Copy of latest school report card (Years 1-6)
- Copy of latest Vision test (Within the past 12months)
- Copy of latest Hearing test (Within the past 12months)
- Medical Action Plans (if applicable)
- Learning Support documents/EAPs (if applicable)
- Custody/Guardianship/Court Documents (if applicable)
Interview
Once ALL application forms have been completed and ALL supporting documents have been provided, your student will be ready for an enrolment interview. Our Enrolment Officer will be in contact regarding interview details and the next steps.
Post-Interview
- After your interview, you will receive correspondence from the school regarding positions available and offers.
- If a position if offered to your child, a Letter of Offer will be sent via email for guardians to sign. There will also be a $100 Enrolment Acceptance Fee to secure your child’s position at the school. This fee is non-refundable, it will appear as a credit on your first invoice.
- Prior to your child commencing at MTCPS, you will received email communications regarding any Step-up/Orientation days, alongside essential school information.
*Please note that enrolment procedures for our ELC may differ*
Enrolment FAQs
Q – If my child currently attends the Mother Teresa ELC will they automatically transfer over to the Primary School?
A – No, ALL families will need to complete a Primary School enrolment application and go through our enrolment process.
Q – Do I still have to provide a recent hearing and vision test when I don’t have any concerns about my child’s hearing and vision?
A – Yes, this is a required supporting document. These tests help us to identify OR rule out, at an early stage, any sensory impairments that could impact your child’s learning and education.
Q – My child is due to start primary school in the next couple of years, when can I put through an enrolment enquiry?
A – You can put through an enrolment enquiry as early as you would like. Please note the Enrolment Officer will begin enrolment communication Term 1 the calendar year prior to child’s commencement year. For example – if your child is due to start Transition in 2027 , you will not receive communication until Term 1, 2026.
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
Please see the below School Fee Schedule for more information
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.