As part of our goal to be a more sustainable school, in 2024 we will be swapping over to online consent forms through the QParents app.
Please note that all consent forms will be sent out via the QParents app for parents to provide consent online.
By implementing this one change, it will help us eliminate over 5,000 sheets of paper! To achieve this goal, we need all of our families signed up to QParents.
The QParents app will:
- Help us eliminate over 5000 sheets of paper
- Enable parents to:
- complete consent forms through the app
- Pay and view invoices online
- Access report cards
- Report an absence
- Update details
This app allows you, as parents, to pay for excursions as well as give permission for various activities your children will be a part of. The app also has other handy features such as access to report cards, access to previously paid invoices for excursions/incursions and payment history for the Student Resource Scheme (SRS).
An email has been sent from the school with the sign-up details
for QParents or for more information, please see your class teacher.
Please note you will need to provide 100 points of identification to progress to the authorisation part of the sign up. The primary list of identification includes: drivers’ licence, Medicare card, birth certificate and/or passport. Secondary identification lists include such things as bank statement, utilities bill and/or health care card. The secondary identification items will need to be sighted by the school for authorisation. Once the application has been approved by the school, then the app is up and running.
For those who do not have enough items for 100 points you are to email Jill Sabell jsabe3@eq.edu.au stating that you would like to be considered for special approval.
Over the course of the year, incursions and excursions will be placed onto QParents for electronic consent. Paper consent forms will be phased out and only available under special circumstances.
Other important factors to consider:
- camp forms for years 4 to 6 will still be paper based as extra information is required for camps.
- If your child is late to school, this app does not replace your child requiring a late slip through the office upon their arrival
- If your child is away, you can use QParents to register that absence and do not have to contact the school absence line
- Invitations to join QParents will only be sent to the person who currently receives invoices for incursions/excursions.
We understand that this will be a transition for all parties, however we are hoping that this will make excursions and incursions easier to manage for both parents and teachers and look forward to your attention to this matter.