Bayswater Primary School is registered to receive international fee paying students. If your child is an Australian citizen, no fees are payable and enrolment may commence immediately when you arrive. For certain categories of permanent and long term residency, the same applies.

However, if your child is travelling on a visitor visa, a student visa or short term residency visa, you may need to pay fees to the Victorian Government, prior to starting school. In this case, please contact the school at bayswater.ps@education.vic.gov.au and we will reserve a place for your child and organise forms and information to be sent to you. The process then is that you will make arrangements with the Department of Education to pay fees.

Your child may commence at Bayswater Primary School as soon as they arrive.

Resources:

• Details of the Victorian Government Schools International Student Program.
• International Student Tuition and Other Fees document.

Blackburn English Language School
Blackburn English Language School (ELS) is a Government Primary and Secondary coeducational school that caters for new arrival students who are from language backgrounds other than English (LBOTE).

Students attend Blackburn ELS for an intensive program in English Language prior to enrolment in a mainstream school. The aims are to teach students the language and learning skills to successfully meet the educational demands of schooling and to prepare them for participation in the wider school community.

More information can be found here: http://www.blackburnels.vic.edu.au/