04 Apr 2012
Our wonderful school banking coordinators Steph, Deb, Travis and Lorrinda are back each Tuesday morning to organise our student banking. Just a small amount of money brought to school each week will encourage Toormina students to get into the habit of saving their money. Parent information packs are being sent home with students explaining our School Banking Program.
School banking accounts can now be opened at any Commonwealth Bank Branch. You no longer need to complete application forms and return them to school. Just go into any branch and ask to open a Youthsaver account for school banking. Remember to take in identification for you and your child (birth certificate), you will receive a Dollarmites wallet and deposit book and students will be ready to start banking the very next day. Current Commonwealth customers using Netbank can also open their child's account online.
School banking includes an exciting rewards program designed to encourage regular saving habits. Every time a child makes a deposit at school they receive a silver Dollarmite token. Once ten tokens are saved they can be redeemed for a Dollarmites reward item. Rewards include Dollarmite money boxes, lunch boxes, drink bottles, wallets, watches, handballs, booklights, flashdrives and pen pods.
School banking also assists our school. Toormina Public School will receive $5 when students make their first deposit at school and a commission on every deposit made through the banking program.