New Student & Back to School Information

Orientation Day 2023

Preparatory School – Monday 23 January

Please click here for the Preparatory School Orientation Day Schedule

Senior School – Monday 23 January

Please click here for the Senior School Orientation Day Schedule

Year 7 Parent Information Evening

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Admissions Handbooks

Preschool Handbook

Preparatory Handbook

Senior School Handbook

Year 7 Boarding Handbook

Senior Boarding Handbook

Music & Speech Handbook

Curriculum Handbooks

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Subject Selection

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Senior Lesson Times

School Maps

Uniforms

The TSS Store is located at the Top Ferry Road Carpark at the Senior School. Click on the map below to enlarge. Entry is via the Drury Avenue lights on Ferry Road, opposite Zarraffas Coffee.

Online Store             Book an Appointment

TSS Store Opening Hours

TSS Store Opening Hours

• Monday 7.30am – 4.30pm
• Tuesday 8.00am – 4.30pm
• Wednesday 7.30am – 4.30pm
• Thursday 8.00am – 4.30pm
• Friday 8.00am – 4.30pm

Saturday Trading Hours

• Saturday 18 February – 8.00am -12.00pm
• Saturday 25 February –  8.00am – 12.00pm
• Saturday 11 March  – 8.00am – 12.00pm

Second-Hand Uniforms

The Second-Hand Store is now located in the The Store. The open hours are the same as The Store.

The Parents and Friends Association have also created a Facebook Group – Buy, Sell, Swap. A place for parents to easily buys, sell, swap or donate their second-hand TSS school items to other TSS families.

Join Here

Clothing List

Preparatory School Uniform Guidelines (Preschool – Year 6)
Senior School Uniform Guidelines (Year 7 to Year 12)

Stationery

Preparatory School

All stationery, textbooks and computer software for students in Preschool to Year 6 are included in the tuition fee.

Device Programs

Years 7 to 12 BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Program BYOD Information

Years 5 and 6 Device Program BYOD Information

TSS Cafés – Tastes & Old Gym

TSS students can purchase their morning tea or lunch from Tastes Café (Preparatory Campus) or Old Gym Café (Senior Campus). All menu items have been reviewed by our Wellbeing Health Team to ensure they align with the National Healthy Schools Canteen Guidelines, as well as our MENS Menu Guidelines – an initiative which educates our boys on making functional, whole food choices, to meet their daily needs. To support this initiative, our menu options are labelled with one of our MENS pillars (Mindfulness, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep), to guide choices around foods that ‘calm the nervous system (M), fuel the body (E), nourish the gut and strengthen immunity (N), and promote repair (S)’.

Daily Specials are released weekly, and can be found on Flexischools, our online ordering system (https://www.flexischools.com.au). Parents can easily set up a free account, load credit, and pre-purchase their son’s meal. Alternatively, both outlets accept EFTPOS, cash (Prep only) and pre-loaded Student ID cards (Senior only).

For all MENS Menu enquiries, please email [email protected], or our Wellbeing Health Promotion Officer, Ms Caitlin Anderson, [email protected].

Car Parking & Student Drop Off

Senior Campus

Parents can access the Centenary Centre parking or Library Car Park (top of school off Ferry Road) if they are dropping or picking boys up from school.

Parents are prohibited from driving past the bus turnaround leading up to the main school.
In the interests of the welfare of our boarding community, it is imperative that there is minimal traffic on campus where our boys reside.

Prep Campus

Parents are asked to keep in mind these few tips to help keep our traffic flowing.

1. Please avoid using College Avenue
   Having to let cars into the Lupus Street queue from College Avenue causes difficulties.  Also, it would be good to give our long suffering neighbours of College Avenue some relief.
2. Drive-through Pick Up
   Everyone who wants to pick their son up from the drive-through pick up shelter MUST enter the carpark via Lupus Street. Parents who enter via Brolga Avenue and then attempt to cross over lanes to the pick up shelter, create delays.
3. Park and Go
   Our observations clearly demonstrate that the quickest way in and out of the school is to enter via Brolga Avenue and then  park in one of the three rows of car parks.  We now have a crossing supervisor manning the pedestrian crossing and boys can safely cross over to their parents parked car.    Parents wishing to park MUST enter via Brolga Avenue.  Parents who enter via Lupus Street and then try to cross over and park create delays.
4. Arrive a little later
   By 3.45pm each day the car park is virtually empty.  Arrive between 3.45pm and 4.00pm and you will drive in and out.
5. Do not leave your car if you are in the Drive-through lane
   Please do not park and leave your vehicle in the drive through lane – even for just a moment.  The success of the drive-through depends on keeping the traffic flowing.  Drive right down as far as you can, do not stop mid-way down.
6. Heading North?  Use Warehouse Road and Harvest Court
   The traffic lights at Harvest Court stay green longer than the ones at the top of Brolga Avenue and by using both sets of lights parents will halve the time it takes to get through.

TSS Parent Portal – MyTSS

MyTSS is our dedicated parent portal.

Prep parents will also have access to Prep Book for all day to day information, communication with their son’s teacher and general happenings at Prep.

Senior parents will have access to Canvas, along with access from Parent Lounge, and Online Data Tracking.

MyTSS offers access to day to day information including handy items such as: Link to Sports Website, Daily Notices, payment of school fees, tour bookings, team lists, calendar and events, videos & streaming of games and events.

Login and password details will be issued to parents via email.

MyTSS Parent Portal

Parents and Friends Association

Information regarding The Southport School Parents and Friends Association and individual Support Groups can be found by following this link.

Facebook Groups

The Southport School has many closed facebook groups to support communication between our parents. These can be found here. Please note that all questions need to be answered correctly before admission to the closed groups can be confirmed.

Holiday Camps

Cricket

Click here for information regarding the December 7th – 9th cricket camp
Click here for information regarding the January 17th – 19th cricket camp