Sacred Heart CHILD CARE SERVICES

Sacred Heart
CHILD CARE SERVICES
Sacred Heart
Primary School Child
Care Centre
ID Number 1-5DJC03
CECWA Provider Number
PR-00007613
Service ID Number
SE-00013082
CONTACT US
Phone: 9251 3014
Email:
elc@shthorn.wa.edu.au
Mob: 0477 385 104
SERVICE HOURS
(Mon-Fri)
6.30am-6.30pm
SESSIONS
Morning Session
6.30am—12.30pm
Afternoon Session
12.30pm-6.30pm
STAFF
Director/Nominated
Supervisor
Amanda McCorkill
Assistant Directors
Margaret Ahmed
Crystal Holbrook
Laura Cerfontyne (acting)
ISSUE 5: JULY 2015
Welcome to issue 5 of the Child Care Services newsletter.
NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES
If you wish to contact your centre by email could you please
use the relevant new email contact address:
OSHC: oshc@shthorn.wa.edu.au
ELC: elc@shthorn.wa.edu.au
STAFF ACHIEVMENTS
Congratulations to Nikki Silvestri and Brijette Janissen who
have been approved as authorised certified supervisors for
OSHC!
POLICY REVIEWS
This month staff and management reviewed the following
policies which are available in the centre for your comments.
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Addressing Bullying
Diversity and Inclusion
Environmental and Sustainability Strategy
Equipment and Toys
Maintenance of a safe Environment
PARENT REPRESENTATIVE GROUP
We are still happy to increase the number of parents involved
in this very important group who assist us by:
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liaising between families and management
becoming actively involved in policy reviews
responding to emails, surveys etc. designed to support
the continuous improvement of our service
Certified Supervisor
Linda McDermott
If you are considering joining then please see Carol or Amanda
for details. We would love to hear from you!
Educational Leader
Vanessa Alaniz
FREE PARENTING INFORMATION
Early Childhood
Teacher
Amee Coles
Educators
Megan Rowland
Mi-Kyung Symes
Lauren Goodhew
Tahlia Brown
Jennifer Elvines
CHANGE OF DETAILS
If you have changed any
relevant details, such as
address, phone numbers
or contact details could
you please remember to
inform one of our educators.
Ngala Parent Education Workshops – Term 3
http://www.ngala.com.au/files/
files/1503_Ngala_Parent_Education_workshops_Term_3_2015.
pdf
CLAN Free Parent Information Workshops https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e8d44177f9c7232621b70e6f2/
files/Term_3_2015_Community_Courses_Calendar.pdf
Education and Care Regulatory Unit
Level 1, 111 Wellington Street
EAST PERTH WA 6004
Telephone: (08) 6551 8333 Free call 1800 199 383.
Fax: (08) 6552 1555
Email: ecru@dlgc.wa.gov.au
Web: www.communities.wa.gov.au
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Sacred Heart
Primary School OSHC
ASC:1-6PX-2096
BSC:1-6PX-2097
VAC:1-6PX-2098
CECWA Provider Number
PR-00007613
Service ID Number
SE-00013082
CONTACT US
Phone: 9251 3015
Email:
oshc@shthorn.wa.
edu.au
Mob: 0417 091 296
SERVICE HOURS
(Mon-Fri)
Before School
6.30am—8.30am
After School
2.30pm-6.30pm
Vacation Care and
Pupil Free days
6.30am - 6.30pm
STAFF
Director/Nominated
Supervisor
Carol Pearson
Educational Leader
Vanessa Alaniz
Certified Supervisors
Rebecca Gittos
Margaret Johnstone
Brijette Janissen
Shannon Major
Nicolina Silvestri
Educators
Olivia Tan
Neerissa O’Dea
IMPORTANT
REMINDER
Please remember to
contact the Dept. of
Human Services
whenever your
circumstances change.
Phone: 13 61 50
or
13 12 02 for languages
other than English
FROM THE OFFICE
We have had a very busy term here at the Early Learning Centre! Our Assessment and Rating
visit was conducted on 22 and 23 June and we
will receive the results at the end of July. As
Term Three approaches, our centre numbers
are increasing. If you wish to add extra days
please see me in the office. Please note Monday 20 July is a pupil free day for the school.
There are some fantastic parenting courses
available to families from July 2015 onwards.
Please keep a look out for the flyers around
the centre and in our family library. If you are
interested in a particular topic, please see an
Educator and we will source some information
for you.
The children are very excited as they have
been watching the progression of our new playground! Once the backyard has been completed, work will begin on the front yard. Please be
aware that access to the centre during that
time will be restricted to the back gates/door.
Amanda McCorkill
SUSTAINABILITY CORNER
How can you help the environment
simply?
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Put rubbish in the bin
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Reusing
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Turn lights off
Recycle
Plant native trees
Compost
Walk to school
Use public transport
Share knowledge – parents, community,
neighbours
Avoid creating rubbish eg. Nude food
Buy in bulk
Collect water from shower and bath to
use on the garden
Wash car on lawn
Don’t use standby mode
Buy recycled products
Use green / blue bags when shopping
Short showers
Use air-conditioner and heater only
when necessary
FRIDAY 3 JULY
AFTERNOON TEA TO
HELP FUNDRAISE FOR
ENYA’S ASPIRATION
Enya from PPW, who has Cerebral Palsy, will be travelling to
America for her life changing surgery called Selective Dorsal
Rhizotomy in October 2015. An afternoon tea is organised to
raise funds for her trip. All proceeds will be donated to Enya’s
Aspiration. Please join us to support Enya.
From Miss Amee
NUMERACY CORNER
This month we have been focusing on encouraging children to express their emotions and feelings. We use the red and
green words/actions strategy to help children understand if their words/actions
are appropriate. This, in turn, assists the
children to express their feelings about
their peers’ actions, which is something
they are becoming more confident in do-
‘Up’, ‘down’ and ‘next to’ are
about position
ing. If you would like to encourage this at
home and would like some more information, please see myself or one of the
other educators.
What we do and what it means
Mum: Down we go!
LOOK WHAT WE HAVE
BEEN UP TO!
When we talk about ‘up’ and ‘down’,
‘over’ and ‘next to’, children are
learning about the position of something.
Over time children learn that there
are words (for example upside down,
next to, behind) which describe position.
Later, children learn to pay attention
to position, order and direction.
They are key ideas in mathematics.
HEALTHY EATING...
Have you seen our new winter menu display on the front window? We have recently
reviewed our menu to ensure we are providing your children with healthy options for
breakfast and late snack. We would like you to assist us in our healthy eating discussions by providing your children with healthy options in their lunch boxes. We know
that it is not always easy thinking of new and exciting lunch box ideas so we have
collected some resources from ‘SNAC’ and they are on display in the family area.
Please remember to also put a cold pack in your child’s lunch box to ensure food is
safe to eat.
CAROL’S CORNER
The OSHC children and staff would
like to say a huge thank you to
Mr Stilwell for setting up our worm
farm. It was very much appreciated
by all of us! The children are going out
to the worm farm every day with the
scraps of food left over from afternoon tea.
Please remember the school holidays
begin next week so all holiday programs booking forms are now due to
be returned to the centre.
The children are looking forward to
Science Alive, the Gym bus, the movies and Chipmunks as well as the inside
and outside play and activities at the
center. We hope to see you in the holidays!
Here are some photos of our inside play experiences…
We enjoy construction with Lego
and creating spinning tops using
the Knex. We have set up restaurants and picnics using the
home corner and we are even
making our own recipe book for
the home corner! (see right).
Over the past few weeks in OSHC, the children
have taken an extended interest in all things science! The children have been investigating and
experimenting with electricity, invisible ink and
solar energy.
We have also enjoyed learning about the life cycles of frogs, bees and birds! We have learnt
about pollination and the important role bees
play in the process.
Here are our menus we have recreated. We have added family
favourites and healthy options.