My Name is Emma Bowes and previous to being here in Stanthorpe I was living at Tamborine Mountain. I left Canungra Childcare and Preschool to move further west and get a sample of the country life. I have been given the privilege of directing your lovely centre here in Stanthorpe and so far have been head down bottom up helping get ready for accreditation so have not had too much of an opportunity to get to know too many of you as yet. It takes time to develop a relationship with the many parents I see each morning and afternoon so please don’t hesitate to spend some time to say hi.
I will over time be making some subtle changes as we move forward to help serve you better. I encourage your feed back so together we can make life as smooth as possible.
One of the first changes you will notice is that now your accounts are four weeks in advance rather than being four weeks behind. If you need me to spend time explaining how they work please feel free to bring them in whenever you have the time to go through them with me.
I am happy to report our success on going through the accreditation process. For any parent that wasn’t up to date with the whole process, we had a validator here at Country Kids for two days monitoring out interactions and policies and procedures. This is a process that all centres go through every two years. While it is quite intimidating having someone watch over you for two days it also is a fantastic opportunity to show the outside world how very talented we all are here at Country Kids. I am very pleased to announce we had a GLOWING report that will soon be available to us for hanging proudly on the wall. We are a centre that regularly practises being a HIGH quality childcare service.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Well Easter is over and school is back. We had a great time with the schoolies during our vacation care program, even though it was only a short one week holiday. The children visited the local art gallery and the park, took up some physical activities when they went to Shake Rattle ‘n’ Bowl and the children also had the pleasure of making and eating chocolate mud muffins and pizzas. We look forward to having them all back next holidays along with any other children who wish to come.
LUNCHES: Lunches are going really well, we are fine tunning them all the time and we would love to have your feedback on them as well. We would like to know how you would feel about including a daily lunch price in the fees. “How would this effect my payments?” At the moment the lunch cost is $4 per child per day, this fee is charged separately to your account and therefore is payable in full, if this fee was added to your ‘child care fees’ you would then be eligible for ‘CCB’% to reduce this cost PLUS your 50% rebate at the end of the quarter. So, this brings the cost of the lunches to $2 per child per day or under.
IMMUNISATIONS: Please ensure you keep us up to date with your child’s latest immunisations. Just a reminder if an immunisable disease breaks out all non immunised children are asked to stay at home to decrease the risk of them contracting the diseases.
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NEWS FROM THE ROOMS
Daisy Corner: Hi to all, our room has under gone some changes, things have been moved around and I’m still finding it hard to find things.
Some of our children have moved up to Sunflower room, Jacob, Dan, Oscar, Colin and Maddison we wish you all the best and we have had some new ones arrive, Duran, Ashlyn and Kobie we would like to give you all a big welcome.
The Easter celebration was lots of fun making collage Easter eggs and colouring in bunnies. The weather has been so good we have been making the most of it and spending as much time outside as we can. The sandpit, bikes and cars have been a major activity. We have been singing nursery rhymes and listening to aboriginal music.
Well bye for now love the Nursery, Teresa.
Bambini Room: Yah Easter time again. The children have really been enjoying making lots and lots of Easter craft this month. We combined twice with Sunflower Nook to have a cooking activity. Children had lots of fun mixing and stirring the Easter chocolate crackles we made. I hope they enjoyed eating them just as much.
The children have really enjoyed making other craft/art items such as straw mobiles and jumping frogs, along with pencil drawing, sponge painting and finger painting. The books we have been reading are Handa’s Surprise, Polar Bear, Hooray for Fish and The Macquarie Book of Shapes.
We have been concentrating on shapes, colours and learning to count. Wow! We have some new toys and equipment that the children are very excited about. These include baby dolls and prams, cars and helicopters, new peg puzzles, some dress-up gear, home corner role play equipment, nuts and bolts. These fun activities are definitely getting utilised every day.
Congratulations to Lockie’s parents Alex and Will on the safe arrival of their baby daughter Samantha.
Big congratulations to all my boys who are now all toilet training and doing a fantastic job. That’s all for now and I hope everybody had a Happy Easter Break Cheers Trace.
Sunflower Nook: We have been having a great time in our own room with plenty of art and craft activities, especially Easter ones these past few weeks.
We have received some brilliant new equipment that the children just love, the fairy wings are a hit with all of the children.
We would like to welcome Dan, Jacob, Colin and Maddison to the room we are delighted to have them.
We enjoyed cooking with the children from Bambini for our Easter chocolate crackles. Our room is starting to take shape and the children are really enjoying themselves. Please feel free to visit our room and see for yourselves the lovely changes that have been made.
That’s all for now from Evonne and Rachael.
Harmony Room: Hello everyone the mornings are getting cooler.
In the Harmony room we are starting to talk about fire trucks and winter. We are learning the song “Hurry Hurry Drive the Fire Truck” On Wednesday 21st we will be having a visit from the fire truck here at Kindy! How cool!! The fireman will talk to us about safe fires and unsafe fires.
We are also working on learning our colours and shapes.
Our room has received new equipment that the children are enjoying; we find it is great to ROTATE equipment to ensure there is maximum interest for the children.
I have started up a book outlining the activities that we have done for the day, please feel free to have a look at any time; it is located underneath my program displayed on the notice board. I look forward to receiving your comments and feedback on the new system.
The children are enjoying their centre meals in our room… messy spaghetti is a huge hit!
That’s all for this month, take care and stay safe…. Until next time, Mel.
Room of Peace: This month we have had so much fun. We counted 5 Easter eggs each! There have been ball games, Twister, cards Go Fish, Tons of craft, drawing and painting!
We are also learning about volcanoes from a story “Battle of the Mountains” (N.Z Mythology.) We even built a volcano that became alive with vinegar and Bicarb!
We have made Playdough and pizzas recently and the children LOVED that!
This month we have been reading Wombat Stew and Elysia has been teaching us how to play it on the Keyboard. If you would like a copy of the sheet music please just ask!
That’s all for now, Julia, Elysia and Jodi.
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