It has been a fun filled week at OSHC. The children have been enjoying being back in the service, and many of commented on how nice it is to have something familiar amongst everything that is going on. Popular activities have included drawing, footy kick to kick, helping out at the service and earning [prize points sharpen pencils, lego constructions, hopscotch and chalk drawings outside. We also marked ANZAC day by making lanterns out of milk cartons for children to take out with them if they were going to mark the day by standing in their driveway at dawn.
We understand Outside School Hours Care is vital for many parents that are not able to work from home, so that you can continue to provide essential work for the nation. Our OSHC service is open and operating for those that need our care, and will provide your children with much-needed familiarity and continuity through our engaging programs that have an increased focus on hygiene and social distancing. We offer a safe environment at your school for children to get active, try new things, connect with friends and relax.
As per the recent State Government advice, from the start of Term 2 all students who can learn from home must learn at home. This means our service is open to all children of parents who cannot work from home, vulnerable children, or children that are not able to be supervised at home on certain days and no other arrangements can be made. For these families, childcare will be provided free of charge until 30th June as per the Federal Government’s announcement on the 2nd April.
Whilst care is free, we still need to know if you are coming. We ask that you get your bookings in as soon as you can, so that we can staff and resource the service appropriately, to best care for your children.
We ask that, even though parents are no longer physically signing their children into the service, they still need to bring their children into the service, instead of just dropping them off at the door and letting them walk into the service alone.
OSHC at Drysdale Primary School operates out of the School hall, We open at 7:00am each school day, and currently we are walking the group over to their assigned classroom at 8:50am. Unfortunately we are unable to accept children into our care earlier than 7:00am. Families can access the service through the hall glass door that faces out onto Stonehouse place (tennis courts carpark).
At 3:30pm, once the school bell goes, children attending after school care walk over to the hall from their classrooms and we provide a safe place for them to play and engage with other children until they are collected. Our closing time is 6:00pm.
Parents please be reminded that in order to use the service they need to be registered with Camp Australia. We are unable to accept children into the service who are not registered with Camp Australia.
A friendly reminder for parents that for staffing and catering purposes children should be booked into OSHC through the Camp Australia head office, and that should you need to cancel their booking please can this be done through head office as well. This works out much cheaper for you, as there are additional fees involved if children do not attend sessions they are booked in for. Bookings can be made or cancelled by logging into the Camp Australia website https://www.campaustralia.com.au or by ringing 1300 105 343. The team are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (except National Public Holidays).
We look forward to seeing you and your family soon! From the Team at Camp Australia.