SACRED HEART CHILD CARE SERVICES

Issue 4: July/ August 2017

“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.” Jean Piaget

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 Rebecca Jack

Assistant Director Megan Rowland

Certified Supervisor Brianna Jones Amee Coles

Margaret Ahmed Gemma Hays Amity Fucile

Educational Leader Rebecca Jack

Early Childhood Teacher

Sheena Shroff

Educators Paige Weyell

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

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

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

Chloe Bennett

Educational Leader Chloe Bennett

Certified Supervisors Katie Day

Chloe Bennet Nikki Silvestri Tres Stuart

Educators Jamie– Lee Beynon

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

ELC: Thank you all for a wonderful first few weeks at Sacred Heart Primary School. It has been a wonderful month meeting all of your children and learning my way around our centre and school. I have managed to meet most of you, but for those that do not know me, my name is Rebecca Jack and I have just tak-en over the position of Children's Services Director from Aman-da McCorkill. I have just moved back to Perth after spending a few years liv-ing in the beautiful south west! Please feel free to come and say hi next time you are in the centre. We would also like to say a very warm welcome to our two new staff members, Amity Fucile and Gemma Hayes. We are pleased to have these amazing new educators as part of our team! Term 3 is going to be a very exciting term for us, with many events happening in our wider community. Please don't forget to like our Facebook page Sacred Heart Childcare Services to stay up to date with all of the latest infor-mation. Warm regards Rebecca Jack

OSHC: Thank you for your continuing support during Term 2. We wel-come our two new staff members to our team here at OSHC. Katie Day and Tres Stuart have recently started with us and are enjoying getting to know the children and families. We are currently reviewing ways to stay in touch with the fami-lies and keep you all up to date with the happening at the ser-vice: As social media plays a huge part in the community, we urge you to like our Facebook page, Sacred Heart Childcare Ser-vices. During Term 3 we will continue to foster the children’s learning by incorporating each child’s interests and input into our pro-gram. Please feel free to contribute to our program and incorpo-rate things you and your children may be learning at home. Many Thanks Chloe Bennett

Please be kind to the environment

Think before you print this out.

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.

STAFFING NEWS Welcome families and friends to yet another term and what a busy one it will be for our

centre!! We have begun this term celebrating many events in our community such as Envi-

ronment Day where we planted some trees, Jeans for Genes Day where the children togeth-

er with the educators made cupcakes and sold them to the teachers at the school to raise

money for Genes Day. We will continue to hold fundraising events through this term in or-

der to raise awareness within our community.

Our children have begun to take a huge turn in their development towards the end of Term

Two and it has continued through to this term. It is great to see how their interests and oral

language are beginning to emerge and develop as well as their early literacy and numeracy

skills. You can encourage your children by getting them to look for letters or numbers

while driving in the car, reading the number plates of cars in front of you. Recognising let-

ters and numbers in posters or newspapers are also a great way to encourage literacy devel-

opment at home.

Alongside our focus of literacy and numeracy, we continue to encourage your children to

develop their self-help skills in the little jobs around our centre. As a parent, it is easy to

continue this at home by encouraging your child to help with simple jobs such as wipe the

tables after a meal or help put laundry into a basket or washing machine. They can even

help you hang the washing out or fold the washing.

Our Kindy Class at Sacred Heart Primary School are collecting formula tins for a project

they are working on. If you do have any empty ones at home, please bring them into our

centre or take them directly into the Kindy Class (the first classroom just outside our ELC

entrance gate).

If you have any concerns about your child’s development or would like any further infor-

mation, please feel free to come see me or drop me an email at

sheena.shroff@cewa.edu.au.

Thanks, Miss Sheena

Sustainability

This month is ‘Plastic Free July’ which aims to raise awareness of the im-

pact that plastic waste has on our environment and to challenge us to re-

duce our use of disposable plastic. Plastic bottles, plastic bags, straws

and takeaway containers are all products that we use and dispose of daily yet the material they are

made from lasts forever and doesn’t break down. You can help make a difference by refusing

straws in drinks, shopping with re-usable bags, using reusable containers and coffee cups and limit-

ing your purchase and use of disposable one-use plastics. You can sign up to take on the ‘Plastic Free

July’ challenge at www.plasticfreejuly.org Did you know: Every bit of plastic ever made still exists and in the first 10 years of this century the world economy produced more plastic than the entire 1900's! Source:www.plasticfreejuly.org

COMMUNITY NEWS

Woolworths Earn & Learn

Until Tuesday 19 September 2017, you can collect stickers at Woolworths that go towards Earn & Learn

points. Anyone from the community – staff, parents, grandparents, neighbours and friends - who shop at

Woolworths can collect stickers and help our school earn amazing educational equipment and resources of

our choice.

For every $10 you spend at Woolworths (excluding the purchase of tobacco, liquor and gift cards), you will

receive a sticker. Place these stickers on the special sticker sheet available at Woolworths or the School Of-

fice and when the sticker sheet is completed, simply drop it into the collection box located in the School

Office or our school’s Woolworths collection box at the following shopping centre locations:

Forest Lakes Maddington Southern River Livingston Harrisdale Carousel

LEARNING BASIC CONCEPTS When learning language there are lots of ideas or concepts that children need to learn to understand and talk about. These often form the basis for many instructions given in a Kindergarten or Pre Primary classroom. Lots of these con-cepts help children with storytelling, news telling, maths and science in later school life so it is vitally important that they are learned in the early years. Some of the concepts we expect children to demonstrate knowledge of include:

Size - big, little, tiny, hue, etc.

Colours - red, blue, green, etc.

Shapes - circle, square, triangle, etc.

Position - in, on, under, in front, next to, etc.

Directions - through, around, over, etc.

Quantity - some, all, few, many, etc.

Sequence - first, next, before, after, etc.

Feelings - happy, sad, excited, scared, etc.

Texture - smooth, rough, etc.

Time - early, tomorrow, yesterday, etc.

Characteristics - old, young, tall, short, etc.

We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program.

POLICY REVIEWS This month staff and management have reviewed the following policies:

Code of ethical conduct Educator dress code Educator grievances and disputes

Managing pregnancy Participation of students and volunteers Staffing arrangements—responsible person

While many have not been changed, there are some minor changes to our educator dress code and Participation of students and volunteers Policies. Please find them located at our policy re-

view section in our foyer. Your input would be greatly appreciated.

OSHC NEWS Purposeful learning through play

“Play is the highest form of research.” Albert Einstein

July and August Birthdays

Pratishtha, Summer, Alex, Blake, Natalie, Ava, Mitchel, Ethan, Adam, Thomas and Poppy

Sian, Enya, James, Jacob, Juan, Liam and Emilia

KIDS

HELPLINE

1800 551 800

COMMUNITY NEWS

PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURS PARENT WORKSHOP

RECOMMENED FOR PARENTS AND CARERS OF CHILDREN AGED BIRTH TO 13 YEARS

WEDNESDAY 06 SEPTEMBER

06:00-08:30PM DON RUSSELL PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

THIS WORKSHOP IS FREE HOWEVER BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL

PHONE 9397 3121 TO SECURE YOUR SPOT

CELEBRATE NATIONAL BOOK WEEK WITH THE GONELLS KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

GONELLS KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

SATURDAY 19 AUGUST

10:30AM-11:30AM

This special Saturday morning story time session will include a visit by author and presenter Bradley Holland who is also known as Ranger Red. There will be craft activities and make sure to keep an eye out for some of Ranger Red’s animal

friends.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

In OSHC this term we will begin to incorpo-

rate learning of Protective Behaviours.

Protective Behaviours, a personal safety program, aims to promote resilience in chil-dren, young people, and adults, using em-powerment strategies, clear communica-tion, and awareness of “safe” behaviours. Ultimately the aim is to reduce violence in our community and prevent child abuse.

Protective Behaviours has a much broader application, not merely focusing on abuse prevention but addressing empowerment, communication, self-esteem, resilience,

social skills and other life skills. By teaching and promoting these concepts, it encour-

ages people to:

Assert their right to feel safe

Listen to what their body tells them

Follow up by taking action to either solve problems on their own or to seek

assistance from other people.

“Play is the highest form of research” - Albert Einstein

Parachute Play

The children en-

joyed making

lemonade.

The children have been explor-

ing mini beasts and nature. We

have been using microscopes to

get a closer look at these objects.

We made mini worm farms and

are watching them as they break

down the soil.

Our pin wheel garden

in progress