School Readiness/Information Night
Rathmines Preschool and Arcadia Vale Care and Early Education Centre are holding a School readiness night on Wednesday 20th July for all families. The information night will be held here at Rathmines Preschool and will start at 6:30 pm. Cathie Ruecroft from Rathmines Public School will be our quest speaker. Cathie will discuss the skills needed to start school, as well as give an overview of the new Best Start assessment that all children undertake when they begin kindergarten. Please find attached a RSVP form and return it by Friday 15th July.
Emergency Services Week
Week beginning Monday 4th July is Emergency Services week. During this week the children will engage in a variety of experiences and learn about the emergency services. On Wednesday 6th July we will be getting a visit from Wangi fire brigade at 11:30am. The children will get a chance to ask questions and look inside a real fire truck. Parents are more than welcome to bring their children along if they do not normally attend on this day. Friday 8th July we will be getting a visit from the SES where the children will learn what to do in an emergency.
Staffing
We would like to say thank you to all of our amazing families for their patience and understanding with the staffing changes. Due to new regulations we have had to have a look at our staff and considered putting on another Diploma staff member to cover for Tamara when she is away and will eventually take over the running of the service if Tamara goes on leave. Deborah was employed to take on this role but unfortunately she was not the right person for this position. Sheree was then asked to return until we can find a suitable diploma trained staff member. Sheree will be here until the end of the year to ensure consistency whilst we evaluate our staffing. Cassie is almost finished her traineeship and she will take on the role as a Child Care Worker working approximately 3-4 days per week. We have employed a new casual worker, Andrea Salmon will be working on a casual basis and holds a Diploma in Children’s Services.
Monthly Policy Review
This month we will be reviewing our Safety Check and Building Maintenance Policy. You will find a copy of the policy on the notice board in the Kookaburra room. Please take the time to read the policy and pass on your feed back to Tamara. Copies of policies are also available upon request at any time.
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Upcoming events
Dental Health week – We are currently in contact with Julie from pacific smiles to come in and talk to the children about dental health. Further details still to come.
Bob Turner the reptile man – Bob Turner has been booked and he will be visiting our service on Tuesday 18th October. We understand that this is still a few months away but we are sure the time will go fast.
Show and Tell
Every child has been allocated one day per week to bring something special from home and show to their peers during show and tell time. It is very important that the children’s names are placed on these items as we have been having some problems with children claiming other children’s show and tell as their own and this is causing distress to the children who it really belongs to. Please remember that weapons of any sort are not appropriate for show and tell time.
Lost Property
Please ensure you check the last property basket on a regular basis as it has been very full lately with children’s toys, clothing etc. Any items that are not claimed at the end of the month will be donated to charity.
Parent involvement in our program and routine
We would like to say a huge Thank you to Carlie Weedon and Margaret Smith for spending some time in our centre and reading stories to the children. Parent involvement is very important to us and is also a major part of the new Early Years Learning Framework. The children really enjoyed listening to the stories and this has sparked a big interest with the children asking “can my Mum or Dad read stories too?” We would like to extend on this and it would be great to see more families getting involved in our service. Tamara has placed a calendar on the front whiteboard outside, if you can spare 30 minutes and come and conduct a group time and share stories, pictures etc with the children it would be greatly appreciated. Our language group time is from 2:30pm – 3:00pm every afternoon. If you would like to get involved please write your name down on the desired date. We would like to take photos and turn it into a book for the children to look at and talk about when their parents came to preschool.
July Birthdays
We would like to say a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our all friends who are celebrating their birthday in July
Eva Koby
James Sophie.W Madeline
Thankyou Tamara, Brett, Sheree, Nicole and Cassie