Month: April 2022

Thank you everyone who attended our parent evening last night. The staff thoroughly enjoyed being able to welcome our parents into our centre again, showing a snapshot of OOSH behind the scenes and giving our families a better understanding of how we work.

We are also very excited to be able to form a committee. Our committee meetings will be the Tuesday before the P & C meeting so we are able to present them with a report. All parents are very welcome to attend. We will send out a reminder beforehand.

Next Wednesday there is a teachers strike. OOSH WILL NOT be open for before and after school care. We are unable to offer an all day service.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the school holidays. We hope you all had a fantastic time. We certainly enjoyed the first Vacation Care in some time where we were able to present a program without changes due to COVID.

All our staff loved spending time with your children. They were all extremely well behaved and given the fact that we had a few rainy days to contend with, we all managed to stay fairly dry thanks to being able to make use of Elouera once again.

We had a bit of a swap on Friday for our excursion. As Billarong Reserve was not an option due to rain, the children enjoyed a sausage sizzle at OOSH, we went to Avalon Cinema and came back to OOSH where Daphne made a warm fire and the children toasted marshmallows.

Please make sure you have confirmed your days for this term. They do roll over, but if you are not needing your child to attend any days, please let us know as soon as possible. We have a long waitlist of parents desperate for care after school, so we would really appreciate it if you could give up a spot no longer required.

Don’t forget our get together on Thursday evening. We are all looking forward to being able to catch up with our parents and hopefully form a committee for our centre. Our staff will be there to meet you all. If you haven’t already, please let us know if you will be attending. We will be providing some nibbles and a glass of wine.

We hope you have all had a wonderful, restful Easter break.

The first week of the holidays was full of fun and of course the ‘rain challenge’. We managed, thanks to having a great bunch of kids who were all pretty flexible with changes we had to make to the program.

On Monday we were clowning around making juggling balls and learned some fantastic circus tricks. The kids spent the afternoon trying out their new skills. Tuesday our Special Visitor Ali came to the centre and showed us some wonderful ways of creating art from plants and flowers. Some of the children’s creations were absolutely beautiful. We will put them on our website this week for everyone to see. Unfortunately the rain spoiled Wednesday’s incursion of Nerf Invaders. It was far too dangerous to have the inflatable. Hopefully the children who were here enjoyed the Nerf gun fun in the hall. Matteo and the girls set up a pretty amazing obstacle course for them to compensate. Our Kites were a huge success. We even saw a couple flying overhead over the weekend.

We are fully booked for the week and have no spots available now for Tuesday, the Pupil Free day.

This week we have lots of exciting activities for the children to enjoy. We hope the beautiful weather holds up for us.

Please remember that your kids need morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch packed for them.
We don’t provide food unless it’s stated on the program.

Today we finally enjoyed our visit from unicorns, the kids have been patiently waiting for this day for so long as we have had to cancel twice before due to covid. It was a brilliant activity which all the children enjoyed. Tomorrow we have Dragon Tao in the afternoon. Unfortunately Ali, who is doing our Art of the Zine incursion was double booked for Thursday. She is going to come in tomorrow morning. If your kids are coming and you have any magazines or papers you want to get rid of, please send them in. We know this is going to be such fun that we are going to carry the activity over to Thursday so that the children can make their own magazines and comics etc. to bring home.

If you are booked for Friday’s excursion, you will need to have the children here no later than 9.00am. The bus will leave at 9.30 and return by 3.00, we will not wait for latecomers.
Make sure the children have suitable clothing for the weather, a hat, refillable water bottle and food. We will be having a sausage sizzle at the park.

Don’t forget our get together next Thursday the 28th at 6.30 after OOSH closes. This is an opportunity for parents to meet with all our staff and other parents utilising the centre. We need to form an OOSH committee and need your support.

Avalon School OOSH is a parent run centre, we need your input to function to be the best we can be and to provide the care, support and activities you want for your child.

Please email if you will be attending so we can cater accordingly.

First term is over!!!!!  What an amazing start to the school year we have had.  Our kindy children have been amazing.  They have all become part of our OOSH family creeping into our hearts and making themselves completely at home. We have also had the opportunity to meet some new families in our area and welcome them to Before and After School care.

Over the last we have had a few children move on to other after school activities, as a consequence have a couple of spots available for after school care.  If you were on the waitlist and have not yet been allocated a spot, please email and let us know to confirm you are still interested.

Make sure you get your bookings for vacation care in by tomorrow night. We have some amazing activities planned for the children so please go to our website, check out the program and get those booking forms in so you don’t miss out. Be aware that when booking the form will NOT allow you to enter any days that are at capacity.

You may also notice some new faces amongst our staff.  Please say hello Caitlin, Francesca and Matteo and introduce yourselves. We are so happy to have them come aboard bringing their energy to OOSH.

Thank you to all the parents who replied to our invitation to join us on Thursday, April 27th for our OOSH get together.  We are very excited to be in a position to welcome you all after not being able to have a Christmas party or any form of social activity with our families for such a long time.  We are hoping to reform our Committee and welcome anyone who would be interested in supporting us.

If we are not going to see you over the holidays, we hope you have a wonderful break and a very happy Easter and we look forward to  seeing you all in term two.