Month: November 2022

OOSH NEWSLETTER

Well hello families,  we are here, only two more weeks to go and you’re all footloose and fancy free to enjoy the Christmas break.

Thank you everyone who attended our Christmas party last week.  We hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as Sarah and I enjoyed seeing you all.  It was lovely to catch up with you casually, without having the main conversation being about the children.  We will do it again when the kids go back to school next year to introduce our new kindy parents to our centre.

Our two day program for Monday the 19th and Tuesday the 20th of December is now on our website.

You will also find the program and booking form for our vacation care beginning on the 9th of January.

Don’t forget to make sure you have booked your children for 2023, the bookings DO NOT automatically roll over.  Please use the links to book for the days you require for both the holidays and before and after school care.

Please let us know if you have any ideas of how we can improve our centre.  We are always looking for new ideas to keep the children happy and engaged, anything from art and craft ideas to recipes you have tried.
The children love being able to share their families cultural crafts and recipes with us.

If you know of anyone over 18 looking for some casual work in 2023, please direct them to us.  We are looking for staff, either male or female, with a passion for children, enthusiasm and initiative.  They will need a Working with Children check and preferably a First Aid Certificate.
No experience is necessary, as we will train them, just a love of kids.

Please give us a call or email if you have any questions about next year’s enrolments or vacation care.

Good morning everyone and happy Friday.

Just a couple of reminders for this week:-

Please let us know if you and your family will be attending our Christmas party next Thursday the 24th.  We  will begin at 6.30 after OOSH closes.  We are all looking forward to welcoming everyone back for our first Christmas party since COVID reared its ugly head.  We will be providing a grazing table and you are more than welcome to bring a plate to share and your own drinks.

Don’t forget that Friday the 16th is the last day of school and we will be open on Monday the 19th and Tuesday the 20th for the Pupil Free Days.  Please make sure you have booked in for those days if you need them.  Booking forms for the pupil free days are on our website now.

OOSH will close on Tuesday the 20th at 6.30 and reopen on Monday the 9th of January.

The Vacation Care program and confirmation form for any days you require will be on our website on Monday 5th December.

If you have any kindy children starting school next year,  remember that they are welcome to join us in January for vacation care.

If anyone has any questions at all regarding Before and After School care, upcoming holiday care or 2023 enrolments please email and we will be happy to assist you.

Have a great weekend everyone

Hi everyone,

Well, we have survived Halloween. We hope the children who attended our Halloween party had a great time. We certainly enjoyed organising it for them. Sadly, although we had a number of families who cancelled as they were trick or treating with friends, we also had a large number who did not cancel. The staff all came in early to decorate the centre and cook party food for the kids, so were really disappointed when we had so few. Please remember to let us know if your child or children will not be attenOOSH NEWSLETTER
ding OOSH. When your child does not show up after school, we make a search of the school grounds and the surrounding area. This takes one or two staff members away from the children who are already here. We understand that there are days where time gets away and notifying us is
forgotten, but a quick message is appreciated as we prepare food and staff according to the number of children expected.

We are getting towards that ridiculously busy time of the year and it’s time to talk about our Christmas Party. We have really missed our annual family get together over the past couple of years and hope to see as many families as possible join us on November 24th when we will celebrate another great year at OOSH. Our Christmas party is a great opportunity to chill out with some of our staff and other families rather than our usual “ships passing”. We will begin at 6.30 after closing.

Please let us know if you and your family will be attending so we are able to cater.
We will be making a large grazing table for the adults and party food for the kids.
You are more than welcome to bring a plate to contribute and your own drinks.

Our Vacation Care program will be on our website in week eight. Please encourage your children to have a voice in programming. We have some great surprises planned for January, but we really want the holidays to be all about what they would like to do.
OOSH will be open for before and after school care until Friday the 16th of December. We will open on Monday the 19th and Tuesday the 20th for a full day of care. Both days will be billed as Vacation Care and craft will be geared towards Christmas.

Thank you all fo your continued support. Don’t forget to put your family’s name down for the Christmas party.