1 Uraidla Avenue Salisbury North, SA 5108 Ph: 8258 0666 Fax: 8281 5850 Email: [email protected]Dear Families and Caregivers, We are drawing towards the end of term with only 2 weeks remaining. The term concludes on Friday 11th April with an early dismissal at 2:00pm. Educators would like to thank Families and Caregivers for their support throughout the term. Support has ranged from participating in the Harmony Day celebrations, cooking pancakes with children for United Care Pancake Day, completing surveys, collecting resources for the preschool and attending B-7 assemblies. Our centre has been nominated for a SA Excellence in Public Education Award. We have until 30th April to provide supporting documentation to DECD and then we wait as regional and the state based winners are announced. I am very proud of our Centre and staff's achievement in receiving this nomination. On 22nd March, 4 Preschool educators and one Junior Primary teacher attended an Early Childhood Organisation Professional Development opportunity. 3 educators visited Blair Athol North B-7 Children's Centre and Ingle Farm Children's Centre and the remaining educators visited St Mary Margaret School and Il Nido Children's Centre to view inspiring early childhood settings. Following the visits all educators in our Children's Centre have viewed slide shows of images from these sites and are currently mindmapping and developing their individual commitment to indoor environmental change. The areas educators have selected to change are dramatic play, preschool storage and puzzles, Science presentation area, redesign of the Occasional Care space, increased natural foliage indoors, review and redevelopment of the sites Literacy Packs, inclusion of nature throughout the Children's Centre and the inclusion of beautiful objects in the environment. We hope you will notice and appreciate the work individual educators have committed to . We want our indoor learning environment to be beautiful as well as functional. We continue to monitor individual children's attendance at Preschool as part of our Action plan for our sites Attendance Improvement Plan. Within the first 3 weeks of next term, DECD will once again run a Data Collection process to determine our Preschool staffing for Term 2 based on the number of children attending each day. Can we please reinforce how vitally important your child's attendance is during these weeks as it is every day of every term.
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We are seeking any parents who would be interested in volunteering on our Windemere
. We have many jobs to suit depending on how much time Community Market Committeeyou would like to share. We have so much fun and any volunteer work you do counts towards work
experience.
Currently we need support with:
Letter box drops (closer to the market)
Planning committee
Setting up and packing up on the day
Advertising
Grant applications
And lots more!
If you are interested and would like to be a part of this fabulous community event, contact Nicky the
Community Development Coordinator.
Quality Area 7 – Leadership and service
management
Preschool banking Our banking days are Tuesday and Thursday. For further information, please see Kim
at the Reception desk. Children will be given a gift when they open an account.
Preschool Fees Thank you to all families who have finalised their preschool fee payment already. For families with
outstanding fees we remind you that your fees are overdue. Please settle your account by Friday
11/4/14. Thank you.
Preschool Photos in Term 2 The photographer will, be in the centre on the following dates next term to photograph all, preschool
children. They will visit:
Group 1 - Wednesday 14/5/14
Group 2- Tuesday 6/5/14
The photo packs will be $30. Individual photos can be purchased and prices will be advertised next
term.
We will put up visual reminders at the beginning of next term in the foyer area.