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FIRST ACADEMY PRESCHOOL CHILDCARE CENTRE 35 Carinya Road Girraween 2145 Ph:(02) 9863 2361 or (02) 9863 4361. Email: [email protected]

NEWSLETTER Jan. - Feb. 2014 Dear Parentss/Guardians/Families,

We welcome you and your children to 2014, especially the newly enrolled children and their families who we

welcome as members of our First Academy Family. Also I would like to welcome Ms Lauren who joined our

educator’s team as the second Early Childhood Teacher. Please make her feel welcome, thank you.

In the first newsletter of this year, I would like to start by congratulating the parents and educators for the most

pleasing and wonderful Christmas party, held on Dec. 2013. Photos of the party are currently on display in the

centre’s rooms and on the inside pages of the newsletter as per the request from a couple of parents.

The centre and educators completed the scheduled assessment, this occurred on the 22nd and 23rd of Jan, 2014

and I would like to thank you for your help and support of the centre and its educators.

Earlier, I emailed you information regarding the ‘42 allowable absent days' per each financial year, so that you may

understand how this issue will affect your CCB entitlement. Also I would like to ask you to sign your child's

attendance sheet for the absent days - as this is a legal requirement by the Government.

Parents, please remember that our centre closes at 6:00pm and all children are expected to be picked up before

the closing time. Recently, few of our children have been picked up after the closing time of FACCC, occurring at

least once/twice every week now. So I urge you to plan your time and arrange your arrival time before 6:00pm,

this will save you the late collection fee of $30 which will be automatically be charged to your account.

Please call the centre or talk to me if you need any help, or have any feedback. Thank you.

Regards

The Director

News from Kangaroo Room

First of all, Kangaroo Room staff would like to wish a warm welcome to our Koala room children who have been in transition to the preschool room. December 2013 was very exciting for the Pre-schoolers. We had the biggest event of the year which is the Christmas Concert. The Kangaroo room staffs would like to thank the parents’ on behalf of First Academy Child Care Centre who came and joined our event and made it a big hit. Children from Kangaroo and Koala rooms participated in a range of activities like Christmas carols, dancing and movement & drama. We also celebrated and handed over the certificates to our graduated children who will be starting school this year. Other than this we are also doing some intentional teaching on “learning about natural world” where the pre-schoolers are developing an understanding of ‘how plants grow’, ‘can o' worm’, and ‘looking after the chickens’ and also ‘sustainable practices’.

Labelling your child’s belongings: please note that your child’s

name must be labelled on their hat, clothes, bag, bottle, and sheets. Lost Property: please check our ‘lost property’ bin located in the foyer of

the centre (Kangaroo room). Reminder: please check out your child’s bag, communication book, and

our daily routine charts on a daily basis to receive any important notices or updated information.


NEWSLETTER Jan. - Feb. 2014 Our school readiness programme takes place every day, as it’s a part of our curriculum and FACCC philosophy, to make the preschool children ready for their big school with early numeracy and literacy skills. The children of Preschool room are also engaged in lots of physical activity, sensorial activity, developing their cognitive, creative skills. They are also developing their expressive and receptive skills. Through this month’s learning experience, children are developing their understanding about living world. They are becoming independent in their learning and growing as confident and involved learners.

News from Koala Room

In December, the Koala room have been focusing on their practise for our Christmas party, recycling, and their environment including the garden and chickens. They also have a project about Dinosaurs, they are working on. Children have been enhancing their independent skills and improving their development skills. Christmas Decoration: Children in Koala Room participated in variety of collage activities to create their own decoration for the room. Such as: they decorated Christmas candles, and they decorated white papers with some Christmas shapes, Also children participated in painting activities for Christmas. For example: they did hands and stamp painting on the wall by using different colours.

Christmas Concert Practice: children participated in Christmas concert by singing Christmas song and performing Christmas drama. All the parents and the visitors had a great time watching their children performing, singing and dancing to a variety of Christmas songs. Dinosaur Project: children participated in wide range of activities relating to our project. They played a treasure hunt game in the sand pit, they made Dinosaur paintings and drew Dinosaurs and participated in a dancing activity- pretending to dance like a dinosaurs. Also, they made a Dinosaur cave by using recycling cardboard and decorated the cave by using leaves and grass. Children participated in science experiments by watching frozen dinosaurs came of the melting ice.

FACCC Pre-school Graduates of 2013

Congratulations to our preschool children! We would like to wish all of our 2013 Pre-school Graduates the best of luck at their new primary schools.

We will miss you all! Please come back and visit us anytime Adang A, Kynah D, Ashton D, Upiro D, Hema D, Bol D, Xavier G, Anya H, Vidhi K, Priyanka M, Jessica N, Naren N, Ausco P, Emmanuel J, Nirmay S, Adchaya U, Daran V, Adhar Y, Aaryan K and Alex N.


NEWSLETTER Jan. - Feb. 2014 News from Wombat Room We would like to take this opportunity to welcome all the new children and their families to the Centre and most of all to our ‘Wombats’ (babies) room. In January, our Wombat room started a new project about Farm Animals and this project is according to children’s interest. We have observed few children enjoyed playing with the farm animals, so we decided to make it a group learning experience for our Wombat children. Children have been learning about farm animals sounds, their image and habits. They created animal foot print painting; the and made collages using animals pictures. Children also used grass and leaf pretending to feed the animals, they did water play with animals pretending to feed them water and washed the animals. Children played with farm animals on the mat. Throughout this topic we have been reading a variety of animal stories to extend on children’s interest and learning. We sang a variety of animal songs such as, Old McDonald, Baa baa Black sheep, 5 little ducks, which engaged all of our Wombat children.

Christmas Craft: Our Wombat children actively engaged in variety of Christmas crafts activities. They decorated paper plate to make Christmas wreathes, they did painting decorating Christmas pictures, they did free painting using red colour for educator to cut and make chains for decorating the room. The children also did collage pasting Christmas trees and red socks.

Physical activities: We have been enjoying the sunshine during the outdoor play by playing in the sand pit using spades, buckets, cars, trucks, and other sand equipment, hula- hoops and tyres. Our wombats also continued watering the garden and watching them grow. They explored their outdoor environment by walking, running, and crawling around. The children enjoyed dance to variety of music. Moving their bodies and developing their large muscles. (Links with

EYLF L.O.3. Children have strong sense of identity, EYLF L.O.5. Children are effective communicators. NQS A1& A3).

Self-help skills: We are encouraging self-help skills with our older children to feed themselves, drinking small amount of water, wiping their nose using tissues and dispose them in the bin, washing their hands using soap and water,


NEWSLETTER Jan. - Feb. 2014 putting their shoes on after sleep time. We also encourage children to help packing away toys after playtime. (Links

with EYLF L.O.1 children have strong sense of identity, EYLF L.O 3 children have strong sense of wellbeing and 5 children are effective communicators. NQS 1 Educational program and practice and NQS 5 Relationships with children).

Planting Flowers: Children had great time planning flowers with their educators. The educators dug holes for the flowers and each child had a turn putting the flower and watering it. Children participated with keen interest in this experience by waiting for their turns and following instructions of their educator. They are learning how to plant flowers and look after them by watering and weeding the flowers. Children used language to demonstrate and express their knowledge to their educator and peers, e.g. Aavyan said, ‘’blue flower’’ and smiled, Shervin said, ‘’flower’’ and smiled. (Links with EYLF L.O.2 children are connected with and contribute to their world, EYLF L.O.4 children are confident and involved learners, EYLF L.O.5

children are effective communicators. NQS 1 Educational Program, 3 Physical Environment)


NEWSLETTER Jan. - Feb. 2014

Information for Parents

For our new parents and new mothers, or parents of children who recently started their school, ‘Safe driving habits and parking safely in the school zone or near the school’ is a key focus of the road safety to reduce the incident and severity of crashes and to enhance the safety of children travelling to, from and around school. As we are all aware, school zones operate on all gazetted school days. Roads with direct school access points (including multi-lane and high speed roads) must have a 40km/h school zone. 40km/h school speed zones operate across New South Wales at all school sites on school days. The majority of school zones operate between 8:00am ~ 9:30am and 2:30pm ~ 4:00pm. Drivers are required to drive at no more than 40 km/h through school zones. It is expected that we can provide a better and safer environment for children on their way to and from school, by encouraging our children walking and cycling safely to school having a decrease in traffic conflicts surrounding the school during, before and after school with a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in road safety in and around schools. Indeed, parking unsafely, stopping on or near a pedestrian crossing, double parking and making an illegal U-turn can put our children’s lives at risk. Increased fines and loss of demerit points will apply when certain offences are committed in an operating school zone. For further information on ‘safe driving’ or ‘road safety issues around school’, please visit: http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au (13 22 13) http://transport.nt.gov.au/safety/road-safety/for-schools/guidelines

A big Happy Birthday to the children who have recently celebrated their birthday or will celebrate theirs in the coming months. On this special day, we wish you all the very best, all the joy you can ever have and may you be blessed abundantly today, tomorrow and the days to come! May you have a fantastic birthday and many more to come Happy Birthday!

Reeti S 01/02 Ohmkaaran K 24/02 Jordan P 05/01 Mayank M 21/02 Victor S 07/02 Vipra J 06/01 Dayaanand I 03/02 Danielle A 12/01 Ema E 09/01 Aditya B 16/02 Shrevin S 17/01

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/

http://transport.nt.gov.au/safety/road-safety/for-schools/guidelines


NEWSLETTER Jan. - Feb. 2014 Offence committed in an operating school zone and their penalties are listed below:

Offence Minimum

Fine Minimum loss

of demerit points

If you stop or part on or near: a pedestrian crossing, a children crossing, any marked foot crossing

$344 2

If you double park $258 2

If you park on a footpath $143 2

If you park illegally in a: no stopping zone no parking zone bus zone

$258 $143 $258

2 2 2

If you make an illegal U-turn $258 3

If you exceed 40km/h in an operating school zone in a light vehicle by: 10 km/h and under More than 10km/h – 20km/h More than 20km/h – 30km/h More than 30km/h – 45km/h More than 45km/h

$150 $271 $451 $872

$1987

2 3 4 5 6

If you use a mobile phone $344 4

If you fail to give way to a pedestrian $344 4

If you reverse unsafely $201 3 (Retrieved from Road safety issues around the school, 2011, Transport Roads & Traffic Authority

Immunisation We are currently updating our centre record for 2013/2014 and are encouraging all parents to let us know the dates of your child’s immunisations. According to the National Immunisation Program Schedule, children need to receive immunisations at birth, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 4 years. If your child has received any immunisations since beginning at FACCC, we must be notified. Please be advised that children with incomplete immunisation records will be considered unimmunised. Immunisation is the safest and most effective way of giving protection against the disease. After immunisation, your child is far less likely to catch the disease if there outweighs the very small risk of immunisation. Free immunisation service is available in 3 clinics at Merrylands, Wentworthville, and Greystanes. To enrol your child in Holroyd City Council’s FREE Childhood Immunisation Service, please complete the ‘Free Immunisation Clinic ‘ form and post it to Council using Free-Post envelope. Free Immunisation Clinic form is available in the foyer of our centre. Further information and immunisation resources are available from the Immunise Australia Program website at www.immunise.health.gov.au or by contacting the info-line on 1800 671 811. Below are the contact details of Baby Health Centres in Holroyd City Council area.

Merrylands 14 Memorial Avenue Merrylands 9637 1685 Greystanes 732 Merrylands Road Greystanes 9631 1862

Wentworthville 3 Mckern Street Wentworthville 9631 8258 Guildford Warnock Park, Cnr Stimson St and O’Neil St Guildford 9632 9762

(NQS 2.1.4)

http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/

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