Toongabbie West Activity Centre

Toongabbie West Vacation Care

  • Early Bird Special  Enrol by 9:00am Friday 05th April 2024 – to lock in the current Early Bird Rate.
  • Bookings made after 9:00am on the 05.04.2024 are automatically charged at our standard daily rate.
  • No Cancellations of any Bookings will be accepted after close of business on Wednesday 10th April 2024.
  • Excursions and Incursion Days incur an additional charge, please see each day’s description for any additional charges on specific days.
  • Please see our Fees Page for a complete list of all our Fees and Charges for Vacation care here

Autumn Vacation Care Program
Monday 15th April 2024 – Friday 26th April 2024
Pupil Free Day: Monday 29th April 2024

Find a Summary of our Summer Program Here: TWAC April School Holiday program 2024

Wheeled Toy’s will be permitted to be brought to the service every day – Please see “Wheeled Toys” in the below “Important Information” section for all rules and requirements for bringing and riding wheeled Toys at TWAC, including our Risk Assessment and Policies.

Electronic Games will be permitted to be brought to the service every day – Please see “Electronic games” in the below “Important Information” section for all rules and requirements for bringing personal Electronic games to the service.

Throughout the holiday period we may visit Ambrose Hellan Park – which is just a short walk from the service.   If you are happy for your child to attend these excursions to the park, please ensure you return the Permission form below and read the attached Risk Assessment to know what children will be doing at the park.
Permission for Regular Outing Park 2024
Ambrose Hallen Park RA

 

Click on each day to see all the details of the exciting things we have happening each day these school holidays.

VACATION CARE WEEK ONE

Monday 15th April 2024 - In Service Day - Sports Day

Today the children are getting physical:  

A day of relay races, games, and ball games. The children will have the opportunity to be active and challenge themselves in fun competitions. 

  • Relay races with different physical challenges. 
  • Soccer games, cricket, basketball, dancing routines. 
  • Play at Ambrose Street Park (connected to the school) 
  • Craft based on sports. 

Children will need:  

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Cost: Early Bird: $60.00      Standard:  $80.00 

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Tuesday 16th April 2024 - In Service Day: Deconstruction Day

The children will have the opportunity to take apart old unused appliances and create something new. Through these activities, they will develop their fine motor skills, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking.

  • Dissemble old toaster. 
  • Dissemble an old heater.  
  • Dissemble an old printer. 
  • Use the part to create something new.  

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Deconstruction Risk Assessment

Cost: Early Bird: $60.00      Standard:  $80.00 

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Wednesday 17th April 2024 - In Service Day: Prehistoric Day

Let’s go back in time and have fun learning about dinosaurs and cavemen/women through:

  • fossil-making activities
  • building dinosaurs with pasta
  • creating a sensory prehistoric space using natural resources, recycled materials, and playdough, to play in and explore.

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Cost: Early Bird: $60.00      Standard:  $80.00 

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Thursday 18th April 2024 - In service Day - Lets Get Painting

Let’s get painting! Today the children will participate in a guided painting experience which they will be able to take home. Included will be the canvas and a juice box.

  • Guided painting experience
  • Drawing with oil pastels
  • Still life drawings

PLEASE NOTE: children will be using paint and other products that may stain clothing. Please ensure that they wear clothing appropriate for getting messy and must have enclose shoes. 

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Cost: Extra Activity Day – Early Bird: $70.00      Standard:  $90.00 

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Friday 19th April 2024 - In Service Day: Electronic Day

Bring your tablets, iPads or devices for a day filled with electronic fun. We will also have the Nintendo Switch available for use and have craft activities and games based on the children’s favourite video games.

  • Use the centres Nintendo switch to play Mario Cart
  • Use your own devices to play games.
  • Video game craft and activities.

PLEASE NOTE:

    • Children will not have access to the internet on their own devices so please have games downloaded.
    • Please have the devices fully charge as we do not charge any electronic.

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Cost: Early Bird: $60.00      Standard:  $80.00 

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VACATION CARE WEEK TWO

Monday 22nd April 2024 - In Service day: Earth Day

Learn about how to look after our environment through:

  • A fun Earth Day scavenger hunt experience
  • planting seedlings
  • making salt dough animals. 

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Cost: Early Bird: $60.00      Standard:  $80.00 

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Tuesday 23rd April 2024 - In Service Day - Fun With First Aid Day
 

Learn about bit more about basic first aid through:

  • CPR experience
  • Learn how to wrap bandages.
  • Learn who to call in an emergency.
  • How to keep safe in different scenarios through roll plays.

PLUS:

  • Make an ambulance and hospital out of junk craft.
  • Group games based on first aid.

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Cost: Early Bird: $60.00      Standard:  $80.00 

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Wednesday 24th April 2024 - In service Activity - Extra Activity Day - PJ, Movie and ANZAC Day Day

PLEASE NOTE: COME DRESSES IN PYJAMAS.   

Come and have fun with friends in your favourite PYJAMAS!

  • Enjoy popcorn and a movie. (children will receive popcorn and apple juice box)
  • make cubbies.
  •  Play party games.
  • Face painting. (Please sign Permission here if you would like your child to have their face painted).
  • Participate in Movie crafts.

PLUS- make Anzac biscuits to commemorate the ANZACs.

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Risk Assessments:
Face Painting RA
Cooking Activities RA

Cost: Extra Activity Day – Early Bird: $70.00      Standard:  $90.00 

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Thursday 25th April 2024 - Public Holiday - ANZAC DAY

Service Closed – ANZAC DAY – Public Holiday!

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Friday 26th April 2024 - CLOSED

We are closed today!

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VACATION CARE WEEK THREE

Monday 29th April 2024 - Pupil Free Day - TWAC Records Day

Today the children will attempt to break records from different challenges set in the past. There will be: 

  • physical challenges 
  • building challenges 
  •  stem challenges.  
  • The children will have a chance to recommend new challenges too. 

PLUS: Board and Card game fun 

Children will need:

  • Enclosed sport shoes (no open toe sandals, crocs or thongs)
  • Recess and lunch (please ensure that they have some healthy options, and enough for the day)
  • Jumper or Jacket
  • Hat

Cost: Early Bird: $60.00      Standard:  $80.00 

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Important Information

How to Make a booking

  • Once the enrolment form is complete, the service coordinator will confirm your start date with you.
  • Then you can download the Kangaroo Time App (KT Connect)

    Used us before

    • PLEASE DO NOT register a new account.
    • Download the Kangaroo Time App (KT Connect) and use your  Log in email address your statement is sent to log on.
    • Use the casual calendar in the app to make a booking for vacation care.

     

    New to our Organisation

    • Click on the below link and follow the prompts to create a booking request.
    • Once the service coordinator has confirmed we have a place available you will be required to complete an enrolment form.

    https://enrol.kangarootime.com.au/inquiry/10C7DE6AA3EBE113

    PLEASE NOTE: Not supplying all the mandatory information will slow down your enrolment process and push back your start date.

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Child Care Subsity (CCS)

  • If you have not used the service in 12 weeks your CCS will automatically drop off and will show up as ‘Ceased’.  
  • To ensure that you receive CCS for Vacation Care,  you need to confirm your enrolment with CCS. 
  • To confirm your CCS you need to go on your My Gov account and go to your tasks and confirm your booking at Girraween Activity Centre. 
  • It is your responsibility to ensure you confirm your bookings, without completing this step you will pay full fees for the vacation care period. 

When Logging into My Gov to confirm CCS enrolment. 

  • Centrelink have their own weeks (that apply to their CCS fortnights), these do not always match our week one and two of vacation care, so this can be confusing when you go into confirm.    
  • CCS fortnights are sometimes different to Vacation Care Weeks, please don’t just “dispute” the booking as this can take some time to rectify.   Your booked days are correct as of this confirmation letter.
  • As per Centrelink guidelines, there may be some days during this vacation care period where you will be charged full fees, due to you capping out your approved hours in the CCS fortnight.  

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Arrival, Departures and Absences

  • An authorised person must sign children into care and out of care each day.   The service cannot be held liable for any child not signed in care.  
  • Children must be collected before 6:30pm.   
  • If a child is to be absent, parents/ guardians must contact the service before 8:30am and inform Educators of my child’s absence. You will be charged for absent days. 
    Pick Up and Drop Off Policy

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What to Pack

Please Note: 

  • We would prefer you leave toys and personal items at home.  The service takes no responsibility for items that are lost, broken or stolen. 
  • Please ensure that all items are labeled with your child’s name.  
  • Children are NOT to bring mobile phones or devices capable of making phone calls (e.g. smart watches) to the Service.  

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Medical Conditions, Asthma, Allergies and Additional Needs

  • Families must inform the service of any behavioural, medical or additional needs that a child may have to ensure the service is adequately staffed to cater for all children’s needs at the Service.
  • It is the parent/guardians responsibility to:
    –      inform the service of any medical conditions your child may have
    –      supply the service with medical management plans from a medical practitioner and all medications needed.
    Note: This must be done at least 5 working days prior to the child’s 1st day of care to ensure the Educators have sufficient time to complete a Risk Minimaisation plan.
  • As per Regulation 90 and our Medical Conditions Policy, without the correct medications and paperwork children will be unable to attend the service.
    Medical Conditions Policy
  • As per Regulation 95, medication must be supplied in the original container.
  • Medication cannot be administered if there is not a completed Medication Form or it is not in its original container.  Medication Administration Policy

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Wheeled Toys

Throughout the holiday period we have nominated days that children will be permitted to bring their wheeled toys, such as bikes and scooters – see above.
A detailed Risk Assessment and Polices has been carried out and is available here:
Wheeled Toy Day
Wheeled Toy Policy

Please Note: In wet weather bike and scooter day will not go ahead.

WHEELED TOY RULES – Read these rules with your child prior to attendance:

  1. All children must follow directions of Educators and ride within the designated riding area.
  2. All children must have a helmet and closed in shoes. If children do not have a correctly fitted helmet or suitable shoes, they will not be allowed to ride. Knee, wrist and elbow pads are required if bringing skateboards, roller blades, roller-skates etc.
  3. Children will not be allowed to ride another child’s Wheeled Toy, only owners permitted to ride.
  4. Children will not be able to do any tricks on their Wheeled Toys.
  5. Wheeled Toys must be walked into school grounds so that children playing are not injured.
  6. All Wheeled Toys must be taken home at the end of the day.
  7. Wheeled Toys need to be well-maintained, If staff deem any as unsafe, children will not be permitted to ride.
  8. Children must be able to ride wheeled toy competently and safely, it is not a learn to ride day.

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Electronic Games and Media

  • Children can bring along their electronic gaming device to be played with during the allocated times only – when not being played children can lock games up and sign them into our register.  
  • All devices must have internet, calling and messaging capabilities shut off prior to them being brought into the service. 
  • If these features can’t be deactivated then children will not be able to play on then, we will lock them up in a secure location and hand back to the parent at the end of the day.
  • We ask that no child bring phones or devices capable of making phone calls and messages, including smart watches – if families wish to contact their child while they are in care, you are welcome to do so via calling the service directly.
  • All gaming device cameras must be covered at all times. 
  • One device per child is to be brought in. 
  • Games and Apps used need to be rated G or PG only.  Educators will not allow children to play games they deem as inappropriate.  
  • Social Media applications and sites will not be able to be used while at the service.
  • Please label all devices with names.  
  • We WILL NOT charge game devices at the service – they must come fully charged. 
  • Children are only permitted to play their own device.
  • Anyone not following the rules will not be permitted to play. 
  • We take no responsibility for lost or broken electronic devices.  If you are concerned about this please leave them at home. 
  • We ask parents ensure they discuss these rules with your child prior to allowing them to bring their devices to the service.

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Additional Information

  • Emergency drills are practiced randomly throughout the holidays.  The evacuation plan is in place and located at the exit of each room. 
  • First aid kits are easily accessible and well stocked at all times.  
  • At all times we will have educators on shift who hold a current first aid certificate, as well as asthma and anaphylaxis training.  
  • Sunscreen is available at the service and will be applied to the children when required. 
  • While at the service children may be photographed and appear in photo books, organisation videos, class dojo, social media or our website.   If I do not wish for this to occur then you need to inform the service is writing and update your enrolment form in My Family Lounge.  
  • All children are expected to follow the Service rules and Educator instructions.  If a child fails to do so, a parent/guardian or (if they are unavailable) an authorised contact will be called to collect. 
  • Families and Children must abide by all Activity Centres Inc., Policies and Procedures.   These can be viewed on request at the service or here

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