Beresford Road Vacation Care
Enrolments are now Open!
- No Cancellations of any Bookings will be accepted after close of business on Friday 19th December 2025.
- 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
- Fees and Charges for Vacation care here
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Summer Vacation Care Program
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Click on each day to see all the details of the exciting things we have happening each day these school holidays.
Please see “What to Pack” tab below to ensure your child has everything they need each day.
Each daily tab will provide you with all the details of the exciting things we have happening and what additional things may be needed each day these school holidays.
- Throughout Vacation care, children have the opportunity to bring their own digital technology devices or access service issued devices such as iPad or Nintendo Switches. In line with NSW Regulations, Activity Centre’s has implemented strict guidelines on the use of digital devices. This permission form covers information regarding children’s use of digital devices during the Summer Vacation Care Period. If you do not sign the attached form your child will be unable to use any digital devices at the service during the holidays – Please Sign Here
VACATION CARE WEEK ONE
“Happy New Year from our little artists!”
Get ready for an action-packed day with us. Come join the New Years Disco party today! We’ve got an amazing lineup of fun activities, including party games, face painting, Photo Booth, and a thrilling disco!
Here’s to a year filled with laughter, learning, and lots of love.
Please Read and Sign the Permission Form in Owna when Booking.
Cost: $80.00
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Join us for a fun, high-energy themed day with a wet/dry Detective Pikachu jumping castle and slide! Spend the day bouncing away and staying active, with some group games to play while jumping. Create Paper Pool artworks and Pool Noodle Waterslides, Watercolour painting and Jumping Origami Frogs!
Please Read and Sign the Permission Form in Owna when Booking.
Water Play – All Children Must have: a change of clothing, a towel, sun shiry or t-shirt (for covering thoer shoulders while engaging in water play), as well as shoes that can get wet (closed shoes no thongs), hat and sunscreen with a plastic bag to carry wet clothes home.
Time: 10:00am-4:00pm
Risk Assessment Incursion – Inflatables Games
Cost: $100.00
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Step right up to our Magic Day, where the impossible becomes possible! Your child will be captivated by a day filled with mystery, wonder, and hands-on magical fun. We’ll explore the art of illusion, learn simple magic tricks, crafts. It’s a day designed to spark creativity, boost confidence, and encourage critical thinking, as children work out how tricks might work.
Cost: $80.00
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A day filled with everything Percussion and music to find your rhythm! The children will experience a music workshops and based on African drums.
We will make a mix of our own instruments including Tambourines, Spin drums and Shakers! While we create our own music we will pay a mix of musical games.
Start Time: 10:00am
Cost: $100.00
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Wear your comfiest PJ’s get ready to watch some in-house movies and enjoy a fun movie day with yummy popcorn! Make your own Director Film Clapper and re-enact some movie scenes and make a movie chatterbox. Create a Mini Theatre Puppet Show for your friends to watch and design a Popcorn Bucket. Play the Popcorn Relay, Movie Charades, Lady and The Tramp Spaghetti Race and a mix of indoor group games.
Cost $80.00
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VACATION CARE WEEK TWO
A Minibeast adventure awaits!
Calling all critters! to scuttle, crawl and buzz on over for a minibeast day.
Join us for some creepy, crawly fun by engaging in craft and games!!
Get ready to explore the exciting world of bugs!!
Cost: $80.00
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A fun and exciting day stepping inside the Game Theatre, where children can battle it out in popular games on the best screens around along with Laser Tag and Giant Hamster Ball. Along with the incursion we will have a day focused on gaming fun! Draw your own Minecraft Portraits, Make a Pokemon Pokeball and a Pacman Marble Maze. Have some fun playing a live action Among Us game and Yoshi’s Tongue Hits!
3 Activities
- Mobile Game Theatre
- Moblie Lazer Tag
- Scalextric Car Racing or Giant Hamster Ball.
Starts: 10:00am
Risk Assessment BRAC Incursion – Gamerz and Games2U
Cost: $100.00
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Our little witches and wizards will be brewing up some serious fun today with giggles, glitter and magical potions.
They will rafting a little magic, one spell at a time.
We will be mixing and stirring up some magical potions, constructing enchanting wizards and witches’ hats and lot more to add a little sparkle to our spellbooks.
Cost: $80.00
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Come and join us for some cinema fun, and watch one of the latest children’s movies out for the holidays. Children will also enjoy a small popcorn. While at the service we will participate in some crafts based on their favourite movies.
All children must be at the service by 8.30am to ensure that they do not miss out on the Excursion and to ensure that they have been provided with an Excursion shirt, have had their name marked off the roll, and to provide staff with time to finalise numbers and do final preparation for the excursion.
Children will be travelling to and from the venue by chartered bus, Baxters Bus Lines, the bus will be driven and insured by the hire company.
Departure and arrival times will depend on movie times, we are aiming for a morning movie session.
Children will not be permitted to buy anything from the candy bar so please do not send children with any money. Children may bring snacks packed from home, no nuts please.
The cost includes popcorn as well as movie admission and bus hire cost. This is a COMPULSORY excursion.
Bus times and Movie will be advised closer to the date as they will greatly depend on the movie session times.
This Excursion is capped; a waiting list will operate if needed. See Coordinator to add your child on waitlist if unable to book.
Cost: $140.00
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Every child is an artist. Today, they are sculptors. Watching an idea transform into something tangible- that’s the magic of handmade.
Getting our hands dirty and making some fun, colourful memories! A little clay a lot of imagination, and a whole lot of fun. Pinching, rolling and squishing our way to awesome creations.
Cost: $90.00
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VACATION CARE WEEK THREE
Service Closed – Public Holiday – Australia Day!
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Crafting our way to a brighter day, one colourful creation at a time.”
Warning: May cause extreme happiness and colourful messes!
“Today’s forecast: 100% chance of fun and creativity!” Today’s agenda: fun, friends, and fantastic colourful crafts!”
Get ready for a day of colourful chaos and creative fun with painting, experiments and some colour splashing fun etc.
As they will be getting coloured Wear an old White Shirt as well as an option to bring eye covering like goggles
All Children Must have today: – a change of clothing & socks, a towel, Old White t-shirt (for covering their shoulders while engaging in play), as well as shoes that can get wet (Closed shoes no thongs), hat and sunscreen with a plastic Bag to carry wet clothes home.
Cost: $90.00
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This exciting themed day is dedicated to stimulating your child’s cognitive growth through a series of hands-on challenges and brain-boosting games. In a safe and supportive environment Kids will engage in fun activities and games like learning clock, equation spinning cups, science experiment ,connect four, Giant tic tac toe and more.
Cost: $80.00
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Enjoy a day of gooey fun as we offer endless sensory play and creativity with a mix of Slime filled activities INCLUDING a Slime Fight with equipment and materials! Get messy while me make different variations with slime stations, to make it fluffy, glitter filled, jelly or colourful! We will play some Minute to Win It messy games like Find the Worm and Grab the Figures.
All Children Must have today: – a change of clothing & socks, a towel, Old White t-shirt (for covering their shoulders while engaging in play), as well as shoes that can get wet (Closed shoes no thongs), hat and sunscreen with a plastic Bag to carry wet clothes home.
Cost: $90.00
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Join us today for a fun-filled cultural day as we explore into the fascinating world of Japanese culture!
With a range of engaging activities, including origami, painting, and designing, children will have a blast learning about Japanese traditions in a fun and interactive!
Cost: $80.00
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Back to Before and After School Care from Monday 02nd February 2026.
Important Information
- Once the enrolment form is complete, the service coordinator will confirm your start date with you.
- You can then download the OWNA Parent app.
Used us before
- PLEASE DO NOT register a new account.
- Use the casual calendar in the OWNA app to make a booking for vacation care.
New to our Organisation
- Click on the below link to see how to enrol in to the organisation
- How to Enrol – Activity Centres Inc
PLEASE NOTE: Not supplying all the mandatory information will slow down your enrolment process and push back your start date.
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- If you have not used the service in 14 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 Activity Centres.
- 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.
- 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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- 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.
Delivery & Collection of Children Policy
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- A Hat – No Visors
- Closed in sturdy shoes, sturdy sandals with back straps (no thongs).
- Children must be dressed appropriately for the weather conditions.
- All t-shirts/tops dresses must cover shoulders. No singlet tops.
- Packed healthy recess and lunch – please include an ice brick to keep lunch fresh and refillable drink bottle. Please ensure you pack enough food to last the day.
- Ideas for packing a healthy lunch can be found at:
– Healthy Lunch Box | Cancer Council NSW
– Easy And Healthy Lunch Box Ideas For School | Best Recipes For Packed Lunches – Food.com
– Healthy lunchboxes | Healthy Eating Advisory Service
– Lunchbox Nutrition | Healthy Lunch Box Week - In summer Months: A change of clothing, a towel, sun shirt or t-shirt (for covering their shoulders while engaging in water play), as well as shoes that can get wet (no thongs), costume, hat and sunscreen.
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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- 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 2022
- 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 160822
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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 (found above in program information) has been carried out and Policy developed.
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:
- All children must follow directions of Educators and ride within the designated riding area.
- 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.
- Children will not be allowed to ride another child’s Wheeled Toy, only owners permitted to ride.
- Children will not be able to do any tricks on their Wheeled Toys.
- Wheeled Toys must be walked into school grounds so that children playing are not injured.
- All Wheeled Toys must be taken home at the end of the day.
- Wheeled Toys need to be well-maintained, If staff deem any as unsafe, children will not be permitted to ride.
- Children must be able to ride wheeled toy competently and safely, it is not a learn to ride day.
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- 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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- 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 you do not wish for this to occur then you need to inform the service is writing and update your enrolment form in you Kangaroo Time app (KT connect).
- 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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