Beresford Road Vacation Care
Enrolments Now Open
- No Cancellations of any Bookings will be accepted after close of business on Friday 19th September 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
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Spring 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.
Throughout the holiday period we may visit Darling Street 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.
The Permission form also includes our regular excursion to the school computer room throughout the holidays, face and nail painting, wheeled toys and cooking authorisation.
Darling Street Park RA 2025
Cooking Activities RA 2025
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 Spring 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
Get ready for a day full of giggles and great memories! Children will team up with friends and dive into exciting, hands-on sensory adventures that spark creativity and connection.
From squishy chia seed slime to puffy, colourful paint masterpieces — there’s something fun (and a little messy!) for everyone.
Come play, create, and make some magic together!
Cost: $80.00
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Today we will have a science-themed day to be filled with engaging activities that explore different scientific concepts. The goal of the day is to spark curiosity and make learning fun! We will be conducting some experiments exploring magnets and iron including Magnetic Sensory Bottle and Magnetic Separation, which will set us up for our incursion in the afternoon!
We will have a special incursion with Fizzics Education and their workshop Create a Buzz! This will be a hands-on workshop where students experience electricity & magnetism first-hand. The workshop will include a ‘hair-raising’ experience, constructing & learning about circuits, what static vs current electricity is, what is electromagnetism and what materials are resistors vs. conductors. This incursion workshop will have a duration of 1 hour.
Incursion Time : 2:30 to 3:30pm
Cost: $100.00
Embark on the journey to outer space! A day to celebrate all things to do with planets, stars and their observation in the middle of World Space Week!
Children will enjoy turning the centre into a galactic universe as we embark on a day filled with space themed craft and activities. With a variety of activities, from a Space Obstacle Course to a creative challenge like Outer Space Bingo and a physical challenge of Astro Tug-of-War, there’s something for everyone at your galaxy party.
Astronauts need to be super fit! Move through an obstacle course to get bodies ready for space adventures. Make some Astronaut Helmets to also prepare us for our trip!
Blast off and make some Flying Rocket Artworks and an Alien Porthole. Mixing a few traditional games with space-themed twists, and adding creative elements, we ensure that we will all have an experience that’s truly out of this world!
Cost: $80.00
We’re thrilled to invite you to join us for a Whimsical adventure at our Enchanted Workshop, where fantasy and creativity, come together in a magical experience.
Our supportive environment will encourage children to explore their imagination through a variety of fantasy themed artwork and games which will include a Magical fairy Garden, dragon crafts, dream catcher, more fairy themed activities, shoebox castle and wizard themed crafts, with a special treat of delicious fairy bread to keep the magic alive.
Children can dress up and their favourite fairies and wizards.
Risk Assessment BRAC Cooking Activities
Cost: $90.00
Join us for our incursion with Messy Makers. During their visit we will be exploring the world of slime! Everyone will make their own slime to take home in a container, learn some slime tricks, make some slime scents, toppings and foam! This incursion workshop will have a duration of 1 hour. When we finish up we will commence the rest of our messy play program!
Forget the end product, kids art projects are all about the process! The messy sticky hands, the tactile exploration of texture and different mediums. Let’s make some open-ended and mixed media abstract art projects such as Water colour Yarn Artworks and Abstract Rainbow Collages! We will be joining forces and playing some group games too, like Cornflour Slime Relay Race and Play Doh Pictionary.
Incursion Starts: 10:30am
Please Make sure children are in clothing you don’t mind getting messy!!
Cost: $100.00
VACATION CARE WEEK TWO
Labour Day – Public Holiday – Service Closed.
Calling all little princes, princesses, and mischievous villains!
Dress up as your favourite Disney character and step into a world of wonder for our magical Disney Day!
From enchanting scavenger hunts to creative crafts and themed painting fun, there’s a whole kingdom of activities waiting to be explored.
Create, play, and imagine alongside friends as we bring Disney magic to life—one sparkle, swirl, and smile at a time!
Cost: $80.00
It’s excursion! Let’s head to Monkey Mania, the highest indoor play structure in Australia! We will have fun playing on an inflatable jumping castle, a gun/cannon foam ball arena, climbing structure and slides.
Before we head off and when we arrive back to the centre we will be the kings and queens of the jungle! Get creative and make some Monkey Masks and Egg Carton Habitats, along with the guessing game What Animal am I? and tag game Catch the Tigers Tail.
Please Arrive at service no later then 8:30am – all children must be here by this time.
Numbers capped to 40 children (waitlist will be operated)
Bus Pick Up: 9:00am
Back to Service: 2:30pm (traffic Permitting)
You must sign the permission form for your child to attend – here
Cost: $125.00
It’s time for a party, music style, with a day aiming to promote music as a vital part of culture and well-being, engaging in musical activities to spark your child’s cognitive function and happiness.
It’s a day of non-stop fun, enjoy some traditional party games involving a melody like Musical Statues, put on your dancing shoes and showcase your best moves in sync with the music, and play a game of concentration Skittle Race! Get in a party mood and make some Party Hats and Popstar Microphones, along some CD Guitars!
Cost: $80.00
Get ready for a whale of a time.
Today our amazing children will bring the ocean to life with some SEA-RIOUS crafting fun.
They will be learning about the significance of keeping our ocean clean, and also about various types of sea animals through creative activities ensuring a memorable experience.
Children will be constructing different type of 3D sea creatures. We will also work together as a team to turn BRAC into an OCEAN with a gigantic Sea Display.
Cost: $80.00
VACATION CARE WEEK THREE
Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of pure imagination! Get your Golden Tickets ready!
Today will focus on the magical and whimsical elements of the chocolate factory, incorporating candy-themed activities, games, and crafts.
We will hold Chocolate Jar Guessing Competition with a fun prize, design our own Play Poh Sweets and make our own Chocolate Brownies while we sip on Oompa Loompa Juice. Play the Peppermint Toss Game, Fish for Augustus Gloop and don’t be left with the Golden Egg when the music stops!
Risk Assessment Cooking Activities
Cost:$80.00
Back to Before and After School Care from Tuesday 14th October 2025.
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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