Beresford Road Vacation Care
Enrolments Opening Soon!
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- No Cancellations of any Bookings will be accepted after close of business on Friday 26th June 2026.
- 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
Winter Vacation Care Program
Electronics – children will be able to play their own electronic devices throughout the day at allocated times. Devices must have cameras covered, internet turned off and G or PG games only. See Below Electronic Games and Media’ Section in Important Information for all rules & conditions.
- Technology usage Risk Assessment
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
A Day full of environmental exploration and wilderness survival through Cub Scout style activities like compass making and knot tying.
We will be using nature to create some crafts, including flora identification, tree collage, bird finders and rock painting. This is a fantastic theme for building resilience, teamwork, and a love for the great outdoors!
Cost: $80.00
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This week is NAIDOC Week and our program today celebrates the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
It is designed to be respectful, educational, and hands-on, focusing on the vibrant traditions that make up the oldest continuous living culture on Earth. We will explore dream time stories, create boomerangs, play some indigenous group games, investigate weaving and commemorate our country’s people!
Cost: $80.00
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We hope you’re in for a Crazy Day!
Children can come with their craziest hairstyle, wildest clothes, or silliest shoes, while enjoying exciting games like Charades and zombie tag, as well as making their own silly sock designs!
Children will have opportunity to get their hair sprayed with coloured hairspray.
Temporary Hair Colour and Body Glitter Risk Assessment
Permission form required to be signed in OWNA.
Cost: $90.00
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Score a hole in one and test your Coordination with a Putt-Putt Incursion!
Each hole is thoughtfully designed to spark creativity, strengthen problem-solving skills and encourage teamwork, making learning fun and engaging from start to finish.
When you aren’t having a swing we will be making some visors, decorating golf balls, green jelly and some plaster painting.
Incursion will be taking place from 10:00am – 12:00pm – so make sure you arrive on time to take park!
Permission slip required through OWNA.
Cost: $100.00
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Get ready for a magical journey!
Step back in time for an epic Medieval & Fairy Day!
Children will become brave knights, fair maidens and royal architects as they construct castles, stained glass art, design swords and shield.
Step into a magical realm! Our Medieval & Fairy day transports kids to a world of castles, quests and enchantment. Through interactive dress-up, magical crafts and royal games, campers will build confidence, teamwork and imagination.
Cost $80.00
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VACATION CARE WEEK TWO
Calling all little Explorers!
It’s time to hop, slither, and crawl into Vacation Care for our spectacular Reptile Day!
Get ready for a massive day of epic-themed crafts, interactive games and cool learning stations where we will discover all about our scaly friends.
Cost: $80.00
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Ever dreamed of launching a rocket so far up into the atmosphere you couldn’t see it?
Today will include a Rocket Masterclass Incursion, where the children will design and build their very own rocket before launching their spacecraft into the sky above the rooftops using a specially designed high pressure industrial rocket launcher.
After the incursion we will explore colour and play taste the rainbow, conduct bubble rainbows, make rainbow vision spectacles, paint some rainbow lightning and play with our parachute.
Incursion will take place between 10:00am and 11:30am – so please make sure you arrive on time to take part from start to finish!
Risk Assessment
Cost: $100.00
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Get ready for games day designed to keep children active, cooperative, highly entertained through a mix of craft and physical indoor and outdoors games such as Giant Tic Tac Toe, Connect four, Obstacle course and many more.
Children will get the chance to be creative by making their own games book.
Cost: $80.00
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Have the thrill of the big top at today’s circus and carnival themed day.
Dive into the world of circus design, try your hand at juggling balls and making magic wands. Practice your balance with tightrope training, compete in traditional carnival games like ring toss and hit the target, along with making balloon clowns, mini merry go rounds, face painting and temporary tattoos!
Permission slip required through OWNA.
Face Painting and Temporary Tattoo Risk Assessment
Cost: $80.00
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Don’t want to get out of bed?
Bring your bed and wear your PJs with you to our awesome Slumber Party!
Children will spend the day enjoying themselves through Slumber Party classics like ‘Would You Rather?’ and ‘Simon Says,’ and do cute crafts with their friends like decorating a ‘Make A Wish Jar’ and decorating your own pillowcase!
*PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN SPARE/PLAIN PILLOW CASE TO DECORATE*
Cost: $80.00
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VACATION CARE WEEK THREE
This Gaming & Pixel Art day is designed to bring the digital world into the physical space, focusing on “unplugged” gaming, creative engineering, and team-based games.
Create gamer tags, design controllers, make Mario mushrooms and karts and bake and decorate some Pac-man cookies! Play diamond mining and creeper tag, making some Minecraft swords along the way.
Children will have opportunity to cook and eat what they cook. Permission form will need to be signed via OWNA to take part.
Permission Note Required in OWNA
Cooking Activities Risk Assessment
Cost: $90.00
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Back to Before and After School Care from Tuesday 21st July 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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