Term 2 week 1 2019

Port Lincoln Children’s Centre Newsletter

Dear Families

Welcome back to our kindy children who had a break from kindy over the school holiday. We had

another successful Open Night and AGM on April 3rd. Thanks to all our families for supporting our

centre events. I am always grateful to the families and children who write comments about our

centre. It makes everything we do and achieve worthwhile when reading the comments from

families and children. I am very pleased that our families had the opportunity to choose some

books that were donated by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation Book Program.

Comments from children from Open Night. They chose books to take home.

Joanne

“if you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put

the foundations under them” Henry David Thoreau

I love this book very

much Going to kindy made

me ready to go to

school

Thanks for the best

books in the world,

thanks for letting me

have the books

Thanks for the

book I will enjoy

reading them

Zackariah

Indigenous Literacy Foundation books

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We welcome our new friends to kindy

Rylan Tallen

Narteequah

Jakob

Leon

Walking along the Parnkalla Trail: What did we see? We had a visit from the Elliston Kindy who joined us .

Ask your child what they saw…….

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Walking along the Parnkalla Trail: What did we see? We had a visit from the Elliston Kindy who joined us .

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Childcare

Welcome to our

new childcare

friends

Jacob

Charlotte

Jakob

Iluka

Amari

Renni

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Program

Element: 1.1.3 all aspects of the program,

including routines are organised in ways to

maximise opportunities for each child’s

learning

Improvement plan: increase oral language skills for all

children particularly children’s use and

understanding of tier 2 words

Practice

Element 1.2.3 each child’s agency is

promoted, enabling them to make choices and

decisions that influence events and their world.

Improvement plan: that routines where possible can be

grouped together limiting the number of

disruptions to play

Quality Area 1 : Educational program and practice

Quality Area 4: Staffing arrangements

Professionalism

Element 4.2.1: Management, educators and staff work

with mutual respect collaboratively, and

challenge and learn from each other, recognising each

other’s strengths and skills

Improvement plan: consistency and whole site

approach to implementing ’Keeping Children Safe’

curriculum

Quality Area 2 Children’s health and safety

Health

Element 2.1.1 each child’s well being and

comfort is provided for, including

appropriate opportunities to meet each child’s

need for sleep, rest and relaxation

Improvement plan: for educators to confidently have

conversations with each other around

children’s mental health and wellbeing.

Educators accessing evidence based strategies to

implement and support

children all children to engage and participate in

learning opportunities

Quality Area 6: collaborative partnerships with

families and communities

Element 6.2.3: the service builds relationships

and engages with its community

Improvement plan: educators working

collaboratively with families to enhance oral

language skills and interactive/ shared reading

at home

Quality Area 7: Governance and Leadership

Roles and responsibilities, educational

leadership

Element 7.1.3 / 7.2.2: roles and responsibilities are

clearly defined, and understood, and support effective

decision making operation of the service

Improvement plan: quality evaluations of children’s

programs. Each educator actively participating in

programming. Children actively exploring their interests

and extending their own learning with their peers

Element 7.2.3 educator’s, co-ordinators and staff

members’ performance is regularly evaluated and

individual plans are in place to support learning and

development

Improvement plan: detailed PDPs for each staff member

that improve their professional knowledge and aligned

to Site Improvement plan and QIP

Port Lincoln Children’s Centre

2019

Quality Improvement Plan

Thanks to Sally Redden, Mahsa Tantiongco and Karla Syme-DuBois for nominating for our

Governing Committee for the next 12 months.

2019 Governing Committee members are:

Sarah Davey - Chairperson

Tamika Miller - Vice Chairperson

Kelly Carbine - Secretary

Jamie Verhoeven - Treasurer

We appreciate the time our GC members

volunteer to ensure our centre provides a

service of high quality education and care for

our children and families in our community.

Additional Child Care Subsidy

There are a number of ways you may get extra help with your child care account. The Additional

Child Care Subsidy may be available in the following circumstances

Child wellbeing - to help children who are at risk of serious risk or abuse;

Grandparent –to help grandparents on income support who are the principal caregiver of their

grandchildren;

Temporary financial hardship –to help families experiencing financial hardship;

Transition to work –to help low income families transitioning from income support to work.

Please talk to Kerry, Joanne or Lynn if you need any more information about the Additional Child

Care subsidy.

Healthy Eating Reminder

Port Lincoln Children’s Centre is a nut free centre.

Please do not send sandwiches or snacks which contain Nutella or

Peanut butter.