Wyong Preschool Kindergarten
Association Incorporated ABN 41 543 822 513
Annual Report 2019
9 Rose Street, Wyong NSW 2259
Postal: PO Box 303, Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: (02) 43522392
Fax: (02) 43534766
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.wyongpreschool.com.au
We’re building a better world….child by child
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Wyong Preschool Kindergarten Association Incorporated
Management Committee 2019
COMMITTEE: President - Kerryn Woodward
Vice-President - Brittany Day
Secretary - Jessica Cottee
Treasurer - Tiffany Leonard
Committee Members - Tarla Parata Maite Mel Smith
Rebecca Ley Sarah Schmidt
Helen Wilson
LIFE MEMBERS: - Rod Williams
Bob Ives
Marcia Fuller
Patricia Rowlandson
Cliff Taylor(Dec’d)
Jan Flood
Robyn Rogers
PATRONESS: - Alma Waring (Dec’d)
Wendy Neale
Noela Ahearn
Julie Tockuss
Rita Donovan
STAFF:
NOMINATED SUPERVISOR Cheryl Irvine
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
FULL TIME Trudy Casey
Jodie Sutherland
Robyn Pemberton
Jennifer Waring
Gemma Cox (Trainee)
PART TIME (M, T, W, Th) Kate Lowe – Educational Leader
(M,T,W) Alison Delaforce
PART TIME (Th, F) Pamela Hudson
PART TIME (W,Th,F) Deborah Sheridan
CASUALS Irene Greentree Shaylie Mula
Lyndall Olson Carolyn Arnold
Annette Bartlett Sharon Barr
Melanie Dawson Carol Broomfield
Linda White
OFFICE MANAGER Tracey Gorton (Tue,Wed,Fri)
SPEECH PATHOLOGIST Alison Downey (Tues/Thurs)
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President’s Report
It is my pleasure to report on a successful year at Wyong Preschool as Committee President.
The committee members for 2019 were Tiffany Leonard, Brittany Day, Helen Wilson, Tarla Parata,
Jessica Cottee, Mel Smith, Sarah Schmidt and Rebecca Ley.
These ladies have worked tirelessly throughout the year to improve, support, and encourage the staff and
preschool in 2019.
I would like to thank our amazing Director Cheryl Irvine for her leadership and guidance throughout
2019. This year Cheryl has worked tirelessly before, during and after our A & R visit to ensure the
preschools premises, policies and procedures were at the highest standard. Well done Cheryl on leading
the team to receive “Exceeding” in all 7 quality areas through the Assessment and Rating process. Thank
you also to her husband Craig, for the many hours he puts in on weekends to ensure our preschool
premises are always safe and in good working order.
A big thank you to our Office Manager, Tracey Gorton. Her knowledge and proactive approach to
everything ensures the preschool is always running smoothly. Tracey puts her heart and soul into the
preschool and I am forever grateful for her guidance.
This year saw Kate Lowe take on the role of Educational leader. Kate did an amazing job transitioning
into this role and successfully led the team’s educational programs through the Assessment and Rating
process. I look forward to seeing Kate lead our team to further success.
We welcomed our new Certificate III trainee - Gemma Cox. Gemma has settled into the preschool
beautifully and has been a huge asset to the team. Welcome Gemma!
Our Educators are an amazing team, who all possess many skills and strengths. This is what makes our
team so successful. I would like to thank Trudy Casey, Alison Delaforce, Jodie Sutherland, Jenny
Waring, Debbie Sheridan, Robyn Pemberton, Pam Hudson, Kate Lowe, Irene Greentree, Lyndall Olson,
Annette Bartlett, Shaylie Mula, Carolyn Arnold, Sharon Barr and Gemma Cox for an amazing year. The
love and care bestowed on our children as well as the education provided is always evident and
appreciated.
Thank you to all our families for their contributions throughout the year, of time or monetary value. Our
fundraising activities were Family Fun Night $828-, Bunnings BBQ $1660-, Easter Raffle $351,
Mother/Father’s day stalls $211, Movie nights $488, Father’s day raffle $373 and Entertainment Book
sales commission $225. This was an amazing effort of fundraising from our families and committee
members. These funds helped us purchase a lot of educational resources for our centre as well as some
larger upgrades to our premises like our new artificial grass, the front playground deck and landscaping as
well as the children’s locker upgrade.
Thank you for supporting me in the role of President and for the friendships formed. I wish the
management committee every success for 2020.
Kerryn Woodward
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Director’s Report
It is with great pleasure that I am able to present this report for 2019. We are very proud of our achievements this
year. 2019 saw us working hard towards our Assessment and Rating visit in August, which took place over a two
day period. This was a daunting experience with our policies, practices and procedures scrutinized by one assessor.
The assessment review continued over several months, as we continued to provide evidence of the preschools high
quality program. Eventually our hard work was rewarded with a rating of exceeding in all 7 quality areas. We
continue to reflect upon our practices and look for ways to improve through our Quality Improvement Program and
have made changes since the assessment review on the way we document evidence, so that it is more visible for an
assessor when they visit. I am so proud of our team, who worked together to ensure that our preschool is and
continues to provide a high quality service to the community.
I would like to extend a special thank you to Kate, who in her first year as Educational Leader, worked passionately
in ensuring our educational programs were of a very high standard. Kate has put a great deal of her time into
researching, reflecting and attending professional development days to increase her knowledge. Kate has
successfully led our team to grow and develop in documentation on Storypark through positive changes. Thank you
Kate for highlighting the preschools curriculum during the assessment visit.
Thank you to Tracey, our Office Manager who manages all the administration tasks within our preschool with
dedication, commitment and efficiency. Tracey goes above and beyond what is expected of her and is an amazing
support to myself, our educators, families and the committee.
I must again thank our dedicated educators who are all very passionate and enthusiastic early childhood
professionals. They work so hard to create a warm, rich and stimulating learning environment and high quality
program to give each child the opportunity to grow, learn and develop in order for them to reach their full potential.
A big thank you to our educators – Trudy, Alison, Jodie, Robyn, Jenny, Debbie, Kate, Pam, Irene, Lyndall,
Annette, Sharon, Carolyn, Shaylie, and Gemma. As early childhood professionals we continue to grow and build
on our knowledge through the many professional development opportunities made available to us.
The educators are passionate about building the skills of upcoming early childhood professionals. In 2019 the
preschool employed a Certificate 111 trainee, Gemma. Thank you to Jodie for mentoring Gemma throughout the
year. We welcomed a local TAFE student and University student who completed practicums at Wyong Preschool
during 2019.The preschool also hosted a student from Wyong High School with support needs every Monday, for
the entire year.
Thank you to the Management Committee of 2019 – Kerryn (President), Brittany (Vice President), Jessica
(Secretary), Tiffany (Treasurer), Tarla, Sarah, Mel, Helen, and Rebecca. Your continued support, expertise, input
and time has allowed the preschool to continue to operate as a high quality Early Education Service. For all those
committee members who will not be returning in 2020, we wish you all the best. A special thank you to Kerryn
who has been a member of the committee for five years, we are so grateful for her support during this time.
In addition, many other preschool families contributed to our preschool in other ways and I thank them sincerely.
This includes everything from donations, assisting with our Bunnings Barbecue, continually supporting our
fundraising ventures and sharing their knowledge and talents in our learning experiences. This collaboration
between families and staff really enriches our children’s lives and their learning.
This year has seen many building improvements. The plumbing was upgraded in the main playground to reduce
flooding, artificial grass was put down in our main playground and with the fire risk we experience over the
summer we had Gutter guard installed in our gutters around the entire premises. We also now have a native bee
hive in the back playground that should provide us with honey and will be a great source of learning for the
children. We received a $15,000 quality learning Environment grant from the Department of Education, which was
used to install a natural log obstacle course. The playgroup playground also received new decking, Australian bush
garden and Bush tucker garden. The preschool’s emergency procedures and equipment were reviewed and
improved by the installation of emergency exit lighting; evacuation plans and changing our assembly point to the
tennis courts.
Our playgroup continued to provide an important and beneficial service to the community. Thank you to Debbie
who took on the role of Playgroup Coordinator this year and for providing a welcoming and educational
environment for our playgroup families.
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In 2019 educators built on their knowledge of aboriginal culture by forming a Reconciliation Action Plan Working
Group and being members of the KU Yarnin Circle and Koori Curriculum Yarnin Group. We also had an artist in
residence program, with Garry Purchase regularly visiting the preschool and providing Aboriginal art experiences
and cultural shows for the preschool staff and children.
The preschool continued its Speech Pathology Program, helping develop the language skills of children. Alison
Downey took on the role of the preschool’ Speech Pathologist in 2019 and has provided support to the families,
children and educators.
The preschool continued to build connections with our local community. The children visited the local post office,
attended a show at the Arthouse, engaged in The Woolworths Discovery Tour and attended the Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander’s Children’s Day at Baker Park. The children also now engage in spontaneous walkabouts
making these more meaningful experiences.
This year the preschool supported the local community through many fundraising activities. We raised funds to
help the farmers through the drought as well as collecting donations for Central Coast Drought Aid. Families
supported the Envision Hands Project through the donation of bottle lids and supported cancer research through
donations to the Cancer Council Stars of the Central Coast event. Thank you to our families and educators for
helping those in need within our community.
To enrich our educational program the preschool invited a variety of performers and services into our preschool.
The children enjoyed visits from; Wadjini, Jenny’s Multicultural show, Wyong High Dance and Didge group,
Christmas Pantomime, Remondis Recycling, Kaleidoscope Science, visits from the Fire Brigade and Police, as well
as Dinosaur, Rockpool, and Bug Shows. We celebrated the diversity of our preschool by inviting families to engage
in special events throughout the year such as Harmony day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and End of Year
Celebrations. We also provided health services to the families with vision and dental checks and treatment.
The preschool held a transition to school information night with the Department of Education Transition to School
Coordinator as guest speaker. We continued our strong connection with local schools by holding our School
Connections Meetings at the preschool. These meetings allow educators to have quality discussions with local
school teachers about School Transition Statements they have prepared for every child going to school the
following year.
Thank you to our life member’s and patroness’ who continue to be a very special part of Wyong preschool. We
thank them for their contributions and ongoing support and for the role they play as advocates for the preschool in
the wider community.
I would also like to thank the Department of Education who provides us with our annual operational funding,
licensing guidelines, Disability and Inclusion funding and for their ongoing support.
Cheryl Irvine
Nominated Supervisor
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Wyong Preschool Kindergarten Association Incorporated
2019 AUDIT REPORT
We have examined the books and other records of Wyong Preschool Kindergarten Incorporated for the year ended
31 December 2019 and subject to the matters listed below, we make the following audit statement:
1. The Financial Statements represent a true and fair view of the affairs of Wyong Preschool Kindergarten Incorporated for the period ending 31 December 2019.
2. That the accounting records are kept in a proper and accurate manner.
3. The examination of the records of Wyong Preschool Kindergarten Association Incorporated has been completed in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards and has included substantive testing.
In addition, we draw to your attention the following audit matters within which our work was conducted.
(a) A sample testing only of transactions were undertaken.
(b) No check was undertaken as to the existence of fixed assets.
(c) Consideration was not given as to whether surplus funds were being utilised in the most cost effective or
appropriate manner. We also did not comment on the correctness or otherwise of fee levels or investment policy.
(d) Issues as to internal management practices were not dealt with.
(e) Due to the nature of the audit we can only validate the existence of income from the point at which it reaches the bank account.
(f) Unless evidence suggested otherwise, we have relied upon answers and representations made by officials
of the organisation under review, in response to our audit enquiries.
(g) No check was conducted as to whether the expenditure of the Government Grants was carried out in
accordance with Government direction, if any.
(h) No check was conducted as to whether the wages paid were in accordance with the appropriate awards.
Special Note:
A detailed register of all Plant & Equipment held by the Wyong Preschool is on hand for viewing at the
Preschool. We have not audited this register.
PO Box 106, Ourimbah NSW 2258 T: 02 4362 3364 F: 02 4349 4998 E: [email protected] ABN: 26 104 559 542
Liability limited by a scheme Partners Aylward and Hudson Pty Ltd
approved under Professional Sharon Aylward is a CPA Practice
Standards Legislation Kate Hudson CPA
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Audit Recommendations/Comments
1. As always we would like to thank Tracey and staff for their high standard in record keeping, it makes our job a lot easier.
2. The financial position for the 2019 year includes the final Start Strong ‘one off’ funding of $82,147, a Quality Learning Environment Grant $15,000 & the Woolworths Travel Grant $500 these again were used
to keep the fees charged to parents at the reduced rate whilst also allowing for substantial repairs as reflected in the Profit & Loss.
3. Profits were also used on major improvements & equipment replacement as noted in the Depreciation
Schedule.
We trust that the above report meets with your requirements, however should you have any queries please do not
hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely
AYLWARD & HUDSON PTY LTD
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