OSHClub News

Sun Smart Hats

Children will need to wear a hat during outdoor play when the UV rating is at 3 or above.

Please make sure your child brings a sun smart hat with them to OSHClub each day.

Hats can be kept in school bags or in our hat tub at OSHClub.

After School Care Bookings

Our availability on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons may be limited due to staffing shortages across the region. If you cannot book for a required session, please SMS or call the program phone on 0427 144 945.

Brekky Bunch Cooking Club

Over the next several weeks we are running a breakfast cooking club during Before School Care! This extends upon children's ongoing interest in cooking breakfast. We will be introducing new breakfast options for children to try while also revisiting old favourites. We'd love to see more children getting involved! On the menu this week we have:

Tuesday: Banana smoothies

Wednesday: Fruit smoothie icy poles

Thursday: Wholemeal scones

Making and Doing at OSHClub

Last Monday, we celebrated Halloween with a haunted house trick or treat challenge. Over several sessions, children created and decorated the haunted house and then filled it with 'sensory nightmares', like slime and water-filled gloves, along with trick lollies and real treats. To gain entry to the house, children had to find three tiny hidden halloween pictures during our scavenger hunt. Easier said than done!

We have been experimenting with plastic Hama beads to make melted bead bowls. This has led to some interesting conversations about plastic as a material that can be made pliable and reshaped with heat.

Bamboo channels and magnetic tiles were used to engineer a water run during the warm afternoon on Friday. This was a team effort involving cooperation, problem solving and a lot of negotiation. After the structure was complete, the testing began by adding differently shaped objects to the run in an attempt to wash them down and into the bucket at the end.

Enrolling Your Child

For new enrolments, please go to https://www.oshclub.com.au/register/

Please be careful to select Mount Pleasant Road OSHClub, not Mount Pleasant OSHClub, which is in WA. CRN numbers and date of birth must be entered correctly. If not, this will affect your eligibility for the Child Care Subsidy.

Once your enrolment is complete it will be forwarded to the service for review. Any questions, please feel free to contact us on the Mount Pleasant OSHClub program phone - 0427 144 945.

COVID Risk Management

The program will be run outdoors at much as possible.
Social distancing will be encouraged (we may make use of the Art Studio to facilitate this).
Children will be need to wash their hands when they arrive, as well as before eating. Children's handwashing will be supervised, and effective handwashing practices demonstrated as needed.
Afternoon tea will be eaten outdoors.
High touch surfaces will continue to be sanitised with a spray sanitiser and antibacterial wipes before and after each session.

An OSHClub staff member will continue to sign children in and out on the iPad until further notice.

The health and safety of all children in our care remains our top priority. We continue to follow all directives received from the Government to ensure best practice is adhered to in the management of COVID-19. Our COVID-19 Risk Assessment is updated regularly and in-line with government changes, and is available to view on request.

Cancellation of Bookings

IMPORTANT: If your child is booked in for an after school care session and that booking is no longer required, please cancel the booking on the iParent Portal. If you are cancelling on the day, please contact us on the program phone before 3:15pm.

We are responsible for all children booked into our care. If a child does not arrive to after school care when booked in to attend, we will need to confirm the whereabouts of the child by contacting parents/guardians and emergency contacts. If we cannot successfully do this, it then becomes a missing child incident and will need to be referred to police.

As you can imagine, this can be very stressful!

Thanks for your cooperation by notifying us of any after school care absences.

Bookings

Online bookings for Before and After School Care sessions close 24 hours in advance.

Online bookings for the Holiday Program and Curriculum Days close 5 days in advance.

If online bookings have closed, and you would like to make or cancel a booking, please SMS the program phone on 0427 144 945.

Contact

OSHClub Program Phone: 0427 144 945

Email: mountpleasantroad@oshclub.com.au

Program Coordinator: Jane Evans

Permanent Educators: Bahieh Khatibi

OSHClub Head Office: 1300 395 735