Outside School Hours Care

Term1, 2021

Regular Bookings
The service is now asking families to confirm their regular bookings for 2021. This can be made by emailing melissa.asmar1@gmail.com. Please note that there is NO charge for absent days. Users wishing to change or cancel a booking on the day are advised to call the service directly prior to 3.20 pm on 95920994.

Reactivating Child Care Subsidy
Many enrolment records have been archived due to non-usage (as they passed the government’s 13 week grace period). Families who wish to use the service again, will need to complete the enrolment form as this is the written consent required to re-activate your account. OSHC will then ask you to update your status via MyGov that enacts Child care subsidy.
Enrolment forms can be found on the St Finbar’s School website under the Community tab-OSHC. Please scan and email melissa.asmar1@gmail.com.

Programming: Cultural Diversity
Why is learning about diversity important?

Learning about other cultures helps us understand different perspectives within the world in which we live. It helps dispel negative stereotypes and personal biases about different groups. In addition, cultural diversity helps us recognize and respect “ways of being” that are not necessarily our own.

Create a Culturally Responsive Learning Environment
An educator who properly creates a culturally responsive environment will have fostered expectations where students become respectful and understanding of cultures different from their own. Those students are typically more willing to listen respectfully to different viewpoints, rather than mock, scorn, or fear the unfamiliar. The best way for educators to achieve this, according to The Edvocate, is to teach students that people who do not look the same as them—or who come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, follow different religious traditions, speak different languages, or have a different sexual orientation or gender identity—are still just the same as them on the inside.
Here are two examples of OSHC educators creating a culturally responsive learning environment:
1) Chinese New Year- Year of the Ox; OSHC students create a display that reflects their learning about the Chinese culture and festivities.
2) Educator Shay, shares with the group, her beliefs and discusses the reason why she wears a Hijab as part of her identity.

Accounts due

Accounts are now out and due in full by Friday Feb 12th. Should you have any queries then please email melissa.asmar1@gmail.com. The accounts cover weeks 1&2 of Term1. Accounts are emailed directly to a dedicated family email. If an email is not available then accounts are distributed via the office which are then handed to children by their class room teacher. If you do not receive your account please contact Melissa. Cash is NOT to be left at the office but handed directly to staff where a receipt will be issued. Cheques are also accepted however the most preferred way is via a direct transfer to the St Finbar’s OSHC bank account (St Finbar’s Outside School Hours Care BSB: 083 347A/c: 55055 9263. Please include your surname and child’s name in the Ref area). Thank you in advance.