Beresford Road Vacation Care
- Early Bird Special Enrol by 9:00am Friday 28th June 2024 – to lock in the current Early Bird Rate.
- Bookings made after 9:00am on Friday 28th June are automatically charged at our standard daily rate.
- No Cancellations of any Bookings will be accepted after close of business on Wednesday 3rd June 2024.
- 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
Winter Vacation Care Program
Monday 8th July 2024 – Friday 19th July 2024
Pupil Free Day: Monday 22nd July 2024
Find a Summary of our Winter Program Here: 2024 Winter Summary Program on Website – BRAC
Throughout the holiday period we may visit Darling Street Park – which is just a short walk from the service. If you are happy for your child to attend these excursions to the park, please ensure you return the Permission form below and read the attached Risk Assessment to know what children will be doing at the park.
The Permission form also includes our regular excursion to the school computer room throughout the holidays, face and nail painting, and cooking authorisation.
2024 Winter Vacation care Authorisation from
Darling Street Park Risk Assessment
Computer Room Risk Assessment
RA BRAC Cooking Activities 20240308
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
Messy play is a great way of relaxing and using our senses to give our minds a Creativity and Imagination Boost.
Today we will do different activities and craft involving SLIME. All day we will create Slime of different texture. Besides continuing with our Sensory Exploration playing with Slime all day, we will do a craft using our fingers to create a Messy masterpiece.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Today we will explore Space to infinity and beyond where we continue our Space Journey exploring what else exist Far Out in the Cosmic.
UFO, Aliens do they exist ?
We will delve into the topic of UFO and Aliens whilst we make a cardboard space ship, Alien book marks, UFO flying saucer.
Cost: Early Bird $60 Standard $80
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Provider Details: Kids Magic World
Time of incursion: 10:30am
The Magic show incursion is a 2 hour program which includes:
• 50 minute magic show
• 1 hour of magic lessons
• All the tricks needed to do the lessons plus bag to hold them
• A DVD that will re-teach all the tricks when they get home (plus a few more) for each child
• Free access to Aardy’s online magic training (He sells this for $59.95 but free as part of this package) with over 80 lessons
This is a pre-paid Incursion, if your child is absent you will still be charged for the Incursion
This activity will start at 10:30am. Please make sure your child is at the service on time so they don’t miss out on this exciting Incursion.
What tricks do they learn? (depending on age and how fast they learn)
• How to make a wand magically appear
• How to float a toothpick in mid air (yes all kids will be able to do this at the end even the 4-5 year olds)
• Dice explosion- don’t warry there is no real explosion- a large dice turns into many smaller dice)
• The jumping rubber band
• Levitating straw
Additional information for the day:
During the day we will see some magic bottle tricks using science and create a leaf printing craft.
Cost: Early Bird: $80 Standard: $100.00
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Today the children will be able to bring their bikes and scooters to ride.
While we ride and have fun we will also be engaged in learning about Aboriginal culture to celebrate NAIDOC week.
Bring along your bike/scooter and correct fitting helmet
You will be able to bring along our bikes and scooters and ride around the designated course – remembering to follow our rules.
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.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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A full day of fun and challenging activities focusing on confidence, teamwork, strength, and ability.
Be a Ninja warrior for the day, completing obstacle courses, physical challenges to develop a love for movement.
Make a ninja star and a samurai warrior in-between some ball games, group games!
RA BRAC Ninja Equipment 20240606
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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VACATION CARE WEEK TWO
Today day is filled with activities starting with B – Bubbles, Balloons, Blow and Blob
Everything B’s is what we play with.
Last Summer holidays children enjoyed the activities with bubbles and balloons, hence this Winter we will have more fun using Bubbles and Balloons
We will also be using methods of Blob and Blow to create some Monster Blow Painting, Bubble painting, Blob painting
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Let’s Create Art using two different styles : Sand and Scratch.
We will be using sand to create a Sand Art
We will also be creating our very own Scratch Art
On demand by the children for sensory play we will again try making our own Kinetic Sand
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Provider Name: Australian Museum & Baxters Coaches
Information for the day:
Last holidays our children were interested in the world of Dinosaurs and Birds, hence to extend on our learning we are visiting the Museum where we will learn more about Dinosaurs and Birds. To celebrate NAIDOC week we will also visit the First Nations Gallery
Children have to be at the centre by 8:00 am
Bus Departs :
08:45 AM Beresford Road Public School
9:30 to 10:00 Recess at Hyde Park (Roll call and group allocation)
10:30 am Australian museum entry
Visiting
- First Nations Gallery
- Dinosaurs Gallery
- Surviving Australia Gallery
Approximate 45 mins each gallery
1:30 pm Exit from Australian museum
1:30 to 2:15 pm Lunch break at Hyde Park
2:30 Departure at Australian museum
Permission slip is required for this excursion, complete here
BRAC has an allocation of 30 children for this excursion, if this number is not met an alternate In-Service day has been planned.
RA BRAC – Excursion to Australian Museum 20240607
Great Games Day (Group games – Warriors & Dragons, Giants Elves Wizards and many more )
Cost: Excursion Level 2 – Early Bird: $115.00 Standard: $135.00
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Information for the day:
Teaching survival skills to children is vital, as it :
Instills confidence: Children can gain confidence in their ability to perform various tasks and survive as they build their knowledge.
Enhances self-esteem: Along with their confidence, children’s self-esteem can also grow with their outdoor skills.
Creates a bond with nature: Children who spend time outside often develop an unbreakable bond and love for nature. They understand its beauty and risks but do not let the latter stop them from exploring.
Provides exercise: Children can get great exercise while learning outdoor skills. Gathering firewood and shelter materials or learning to swim takes a lot of strength and physical effort.
By teaching Children survival skills, you can prepare them for any situation. Survival skills can help them to remain strong during challenging times.
Last Holidays we learnt about First Aid and built a Shelter using Sticks, today we extend on this by learning some Outdoor Survival Skills like
- Keep Warm & Hydrated
- Finding Direction by build a Sun dial
- Knot-Tying : An often-overlooked skill, knot-tying can help your chances of survival by helping you build a shelter, set snares, and create tools
Cost: Early Bird $60 Standard $80
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Information for the day:
Why Nature as Nature has Therapeutic Power
Nature has long been celebrated for its therapeutic power, offering respite from the pressures of daily life and nurturing our mental well-being.
Using nature elements in art and craft can have a soothing effect on children. Today we will spend time in nature creating art based on nature and using items that children collect on the scavenger hunt.
Also children will be creating their own aquarium collage using sand, shells and stones.
Cost: Early Bird $60 Standard $80
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VACATION CARE WEEK THREE
Information for the day:
Get ready for the Olympics to start in Paris at the end of the week as we highlight some of the most popular sports! We will be competing in some variations of the games that you will be seeing on tv, along with creating some Olympic torches, trophies and medals and a group poster of the Olympic rings.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Important Information
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- Once the enrolment form is complete, the service coordinator will confirm your start date with you.
- Then you can download the Kangaroo Time App (KT Connect)
Used us before
- PLEASE DO NOT register a new account.
- Download the Kangaroo Time App (KT Connect) and use your Log in email address your statement is sent to log on.
- Use the casual calendar in the app to make a booking for vacation care.
New to our Organisation
- Click on the below link and follow the prompts to create a booking request.
- Once the service coordinator has confirmed we have a place available you will be required to complete an enrolment form.
https://enrol.kangarootime.com.au/inquiry/10C7DE6AA3EBE113
PLEASE NOTE: Not supplying all the mandatory information will slow down your enrolment process and push back your start date.
the Family Handbook tab, as well as other pages on this website, will answer most of the questions you may have about our Organisation
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- If you have not used the service in 12 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 Girraween Activity Centre.
- 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. Your booked days are correct as of this confirmation letter.
- 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.
Pick Up and Drop Off 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 - 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 Policy
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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 and Polices has been carried out and is available here:
Wheeled Toy Policy
Wheeled Toys Risk Assessment
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 I do not wish for this to occur then you need to inform the service is writing and update your enrolment form in My Family Lounge.
- 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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