Darlington Vacation Care
- Early Bird Special Enrol by 9:00am Friday 06th December 2024 – to lock in the current Early Bird Rate.
- Bookings made after 9:00am on Friday 06th December 2024 are automatically charged at our standard daily rate.
- No Cancellations of any Bookings will be accepted after close of business on Friday 13th December 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
Summer Vacation Care Program
Find a Summary of our Program Here: DAC SUMMER PROGRAM
Please see “What to Pack” tab below to ensure your child has everything they need each day.
Each daily tab will provide you with all the details of the exciting things we have happening and what additional things may be needed each day these school holidays.
DECEMBER 2024
PUPIL FREE DAYS
Make a Christmas shirt, choose a design to iron on to your own tshirt to keep!
Children need to bring a tshirt with them to decorate.
Decorate your own Christmas bauble for your tree.
Cost: Early Bird: $70.00 Standard: $90.00
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To wind down the year we are going to have a chill day, watching some Christmas classics and doing Christmas craft! You can wear your Christmas PJs today!
We’ll make Christmas jelly to eat for afternoon tea.
Children can wear their Christmas PJs today.
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
We are making red and green jelly for afternoon tea.
December 2024 – January 2025 Vacation Care Permission Form
Cost: Early Bird $60.00 Standard $80.00
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We are Closed for the Christmas New Year Period for 3 weeks, from 6:30pm Friday 20th December 2024. We will reopen for Care on Monday 13th January 2025 at 6:30am.
JANUARY 2025
VACATION CARE WEEK ONE
Bring your swimmers, rashy and towels today as we engage in a range of water play games!!
We will even have a go at painting with ice!!
Children need to have a spare set of dry clothes to change into after the water activities are complete.
All Children Must have today: – 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 (Closed shoes no thongs), hat and sunscreen.
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Water Play Risk Assessment 2025
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Today we will learn about Pablo Picasso and try out some Picasso style art.
Wear some old clothes, we will be painting and it could get messy!!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird $60 Standard $80
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Come dressed as a princess or a pirate today!
We will do princess and pirate style craft, play some pirate themed games and get some glitter tattoos!
December 2024 – January 2025 Vacation Care Permission Form
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Today we will be creating with paddle pop sticks & wooden pegs! See what you can make using simple materials.
You will also get a wooden craft item to decorate and take home with you!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird: $70.00 Standard: $90.00
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You can bring your own electronic game/device today. There will be electronic themed games and crafts to enjoy as well as some active games throughout the day.
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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VACATION CARE WEEK TWO
Come dressed as your favourite superhero. Today we will do superhero crafts, play superhero games and try some superhero yoga!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Come today and decorate your own apron!
We will explore pasta art and make pancakes for afternoon tea!!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
December 2024 – January 2025 Vacation Care Permission Form
Early Bird: $70.00 Standard: $90.00
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Bring your bike, scooter, skateboard and helmet today and enjoy time riding!!
We will make some wheel themed crafts and non-riders and enjoy chalk art!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Wheeled Toy Risk Assessment 2025
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Bring your swimmers, rashie and towels today as we engage in a range of water play games!!
We will test out the best way to make your own water bomb!
All Children Must have today: – 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 (Closed shoes no thongs), hat and sunscreen.
Water Play Risk Assessment 2025
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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You can come dressed as your favourite Disney character today!
We will create some awesome “Frozen” glitter art, test your knowledge with Disney trivia and we will choose a movie to watch in the afternoon.
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird $60 Standard $80
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VACATION CARE WEEK THREE
Closed – Public Holiday – Australia Day Observance
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We will learn about what mindfulness is and test a range of mindfulness activities.
We will make some bath bombs and bath salts to take home!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Play a range of water play games!! We will see who is the best at playing hopscotch without spilling any water!!
We will have ice blocks at afternoon tea.
All Children Must have today: – 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 (Closed shoes no thongs), hat and sunscreen.
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Water Play Risk Assessment 2025
December 2024 – January 2025 Vacation Care Permission Form
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Today is all about water colours!
We will do water colour painting with our paint palettes and will also draw with water colour pencils and learn how to turn the pencil drawings into water colours!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Bring your bike, scooter, skateboard and helmet today and enjoy time riding!!
We will experiment with different ways to paint with wheels and make fairy bread for afternoon tea!
Making fairy bread to eat at afternoon tea, all ingredients listed on permission form.
December 2024 – January 2025 Vacation Care Permission Form
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Wheeled Toy Risk Assessment 2025
Cost: Early Bird $60.00 Standard $80.00
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VACATION CARE WEEK FOUR
Today is about beads!! We will learn how to make beads out of paper that you can use to make a bracelet, you can make your own hama bead designs and make your own necklace with polymer beads!
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Ice blocks at afternoon tea.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Visiting our Lapstone Centre (Lapstone Activity Centre), located in the lower blue mountains, for an experience of school located in the Bushland and participate in
- programmed and spontaneous activities
- Recess and Lunch at Lapstone Activity Centre
- Planned experiences at Lapstone Activity Centre (LAC) including: Playing on Inflatable Whack A Mole, ripline, Adventure Playground, play on Oval & Court
Children need to have sun safe clothing on, a hat, morning tea, lunch, water bottle, closed in shoes and they need to be able to carry their own bag.
Bus Departs: 9:00am
Returns: 4:00pm – Traffic Permitting
This excursion is open to children who will be in Year 1 to Year 6 in 2025. This excursion is not suitable for children in preschool or who are starting school in 2025. You will need to make alternative care arrangements for this day if your child is in preschool or Kindy 2025.
Lapstone Excursion – A Day in Bushland Permission Form
Lapstone Excursion Risk Assessment
If we need to Cancel the excursion, we will be having an in service “Spells and Potions” Day
Get ready to create your own potions and spells!
Make your own spell book, write your recipes and take home some of your best creations!
Cost: Early Bird: $115.00 Standard: $135.00
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Come and enjoy our last day before school starts with a chilled movie day.
We will watch some of our favourite movies, and enjoy a sausage sizzle for lunch.
Sausage sandwich for lunch ingredients are in permission form.
December 2024 – January 2025 Vacation Care Permission Form
Children need to bring morning tea, lunch, water bottle and hat.
Cost: Early Bird: $60.00 Standard: $80.00
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Back to School and Before and After School Care from Thursday 06th February 2025 for the start of Term 1!
Important Information
- 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.
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- Daily Fees and charges for Vacation Care can be found here.
- There is an additional charge applied for any incursions and excursions – these are outlined above in the Holiday Program
- Fees will apply to all bookings, unless you have cancelled your booking in writing by the cut-off date for the holiday period. No Cancellations will be accepted after this date.
Fee Policy
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- If you have not used the service in 14 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 Activity Centres.
- 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.
- 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.
Delivery & Collection of Children 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 2022
- 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 160822
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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 (found above in program information) has been carried out and Policy developed.
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 you do not wish for this to occur then you need to inform the service is writing and update your enrolment form in your Kangaroo time app (KT connect).
- 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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