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Term 2 week 1 2019
Port Lincoln Children’s Centre Newsletter
Dear Families
Welcome back to our kindy children who had a break from kindy over the school holiday. We had
another successful Open Night and AGM on April 3rd. Thanks to all our families for supporting our
centre events. I am always grateful to the families and children who write comments about our
centre. It makes everything we do and achieve worthwhile when reading the comments from
families and children. I am very pleased that our families had the opportunity to choose some
books that were donated by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation Book Program.
Comments from children from Open Night. They chose books to take home.
Joanne
“if you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put
the foundations under them” Henry David Thoreau
I love this book very
much Going to kindy made
me ready to go to
school
Thanks for the best
books in the world,
thanks for letting me
have the books
Thanks for the
book I will enjoy
reading them
Zackariah
Indigenous Literacy Foundation books
2
We welcome our new friends to kindy
Rylan Tallen
Narteequah
Jakob
Leon
Walking along the Parnkalla Trail: What did we see? We had a visit from the Elliston Kindy who joined us .
Ask your child what they saw…….
3
Walking along the Parnkalla Trail: What did we see? We had a visit from the Elliston Kindy who joined us .
4
Childcare
Welcome to our
new childcare
friends
Jacob
Charlotte
Jakob
Iluka
Amari
Renni
5
Program
Element: 1.1.3 all aspects of the program,
including routines are organised in ways to
maximise opportunities for each child’s
learning
Improvement plan: increase oral language skills for all
children particularly children’s use and
understanding of tier 2 words
Practice
Element 1.2.3 each child’s agency is
promoted, enabling them to make choices and
decisions that influence events and their world.
Improvement plan: that routines where possible can be
grouped together limiting the number of
disruptions to play
Quality Area 1 : Educational program and practice
Quality Area 4: Staffing arrangements
Professionalism
Element 4.2.1: Management, educators and staff work
with mutual respect collaboratively, and
challenge and learn from each other, recognising each
other’s strengths and skills
Improvement plan: consistency and whole site
approach to implementing ’Keeping Children Safe’
curriculum
Quality Area 2 Children’s health and safety
Health
Element 2.1.1 each child’s well being and
comfort is provided for, including
appropriate opportunities to meet each child’s
need for sleep, rest and relaxation
Improvement plan: for educators to confidently have
conversations with each other around
children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Educators accessing evidence based strategies to
implement and support
children all children to engage and participate in
learning opportunities
Quality Area 6: collaborative partnerships with
families and communities
Element 6.2.3: the service builds relationships
and engages with its community
Improvement plan: educators working
collaboratively with families to enhance oral
language skills and interactive/ shared reading
at home
Quality Area 7: Governance and Leadership
Roles and responsibilities, educational
leadership
Element 7.1.3 / 7.2.2: roles and responsibilities are
clearly defined, and understood, and support effective
decision making operation of the service
Improvement plan: quality evaluations of children’s
programs. Each educator actively participating in
programming. Children actively exploring their interests
and extending their own learning with their peers
Element 7.2.3 educator’s, co-ordinators and staff
members’ performance is regularly evaluated and
individual plans are in place to support learning and
development
Improvement plan: detailed PDPs for each staff member
that improve their professional knowledge and aligned
to Site Improvement plan and QIP
Port Lincoln Children’s Centre
2019
Quality Improvement Plan
Thanks to Sally Redden, Mahsa Tantiongco and Karla Syme-DuBois for nominating for our
Governing Committee for the next 12 months.
2019 Governing Committee members are:
Sarah Davey - Chairperson
Tamika Miller - Vice Chairperson
Kelly Carbine - Secretary
Jamie Verhoeven - Treasurer
We appreciate the time our GC members
volunteer to ensure our centre provides a
service of high quality education and care for
our children and families in our community.
Additional Child Care Subsidy
There are a number of ways you may get extra help with your child care account. The Additional
Child Care Subsidy may be available in the following circumstances
Child wellbeing - to help children who are at risk of serious risk or abuse;
Grandparent –to help grandparents on income support who are the principal caregiver of their
grandchildren;
Temporary financial hardship –to help families experiencing financial hardship;
Transition to work –to help low income families transitioning from income support to work.
Please talk to Kerry, Joanne or Lynn if you need any more information about the Additional Child
Care subsidy.
Healthy Eating Reminder
Port Lincoln Children’s Centre is a nut free centre.
Please do not send sandwiches or snacks which contain Nutella or
Peanut butter.