CTC CHILDCARE SERVICES

BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

December - January 2016

Welcome back to all of our families for 2016! We hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe break.

Family pockets can be found in the foyers of both centres. Please take the time to check your pockets , this is where you will find statements, newsletters and family correspondence.

This time of year we have children starting in new rooms and new children joining the centres. We encourage family input, this can be through weekend sheets, photos, conversations or contributing to the program or your child’s portfolio.

Events

On 1 December 2015 Pre-Prep held their graduation at Community Kids. This was a morning where families and staff came together to recognise the children’s achievements and the next phase of moving onto School.

3 December was CTC Children’s Services Christmas party, what a terrific turn out from families and staff. The night was celebrated in style with a sausage sizzle, face painting, Mr Wippie’s ice cream van and of course the favourite of the night Santa’s visit. Thank you to all of the families and children who attended for making it such an enjoyable evening.

Important Messages

1. CTC Children’s Services have always had a fee policy which states “ Fees must be paid two weeks in ad-vance at enrolment and maintained. Payments must be paid each week whilst your child is attending CTC Childcare Services. Failure to maintain your account will lead to the suspension of your child's enrolment until the account is paid in full including two weeks in advance.

2. Please ensure you give the services updated copies of all new immunisation as your child receives them.

0-2 Nursery

As an extension from some of the children’s beach holidays, the Educators and children explored an under water theme, creating paper plate fish, collage jelly fish, a group star fish and hand print crabs. Through these experiences the children’s fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and memory recall where enhanced. In recognition of Australia Day the children decorated flags.

The children have been exploring the sensory resources within the room. This has led to further developing children’s sensory skills, sight ,smell , touch, taste and hearing. This will extend into a variety of sensory experiences throughout the coming weeks.

2-4 Tigers

Children have expressed their holidays through creative art by painting pictures of their holidays and what they did, where they went and who they visited. From these pictures Educators extended onto dramatic play adventures and sparked discussions about camping and fishing. The children pretended to catch fish with their fishing rods seeing who could catch the biggest fish which then led to discussions about all the different types of fish.

Educators and children have been maintaining their gardens and have planted some new plants, this is an evolving project that has kept the children engaged and involved in the natural environment that surrounds them.

Pre- Prep

Dee has commenced at Community Kids as our new Pre-Prep Teacher and looks forward to the work she will do with all of your children. As it is the start of the year and the children are just starting to transition into their new environment they have been exploring all of the resources and equipment.

The children have been experimenting with numbers and recognition using room resources to count objects, photograph them and then display to visually see this link.

The children are exploring the natural world around them, collecting natural resources and building miniature gardens. This provides opportunities for the children to use their sensory skills.

School Aged Group

Vacation care was very busy and active with a variety of experiences from swimming, trips to the park, Carla’s Carnival visit, cooking experiences, arts and craft, and a visit from Bush Fire Brigade.

As it is the start of the school year, the children are getting back into routines, exploring the environment around them and starting new projects.

Recipe of the Month – Berry brekkie pops

Ingredients

180g (2/3 cup) thick Greek plain yoghurt or vanilla yoghurt

100g (3/4 cup) berry granola muesli

2 tablespoons maple syrup

125ml (1/2 cup) milk

125g raspberries, pureed

180g (2/3 cup) five:am Cacao Yoghurt 3 tablespoons chia seeds

Method

Divide the Greek yoghurt evenly among eight 100ml popsicle moulds. Tap the moulds on the bench to level. Top with the granola and place a wooden ice-block stick in the centre of each mould

Divide maple syrup among moulds. Place in the freezer for 2 hours or until set. Divide the milk among the moulds and freeze for 2 hours or until set. Divide the raspberry puree among the moulds and place in the freezer for 2-3 hours or until set.

Divide the cacao yoghurt among the moulds and tap on the bench to level. Sprinkle with chia seeds and place in the freezer for 8 hours or overnight until completely frozen.

CTC CHILDCARE SERVICES CONTACT DETAILS

Community Kids

07 4171 0033

Nanango Childcare Centre

07 4163 1279

Director

Renae White

Email: renaew@sbctc.com.au

Service Manager

Susan Jerome

Email: susanj@sbctc.com.au

CTC SERVICES CONTACT DETAILS

Headquarters 4162 9000

Disability Services

CROSB 4162 9081

Gumnut 4168 1852

Youth Services

Kingaroy 4162 7788

Murgon 4169 5940

Partners in Foster Care

Wondai 4169 0587

Events Calendar

March

6 Clean up Australia Day

8 International Women’s

Day

17 St Patrick’s Day

21 Harmony Day

25 Good Friday Centre

Closed

27 Easter Monday Centre

Closed

29 School Holidays start

- Vacation Care starts

Reminders

Sun Safety – remember to bring

wide brim hats

Send along a named water bottle

with your child each day

Children’s belongings to be clearly

labelled

Please bring shoes each day

for your child

Remember we are Nut Free

Zones that includes nut

products such as Nutella

CTC CHILDCARE BUS

SERVICE CTC Childcare Service offers a bus service to the

immediate Nanango district for children who

attend Community Kids or the Nanango Childcare

Centre. Using the service incurs a small cost of

$2.00 per child per day. For more information

please contact Megan or Renae.