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Important reminder for all families!
‼️IMPORTANT INFORMATION‼️
CCS rates will adjust and apply as of 11th July 2022 which is the start of the new CCS financial year.
We spent this weekend polishing & restoring our beautiful wooden tables in our preschool area at Erina kindy! We look forward to lots of fun on Monday ready to play & learn!
New & improved outdoor surface for our lovely snuggles! Ready for Monday madness!!
Dear Families,
Absences for the new financial year
In the 2021/2022 financial year, families were given an extra 10 allowable absences bringing the total number to 52. For the 2022/2023 financial year, this will revert back to 42 allowable absences.
Waiving Gap Fees
As of 1st July, 2022 we are no longer able to waive the Gap fee for absences due to COVID. Previously, we were able to waive the gap fee for four reasons:
1. The child or a member of their immediate household must isolate due to COVID 19.
2. The child is at a higher risk of severe disease from COVID 19 (this began from 27/1/22)
3. The service, or a room at the service is closed due to COVID 19.
4. The state or territory has restricted access to childcare in a region due to COVID 19.
As of 1st July, this no longer applies, and we cannot waive the gap fee for any reason.
Absences at the start or end of an enrolment
In the 2021/2022 financial year, CCS would be paid for up to seven absence days before the child attended their first day of care and after the child’s last physical day of attendance due to COVID related reasons without the need for a doctors certificate/evidence.
As of 1st July, CCS will only be paid for up to seven days before the child attended their first day of care and after the child’s last physical day of attendance for the below approved reasons only:
any of the additional absence reasons(click the link to see these reasons)
The child’s child care service has changed ownership
The child’s usual child care service is closed and the child attends a different service under the same child care provider
The child’s enrolment ceased incorrectly
The family have experienced a family tragedy. We ask families to please provide evidence for any of the above reasons.
We're very excited about our brand new 2022 campaign and beanie designs!
On May 1st our new campaign and beanie designs will be revealed!!!
You can purchase a beanie from the 1st June 2022 on the Mark Hughes Foundation website or at any Lowes store across Australia and all IGA stores in NSW, Act & QLD.
Our dedicated Beanie for Brain Cancer Week is June 27st-1st July 2022. Wear your favourite beanie & donate to the mark Hughes foundation.
Crazy hair week at erina kindy from 20th -24th June.
Educator of the Month
At Erina Kindergarten we pride ourselves on having high quality Educators. We like to recognise Educators that have demonstrated excellence by awarding them with an Educator of the Month Award along with a $100 gift voucher. This month our educator of the month goes to Miss Tani room leader in the bilbies for going above and beyond, being passionate and dedicated to her job and caring for the children in her care.
A big shoutout of congratulations to our amazing bushbabies team, who care for our beautiful bushbabies in our babies room at Erina Kindergarten.
Our bushbabies team is lead by Miss Nikita & Miss Hanna who are both our team leaders & our wonderful bushbabies team of educators who have been working exceptionally hard on their continued compliance management & have excelled in their compliance audit & continued improvement initiatives. Great job team we hope you enjoy your yummy presents!!
A massive week of continued learning at Erina kindergarten with some amazing interactive learning setups to suit our young students! Great work team #erinakindy
We celebrated the biggest morning tea at Erina kindergarten this morning. Thank you for the wonderful donations & creations!!
The lovely Miss Mel is having a baby! We celebrated today with a little baby shower & a delicious spread from phat platters! Congratulations Miss Mel & we will miss you whilst you are on maternity leave & we look forward to meeting the little baby boy very soon!
Families, can you please send through your child’s current immunisation statement from Medicare if we don’t have this on file as we need this in your child’s enrolment folder.
Please ensure your child’s immunisations are not up to date at all times, centrelink will cancel your CCS subsidy if they are not up to date.
27 MAY TO 3 JUNE
The National Reconciliation Week 2022 theme, “Be Brave. Make Change.” is a challenge to all Australians— individuals, families, communities, organisations and government—to Be Brave and tackle the unfinished business of reconciliation so we can Make Change for the benefit of all Australians.
Last year Reconciliation Australia encouraged all Australians to take action; not just in National Reconciliation Week but every week of the year.
We saw unprecedented response to our suggested actions for everyday and for braver action.
This year we are asking everyone to make change beginning with brave actions in their daily lives – where they live, work, play and socialise.
National Reconciliation Week—27 May to 3 June—is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
Find out more about National Reconciliation Week #NRW2022 #bebravemakechange
We ❤️ autumn at #erinakindy
Hi Families,
Just a reminder next week we have the start of our Meet and Greet times with our Educators at Erina Kindergarten .This is an opportunity where you can return to the outdoor environments and talk to our child’s educators and room leaders if you have any concerns or goals to work towards within the room and see how your child is going. We understand not everyone will be able to make it at these times and the educators are still supervising at these times so if you would like the room leaders to phone you during the day or you need a longer conversation, all you need to do is send through an email to info@erinakindergarten.com.au requesting this and we will pass this onto the room leaders to be in touch with you. If you have any questions please let us know we hope to see some families attend enhancing our partnerships with our educators.
Monday 9th is the Bilbies 4-4.30pm
Tuesday 10th is the Emus 4-4.30pm
Wednesday 11th is Bush babies 4-430pm.
Monday 16th Koalas 4-430pm
Wed 18th Snugglepots 4-430pm
Thurs 19th May Gumnuts 4-430pm
Wed 25th May Joeys 4-430pm
Happy Mother’s Day celebrations for our joeys & koalas room to our special persons in our lives
Educator of the Month
At Erina Kindergarten we pride ourselves on having high quality Educators. We like to recognise Educators that have demonstrated excellence by awarding them with an Educator of the Month Award along with a $100 gift voucher. This month our educator of the month goes to Miss Jemma( trainee) in the Joeys for interactions with the children & educators, dedication to the Joeys room and she is motivated to learn and she is already writing curriculum reflections .
Mothers day -Afternoon tea Celebrations with our Mums/nans /special people - 2nd June Preschool Joeys and Koalas , 3rd June babies, 4th June Snuggles, 5thJune Bilbies & Emus , 6th June Gumnuts
Hi Everyone
Just a reminder next week - Monday 2nd May to Friday 6th May is Photo Week, a schedule of your child's photo day will be sent out as soon as we receive this from the photographers.
Thank you 🙏
Lest we forget
Hi Families,
Just to let you know we will be celebrating Mother’s Day with afternoon tea’s from 3.30pm for our mums, nans and special people in our lives. These afternoon teas will take place in our outdoor environments/ yards during the week of 2nd to 6th of May 2022.
Monday 2nd – Joeys and Koalas
Tuesday 3rd Bush Babies
Wednesday 4th Snugglepots
Thursday 5th Bilbies & Emus
Friday 6th Gumnuts
We hope to see all our loving mums, nans, grandmars and special people on these afternoons to enjoy a relaxing chat, sweet treats and play with their children. If you have any questions please email info@erinakindergarten.com.au .
Kind Regards,
Mel English
Director
Erina Kindergarten
361 Terrigal Drive Erina NSW 2250
02 43677285
Happy Easter to all our amazing educators & families! We hope the Easter bunny spoils you rotten!! #erinakindy
Thank you to all our wonderful educators for making this years Easter hat parade such a success! We wish to thank all our families for attending & making such wonderful Easter hat creations with their children. We wish all our families & educators an amazing Easter 🐣 #erinakindy
After many months of waiting our stem boards have finally arrived at #erinakindy & the children absolutely love them! We are always purchasing new & innovative resources to engage our students in learning through play! We are so glad these stem boards are such a success!! #erinakindy
Happy Easter to all our wonderful educators & families! We hope you enjoy some quality time with your friends & family.
Easter bunny 🐰 visits all week at Erina kindy! Smiles all round!! #erinakindy
Preschool Easter 🐣 hat parade celebrations! #erinakindy
Gumnuts Easter 🐣 hat parade #erinakindy
Time limits for confirming income for Child Care Subsidy
When you get Child Care Subsidy (CCS) you must confirm your family’s income after the end of each financial year. There are time limits for how long you have to do this.
If you got CCS or Assisted Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) for 2019-20 and didn’t confirm your family’s income by 30 June 2021, your payments will have stopped. From 12 July 2021, they will have reduced to 0%. However, we will have continued to pay your Child Wellbeing payments.
If you got CCS for 2020-21 you have until 30 June 2022 to confirm your family’s income. If you don’t confirm your income, your CCS will stop. It will reduce to 0% from 11 July 2022. This will also apply if you get ACCS. However, Child Wellbeing payments will continue.
If your CCS and ACCS stop, you’ll have to pay full fees for any child care you use.
If they stop, we can start them again once you’ve confirmed your income, provided you’re still eligible. Centrelink will restart them from the first day of your next CCS fortnight.
A CCS fortnight is a 2-week period that starts every second Monday. For example, the first CCS fortnight for the 2021-22 year started on Monday 12 July 2021.
If there’s a gap between your CCS and ACCS stopping and starting again, we won’t back pay you for that period.
If your CCS has cancelled and you want to claim CCS again, you’ll need to have done both of the following:
confirmed your family’s income for any financial years that you got CCS and that you haven’t done this for
paid back any money you owe or set up a payment arrangement.