Jindalee School Aged Care Program

Jindalee School Age Care Program

2 days ago

Well, that’s a wrap on 2024- and what a year it’s been!

Children engaged in a plethora of play based learning: discovering, creating, cooperating, collaborating, imagining, improvising, and problem solving their way through before and after school care. There were new games taught like Gauntlet and pool noodle hockey and more leisure activity options introduced through card and board games.

We introduced BSC and ASC clubs for yoga, gardening, fitness bootcamps, and drawing. We celebrated the Olympics and Paralympics, learning about inclusion and diversity in and out of the sporting world, and hosted our very first colour run.

You helped us give back to the community with projects like our Baby Give Back clothing drive, Containers For Change drink container collection, and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation Book Swap. Children supported these initiatives by sorting and packing clothes and containers and setting up and running the book swap station.

The seniors teamed up with educators to create their own box of activities exclusively for them to use in a separate space to foster their engagement and transformation into independent young people.

We said goodbye to familiar faces (Nina, Jess, Sophie, David), and welcomed some new ones (Matilda, Claire, Teah, Evie).

We received family feedback not only from our vacation care surveys, but also our Quality Improvement Plan surveys that allowed us to better evaluate, design, and curate our spaces and what we offer within them.

We promoted child agency and voice by introducing tribal council meetings and child feedback notes so they could tell us what they liked and what we should program or change in the future.

Children and educators cooked, created, crafted, conversed and much more!
We have loved spending 2024 with all, and we can’t wait to see what 2025 will bring! ... See MoreSee Less