Out of School Care Hours
Crown Street Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) is a vibrant and inclusive program run onsite at Crown Street Public School.
The OSHC service employs an appropriately qualified Co-ordinator and Child Educators to provide daily care for children. The aim of the service is to assist families by the provision of OSHC in a safe, inclusive and friendly environment.
This service is for students from Crown Street Public School only.
Students from other schools, including secondary schools, are not eligible to attend the Crown St OSHC, with the exception of Vacation Care. Vacation Care is open to ALL children.
Aims
- To provide out-of-school hours service to all children in the school, inclusive of all abilities, cultural backgrounds, religious beliefs, family incomes.
- To provide a safe and happy environment for children, thus enabling parents to pursue work, study and other activities.
- To provide children with a range of activities and experiences that will assist their emotional, social, physical & creative development.
- To create a warm, fair and friendly environment for children, parents/carers and staff.
Where: Crown Street Public School, 356 Crown Street, Surry Hills
Hours of Operation:
- 07.00am to 9.00am Monday to Friday (Before School Care)
- 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm Monday to Friday (After School Care )
Daily Fees:
Before School Care – $16.00 per session, casual rate $19.00 per session
After School care – $22.00 per session, casual rate $25.00 per session
Children will be provided with nutritional snacks when attending OSHC.
Our menus may include sandwiches, crackers, vegetable sticks, pizza, pasta, noodles, muffins, yogurt, fruit and water. On hot days fruit based ice-blocks may be provided.
OSHC Program
The OSHC Program is designed to provide a range of age appropriate indoor and outdoor activities that are safe, fun and stimulating. Activities include art and craft, cooking, play, games, homework and sports. While children are given a choice of, and encouragement to participate in the range of activities offered, activities are not mandatory.
Our general program includes activities such as
- Art& craft
- Indoor and outdoor play
- Long term, interest based projects
- Music and movement
- Cooking
- Creativity and imagination
- Rest and relaxation
- Respect, inclusion and community involvement
- Individual and group based activities
- Free play
- Visiting performers/educational programs
- Breakfast and afternoon tea
We also provide special programs such as Kung Fu, and fun and educational Coding and Robotics workshops.
All OSHC enrolments are done via the ‘My Family Lounge App’.
Please click on the links below for instructions on how to enrol using the My Family Lounge App.
Vacancies and Enquiries: There are limited vacancies due to high demand. Please contact the Co-ordinator for all correspondence, bookings and enquiries as follows:
To enrol your child click the button below.
Please note: If you want your children to be picked up by someone other than yourself, you need to give us written, signed and dated authorisation showing the name of the person picking up your child.
Payment Procedure:
- As SHNC is a not-for-profit organisation fee payments are required to ensure the continued operation of the OSHC service.
- SHNC debits 2 weeks in advance of attendance
- Payments can be made by EZPAY DIRECT DEBIT ONLY.
Childcare Subsidy
To establish what level of Child Care Subsidy you may be entitled to please contact the Centrelink Family and Parents line on 13 61 50 or to estimate what your new Child Care Subsidy might be, go to the Government’s Payment and Services Finder here. Our fee information is provided by service on this website.
Calculating your CCS:
Three things will determine how much subsidy the Government will contribute to your child care fees, these are:
- Combined family annual adjusted taxable income (the percentage of subsidy a family will be entitled to will be based on their combined annual income)
- Activity test: The number of hours of subsidised child care that families will have access to per fortnight will be based on the activity level of both parents in the workforce, or other recognised activity such as studying hours of paid work, self-employed work, approved training or study, and voluntary work.
- Activity test (the type of child care service a family uses for child care).
