Dear Coleraine and District Kindergarten Parent,
Thank you for
your 2017 enrolment with the Coleraine and District Kindergarten. Following the Annual General Meeting last
night we would like to confirm several details for the 2017 kindergarten year.
Josie Ahearn holds the position of Four-year Old Teacher and
Educational Leader for 2017. Session times for the Four-year Old Group will be
8:55am-1:55pm Monday, Tuesday and Friday. In 2017 Trotter’s Bus Company will continue
to drop our travelers off second to facilitate the change in starting times.
The first session will be on the 31st of January. Please see Josie’s parent
letter and student ‘Hi There’ letter for special details of her programme. Maree
Hadden will continue on as Three-year Old Group Teacher and Four-year Old Group
Assistant with Jo Povey as the Three-year Old Group Assistant. The session time
for the Three-year Old Group will remain 8:45am-11:45am Thursday. The first
session will be on the second of February. Please see the Maree’s letter for
special details of session times.
Please note that parents are not able to leave children
unaccompanied on the premises outside the above session times due to the
licensing provisions of our kindergarten. We ask that you remain with your
child if you happen to be early to kindergarten and ring in if you are running
late so that an extra staff member or additional parent can remain on the
premises.
Very few other kindergartens run a separate programme for
three-year olds as they receive no government funding. Our healthy numbers, at
this stage ten confirmed enrolments, indicate toward its popularity and the
impact it has on drawing young families to our town for education. The four year-old programme, which currently
has 10 confirmed enrolments, receives government subsidies to cover wages for
the teacher and the compulsory assistant. All our Committee are volunteers and
we truly are a community organisation, so please come along to the next meeting
and see how we run the kindergarten. Date has been set by the new Committee of
Management as seventh of February. Meetings are open to all General Members
(parents with a child enrolled or those community members nominated, seconded
by a General Member and paying a donation of not less than one dollar).
Incoming Committee of Management are in the AGM Minutes circulated by Tanya
Maclachlan, outgoing Secretary.
Please
subscribe to our blog http://www.colerainekindergarten.blogspot.com.au/ from a
desktop computer. Emails of event updates will then automatically be sent to
you as they are uploaded by the teachers and Committtee. Otherwise check it
from any device. If you have any questions about our management, programmes or
fundraising, please ask a staff or Committee member and we will endeavor to
answer them. A Parent Library is by the kinder entrance. It has a folder on the
Combined Pre-schools of the Southern Grampians, current policies, the Statement
of Purposes, Minutes of meetings and other important documents.
Kind
regards,
Signed on behalf
of the service:
Georgina Templeton
Vice-President,
Coleraine &
District Kindergarten
