To comply with The Cancer Council recommendations we have separate timetables for summer and winter. We are a Cancer Council approved Sunsmart Centre. Hats and sunscreen are to be worn all year round except in June and July when the UV Index falls below 3.
Wet Weather Program
| 8.45 – 9.30am | Arrival, unpack bags and play downstairs. Say goodbye to parents |
| 9.30 – 9.40am | We come upstairs together and greet each other. We warm up our bodies, hands and fingers by participating in finger plays, rhymes and songs. All the activities in the room are explained and demonstrated to the class. |
| 9.40 – 9.50am | Bathroom and morning tea. Children are expected to manage their own needs, clothes, wash and dry their hands (with assistance where necessary). |
| 9.50 – 11.00am | Indoor activities including art and craft, literature and communication, imaginative and dramatic play, construction or table toys, science and investigation games and cognitive and maths experiences. |
| 11.00 – 11.10am | Pack away. Sunscreen application when necessary. |
| 11.10 – 11.30am | Group time/language group/music group e.g. dance or movement, musical instruments, action songs, felt stories, drama, pre-writing and number, puppets, topical information, interest areas. |
| 11.30am – 12.00pm | Hats on and outdoor play |
| 12.00 – 12.30pm | Music & movement session. Pack away downstairs |
| 12.30 – 1.00pm | Toilet and lunch |
| 1.00 – 2.00pm | Sleep and rest time (1.40pm quiet activities on beds) |
| 2.00 – 2.30pm | Pack away beds, shoes on. Sunscreen application when necessary. Koala newsbags – ‘show and tell’ time encourages the children to speak with confidence to the class and improves their language. Each child will have many turns during the year.
Story time and Possum newsbags |
| 2.00 – 2.30pm | Hats on and outdoor play |
| 2.30 – 3.15pm | Mat activities (quiet activities, construction toys and puzzles while we wait to be collected), then home. |
Daily Program
| 8.45 – 9.30am | Arrival and outdoor play (parents should have applied sunscreen prior to leaving home). Say goodbye to parents |
| 9.30 – 10.00am | Outdoor play |
| 10.00 – 10.10am | Pack away downstairs |
| 10.15 – 10.45am | Bathroom. Finger plays, explanation of activities, morning tea (morning tea is eaten sitting on small chairs on the veranda). We encourage healthy eating, preferably fresh fruit. |
| 10.45am – 12.00noon | Indoor activities (as per Winter program) |
| 12.00 – 12.15pm | Pack away |
| 12.15 – 12.35pm | Group time. |
| 12.35 – 1.00pm | Bathroom and lunch |
| 1.00 – 2.00pm | Rest time. (1.40pm – Quiet activities on beds) |
| 2.00 – 2.30pm | Downstairs play |
| 2.30 – 3.15pm | Group activity/story, then home |
