Dear Parents,
A big welcome to everyone as our first fantastic week in the new ELC ends. The children have settled in really well (although some 2 year olds are still adjusting !) and are thoroughly enjoying their wonderful new environment. We are still fine tuning some of our routines and practices but on the whole our transition has gone extremely well.
We did have a delay with our EFTPOS machine but it is now installed and available.
Our preference for fee payment is via Direct Debit and Julie Porter has the forms for this at the reception desk. As this will take a little while to be set up we need families to pay via EFTPOS for at least the first 2 weeks (more if you wish to) . Could you please see Julie to arrange this as soon as possible.
We have applied for our CCB provider number but it will take a couple of weeks to come through but it will be backdated to our start date. If you know that you are eligible for CCB and what your % is we can work out your approximate fee payable for you. (CCB is means tested)
If you are planning to claim the Childcare Tax Rebate (non means tested) you must still register with Centrelink and provide us with your Customer Reference number. This rebate is available to all families where both parents are working/studying or training and is worth up to $7800 per year per child.
Finally just letting all the families from Little Princes Kindergarten who are now on the new system know that you do not have to pick your children up right on 3pm if it is not convenient for you. They can stay and have afternoon tea if you would like them to as your daily fee covers this !
PS. We still need copies of lots of children's immunisation forms and now have a photocopier here if you would like us to copy them for you.
Jeanine
