Nyora Primary School - OSHC

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Hello, I'm Karen Farbus,

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and I'm principal of Nyora Primary School.

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OSHC has been operating in our school.

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We actually started last

year, probably about July,

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so it's been operating

for over a year now.

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We operate a school council

operated delivered OSHC program.

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The fact that we got a

grant for this program

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was really important for us.

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Being a small school,

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we have limited funds.

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So the grant offered us the opportunity

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to have a program in operation

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from the beginning of

the day right through

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in the afterschool programs as well.

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We wouldn't have been able to

do it without that support.

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My name is Wendy Noye,

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and I'm employed by Nyora

Primary School Council

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as the OSHC coordinator.

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The School Council wanted

operate the service.

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They wanted to be seen in

the community as an extension

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of the school.

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It's a really good thing to offer

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when you live out here in the country.

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Our parents love our OSHC program,

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because it offers them the

opportunity to be able to work,

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but also, the kids love it.

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And because the kids love it,

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then the parents feel happy

putting their children

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into our OSHC program.

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Wendy, our supervisor, is fantastic,

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and the kids absolutely love her.

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And they get very excited

when they get to do

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before and after school care.

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So our parents have really

responded well to it.

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My son attends after school care

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one afternoon a week.

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If it was up to him,

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he would come every single day.

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He absolutely loves after school care.

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He tells me that they

do different activities.

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He gets to spend more

time with his friends.

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I think that's probably the biggest thing,

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more time with his mates.

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It's freed up a lot of my hours at work.

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I don't have to rush home from work,

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and I can drop him off early

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so I can get to work earlier as well.

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The students love the OSHC service.

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They love to come to before

and after school care.

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They've taken real ownership

of the room, the program.

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Their voice is paramount

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in the whole setting up of the program.

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It's been really good.

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My favorite part about

before and after school care

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is that Wendy runs it,

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and she gets like a bunch

of really cool games.

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And we do painting every now and then.

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And we do a lot of fun things.

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The reason why we operate

a school council service

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is because we have total control over it.

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So that means that we

actually set it up completely

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so we know what's happening.

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We know the running of

the program as well.

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We know exactly the workings

of what is happening.

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The assistance that was

provided by the department

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was exceptional.

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Our policies, CCS advice, online forums,

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the OSHC central team

were extremely accessible

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all the time through the whole process.

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That made it a lot easier.

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The support from the

department really made it easy,

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and it was well worthwhile.

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And our program, how it operates today,

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just demonstrates that.

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