Camp Hill Outside School Care Service

Melbourne Child Care lists Camp Hill Outside School Care Service in Camp Hill, who continued to provide excellent After School Care care, education and support for the children and their families of Camp Hill Australia.

At Camp Hill Outside School Hours Care we foster learning through observationally derived play based activities. We aim to enrich the children’s lives by introducing to them life skills, knowledge and experiences that go beyond their school learning. We value nature, community and sustainable development in both our tangible and intangible goals. We aim to impart a strong sense of self assessed boundaries and foster appropriate emotional behaviours in the children we work with. Healthy living and all things pertaining to it, is fundamental too much of our programming and practices.

Camp Hill Outside School Hours Care is a large service run by the Parents and Citizens Committee of Camp Hill Infants and Primary School.  Through the Parents and Citizens Committee we have strong links to the school and their processes, rules and regulations. The school has a large Special Education Program of which many of the children attend OSHC.  We also have links to many community groups.

At Camp Hill Outside School Hours Care we believe:

• Children should be at the centre of our focus.
• In the importance of building relationships with families and the wider community – the children, their families, our staff, the school, the Parents and Citizens Association volunteers and all key stakeholders.
• As educators we have the ability to scaffold and facilitate children’s learning through our belief that play and meaningful leisure is important in development and learning and that learning is not limited to any particular time or place. 
• It is important to create an environment that promotes safety, cleanliness and maintenance of equipment and surroundings with an atmosphere that is warm, welcoming and enjoyable. 
• We believe in working towards a sustainable and environmentally conscious service.
• Children should have access to a nutritious and varied diet that celebrates food and also supports the dietary needs of all children.

We aim to do this by:

• Being positive, caring and interactive role models as educators, leaders and peers through valuing each other and through self reflection.
• Facilitating learning that identifies and builds upon the children’s needs, prior knowledge, interests, school life, community and home life, ensuring real life connections, through listening, observing and understanding the children.
• Providing freedom of choice, a wide variety of resources, a flexible program and meaningful and intentional interactions, allowing the children to Be, Become and Belong.
• Striving to continually broaden our knowledge through personal and professional development opportunities.
• Providing a program that is holistic, dynamic and caters to the children’s physical, social, emotional, personal, spiritual, creative, cognitive, linguistic and cultural aspects of learning and development.
• Creating an environmentally thoughtful program and service.
• By providing a thoughtful and varied menu, involving the children in growing and cooking.