LET’S GET TOGETHER AND RAISE AS MUCH MONEY AS WE CAN FOR OUR PRESCHOOL. TRY AND GET AS MANY PEOPLE TO COME AS YOU CAN. TICKETS ARE JUST $10 ENTRY THERE WILL BE APPROX 30 STALLS, LUCKY DOOR, RAFFLES, SILENT AUCTIONS ETC. COME FOR A GREAT NIGHT OF FUN AND SHOPPING. IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT BUT STILL WANT TO DONATE YOUR $10 PLEASE GIVE IT TO THE STAFF AT YOUR VENUE.  THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP LETS MAKE THIS A SUCESSFUL NIGHT!!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE A STALL PLEASE CONTACT RACHEAL ON THE NUMBER BELOW, APPLICATIONS CLOSE SUNDAY THE 9^TH NOVEMBER.

Mothers Night In

Hunter Mobile Preschool is a mobile preschool service, established to accommodate the needs of young preschool children in outlying and rural areas in and around the Lower Hunter area including Cessnock, Gresford, Lochinvar, Gillieston Heights, Mullbring, Wollombi and Millfield. We are licensed by The NSW Department of Human Services (Community Services).

The Lower Hunter Activity Van Association has been operating since 1979. As a service, we are committed to providing staff of the highest quality and experience. We strive, through our teamwork, toward creating a safe, caring and friendly environment, which will afford children the highest quality care with learning opportunities that allow them to develop at their own rate.

Hunter Mobile Preschool is a Not-for-Profit, Community Based Preschool Service. Being a Community Based Preschool means the preschool is managed by the parents whose children are attending the preschool at that time, strengthening the community’s investment in the service. As a Not-for-Profit Preschool, all money that comes in is put back into the preschool for the children. This is a requirement of the Department of Education and Communities. As we are not aiming to generate a profit, we can spend more on staffing, equipment and other resources benefitting every child that attends our service

We are holding a market to help raise money to upgrade our venues and for new toys, crafts and supplies for our kids.

There are 25+ market stalls on the night for you to be able to have a browse, shop and chat with friends.

We are having raffles, lucky door prizes and heaps of other activities on the night.

Where: Club Maitland City (beside KFC Rutherford)

When: 25^th November

Time: 630pm-9pm you can arrive at any time during this period

Cost: $10 entry per person

To purchase your ticket please contact Racheal on 0424847252 or Hunter Mobile Preschool at lhactivityvan@bigpond.com

The end of term 3 is fast approaching.  The last day of term will be Friday 19th September.  Preschool will resume on Tuesday 7th October, due to the Labour Day Public Holiday on Monday 6th October.

We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable break!

School holidays are almost upon us, the last day of term 2 is Friday 27th June and preschool will resume for term 3 on Monday 14th July.

We hope you enjoy your break!

A huge thank you to Donaldson Coal for their generous grant to build a sandpit at our Lochinvar venue!

The Easter Holidays are nearly upon us.  Term 1 finishes on Friday 11th April and Term 2 will commence on Monday 28th April.  If you are looking for some great ideas for things to do at home with the kids over the holidays, visit thewhoot.com.au  or click on the link below for some great craft and cooking ideas.

Have a happy and safe Easter break!

Hunter Mobile Preschool is excited to be joining in the Entertainment Membership Fundraising initiative this year.   We will be selling both the traditional Entertainment™ Book Membership that comes with the Gold Card and vouchers and the brand new Entertainment™ Digital Membership that puts the value of the Entertainment™ Book into your iPhone or Android smartphone.  Both memberships cost $60, with $12 from the sale going directly to our fundraising.   Entertainment™ Memberships contain over $20,000 in valuable offers you can use until 1st June, 2015 including thousands of valuable up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers from many of the best restaurants, cafés, arts, attractions, hotel accommodation, travel and much more!  Memberships will be available for sale from early April either through our website or on the order form that will be sent home soon.

Hunter Mobile Preschool is joining with other early education and care services across NSW next Thursday 29^th August to protest against the NSW State Government’s lack of investment in early education and proposed changes to funding of community based preschools and long day care services.

Preschools and long day care services across NSW are having a ‘red day of action’ to highlight the fact that NSW spends less on early education than any other State and Territory. On the day, children, staff and parents at Hunter Mobile Preschool will wear red clothing to show how fired up they are about the lack of funding from the NSW Government. The red day of action at services across the State will be accompanied by a rally and protest at Parliament House in Sydney from 7.30am.

“It is just not good enough that the NSW Government spends less on early education per child than any other State or Territory. We need greater investment in our children by the NSW Government. We know that children that participate in early education do better in school and in later life, but the NSW Government has not increased funding despite this being the first recommendation of a review they commissioned into funding for early childhood education”

The Government is also proposing changing how not-for-profit preschools and long day care services are funded, a move that will be bad for all of our preschool venues.

The Government has proposed removing funding for 3 year old children attending preschools. This means that Hunter Mobile Preschool will be forced to charge higher fees for 3 year old children. They have also suggested that some preschools will receive less funding. If this occurs to Hunter Mobile Preschool, our fees will have to increase for all ages.

A report reduced last week by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education stated that “To realise the potential of all students, children need access to high quality early learning programs from before they turn three until school entry.” The NSW Government has over a number of years spent less on early education and care than any other state and territory in Australia. This has meant higher preschool fees, and subsequently lower participation in early education than any other state or territory.

Australian three and four year olds are engaged in formal early education at one of the lowest rates in the world, and NSW has the lowest rates in Australia. The OECD report Education at a Glance 2013 showed that only 13 per cent of Australian three-year-olds and 67 per cent of four-year-olds are engaged in early education.

The OECD reported that Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test scores have shown that children across the world who access early education have improved  cognitive abilities and higher reading abilities at age 15.

Children and families at Hunter Mobile Preschool will be participating in the red day of action to ensure that they and future children of Gresford, Wollombi, Millfield, Mulbring and Lochinvar will continue to get access to the benefits of early education and care.

For more information please visit:

http://www.earlyeducation.org.au/

Thanks for your fantastic support during the Woolworths Earn and Learn Campaign.  We collected 4200 Earn and Learn points to spend on equipment for preschool!

Thank you to the parents and friends of Hunter Mobile Preschool that came along to help at the Masters BBQ on Sunday 30 June.  We raised a total profit of $801.15 on the day while having a great time staying out of the rain and listening to the band rock the day away.

We are the proud owners of two new Ford Transit Vans!!!!  We picked up the new vans at the end of the school holidays and are in the process of arranging sign writing for them.  Keep a look out at your venues for our flash new vehicles