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Together with the Australian Government, all state and territory governments have committed to provide access to a quality early childhood education program for all children, in the year before full-time schooling. Research shows that participating in a quality early childhood education program can significantly increase positive educational and life outcomes for children,

The Minister for Education, Mr Adrian Piccoli, has announced a $20 million initiative to reduce preschool fees for families with a 4 or 5 year old child.  Our service has been allocated a one-off funding amount to enable us to reduce preschool fees for children that will be starting school next year.

We appreciate the Government’s recognition of the importance of a preschool education.

For more information visit http://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/about-us/news-at-det/media-releases1/lower-preschool-fees-for-nsw-families1

Preschool will be closed from Monday 15th April to Friday 26th April for school holidays.  Normal preschool services will resume on Monday 29th April.

Have a restful and safe holiday!

Congratulations to all the winners of our Easter Raffle!  Many thanks to the parents and families that donated prizes and purchased tickets.

“Meeting the needs of young families living in outer rural areas in regards to early childhood childcare is a service many young mothers or newcomers may not be aware of.

In 1979, the Hunter Mobile Preschool was established to accommodate the needs of young children aged between three to six years living in outlying and rural areas in and around the Lower Hunter.”

Read more from Hunter Lifestyle magazine >>>

The first days for each venue next year will be:
Mulbring – Tuesday 29th January
Lochinvar – Wednesday 30th January
Wollombi – Wednesday 30th January
Gresford – Friday 1st February
Millfield – Friday 1st February

The end of the year is not far away. We would like to take this opportunity to wish the families and children who are moving onto school next year, good luck for the future. To the families and children returning to preschool, we look forward to a great year together. We hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Christmas Parties will be held for each venue on the following dates:

Millfield – Monday 10/12/12
Mulbring – Tuesday 11/12/12
Wollombi – Thursday 13/12/12
Lochinvar – Thursday 13/12/12
Gresford – Friday 14/12/12

If these are days that your child does not normally attend preschool, you and your child are still welcome to come for the party.

Tracy Kirkwood visited our preschool venues during this term to conduct simple, non-invasive vision screening on the 4 years olds. Tracy used games to conduct the screening.