Out of School Hours Care

Wangaratta West Primary School is committed to providing outside school hours care (OSHC) including Before School Care, After School Care and Vacation Care to families within the school community.

The OSHC program provides a wide variety of supervised high quality play, recreational activities, and learning and life experiences which assist school age children in all areas of development. The OSHC program is appropriate to a child’s age, stage of development, family and cultural background.

A main objective of the program is to support child initiated/spontaneous play, ensuring that the child’s right to play and the value of the child-initiated/spontaneous play is structured within the service. To do this the children are provided with a safe and stimulating environment, offering them the time to explore, create, experiment and express themselves as they choose.

Wangaratta West Primary School OSHC service abides by legislative requirements to meet the vision for children’s development through play-based learning and leisure. We hold in the forefront of all our practices, the 5 outcomes for children as outlined in the “My Time, Our Place” Early Years Learning and Development Framework. These five outcomes ensure we aim for our children to have a strong sense of identity, for our children to feel connected with and contribute to their world, for our children to have a strong sense of wellbeing, for our children to be confident and involved learners and for our children to be effective communicators.

This program operates during hours which will allow for families to pursue employment and/or training.

OSHC Enrolment

To enrol please follow the steps below.

Please use the following link to our Online Enrolment form which you can complete and submit to our service.

Enrolment Link: https://prodadmin.myxplor.com/enrollment_v2/centre/fvSOdQRQ0OTtwaBHaSMRyg

The communication below is going to provide information about how to set up your Xplor account and how to use key features via our Home App. 

Once you have completed the enrolment form for our service and this has been reviewed by our Admin team, you will then receive an email from Xplor, welcoming you to our service and providing you with a ‘Create Account’ link.  

·       Please use this link to set a password, pin and enter your mobile number

·       If you haven’t received this email yet, please be sure to check your Spam and Junk folders and search for ‘Xplor’ in your inbox, or go to home.myxplor.com and select ‘Forgot Password?’ 

Once you have set up your Xplor credentials, you can then go to your nominated app store to search for and download the Xplor Home app.

The Home parent app will allow you to sign your child in and out on the HUB and make bookins/cancelation.

You may also choose to invite ‘Contacts’ for family members and friends to sign your children in and out of care. To do this, click the ‘Account’ menu on the bottom tab. Select :Contacts’, The select the + sign in the top right corner to send an email invitation.  

They will then receive an email to join Xplor where they must follow, the same HUB registration steps to create their Xplor password and Set their pin. 

If you experience any difficulties setting up your Xplor account, please speak with the staff at your service. 

For more information on our service operations please select the Family Handbook tab.

Place Family Handbook Tab here

Bookings & Cancellations

Casual bookings and cancelation are made using the Xplor Hone App, an enrolment must be submitted prior to making a booking. Bookings are subject to availability.

Cancelations must be made within 24 hours to ensure fees are not applied. Exceptions to this policy are made for children who are absent from school and care due to Illness. In this case families are required to inform the service via text that their child is ill on 0407004059. Vacation Care bookings should only be made using the Xplor Home App

Permanent bookings or cancelations are made by texting the service on 0407004059. An enrolment must be completed prior to making a booking. Bookings are subject to availability.

Before school care

Monday through Friday (excluding public holidays) Wangaratta West OSHC offers care from 6.30am, with a breakfast served until 8:15am, children will walk to their class at 8:45am to begin their school day. Prep children will be accompanied to class by one of our educators for the first 6 weeks of their enrolment or until they feel confident to go on their own

Breakfast options will include;

• Fresh seasonal fruits and/or yoghurt

• Cereal (weetbix, rice bubbles and corn flakes etc)

• Wholemeal toast with a variety of spreads

• Water and milk to drink

Educators encourage and assist children to make their own breakfast. On occasion children help educators make a home cooked breakfast. The Before School Care space is set up to encourage play and investigation and offers a wide variety of play resources and spaces to engage children.  

After School Care

Monday through Friday (excluding public holidays) Wangaratta West OSHC offers care from 3.20pm – 6:00pm, with afternoon tea provided at 3.30pm. Our afternoon tea generally consists of fruit, veg, cheese and biscuits followed by a mini meal such as

• Pasta

• Fried Rice

• Yoghurt and much more

 To view our weekly menu please see our OSHC notice board or Seesaw app.

 Children are welcome to bring their lunch boxes to care. For the health and safety of the children in our care, we ask that no junk food or foods containing nuts be brought into the service

 Our After Care Program consists of activities based on community events, celebrations, children’s interests, suggestions and The Early Years Learning and Development Framework.

We focus strongly on child initiated play and encourage this by setting up our OSHC environment to include the following play spaces.

·     Quiet/Calm Area

·     Dramatic Play

·     Creative Inspiration

·     Music and Motion

·     Construction

·     Physical

Holiday Care

Throughout the school holidays from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays and the period of time between the end of term four and New Year’s Day, Wangaratta West OSHC offers care from 6.30am - 6pm. The holiday care program allows for a far greater range of activities to be enjoyed as the session is much longer. Children engage in a variety of indoor and outdoor planned and spontaneous activities as well as weekly excursions and incursions. The program specifies the planned activities for each day and is available a fortnight before each holiday care session begins. 

There is no food provided throughout the holiday care program unless the program specifies a cooking activity. Children must bring along their lunchbox with enough food and drink to last them for the amount of time they will be participating in the program each day. Although children can wear casual clothing (not their school uniform) it is important while attending the holiday care program that children adhere to the other specifications of the uniform policy. Specifically points of; jewellery, footwear, sun smart guidelines and naming children's clothing.