News from the Committee

Nearly 2 terms have passed since our last Newsletter and we have certainly been busy. In that time we have fare welled Mt Lawley Out of School Care to whom we provided a temporary home after they lost their premises at the school.  We wish them well as they re-establish their services at new premises close to Mt Lawley Primary.

We also welcomed a new supervisor, Maija, to our North Perth centre in Term 2.  Read on a little later in our newsletter to learn more about Maija.

We have also been busy reviewing our strategic plans and our vision and mission for our service.  After a couple of debilitating years where we have been working hard to save the organisation from closure and to stabilise finances and staff we felt it was important to take a fresh and positive approach to our future.  Read on in our newsletter for our first draft of a new Mission Statement. We welcome comments.

We have also continued to work on improving our invoicing and we appreciate your patience.  We realise we must provide timely and accurate invoices and this remains as a key focus for us in the coming weeks.

NORPOSC Committee

Mt Lawley Out of School Care Opening New Centre

Hi All
Mt Lawley Out of School Care are opening a new centre close to the school which will begin operation on 16th August 2010. 

This means that North Perth Out of School Care Centre will no longer be operating a bus service from Mt Lawley Primary School with the last day of service on 13th August 2010.  Parents of Mt Lawley children currently in our service need to enrol in the Mt Lawley service and contact details and enrolment forms are available from our North Perth centre.

For families paying by direct debit, invoices for July will be sent out by mail next week and any outstanding amounts owing will be deducted from your final direct debit payment.  Then future direct debit payments scheduled will be cancelled.

If you have any concerns don't hesitate to contact Maija or the committee.
Karen Chew, President

Fee increase for After School Care

Dear Parents,
Our centre has now transitioned to the new modern federal award.  This has meant a significant increase in our staff wages costs and as a result we need to increase our fees by $1 per day for after school care.  The new daily full fee is now $21 per day effective for Term 3, 2010.
While this doesn't cover the full wages increase, we are confident that we can find savings in other areas to make up the difference.

NORPOSC Committee

Welcome to the NORPOSC Blog!

Hi Everyone,

To improve our communications with our members we have joined the 21^st Century by starting a blog for our organisation!  So Welcome!

Have fun exploring our site.  You will see on the left hand side links to important information as well as links for you to download forms and publications.  You might like to download our updated Parent Handbook which has the latest information.  We will using this site to give you more regular information about what is going on in the centre as well as posting holiday care programs so that you can get them hot off the press.

The site also has all our contact details of our senior staff and committee members.

Keep an eye out on this site and let us know if you have any suggestions.

Best wishes for this term.

Karen Chew

President