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Outside School Hours Care

About Hillcrest OSHC

OUR LOCATION
Hillcrest Christian College provides a quality Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) service on our College campus at 21 Bridgman Drive, Reedy Creek. Our College families enjoy the many benefits of our Before School, After School and Vacation Care programs, where our Prep - Year 6 students engage in a range of educational and dynamic activities in a nurturing, child-centred environment.

OUR SERVICE
Our programs are facilitated in the OSHC space, conveniently located near our Prep - Year 2 Castle Precinct. Students can access the College playgrounds and sporting facilities under the supervision of our friendly OSHC staff. Our child-to-educator ratio is one educator to 15 children as per Education and Care Services National Regulations. Our OSHC is licensed by the Office for Early Childhood Education and Care, and eligible families can claim the CCS (Child Care Subsidy) through Centrelink.

All children enrolling in our OSHC program will pay a once-off application fee of $27 per family. The application fee is required to be paid upon enrolment, followed by an Annual Service Fee of $27. On confirmation of your child’s enrolment, you will be emailed a parent handbook. 

Our OSHC service is closed for all public holidays and student-free days, where a student-free day is not attached to Vacation care. Our service operates 50 weeks per year.

Our OSHC service requires 48 hours notice before 9 am to cancel casual Before School Care, After School Care or Vacation Care bookings. These bookings will be removed from the system if the relevant notice is provided.  If your child has a permanent term time booking these bookings will be marked as absences.

If children are collected from the OSHC service after 6pm, $1 per minute will be charged to the parent's account.

Before School Care
6.30AM – 8.00AM| MONDAY - FRIDAY | TERM TIME

Children enrolled in Before School Care can be dropped to the OSHC space from 6:30am. Children will be provided breakfast and will be signed out of the service by the OSHC Coordinator at 8am. From 8am children are escorted to the JLC supervision areas by OSHC Educators for supervision before commencing class.

DAILY SESSION RATES FOR 2023: 

  • Permanent: $28 per child
  • Casual: $30 per child
After School Care
3.00PM - 6.00PM | Monday - Friday | Term Time

Prep students in our After School Care program are collected from the Prep classrooms by our OSHC educators at 2.30pm. Year 1 and Year 2 children are collected from the Castle reception area. Children will be signed into the service by the OSHC Coordinator and provided with afternoon tea. Children are encouraged to complete their homework before they participate in indoor and outdoor activities such as art and craft, board games and group sports.

DAILY SESSION RATES FOR 2023: 

  • Permanent: $32 per child
  • Casual: $34 per child
Vacation Care
6.30AM - 6.00PM | Monday - Friday | School Holidays 

Our Vacation Care program operates during all school holidays and pupil-free days. Vacation Care provides many interactive, fun and engaging activities, arts and crafts, games, and special days such as Scooter day and includes excursions/ incursions which incur a small additional fee. 

Parents must complete a Vacation Care booking form, before the upcoming holidays. It is important that booking forms are submitted as early as possible, to assist with planning and staffing the program. We do accept late bookings for Vacation Care, however, we cannot guarantee that a place will be available. 

DAILY SESSION RATES FOR 2022: 

  • Permanent/casual: $68 per child, per day (plus extra costs for incursions and excursions)
Contact OSHC or Register

For all communication regarding our OSHC Services please phone 07 5593 4226 or email oshc@hillcrest.qld.edu.au (For contact outside school hours 6:30am – 8am and 4pm – 6pm please contact 0400 212 656)

To register your child, please click this link