Early Learning Centre Contact Information:
Telephone: 8231 3100 (School) 8231 3150 (Child care) Fax: 8231 3188
Email address: admin@sturtstcs.sa.edu.au
Leadership
Principal: Pat Cardone
Early Childhood Director: Anne-Marie Shin
Assistant Director ELC: Jillian Richardson
Clerical / Administration staff
Administration officer ELC: Catherine Hodgins (Tues, alt. Wed, Thurs)
Administration Assistant (inc. Payroll): Jenny Charles (alt. Mon & Wed)
Operating Times
Long Day Care : Monday – Friday: 7.45 am to 6.00 pm
Our Long Day Care service operates for 50 weeks of the year with a 2 week close-down period over Christmas and New Year.
Children attending care are required to be collected on time or a late fee will apply to cover the extended staffing costs
Priority of Access to Long Day Care Services.
The Australian Government has determined guidelines for allocating places in long day care as follows:
Priority 1 – a child at risk of serious abuse or neglect
Priority 2 – a child of a single parent who satisfies, or of parents who both satisfy, the work, training, study test under section 14 of A new tax system ( Family Assistance) Act 1999.
Priority 3 – any other child.
Priority should be given to children in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, children in families which include a disabled person, children in families which include an individual whose adjusted taxable income does not exceed the lower income threshold or who are on income support, children in families from a Non English speaking background, children of single parents.
Child Care Bookings
When you enrol you will be ‘booked in’ to the days which are available that meet your needs. If you wish to change these booked days, you need to
- fill in a notification of changes form
- If the days that you requested are not available – you will be placed on a waiting list
- if the days are available you will be contacted to let you know the starting date for the new arrangement of bookings.
You need to provide 2 weeks notice for changes to
- bookings
- holiday advice
- cancellation of bookings.
