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Australia says thank you

💕💕Happy Early Childhood Educators' Day to our wonderful Educators. 💕💕

Today we recognises and celebrates the wonderful contribution to the wellbeing and healthy development of the young children in their care.

Today is a chance to say thank you to your educators.

Australia says thank you Early Childhood Educators' Day recognises and celebrates the work of Australia's educators in early learning services for their wonderful contribution to the...

Don’t forget to say Thank You to your Educator tomorrow

Don’t forget to say Thank You to your Educator tomorrow

Congratulations to Red Dirt Famy Day Care. Amazing effort!

What you need to do so we can balance your payments

It’s that time of the year again😊.

What you need to do so we can balance your payments

[07/07/21]   Ngala Family Day Care is reviewing it's Philosophy and is seeking collaboration from our Ngala families and families within the community. Please post below a few words that express your beliefs and passions about child hood and quality child care! If you prefer send us your thoughts to [email protected].

Ngala Family Day Care updated their website address.

Ngala Family Day Care updated their website address.

[07/06/21]   Ngala Family Day Care are seeking expressions of interest for childcare educators to join our team. �

Do you like working with children? Looking for flexibility.
As a Ngala Family Day educator, you get to:
• Work with a very supportive service
• Work directly in families to meet their childcare needs
• Organise your days to suit the children you work with
• Run your own small business – educators are self employed
• Work the days and hours that suit you (and the families you are caring for)
• Work with children from birth to end of primary school age

To be a Education & Care Educator you need to have the following:
• Hold a childcare related qualification or be willing to studying towards (minimum Certificate III ECEC)
• Hold a Working With Children Check
• Maintain current First Aid Certificate including CPR, Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification
• Criminal History Check - National - current or willing to obtain one (less than 6 months old)
• A childcare building could be made available for suitable applicants.

Give us a call today on �9934 6565 or send an email to � [email protected]

Leaving children home alone: things to think about

With the school holidays starting, it is important to assess if your child is ready to be left at home alone.

Leaving children home alone: things to think about Many parents wonder about leaving children home alone: when is it OK? Start by thinking about your family situation and the age and maturity of your child.

30 June 2021 deadline for Child Care Subsidy - Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Australian Government

Reminder
If you received Child Care Subsidy (CCS) for the 2018–19 or 2019–20 financial year, you must confirm your income with Centrelink. Most parents have already done this. If you haven’t, please do so before the 30th June 2021.

30 June 2021 deadline for Child Care Subsidy - Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Australian Government This information is provided by Services Australia, Australian Government. When you get Child Care Subsidy (CCS) you need to confirm your family’s income after the end of each financial year. If you don’t do this by the due date, your CCS will stop.

COUNTRY FAMILIES @NGALA
Support to families with children from birth to 8 years living in regional, rural and remote Western Australia

COUNTRY FAMILIES @NGALA
Support to families with children from birth to 8 years living in regional, rural and remote Western Australia

20 Healthy Lunch Box Ideas for Kids

The lunch box struggle can be real, especially first thing in the morning.
It is important to remember your educators and schools have a responsibility to ensure they encourage healthy eating. Below are some great lunch box ideas. Bento boxes are a great sustainable way to keep food fresh and are now available in supermarkets.

20 Healthy Lunch Box Ideas for Kids These 20 Healthy Lunch Box Ideas for Kids are filled with real-life lunches that my kids loved! Great for daycare, preschool or elementary school aged kids!

Department of Health | Get Up & Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood resources

The Get Up And Grow guidelines are a wonderful resource when planning your child's daily meals ready for day care! Need more resources and meal ideas that meet your educators policies and National Quality Standards? Talk to your educator or contact our office at [email protected]

https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/phd-early-childhood-nutrition-resources

Department of Health | Get Up & Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood resources The Get Up & Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood (Get Up & Grow) resources promote the key messages included in the healthy eating and physical activity guidelines.

30 June 2021 deadline for Child Care Subsidy - Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Australian Government

Do you know: When you get Child Care Subsidy (CCS) you need to confirm your family’s income after the end of each financial year. If you don’t do this by the due date, your CCS will stop. Check out the Fact Sheet on how to confirm your income.

30 June 2021 deadline for Child Care Subsidy - Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Australian Government This information is provided by Services Australia, Australian Government. When you get Child Care Subsidy (CCS) you need to confirm your family’s income after the end of each financial year. If you don’t do this by the due date, your CCS will stop.

2021 Nominees

2021 Nominees ROUND ONE NOMINATIONS RELEASED! The first round of nominations in the 2021 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards have been released. Find out who's been nominated.

Denham_Ngala Family Day Care

Ngala Family Day Care is excited to announce the opening of our new child care centre on Francis St.
Funding for this project was provided through The Regional Economic Development Grant and the Department of Education and Training – Community Child Care Funding.
The Shire of Shark Bay kindly gifted the land for the child care to be located.
The child day care will operate under the family day care model with Lou Jotram as the operator.
The centre was designed with a sustainable approach utilising the climate to create a comfortable energy efficient centre and will be open Mon – Thurs 7.45 – 4.15. Spaces currently available on Tuesday.
Contact Ngala on 9934 6565 to discuss your childcare needs.

Denham_Ngala Family Day Care

Here's to the mums...

✨The foster mums
✨The step mums
✨The solo mums
✨The grieving mums

The real hero's of the world are mums, like you. 💜

Happy Mother's Day. 🌷

Here's to the mums...

✨The foster mums
✨The step mums
✨The solo mums
✨The grieving mums

The real hero's of the world are mums, like you. 💜

Happy Mother's Day. 🌷

Happy National Family Day Care Week 2021.

Celebrations are taking place across the country this week to showcase the family day care services, coordinators and educators that educate and care for more than 107,000 Australian children.

National Family Day Care Week is also a chance to acknowledge the unique benefits of nurturing home environments, small group settings and flexible hours of care that family day care provides to Australian families each and every day.

Family day care is a vital part of the early childhood education and care landscape and is one of Australia's largest networks of women in small business.

Happy National Family Day Care Week 2021.

Celebrations are taking place across the country this week to showcase the family day care services, coordinators and educators that educate and care for more than 107,000 Australian children.

National Family Day Care Week is also a chance to acknowledge the unique benefits of nurturing home environments, small group settings and flexible hours of care that family day care provides to Australian families each and every day.

Family day care is a vital part of the early childhood education and care landscape and is one of Australia's largest networks of women in small business.

[04/26/21]   Following the COVID cases in Perth, if you have been in Perth, Peel or Rottnest from 17 April to 24 April and have since travelled out of these locations, you must wear a mask when dropping off and collecting your children.
There are a number of restaurants the COVID positive people visited, if you visited and of these restaurants during the times specified, you will need to undertake a COVID test and regardless of the results, self isolate for 14 days.
The list can be found at:
https://www.wa.gov.au/.../covid-19-coronavirus-locations...
Additional information can be found on the current restrictions can be found at:
https://www.wa.gov.au/.../end-of-lockdown-perth-and-peel

Kind regards
Angela

Balancing Child Care Subsidy - Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Australian Government

Important information about CCS Balancing obligations. Please ensure you have submitted your 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 tax return.

Balancing Child Care Subsidy - Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Australian Government Families must confirm their income each financial year to ensure they are paid the right amount of Child Care Subsidy (CCS). This is called ‘balancing’ or ‘reconciliation’. Balancing is underway for the 2018–19 and 2019–20 financial years.

Microsoft Forms

Hi all

I hope everyone is well and safe after the eventful weekend we had.

Communicare have had a lot of clients query the disaster relief payment and standing for hours at the QE2 centre is very stressful, so this is an alternative for everyone to claim if it helps.

You are all entitled to claim $200 per person in your household (max $1000 per household).

Rather than line up at the QE2 centre for hours, you can lodge a claim for Disaster relief via the link on the ABC Wheatbelt Disaster relief face book page.

You need one form of ID (drivers licence, Medicare card, passport )and bank details. As easy as. You can claim $200 per person in the household. Or you can claim everyone on the same claim for the entire house and it gets deposited into your account.

https:forms.office.comPagesResponsePage.aspxid=d2MDmdTA3k2-nhusDIUEKRiArZTxeZpFkAhh3w33CVUQTRNSFVLTkJLUjVLUDRHNFJQUTJVMzRXOS4u&qrcode=true&fbclid=IwAR1Z85Ds0YpvPZNtc0VixErzSQ9UhMv1Idw-l7vWRgS36mXn4LaO4sHCxt4


Please let your family and friends know so they do not have to line up at the QE2 for hours. They sent everyone away again today and told them to come back Monday, some are elderly and disabled and cannot handle standing in line for hours at a time.

Communicate not sure how long it will take for funds to hit peoples accounts, but if their need is not urgent this is a great way to claim. You can even complete the form on behalf of other people if you have their details. (Name, DOB, Address, phone number, bank details, ID details)

Microsoft Forms

[04/15/21]   Ngala Family Day Care office is now up and running after the impact of Cyclone Seroja.
Thank you for your patience!

Cyclone Seroja power supply updates

Information on the power situation in the Midwest

Cyclone Seroja power supply updates View our latest updates about Cyclone Seroja and its impact to your power supply.

Tropical Cyclone Forecast Track Map Image - System 1

Dear Geraldton, Morawa and Denham Families

The Ngala team have been closely monitoring the current cyclone information and given the current “yellow alert” and as per our cyclone policy, we wish to advise all families that all Ngala Family Day Care Services -in the Geraldton and MidWest region of WA will close Monday 12 April 2021.

As always the health and safety of the children, families and Educators remain our first priority.

We anticipate your Family Day Care Educator will re-open on Tuesday 13 April, however this will be confirmed following a safety assessment of the property to ensure it is safe for the care and education of your children. We request families to discuss this with your Educator directly.

The Ngala team will continue to monitor the weather alerts closely and contact families if there are any changes to the above.

In the meantime, we recommend all families to continue to find current and up to date information via the following links from the BOM (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) website:
• Current Tropical Cyclones- http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/index.shtml
• Cyclone Seroja Forecast Tracking Map- http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60281.shtml

We hope everyone can remain safe and we look forward to welcoming all children and families back when it is safe to do so.


Kate Pitt - Operations Manager Early Education & Development
Early Education & Development

Tropical Cyclone Forecast Track Map Image - System 1 Tropical Cyclone Seroja to bring dangerous weather to the west coast from Sunday afternoon extending through the midwest in the evening.

Stay safe everyone

PLEASE NOTE: This Warning has been updated, please see www.emergency.wa.gov.au for the latest information.

🌀🔴 12:48 PM, 12/04/21 A RED ALERT is current for an area south of the Carnarvon townsite to Lancelin, including the City of Greater Geraldton and the Shires of Chapman Valley, Irwin, Mingenew, Morawa, Northampton, Perenjori, Shark Bay and Three Springs and townsites of Coorow, Carnamah, Dalwallinu, Denham, Jurien Bay, Lancelin, Moora, Paynes Find and Wongan Hills in the Midwest Gascoyne.🌀🔴

⚠️There is a threat to lives and homes. You are in danger and need to act immediately.

⚠️Evacuation Centres are open in Port Denison, Carnarvon and Denham. Refer to Evacuation Centres section for more information.

⚠️If you require assistance for damaged buildings or infrastructure, call the SES on 132 500. You will only need to register this request once and crews will be able to assess the damage once it is safe to do so.

❗WHAT TO DO❗

-Stay inside and shelter in the strongest, safest part of your house or evacuation centre.
-Keep your emergency kit with you.
-Stay away from doors and windows, and keep them closed.
-Stay indoors until the ALL CLEAR is given by authorities.

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🌀🔵 A BLUE ALERT is current for people in or near Beacon, Cunderdin, Kellerberin, Koorda, Merredin, Mt Marshall, Nungarin, Southern Cross and Trayning in the Goldfields Midlands.🌀🔵

❗️ Although there is no immediate danger you need to start preparing for dangerous weather and keep up to date.

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🌀🟢 An ALL CLEAR advice is current for people in or near Minilya Roadhouse to Carnarvon.🌀🟢

❗ The threat has passed but take care to avoid the dangers caused by damage.

🌀 CYCLONE DETAILS 🌀

Tropical cyclone Seroja continues to move inland towards Dalwallinu

The core of tropical cyclone Seroja is moving inland towards Dalwallinu. Wind gusts to 170 km/h were reported near Kalbarri during landfall, but the cyclone has now weakened to category 2.

Seroja is travelling at around 65 kilometres per hour, and significant impacts are expected to extend inland through to Wheat Belt communities overnight. The cyclone will weaken as it moves further inland on Monday but is still likely to result in damaging wind gusts, particularly to the north and east of the track, and heavy rain close to the track, as it moves through the eastern Wheat Belt, southern Goldfields and South East Coastal district.

A Severe Weather Warning is current for areas to the southeast of the Tropical Cyclone Warning area.

Hazards:
Destructive winds with gusts to 150 kilometres per hour extend 90 kilometres east of the centre of the cyclone. Destructive gusts above 125 kilometres per hour may extend inland as far as a line from Dalwallinu to Paynes Find overnight, including Morawa. Towns in this area very rarely experience wind gusts this strong.

Gales with gusts to 100 kilometres per hour extend 150 kilometres from the centre of the cyclone to the east, and extend west to the coast around Geraldton. Gales will extend further inland into the southern Gascoyne and northern Wheatbelt overnight. Seroja is moving fast, so weather conditions will deteriorate rapidly as it approaches.

Heavy to intense rainfall and flash flooding are likely close to the track of Seroja during the remainder of Sunday evening and Monday. Even though the tropical cyclone has crossed the coast, abnormally high tides could still cause minor flooding at the coast between Cape Cuvier and Jurien Bay. The threat of serious flooding has passed. Dangerous surf and beach erosion may still be occurring between Denham and Jurien Bay.

🚧 ROAD CLOSURES AND CONDITIONS 🚧

The following roads are closed:

-Great Eastern Highway from Tammin to Coolgardie
-Bindoon-Moora from Bindoon to Moora
-Shark Bay Road from North West Coastal Highway to Denham
-Monkey Mia Road from Denham to Monkey Mia
-North West Coastal Highway from Carnarvon to Geraldton
-Brand Highway from Dewar Road to Geraldton
-Midlands Road from Moora to Brand Highway
-Indian Ocean Drive from Lancelin Road to Brand Highway
-Geraldton-Mt Magnet Road from Mount Magnet to Geraldton
-Great Northern Highway from Muchea to Mount Magnet

🏠 EVACUATION CENTRES 🏠

The Department of Communities has set up three evacuation centres:
-Irwin Recreation Centre, 1 Ridley Street, Port Denison
-Carnarvon Civic Centre, Camel Place, Carnarvon
-Shark Bay Recreation Centre located on Francis Road, Denham

People who are self-isolating or quarantining due to COVID-19 should find alternative suitable premises and wear a mask. If this is not possible, proceed to the evacuation centre and identify yourself to centre staff immediately on arrival.

Please take any essential items such as medications and identification to the evacuation centre.

Pets (except recognised assistance animals) are not allowed inside evacuation centres for health and safety reasons, so you should make alternative arrangements for them in a secure and safe place within a household.

🌳 PARK CLOSURES 🌳

There are multiple park closures in the warning area. Visit www.emergency.wa.gov.au for more information.

ℹ Keep up to date ℹ

⚠️ For the latest warnings: www.emergency.wa.gov.au
🌀 Keep an eye on the weather: https://bit.ly/2WRuj0x
📱Make your cyclone plan: www.dfes.wa.gov.au/cyclone
🚘Road closures and information: https://travelmap.mainroads.wa.gov.au/Home/Map
☎ In a life-threatening situation, always call 000