Thank you!
I would like to extend a big thank you to all of our amazing children, parents, families, educators, and the local community for your strong support during these unprecedented times. I understand you are all undergoing different challenges and change due to the COVID-19 crisis, but the love and support you have shown our Piptree community especially in the last couple of months has been so heartwarming to see. From simple appreciation messages to sweet little thank you gifts, to dry item donations and assistance in obtaining such items at the shops.
A special thank you to Kelly, one of our wonderful mums and a manager at Woolworths, who has been nothing short of amazing. Kelly has been a huge help in assisting the centre with the newly introduced struggles of 'restrictive buying', and is purely the reason we have been able to get things like pasta, rice etc needed for our daily menu. Kelly, a whole centre community is so thankful to have you on our team. Thank you!
I am sure you are all aware of the newly implemented policies and procedures we have put in place to ensure that all children, parents, and educators at our centre are in a safe, hygienic and clean environment. Thank you for staying on top of sanitising your hands before you go outside, and once leaving. Thank you also for keeping drop offs and pick ups short, but most importantly THANK YOU for being so understanding with all the changes. I appreciate your understanding for the times it has taken me longer than normal to get back to you, and the times I was not able to accommodate your requests. Your cooperation is so important, and I am so glad to be a part of this reciprocal community.
For all our families who are continuing to stay home, please keep your spirits up and enjoy the chance to stay home and bond with your families. For those unable to, we thank you for trusting us during these times as we continue to provide our highest quality of care for your children, engaging in play and learning experiences each and every day.
May we all continue to stay safe, ensuring that we are washing our hands regularly and staying strong and positive during this time..
Continuous Control measures
We continue to take advice on COVID-19 from Queensland Health and the Queensland Department of Education (the Early Childhood Regulatory Authority)., and are continuing on with the following measures -
- Handwashing education has become a focus during the daily group time routine. Children are encouraged to sing a song for at least 20 seconds while washing hands while being actively supervised by educators to ensure effective handwashing practices are taking place.
- Increasing the number of hand sanitiser stations throughout the centre.
- Enhanced arrangements for workplace hygiene and cleaning protocols.
- Increased frequency of cleaning touchpoints throughout the centre eg. tables, kiosks, door handles, taps etc.
- Additional health & hygiene training for educators.
- suspension of external extracurricular activities, students/visitors and excursions until further notice.
- Postponing/cancelling upcoming events such as photo day etc.
- any child, parent/guardian or educator with flu-like symptoms will not be allowed back into the centre until their GP or QLD health has given the clearance.
Late Arrivals/Absences
Please understand we are doing the best we can to keep things as normal as possible within the centre, and we require your help. If your child will be away for the day or will coming in later than 10am please let us know. This can be done by calling the centre, or emailing me. Doing so assists us with meal preparations, staffing allocations, and ensuring we stay within our required child-staff ratios.