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Hello, I'm Karen Farbus,
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and I'm principal of Nyora Primary School.
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OSHC has been operating in our school.
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We actually started last
year, probably about July,
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so it's been operating
for over a year now.
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We operate a school council
operated delivered OSHC program.
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The fact that we got a
grant for this program
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was really important for us.
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Being a small school,
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we have limited funds.
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So the grant offered us the opportunity
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to have a program in operation
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from the beginning of
the day right through
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in the afterschool programs as well.
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We wouldn't have been able to
do it without that support.
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My name is Wendy Noye,
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and I'm employed by Nyora
Primary School Council
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as the OSHC coordinator.
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The School Council wanted
operate the service.
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They wanted to be seen in
the community as an extension
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of the school.
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It's a really good thing to offer
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when you live out here in the country.
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Our parents love our OSHC program,
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because it offers them the
opportunity to be able to work,
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but also, the kids love it.
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And because the kids love it,
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then the parents feel happy
putting their children
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into our OSHC program.
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Wendy, our supervisor, is fantastic,
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and the kids absolutely love her.
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And they get very excited
when they get to do
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before and after school care.
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So our parents have really
responded well to it.
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My son attends after school care
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one afternoon a week.
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If it was up to him,
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he would come every single day.
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He absolutely loves after school care.
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He tells me that they
do different activities.
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He gets to spend more
time with his friends.
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I think that's probably the biggest thing,
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more time with his mates.
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It's freed up a lot of my hours at work.
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I don't have to rush home from work,
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and I can drop him off early
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so I can get to work earlier as well.
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The students love the OSHC service.
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They love to come to before
and after school care.
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They've taken real ownership
of the room, the program.
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Their voice is paramount
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in the whole setting up of the program.
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It's been really good.
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My favorite part about
before and after school care
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is that Wendy runs it,
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and she gets like a bunch
of really cool games.
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And we do painting every now and then.
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And we do a lot of fun things.
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The reason why we operate
a school council service
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is because we have total control over it.
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So that means that we
actually set it up completely
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so we know what's happening.
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We know the running of
the program as well.
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We know exactly the workings
of what is happening.
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The assistance that was
provided by the department
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was exceptional.
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Our policies, CCS advice, online forums,
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the OSHC central team
were extremely accessible
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all the time through the whole process.
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That made it a lot easier.
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The support from the
department really made it easy,
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and it was well worthwhile.
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And our program, how it operates today,
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just demonstrates that.
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