Understanding Your Assessment Notice

Your assessment notice will have a Child Care Subsidy summary table on it. The table tells you about the child care fee assistance you're able to get. The table will have the following headings:

• Child's name

• Subsidy type

• Subsidy percentage

• Subsidised hours per fortnight

• Annual cap

• Withholdings

Child's Name

This will list any children you've made a claim for.

Subsidy Type

This tells you what you're eligible for.

If you're eligible for Child Care Subsidy, you may also be eligible for Additional Child Care Subsidy.

Subsidy Percentage

This is your Child Care Subsidy percentage. We work it out based on your family income estimate.

Your Child Care Subsidy percentage will apply to the lowest of either the:

• Hourly fee you're charged by your child care service.

• Hourly rate cap.

If your subsidy percentage is zero, it means your family income estimate was $353,680 or more. But it's important you still submit a claim for this subsidy. Just in case your income changes when we balance your payments after the end of the financial year. If your actual family income ends up being less than $353,680, we'll pay you the additional subsidy you're entitled to.

If you're eligible, but your percentage is zero, you may still be eligible for Additional Child Care Subsidy.

Read more about how your family income affects your Child Care Subsidy percentage.

Annual Cap

This tells you if we'll cap your Child Care Subsidy. This depends on your family income estimate. There's no annual cap on your subsidy if your family income estimate was $189,390 or less.

If your estimate was more than $189,390 and under $353,680, your annual cap is $10,560. This cap applies to each child in care for each financial year.

Subsidised Hours Per Fortnight

This is the number of hours of child care we'll subsidise. We work this out based on your hours of activity per fortnight. If you have a partner, we use the lower of your 2 activity levels.

If your subsidised hours is zero, it's because you or your partner do less than 8 hours of activity.

You need to do at least 8 hours of activity per fortnight. Recognised activities include working, training, studying and volunteering. For example, 4 hours a week of any recognised activity will give you 18 hours of subsidised care a week.

Read more about how your activity level affects Child Care Subsidy.

Withholdings

We withhold 5% of your Child Care Subsidy each fortnight to reduce the likelihood of an overpayment. An overpayment could result in a debt after the end of financial year when we balance your payments.

You're able to vary this amount to suit your circumstances. You can do this up to twice a year using your Centrelink online account through myGov. If you'd like to change it more than this, you'll need to call the Families line.

Welcome to another exciting edition of the Kidi Kingdom Child Care Hillcrest Newsletter for 2022!

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all our new families to the centre. I look forward to building strong and lasting relationships with you all as your children grow and develop. To all our Families your support throughout this year has been very noticed and greatly appreciated.

I would also like to introduce Miss Christina as our new Assistant Centre Manager. If you have any enquiries, please direct them to our management team and we will be more than happy to assist you. Both myself and our dedicated team at Kidi Kingdom Hillcrest are always available and willing to assist in any way we can.

Please like our Facebook page and we always appreciate our loyal families helping our centre by sharing your positive experiences to the local community by writing a quick Google, CareForKids or Facebook review. Thank you for the families that have already taken to the time to write a review.

Kind Regards, Julie Hunter Centre Manager Christina Seuava Assistant Centre Manager	Click here to visit our pages at Facebook and Instagram

Welcome Valued Families of Kidi Kingdom Child Care to our Winter Newsletter of 2022.

This term we have been sending our educators to amazing Professional Development of the Abecedarian Approach. The Abecedarian Approach as a method of providing high rich quality educators to children. It's made up of 4 areas of Language Priority, Enriched Caregiving, Learning Games and Conversational Reading. Early Learners and Snr Early Years classroom has adapted this approach with results in progress.

Kind Regards, Miss Salma Educational Program Leader.

Dear Families of the Early Learners Room,

I would love to welcome our new friends to the Early Learners family, Thomas, Alice, Mali, Romeo, Kyrie and Claire. We hope you all are enjoying making new friendships and it's evident that you all are developing new skills day to day!

The children have been very busy these past few months celebrating different events and working towards their own milestones, skills and knowledge.

In the Month of June we had fun exploring all the different animals in the world such as arctic animals, ocean animals, jungle animals, farm animals! The children all loved learning about all the different animals.

Whilst in July we enjoyed learning about all the basics from numbers, colours, shapes! In the month of August we are focusing on the world around us by exploring construction zones, different transportation vehicles and all about the weather! We had so many fun activities to explore, from fun sensory activities to hands-on activities the Early Learners learn new things every day!

In June, July and August the children participated in a lot of different events from Reconciliation Week, YogaDday, Naidoc Week, Picnic with our teddies, Pyjama Day,Morning tea with our Aunts and Uncles, to Red Nose Day and enjoying Book Week fun! We all took part in lots of fun activities to celebrate these events.What a fun-filled few months it has been in our Early Learners Room.

Thank you, Miss Emily and Miss Bell.

Welcome Parents, Caregivers and Friends of the Early years Room.

We would like to firstly welcome our new friends that have started with us, as well as our friends that have moved up from our Jnr Classroom Luna, Enzo, Taylah and Benny.

In our Early Years class this term we have continued to encourage self help skills through making and packing away our beds, packing away resources, taking shoes off and putting them back on when going outside and packing away after meal times.

During our gyarning times we have focused on expanding more on the children's colours, numbers and shape identification as well as encouraging them to say their full names during transition times. It has been exciting observing the children's creativity and joining in during role play as they share their wide and creative imagination through play.

In each month the children have also enjoyed joining in with the various celebration days through arts and crafts, games, dressing up, role playing, singing and dancing with friends. This month we have focused on the children's interest in bugs and insects through a lot of sensory play and look forward to continuing our exploring of bugs and insects in our garden as we plant new plants in the coming weeks.

Thank you, Miss Jody, Mr Hayden, Miss Toni and Miss Taylah.

Welcome Parents, Caregivers and Friends of the Early years Room.

We would like to firstly welcome our new friends that have started with us, as well as our friends that have moved up from our Jnr Classroom Luna, Enzo, Taylah and Benny.

In our Early Years class this term we have continued to encourage self help skills through making and packing away our beds, packing away resources, taking shoes off and putting them back on when going outside and packing away after meal times.

During our gyarning times we have focused on expanding more on the children's colours, numbers and shape identification as well as encouraging them to say their full names during transition times. It has been exciting observing the children's creativity and joining in during role play as they share their wide and creative imagination through play.

In each month the children have also enjoyed joining in with the various celebration days through arts and crafts, games, dressing up, role playing, singing and dancing with friends. This month we have focused on the children's interest in bugs and insects through a lot of sensory play and look forward to continuing our exploring of bugs and insects in our garden as we plant new plants in the coming weeks.

Thank you, Miss Jody, Mr Hayden, Miss Toni and Miss Taylah.

Welcome Valued Families to our Pre-Prep News.

In Pre-Prep, during the month of May we explored diversity and being respectful of one another as we observde Reconciliation Week. We learnt about Aboriginal symbols and did our white chalk representations of these. Comparing the symbols and our Alphabet, we learnt that there are many ways to communicate. In June and July we got a lot of new resources as part of our Kindergarten Program and these resources were to support and extend children's learning and development in the areas of their observed interests. We are learning to look after our new resources and overall our environment.

In July we also focused on NAIDOC celebrations and extended our learning on diversity. We did songs, dances and art that related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. We also had Uncles and Aunties day with visitors coming into our centre. In August we will continue to explore literacy through reading books, watching stories and exploring letters and letter sounds. We have also been reflecting and writing in our journals, working on our fine motor skills and engaging in fun ways to develop our gross motor skills using our tunnel, skateboards and stilt buckets both indoor and outdoors.

Our science area was busy exploring how seeds grow in soil and then how water, sun and good care is needed for plants to grow. We will take our learning outdoors when it gets warmer to have some hands on learning in our centre garden.

Thank you, Miss Nilusha and Miss Anthya.