Childcare Needed To Be Affordable, Safe, And Good Quality
Footscray OSC was first registered in 1998 by Vivien Johnson with a view that childcare needed to be affordable, safe, and good quality. A childcare facility run by families for families and that is still true today. Footscray OSC employs a variety of staff all chosen for their own unique abilities and the way they interact with the children. Some staff are highly qualified with childcare qualifications but others are there purely to facilitate the children’s varying needs such as a staff member that has qualifications in sport science to help initiate physical play in the extensive playgrounds used by the clubs.
Staff are fully aware that not every parent is comfortable with their children going into any kind of wraparound care and therefore they know that it has to be of the highest quality.
Footscray OSC was first registered in 1998 by Vivien Johnson with a view that childcare needed to be affordable, safe, and good quality. A childcare facility run by families for families and that is still true today. Footscray OSC employs a variety of staff all chosen for their own unique abilities and the way they interact with the children. Some staff are highly qualified with childcare qualifications but others are there purely to facilitate the children’s varying needs such as a staff member that has qualifications in sport science to help initiate physical play in the extensive playgrounds used by the clubs.
Staff are fully aware that not every parent is comfortable with their children going into any kind of wraparound care and therefore they know that it has to be of the highest quality.
Footscray OSC was first registered in 1998 by Vivien Johnson with a view that childcare needed to be affordable, safe, and good quality. A childcare facility run by families for families and that is still true today. Footscray OSC employs a variety of staff all chosen for their own unique abilities and the way they interact with the children. Some staff are highly qualified with childcare qualifications but others are there purely to facilitate the children’s varying needs such as a staff member that has qualifications in sport science to help initiate physical play in the extensive playgrounds used by the clubs.
Staff are fully aware that not every parent is comfortable with their children going into any kind of wraparound care and therefore they know that it has to be of the highest quality.
The menu is extensive and because children ‘eat with their eyes’ the buffet whether it be Breakfast or After-school has to be healthy and colourful with the occasional little treat thrown in.
Breakfast- variety of cereals, juices, fruits, pancake, toast, brioche, muffins, hot food served one morning a week along with the children’s favourite milk straws!
Buffet Tea- a variety of different salad, tomatoes, lettuce, beetroot, cucumber, sweet corn, ham, egg, cheese and then something the children can make themselves such as pitta pizzas or wraps. During the cold weather a hot meal is served such as spaghetti bolognese, macaroni cheese, soup and warm rolls and all with a variety from the salad bar of the children’s choosing.
Footscray OSC encourages the children with as many self help skills as possible, so small milk jugs for pouring milk, cereal dispensers for children to help themselves and little tongs for their little hands to help them pick up their salad choices.
My name is Tammy Martin. I am the General Manager at Foots Cray Out of School Club. My role is to support staff and children across all three sites. I have a happy disposition, and always find fun and excitement in everything I do, which the children love. My own children attend Gray’s Farm and were desperate to go to the after school club that everyone was talking about so I went online, filled in a very easy registration form and was ready to go! Mine attend three times a week, just for fun, not for childcare reasons, they love it so much and so did I which is how I became involved. I wanted to be a part of this amazing company who put the children first always! Anything they want Foots Cray go over and beyond to accommodate.
