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31 Harrington St, Elderslie NSW 2570

ph: (02) 4658 0706 mob: 0411 777 583

elderslie@happydayskindy.com

Welcome to November

Enrolments Now Open!

Dear Parents/Families,

I would like to acknowledge the Dharawal people, the Traditional custodians of the lands on which I live and work today. I pay my respects to elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, traditions, culture and hope of Aboriginal Australians.

Please make sure to check our August Calendar of Events on our OWNA app and our website to avoid missing out on any special events that might occur on the days your child/ren attend. Participating in these events helps educators plan for future events and shows great partnerships with families when it comes to assessment and rating.

HDK’S parent committee is open for new committee members, if you are interested, please shoot Miss Sam an email and she can add you into our mailing list. We completely understand parents and families’ busy schedules which is why our parent committee is email based.

What's on Next Month !

Camden Christmas Festival

22 November 2025

Christmas in Camden for 2025 is back with live entertainment, activities, a huge variety of stalls, the lighting of the Camden Christmas Tree, and even a visit from Santa!

Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase 2025

28 November 2025

The funniest comedians from this year's Sydney Comedy Festival are hitting the road and bringing a ripper showcase to your doorstep! Get in quick to guarantee your seats for a massive night of laughs

Camden Careers & Jobs Expo

20 November 2025

This FREE event brings together job seekers, exhibitors, students, and industry leaders for a day packed with opportunities. Whether you're launching your career, switching industries, or looking to advance your skills, this is the event you don’t want to miss!

This is more than just an expo —it’s your chance to connect, grow, and seize new opportunities. Be there and make your next big move at the Camden Careers and Jobs Expo 2025!

November Calendar of Events

Staff Birthdays

Miss Dee
24th October

Important Reminders

Reminder to Parents

A reminder to all parents that our contract hours are from 7:00am to 6:00 pm.

This means that our insurance and licensing only allows children and families on site during these allotted times for everyone’s safety.

Please ensure you are arriving to drop off and pick up to within these times.

A Late Fee of $80 per 15 minute increments starting from 6pm will be added to your account.

Label Belongings

Please remember to label everything. lunchboxes, drink bottles, bags and spare clothes.

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to our October celebrants:

Kobe, Stevie.S, Van, Billy.L, Lucas, Bentley, Luca.R, Eliana, Ivy, Amelia.C, Oliver.N, Amelia.H, Eddie & Finn

Footwear

Please ensure child are wearing appropriate footwear each and every day, this includes closed in toes, solid supportive soles, correct sizing and appropriate accessibility to the children.

Please avoid thongs/flipflops, slides, slippers, and shoes the children cannot learn to use independently (difficult laces, buckles or zippers)

A reminder to please sign your child in and out every day using the iPad at the door.

If you have any issues with signing in/out, please let a staff member know so we can assist.

Absences

If your child is going to be absent from the centre, please document this by marking them absent via the OWNA app, notifying us of your child’s absence allows us to open that spot to a family that might need it as a casual day.

Clothing

ALL children must bring spare clothing every day; even if completely toilet trained.

This to ensure that in the event of an accident, split food or messy play they have clothing to change into.

Infectious Illnesses

Please HELP us contain infectious illnesses by keeping your child at home when they are sick. If your child is absent from school due to an illness, please make sure to bring in a clearance form from the doctors on their next booked day. If your child has been sent home from school on their booked day, in correspondence to our SICK CHILDREN’S POLICY, your child must stay home for 24 hours before bringing them back, to reduce the spread of illnesses and also provide a Doctor’s Clearence. If a Doctor’s Clearence is not provided your child/ren will not be able to attend for the day.

Lunch Boxes

We also ask children have a healthy lunch each day. Some examples of this may include a sandwich, a piece of fruit or vegetable and a yogurt or some crackers.

Please do not pack lollies, chocolate, chips, Nutella, juice, popcorn, rollups etc.

While these are fun sometimes food to enjoy at home, At Happy Days we have a nutrition policy that we are required to follow and appreciate your understanding in this regard.

Policy of the Month

This month Educators have reviewed the following policies:

- Out of Hours Baby-sitting Policy

- Safe Storage of Hazardous Chemicals Policy

- Sleep and Rest Policy

- Unexpected Death of a Child or Staff Member at the Service Policy

- Snake Awareness Policy

- Fraud Prevention Policy

These can be found on our OWNA app for your viewing.

What we got up to last month...

Space Week

This years World Space Week theme was ‘Living in Space’. The children at HDK explored Space through a variety of small worlds, dramatic play areas, sensory experiences, books and songs. World Space Week 2025 was set to educate, inspire, and connect the global community, focusing on humanity’s strides in developing sustainable living solutions for space.

Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day is an opportunity for Australians to say thank-you to grandparents for their care and support and for sharing their knowledge, experience and traditions with younger generations. To celebrate our amazing grandparents, HDK hosted a fun filled morning tea. The children and their grandparents engaged in experiences such as colouring in, play dough, threading and biscuit decorating. In honour of Day for Daniel, we asked everyone to wear the colours red. Day for Daniel is Australia's largest child safety and awareness event, honoring the memory of Daniel Morcombe and promoting child safety education through initiatives like wearing red, educating children, and donating.

Halloween Disco

Throughout October, HDK had a spooktacular time exploring the theme of Halloween through arts & crafts, dramatic play, potion making and music. The excitement reached its peak during our Spooky Halloween Disco! The children had a frightfully fun time dancing, playing games and showing off their amazing costumes.

Healthy Harold Incursion

The Wombats were so lucky to have a visit from Healthy Harold and Miss Belinda! Miss Belinda taught the Wombats all about Harold’s healthy habits. Brushing his teeth, being active, washing hands, drinking lots of water, trying new foods and resting.

The Wombats got to experience heaps of fun games with Miss Belinda. The Wombats engaged in a range of games including being active, choosing which food is healthy for Harold, watching informative videos about Harold being healthy and so much more! Healthy Harold got to make an appearance for the Wombats and they were so excited! Healthy Harold taught the Wombats why we stay active, brush our teeth, wash our hands and so much more. We even got to have a little boogie.

The Wombats engaged in each activity and were so interested they had a question for every activity and an answer for every question. It was amazing to see how happy the Wombats were learning so many new things!

The Wombat teachers ( and Harold ) are so proud of the Wombats this morning! We love seeing the Wombats thrive! 🤍

Magic Moments

Please enjoy some of our Magic Moment's from throughout October!

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Classroom News

Age-based Intentional Learning Groups

Possums

Learning Group for 2-3 yrs old

October Recap

This month in the Possums our focus has been letters of the alphabet and learning letter and there sounds. We have put together engaging and beneficial learning activities that will enhance the children’s ability to identify letters and there literal skills. This was explored through songs, games , group activities. During these experiences it allowed us to spend time engaging in conversations and encouraging the Possums.

Wombat Jnr's

Learning Group for 3-4 year olds

October Recap

For the month of October, the Junior Wombats focus has been ‘Name Writing and Letter Formation’ as they continue to develop their fine motor skills. These foundational literacy and fine motor skills are essential for supporting confident and capable early readers and writers as they prepare for big school. Throughout the month, we explored the formation of letters, the correct use of upper and lowercase letters and worked towards writing our names accurately. Our Junior Wombats engaged in fun, hands-on experiences that strengthened pencil grasp, letter formation and name writing. It has been incredible to watch our Wombats as they become confident in identifying their names, using upper and lowercase letters correctly and begin to use the correct formation of letters as they write their names. We are so proud of our Junior Wombats and absolutely love watching them have fun in their learning!

Wombat Kindy's

Learning Group for 4-5 year olds

School Readiness

This month for school readiness, the Kindy Wombats have been busy building their literacy awareness!
We’ve been practicing correct letter formation, identifying both upper and lower case letters, and perfecting our name writing. Through our name writing activities, we learnt that our names start with a capital letter and the rest are lowercase. The children have also enjoyed matching uppercase and lowercase letters and recognising the sounds they make. We also have almost finished our Letter of the Week and have loved singing songs about our last couple of letters.

Projects

Halloween Project

This month our project focus was Halloween! The Possums and Wombats joined spooky forces together and crafted some ghoulish Halloween decorations for our Halloween disco! The Possums and Wombats worked together, collaborating with one another on a month long project of spooky crafts. Starting off with Jack o lantern paintings, spooky dangling creatures and a scary dangly spider web to set off our Halloween Disco

Lots of Love, Miss Julia & Miss Bella

Focus Learning Programs

Playing And Learning to Socialise (PALS)

Happy Days Social Skills Program

October Recap

Building Resilience

For the month of October, the children at HDK focused on Building Resilience. The Possums explored this topic by playing the cookie challenge and musical statues. The cookie challenge taught the Possums that while things don’t always go our way, we can support each other, share and move forward with a positive attitude. Musical statues taught the children that it’s okay to get out of a game and not always be the winner. We reflected on how trying our best, cheering for others and managing disappointment are all apart of building resilience.

The Wombats explored this topic by participating in a block building challenge in teams. This challenge allowed the children to work together, problem solve and implement new strategies to build the highest tower. This encouraged the children to communicate effectively and to take a breath and reset when their building didn’t go as planned. The Wombats also explored an activity where they pulled a scenario out of a hat and discuss how these scenarios might make us feel and how we can overcome them. This was a great experience for the children to develop their emotional awareness and problem solving skills all whilst building a supportive and resilient classroom.

Eco-Warriors

Happy Days Sustainability Program
...when Fun and Responsibility meet

October Recap

For the month of October the Wombats and Possums have been learning how to plant and look after herbs in the garden. They have also focused on preparing the garden beds ready for new plants to be added. The Wombats and Possums enjoyed watching informational videos, participating in mind maps, turning over the soil, weeding the garden beds, painting garden ornaments and planting seeds.

Learning to plant and care for herbs in early years is important because it develops fine and gross motor skills, encourages healthy eating, fosters responsibility and patience, and promotes emotional well-being and a love for nature through sensory exploration and hands-on learning. It also provides an early introduction to scientific concepts and sustainability.

Munch and Move

Happy Days Health & Fitness Program

October Recap

Team Games

This month in Munch and Move, the focus was on team activities and games that encouraged children to work together while staying active. The sessions promoted cooperation, communication, and fair play through fun group challenges and movement games. Children learned how to support one another and celebrate teamwork while developing their physical skills. Overall, it was a great way to combine healthy movement, friendship, and fun throughout the month.