Director of Mary Bailey House and OOSH

OOSH

Our vacation care program will be delivered from Thursday 4 December to Friday 19 December 2025. OOSH will then close for four weeks. The second portion of our vacation care will run from Monday 19 January to Wednesday 28 January 2026.

To make things interesting, we’ve booked new experiences with fun incursions that include Water Tag, a Silent Disco, Giant Inflatable Games, the Carnival Sports Challenge and an Animal Farm with a pony. We’re also going on an excursion to Featherdale Wildlife Park. Many past favourites have repeated, including excursions to the Reading Cinemas twice, Charles Heath Reserve and Kingpin Bowling. The vacation care program is below for your review:

If you would like your child to be busy, having fun and playing with friends over summer, then book them into vacation care. Children need to be enrolled at OOSH prior to attending vacation care. To enrol and/or book vacation care please contact the OOSH Coordinator at ooshmail@ssc.nsw.edu.au or call OOSH on 9745 7790 between 2:00-6:00pm. 

Mary Bailey House

Last month, infants, toddlers and preschoolers participated in the Aussie Bird Count. Birdlife Australia holds this week event annually in October to learn about and understand birds. Registered participants are required to spend 20 minutes each day outside watching, identifying and counting birds.

Our children enjoyed and took their role seriously closely observing, discussing and noting down the bird they saw with the help of our bird checklists. Once they’d completed their daily bird spotting, they’d add the species of bird onto the Birdlife count app. This year our children identified Lorikeets. This week is a wonderful opportunity to be outside together and learn about birds.

Jackie Baxter
Director of Mary Bailey House and OOSH