Contact Details:

Parkes Early Childhood Centre

Address: Po Box 388

Armstrong Street, Parkes 2870

Phone: 02 6862 3500 Fax: 02 6863 4220

02 6862 3551

Email: pecc@bigpond.net.au

Web: www.pecc.org.au

Parkes Early Childhood Centre Inc.

Upcoming Events @ PECC

Thursday 16th October 2014 - Aboriginal Perfor-

mance

Friday 17th October 2014 - Zoomobile Show

Tuesday 28th October 2014 - The Puggles and

Little Bent-Wing Bat Show

Friday 31st October 2014 - Troy Murphie Show

October Newsletter

Kindergarten 2015 School Visits

Dates for School Visits

Tuesday 14th October 2014 - Parkes East

Public School Orientation 9.30am - 12.00pm

Wednesday 22nd October 2014 - Parkes Pub-

lic School Orientation 9.30am - 11.00am

Wednesday 5th November 2014 - Holy Family

School Visit 9.30am - 10.45am

Permission notes have been handed out early in the term

To prevent the spread of infectious diseases ie temperature, diahorrea, vomiting, at PECC, the three most effective ways are thorough hand washing, exclusion of the sick child or staff and im-munisation. Exclusion of infectious children and staff significantly reduces the risk of the spread of diseases to other healthy PECC children and staff. Children or staff must be excluded from the service for at least 24 hours after their last reaction and/or when their temperature returns to normal with-out paracetamol.

As we are a nut free centre could parents/carers please be mindful of creams and lo-tions with almond oil in them and not to bring them into the centre.

PECC 60th Birthday Cele-On Saturday 13th September

2014, PECC celebrated it’s 60th

Birthday! Fun was had by all.

The children enjoyed various ac-

tivities from face painting to

jumping castles, CSIRO science

craft and experiments and look-

ing through telescopes with Cen-

tral West Astronomy club. The

Police, SES and Fire Brigade were

also great attractions for the chil-

dren.

The children sang songs for the

crowd, then everyone joined in

singing Happy Birthday as four

generations of the Norman family

- headed by Mrs Joyce (cont)

Norman and accompanied by

great granddaughter Stephanie

McNaughton - cut the celebra-

tion cake. Joyce’s daughter Wen-

dy Yeo, grand-daughter Kristy Yeo

and grandson Ben McNaughton

were also there for the celebra-

tion.

The cake stall, BBQ and raffle re-

ceived a wonderful response rais-

ing more than $2000.

The money raised from the day

will allow PECC to continue to de-

velop our playground area with

landscaping and construction

around our newly installed soft

fall area.

Thankyou to everyone who

helped out and to all those that

attended on the day for their

generous support !

1. Mikayla doing a spray

painting outside on the ve-

randah

2. Huntur & Angus looking

over our ‘Current Affairs’

newspaper articles

3. Lachlan

dressed up as a

Vet

In September the Gumnuts

were fortunate enough to

have prac student, Kym

Goodall from Forbes in the

playroom 3 days a week for a few weeks. In relation to Kym’s observations on the chil-

dren, and an interest in sandcastles, the children have been looking at houses and build-

ings. There have been some wonderful attempts at the easel to draw and paint hous-

es. The children have taken a look at photos and then created a very simple drawing

based on shapes to assist them in this activity. We also looked at some famous structures

that are based on shapes like the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, Pyramids of

Egypt and the Leaning Tower of Pisa!