About Us

An Absolute Commitment to Best Practice Health and Safety.

WSACC has, and will continue to maintain a remarkable Health and Safety track record. In over three decades of operations, WSACC has had no adverse findings related to child welfare, health or safety.

Commitment to Governance and Excellent Management Practices.

The management and committee of WSACC have an ongoing commitment to ensuring the service complies with and exceeds its health and safety and risk management requirements. This is achieved through the implementation of a continuous improvement plan under the current assessment and ratings system administered through the NQF.

Comprehensive orientation procedures for new educators and ongoing professional development for all staff is provided to ensure that the educators engaged to care for children have a clear understanding of their responsibilities around safety including mandatory reporting guidelines, child protection, risk assessment and risk management, workplace health and safety, first aid, asthma management and anaphylaxis management.

WSACC has policies and procedures addressing issues around respect, relationships and communication with children. 

Philosophies, Values, Beliefs and Goals Focused on the Child. WSACC implements its philosophies, values, beliefs and goals on a daily basis through all aspects of its service provision. WSACC offers a child focused program that aims to provide children with a warm, friendly, safe, caring and enjoyable environment.

Stimulating the Desire to Learn. 

The quality of WSACC’s environment and its ability to engage and stimulate children’s learning is evident on observation of centre facilities and from family feedback received.  WSACC has a fantastic reputation amongst its peers in relation to its environments and educational program.

WSACC’s core program has 12 specific program or project areas, each providing unique, fun and stimulating learning environments in which educators implement each Childs’ program. In addition, WSACC supports extracurricular activities through specialist facilitators engaged by WSACC.

1. Home Corner.
2. Construction.
3. Sustainability Project.
4. Art and Craft Program.
5. Games and Drawing Area.
6. Food Service Program.
7. Library.
8. Computer Lab – Documentation of learning, Newsletter project and the Bloggers project.
9. Playgrounds.
10. Facilitated Active Play.
11. Homework and the Reading Buddy Program.
12. Special Projects / Child Led Programing

WSACC supports its children to engage in external extracurricular activities by providing an educator who ensures children are either escorted or released to attend each activity and to provide the appropriate level of assistance required for children to begin their activities such as dressing for swimming or lacing up soccer shoes.

Stimulating Discovery and Exploration. 

WSACC and its staff strive to create a learning environment deliberately designed to allow exploration and discovery so that children may enhance basic life skills while promoting their right to grow with a confident self-image.

WSACC provides a diverse range of activities for children involving structured and unstructured, and child led learning opportunities. These are indoor and outdoor, creative and expressive external extracurricular activities .

Stimulating a Sense of Community. 

WSACC’s environment reflects a sense of ownership and belonging for children.  Environments are deliberately designed to allow children to maintain ongoing games, investigations and projects, and it encourages children to plan and make choices.

The way the WSACC environment is designed intentionally reflects the input and creativity of the children and is determined by the way they engage with our resources.

Stimulating the Wider Community. 

WSACC has developed its physical, procedural and experiential environments to a superior level in terms of its ability to meet the needs of its care receivers, their families and the School.

It is held in high regard within the sector for its stimulating environment and quality learning opportunities.  For example in 2010, WSACC was selected as the only outside school care service showcased for a bus tour of child care professionals conducted by the Professional Support Coordination Queensland (PSCQ) of the Workforce Council (Peak body for training of Queensland child care sector) focusing on environments.

Health Nutrition and Wellbeing

WSACC follows the Australian Government Guide to Healthy Eating Dietary Guidelines as referenced in PANOSH publication Physical Activity and Nutrition Policy.

Promoting Healthy Eating at Every Opportunity  

WSACC promotes balanced and healthy eating through a documented nutrition policy providing for a healthy and nutritious diet, and in particular by providing positive learning experiences during meal  /  snack times where good nutritional food habits are reinforced in a happy, social environment.  WSACC encourages parents / caregivers to participate in this approach to nutrition for their children.

Engaging the Whole Family in Healthy Eating  

WSACC values the input of staff and families taking into account children’s individual needs in preparing meals.

Sensitive to Cultural and Dietary Needs.  The service fully supports the food requirements specified by families according to culture, religious, special dietary needs.

Nutritious, Varied and Attractive Menus

WSACC appreciates the importance of ensuring menus vary so that the children find nutritional choices attractive.

In terms of the Smart Choices food and drink supply strategy, these menu offerings provide:

1. a wide representation of varied and nutritious foods;
2. low fat varieties of milk, yoghurt, and cheese;
3. low fat protein choices (e.g. eggs);
4. plenty of vegetables, legumes (e.g. chilli con carne) and fruits;
5. a variety of cereals (including a variety of breads); and
6. water or low fat milk as the drinks of choice.

In particular, WSACC menus limit saturated fat intake, are low in sodium and only provide moderate amounts of sugars and foods containing added sugars.

Green foods are encouraged and promoted.

Amber foods are carefully selected and offered only as an adjunct to green foods (e.g. ham, spreads) and red foods are rarely, if ever, on offer to children at WSACC.

Compliance, Quality and Continual Improvement in Nutritional Operations

WSACC’s food services are operated in accordance with PANOSH food safety guidelines both on premises and off site as required.  WSACC food and nutrition program is also independently audited by an accredited Practising Dietician every five years.

This food safety audit assesses staff knowledge of accreditation guidelines, centre food safety policies, staff food safety training and practices in food preparation facilities, personal hygiene, safe food storage and preparation, meeting family’s needs and relevant information provision and cleaning procedures.