Fees

Enrolment Fee

On application for enrolment, you will be required to complete a Waiting List Form and your details will then be processed in our waiting list system.

An enrolment fee of $65 ($35 for re-enrolment in subsequent years) is payable upon acceptance of offer of enrolment to secure you child’s/children’s position.  Please note that this fee is non-refundable. 

 Daily Fees

Rosellas Community Preschool currently receives funding in accordance with the NSW Department of Education & Communities “Start Strong“ Funding Model:-

• Children in their year before school (i.e. aged four and five years old as at 31 July);

• Partial Base Funding for 3 year olds; and

• Additional “Equity” Funding is received for: 

  • Families who provided a copy of their current Health Care Card or Pension Card; and

  • Families with an enrolled child who identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. 

Our daily fees for 2023 have been set and structured as follows:-

Equity: $20 - Families who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

Equity: $20 - Families who have provided a current Health Care Card or Pension Card

Non-Equity: $35 - 3 to 5 year old children

In 2023, the NSW Government is providing 15 hours of funded Preschool to eligible services. Children attending for 2 days a week will not be charged any daily fees and children attending 3 days will only be charged for one day of preschool attendance per week.

Our program

Rosellas is open for five days a week, during NSW school term. During these days we have two programs on offer for children. We operate from 8am - 3.30pm each day.

Please contact our office with any enquiries about our enrolment process, or fill in a waiting list form for enrolment.

What to supply each day:

• Fruit or vege break, morning tea and lunch

• Water bottle - no juice or sweet drinks, only fresh delicious water

• A spare change of clothes - sometimes the children play with water or get hot or cold, so please provide options for variable weather and different play options

• A full brimmed hat

• A sleeping sheet, if your child requires a day sleep

**Make sure everything is clearly labelled with your child’s name

Healthy Lunch box ideas:

Fruit & Vege

• carrot and celery sticks

• corn cob, snow peas, cherry tomatoes, cucumber

• piece of fresh fruit eg. apple, pear, strawberries, orange, grapes and bananas

• salad - filling in a sandwich, wrap or roll

  Breads & Cereals

• fruit bread, scones, pikelets

• crackers, dry biscuits, rice cakes

• rice, noodles, pasta

  Meat & other Protein sources

• lean beef, lamb, pork, chicken, tuna or salmon - filling in sandwiches, rolls, wraps, sushi or added to salad

• baked beans, lentil patty

• left-over meat-based casserole, rissoles, meat-based pasta sauce

  Dairy Food

• cheese slices or cubes as a snake with cucumber slices and cherry tomatoes

• cheese as a filling in sandwiches, rolls and wraps or on dry biscuits

• yoghurt

  Water

• pack a filled water bottle with water only - this is our drink of choice at Rosellas!

For the safety of other children, as well as meeting requirements, we kindly ask that you don’t bring:

• no nuts of any kind, or nut pastes / butters

• no lollies, sweets or chips

• no sweet drinks

• as well as any other foods noted depending on particular allergies of new children; please ask your teacher if you are unsure

• any special toys or jewellery.

When to keep your child home:

• if your child is feeling unwell and/or is vomiting, has a runny nose, cough, fever or diarrhoea.

• head lice

• any contagious illness

  Please don’t hesitate to call us if you’re unsure and need our thoughts on it.