Welcome
T hank you for considering One World Children's Centre for your family's childcare needs.
We understand just how difficult it can be choosing a child care centre for your child, and therefore hope that our website is helpful in assisting your family in its' important decision.
Here you will find all sorts of information about One World, our family services, and our innovative online features.
And if you are already a member of the One World community, we hope you enjoy all the online features that Parent's World, your family's own personal homepage, has to offer.
At One World, our commitment is to provide you and your family with a service of the highest quality, so that you can relax in the knowledge that your child is in safe and experienced hands.
We look forward to working in partnership with you in the care and education of your young child |
Centre Direction
 Enrolments for 2009
The end of the year is fast approaching and our 2009 child care places are filling quickly. To avoid missing out on your required places, please ensure that you have confirmed your booking for the new year. All new bookings to commence Monday 5th January 2009.
Green Team
We have recently introduced recycling boxes into each family grouping room, kinder and offices as part of our Green Team action plan for waste minimization. It has been a great opportunity to educate our children about recycling and how they are helping to sustain our environment.
 You may have already noticed there are 2 boxes- one for clean recycled paper and one for contaminated paper that can’t be recycled. These boxes are labelled with details on what can be placed in each box.
- Clean recycled paper box: clean paper that can be recycled, (Crayon, pen, pencil, and texta is ok.)
- Contaminated paper box: Paper that has paint, glue, pasting items etc.
This could be something familiar to your children that could be continued at home. Lets all work together to reduce our amount of waste!
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One World Children's Centre is the registered business name of the company One World for Children Pty Ltd (ABN 21 076 297 400).
One World is also a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) with the State Training Board of Victoria, and a provider of nationally accredited training programs to the children's services industry.
Please explore the information on our website, contact us by email or phone on 03 5272 3009 | |
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In the Centre
 End of year celebration!
We are having an end of year celebration for our children and their families at Crazy Critters - Separation Street, North Geelong. It will be held on Wednesday 17th December 6:00pm - 7:30pm. There will be food, drinks and lots of fun for all the family. Information of the night is displayed in the front foyer - we look forward to seeing you at the party!
 Adopt a Family
Thank you to all of our families for your support throughout the year in raising funds for our charity Adopt a Family. The Raffle for Adopt a Family will be drawn at our end of year celebration at Crazy Critters.
Adopt a Family began in 1991 when a local businessman met a family who were facing a lean Christmas and decided to help this family. The following year he asked the Geelong Advertiser, with the support of local charities and the community, to support families in need. Adopt a Family helps to provide more than 400 disadvantaged families with much needed Christmas cheer! For more information Click here
 Group Photos - Fundraiser
Orders will begin on the 24th of November. Get in quick orders wil be finishing soon. All money raised goes to Adopt-a-Family See reception for further details |
Tips for Parents
Sick Days & Emergency child care - What do you do with your children?
 What do you do with your children when they are sick and unable to go to child care? Read more…
How do you rate in the parenting stakes?
How many of the following can you tick off! Click here
Vaccination (Immunisation) and emla®
There are a wide variety of vaccinations that are given over a person’s lifetime. emla® can be used on full-term babies, children and adults to lessen the pain of vaccination. Read more…
 Christmas Recipes for the whole family
Gingerbread People
Jelly slice tinsel
Christmas tree biscuits and Chocolate caramel tarts Click here
Kidspot Best of Awards 2008
Need ideas for Christmas presents? Find out what mums recommend as the best parenting products from pregnancy through children aged 12 years + in Kidspot Best of Awards 2008. Click here |
In the News
Mummy Wars – are the new recommendations for Paid Maternity Leave Fair?
The Productivity Commission's initial recommendations for statutory paid maternity leave has sparked a new debate as to whether it's unfair for working mums to be paid more for having babies than stay at home mums or Mummy Wars as the media is describing it.
 Working mums will receive baby bonus, statutory paid maternity leave, child care benefit and the child care tax rebate, plus any other FTB allowances they may be eligible for, depending on their income and if they are a single parent or in a two parent family.
Stay at home mums will receive the baby bonus any FTB benefits they may be eligible for as a single parent or depending on their partner's income if they are a two parent family. They may also receive child care benefit if they choose to send their children to child care (depending on their partner's income if they have one) and can also receive the Child Care Tax Rebate.
While it's all really about giving the choice to work or stay at home with your children, the Australian government says that the economy needs women to be in the workforce. It also needs the birth rate and population to increase. Stay at home mums will receive financial help if they need it and working mums will be compensated for lost earnings and encouraged back to the workforce without forcing them back earlier than is necessary due to financial and employer pressure. Click here to see article
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What's New
Congratulations October winners!!!
And now to this months' worthy winners ... congratulations to Christine, Liz and Daniela! You have been nominated by your peers and are off to lunch with Karyn and will enjoy the rest of the afternoon off in November.
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