Bookings for our spring holiday program will be coming soon!

Cowes Primary

Location

177 Settlement Road
Cowes
VIC 3922

Program offered

Before and After School Care

School Holiday Program

Before School Care opening hours

Monday to Friday
7:00am – 8:45am

After School Care opening hours

Monday to Friday
3:30pm – 6:00pm

School Holiday Program opening hours

Monday to Friday
8:30am – 5:30pm

Contact us in centre

Phone   Email

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Before and After School Care

If you're looking for high quality care for your child before and after school hours, we're here to support you. Suitable for children from five to 12 years of age, our programs are led by experienced Educators and are a great way to complement your child's learning.

Your child will get the opportunity to socialise with other children and make new friends. Plus, we can tailor our activities to support their individual interests and ideas. So whether your child enjoys arts and crafts, dance and drama, or sports and ball games, we'll make sure they have an amazing start and end to their day!

We'll even provide a nutritious breakfast to set your child up for the day ahead, as well as healthy and delicious afternoon snacks.

We also offer a Pupil Free Day program throughout the school year, depending on booking numbers.

How to enol  Prices

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School Holiday Program

Our holiday program provides an opportunity for your child to learn from new experiences through a fun mix of activities, while making friends along the way.

We offer a wide variety of interest-based in-house activities, themed incursions and exciting excursions. Our holiday programs are run by experienced Educators who help your child become more confident and independent.

Activities could include anything from learning to skateboard to meeting amazing animals or having a boogie at our disco. We do regular excursions too. In the past, we've headed to the Chocolate Factory Museum and Wonthaggi Arts Centre.

Keep an eye out for our upcoming program – we'll share the schedule on this page about four weeks before the school holidays start.

How to enrol   Prices

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Prices

To support our families, we offer permanent and casual booking options. Casual bookings do incur an additional cost.

Please contact your local centre for advice on any questions you have regarding pricing.

Program

Fee

 

Before School Care (permanent booking) $22.10 -
Before School Care (casual booking) $27.50 -
After School Care (permanent booking) $28.10 -
After School Care (casual booking) $33.60 -

Child Care Subsidy (CCS)

Our programs qualify for the Federal Government's Child Care Subsidy (CCS). CCS helps eligible families access approved and registered child care providers by partially subsidising the cost of daily fees.

The 'Fee' price listed in the table above is the full permanent or casual daily fee for each program without any CCS entitlements.

*The 'You pay as little as' price is an example of the out of pocket fee paid by families who qualify for the maximum CCS percentage (90%). The fees above are calculated at 85% subsidy to allow for the 5% withheld by Services Australia to reduce the chances of an overpayment.

When our holiday programs are open for bookings, you'll be able to see the prices for each activity on this page. These prices are the daily price and do not include any CCS you may be entitled to, which could significantly reduce your out of pocket expense.

Refer to the Government website for more information about CCS funding and your eligibility. We also recommend using this CCS calculator to estimate your new subsidy payments.

Our customer service and onsite teams are happy to assist you with any queries you have regarding this funding and to help you navigate the system.

Book your place

You can book into our Outside School Hours Care programs through My Family Lounge (our online booking system).

Read our 'How to enrol' guide to make sure you've got everything you need to book. You can also read our FAQs about Before and After School Care and School Holiday Programs.

Returning families:    Sign in

New families:             Register

Got a question? Feel free to submit an enquiry and we'll be in touch.

Holiday Program:      Enquire  Before and After School Care:  Enquire

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