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St Monica's Primary School

Location

91 High St
Kangaroo Flat
VIC 3555

Programs 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
3:00pm – 6:00pm

School Holiday Program opening hours

Monday to Friday
7:00am – 6:00pm

Contact us in centre

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St Monica's Primary

Before and After School Program

We support busy families with high quality care, before and after school hours. Our programs are suitable for children from five to 12 years and are great way to support their learning after the school day.

We'll support your child through fun and educational activities. This could include arts and crafts, board games and puzzles, cooking, drama and dancing, and sport and ball games. Plus, our friendly Educators can help your child with their homework.

Our programs include healthy and delicious after school snacks.

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

How to enrol   Prices

 
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Kangaroo Flat

School Holiday Program

Our holiday program provides an opportunity for your child to learn from new experiences through fun 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 fun fitness challenges, awesome parties or crazy science experiments. In the past, we've even headed to the local cinema and to Little Ninja Warriors Indoor Playground.

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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Splash into Summer Holiday Program

Bookings are now open for our Summer 2026 School Holiday Program! The program runs on weekdays from Monday 5 January to term 1 2026 (excluding public holidays).

We've planned a bumper program of school holiday activities that will interest your child over the holidays.

Activity days can include:

  • In-house (activities run by our Educator team)
  • Incursion (activities run by visitors to our service)
  • Excursion (activities run at an off-site location)
  • Self-guided incursion (incursions run by our Educator team)

What to bring

  • Lunch and snack (nutritious and nut free)
  • SunSmart hat and sunscreen
  • Water bottle
  • Weather appropriate clothing and shoes
  • Swimwear, towel and change of clothes as required (if an activity involves water)

You can also read our School Holiday Program FAQs.

The prices listed in the table below are the full fee for each day. If you're entitled to Child Care Subsidy, what you actually pay could be significantly reduced. 

Date

Activity Details

Week 1
Monday 05 January Y2K New Years Bash
Flashback to the iconic 2000s for a party full of sparkle and fun! Create kaleidoscope sponge paintings, and bedazzle art with rhinestones. Craft your own disco mirror ball, play a butterfly-themed group game, and get grooving with a DIY lava lamp STEM experiment. Top it off with building your own cardboard video game for the ultimate throwback celebration!
Category: Inhouse
Cost: $92.00
Tuesday 06 January Virtual Reality
DreamCity are bringing their VR incursion to us! Immersive virtual reality education blends fun and learning by providing an engaging and interactive virtual world where you can experience new ways of seeing the world around you. Juniors explore and colour the world with a changing soundscape tied to actions, and seniors learn all new skills in high-tech VR gaming experiences.
Category: Incursion
Cost: $113.00
Wednesday 07 January DIY Solar Car
Build, Decorate and Race! Get hands-on with renewable energy and creative fun while you create your own Solar Car. Combining science, engineering, and design, assemble a working solar-powered car and decorate it before racing against your friends in the summer sun.
Category: Self-guided Incursion
Cost: $103.00
Thursday 08 January Magician Duck Cameron
Prepare to be amazed by the award winning Duck Cameron as he performs a live magic show full of wonder, laughs, and jaw-dropping tricks! Then, step behind the curtain to a Magic Workshop and learn fun, beginner-friendly tricks you can perform at home
Category: Incursion
Cost: $113.00
Friday 09 January Hello Yellow
Celebrate all things bright, cheerful, and sunny! Dive into a day of golden fun with gooey yellow slime, refreshing smoothie treats from your very own smoothie stand, and sparkling sunflower and yellow submarine crafts. Brighten someone’s day by making “You Are My Sunshine” compliment cards and buzz around in a busy bee group game.
Category: Inhouse
Cost: $92.00
Week 2
Monday 12 January Seaside Explorers
Dive into waves of fun with a Seaside adventure! Create kinetic sand and slime clean-up sensory stations, sculpt sea creatures from recycled materials, dodge the sharks and seaweed in our group game, and play under-the-sea charades. Explore water science with a salt vs fresh water float experiment and build a coral reef mural that reveals messages about caring for our oceans.
Category: Inhouse
Cost: $92.00
Tuesday 13 January Colour Run Games
Bring a plain white tee and join in the fun with our colour run games incursion today! Get sprayed, soaked and sprinkled with coloured powder while you play super active and fun games. Protective eyewear is provided, a change of clothes is recommended.
Category: Incursion
Cost: $113.00
Wednesday 14 January Fire & Water Safety Squad
Step into the world of firefighters and lifeguards today and learn how to stay safe! Dodge jellyfish in a fast-paced tag game, experiment with colours to design the perfect bathing suit, and get moving with a Stop, Drop, and Roll dance party. Test your speed and reaction times in an obstacle course and smoke alarm game. Create fiery red playdough to complete your training!
Category: Inhouse
Cost: $92.00
Thursday 15 January Colour Splash Money Box
Create a Colour Splash Dinosaur Money Box and unleash your creativity and build great saving habits! Watch as vibrant paints flow down your Dino, creating mesmerising, one-of-a-kind patterns. Explore colour combinations and bring this prehistoric pal to life in your own unique way. Once dry you can use it as a money box at home - saving will feel like an adventure through time!
Category: Self-guided incursion
Cost: $103.00
Friday 16 January Little Ninja Warriors
We're off to Little Ninja Warriors! Hop along to the biggest inflatable jumping castle in Victoria. Race through the obstacle maze and reach new heights on the thrilling climbing walls.
Category: Excursion
Cost: $129.00
Week 3
Monday 19 January Sparkle & Shine
Step into a day filled with sparkles and sunshine. Learn about light and how the suns energy is powerful enough to makes things go! Enjoy sunshine inspired arts and crafts such as diy suncatchers and play group games to spark new friendships.
Category: Inhouse
Cost: $92.00
Tuesday 20 January Gold Mine Tour
Try out your hand at panning for gold before we take a guided surface tour of the orignal buildings and machinery which were essential to the operation of Central Deborah Gold Mine. The tour includes the Blacksmith's Shop, First Aid quarters, Carbide Lamp Room, Engine Room and Gold Treatment Area.
Category: Excursion
Cost: $129.00
Wednesday 21 January Splashtastic Water Games
Cool down with super fun water games today! Get ready to be splashed, soaked and sprinkled with water as we play partner battles, team challenges, races and more group games to beat the heat. Please remember to bring a towel and change of clothes.
Category: Incursion
Cost: $113.00
Thursday 22 January Urban Upcycle
Use clean and repurposed craft items to produce your very own masterpiece! The team from Urban Upcycle visit us today for a lesson on sustainability. What will you create?
Category: Incursion
Cost: $113.00
Friday 23 January Rainbow Ruckus
Get ready to splash, squish, and swirl in a day full of colourful chaos! Paint with fluffy shaving cream, stretch and squelch with slime, and create walking rainbows with science experiments. Join group games that celebrate colour and mess, and let your imagination run wild in this sensory explosion of creativity!
Category: Inhouse
Cost: $92.00
Week 4
Monday 26 January Public Holiday
We are closed today for the Public Holiday. We can't wait to continue on the Splash into Summer Holiday fun tomorrow!
Tuesday 27 January Join us over at St Therese's OSHC to continue the Splash into Summer School Holiday Fun! 
Wednesday 28 January Join us over at St Therese's OSHC to continue the Splash into Summer School Holiday Fun!
Thursday 29 January Join us over at St Therese's OSHC to continue the Splash into Summer School Holiday Fun!
Friday 30 January No program
See you at OSHC for some Term 1 fun!

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)
- -
Before School Care (casual booking)  - -
After School Care (permanent booking) $36.60 -
After School Care (casual booking) $42.00 -
Pupil Free Day (dependent on numbers) $106.40 -

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.

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