Kindergarten Transition Program

The Head Start Program will be used to help the new Kindergarten students in 2025, to ensure a
smooth and effective transition to school and to set the students up for a successful school journey,
especially those with disabilities and difficulties.

Ready Set Go 4 Kindy is 20 week transition to school program for families with children enrolling in
Kindergarten for 2025 at Hilltop Road Public School. The program will build a strong connection with
families and their children, laying the groundwork for a successful transition from home or early years
settings to primary school. Families will attend the program on a weekly basis onsite and will also
have access to Seesaw (Online learning platform) which will connect families to school news

Countdown to Kindy (C2K)

Countdown to Kindy or “C2K” is a Transition to School Program which prepares preschool children
for their first year of school. C2K is designed to provide a structured and supportive environment to
children, their families and educators to ensure a smooth transition. The goal is to promote a holistic
approach for school readiness, build confidence, resilience, reduce anxiety and create a positive
foundation for lifelong learning

Confident Little Communicators – Empowering Children with Foundational Vocabulary and Language Skills

Learning Links’ new foundational speech and language program, will empower children in Kindy-
Year 2 at Merrylands Public School with language delays, or at risk of falling behind, with the
foundational skills they need to learn to read, write and express themselves clearly. Learning Links
Speech Therapy Aides will support children in small groups weekly for 20 weeks to improve their
spoken language and vocabulary skills and build their confidence to learn and thrive

This project aims to put together a set of home learning activities in Maths / Reading learning pack to
support students with disabilities. Merrylands East Public School currently has 70 students with
disabilities integrated into our school community. These students need additional support to enabled
them to fully participate in our community. Our school is aiming to provide equitable outcomes,
opportunities and experiences.

Merrylands High School supports over 250 students who require differentiated learning support
because of a range of diagnosed cognitive and physical disabilities. While MHS staff do an excellent
job of utilising available resources, funding does not stretch far enough to employ adequate Learning
Support and EAL/D specialists or to purchase equipment needed to satisfactorily support these
students.

Mobile Magic Carpet Magic Carpet projector system.

The mobile MagicCarpet displays motion responsive games and activities on to floors, tables and beds. The Magic
Carpet offers a variety of stimulating activities that are suitable for multi-sensory exploration, play,
learning and therapy. It’s responsive surfaces remove barriers that our students with complex
learning needs face and enables them to participate on equal terms to create an inclusive play
environment

Communication Support for Students with Special Needs

Holroyd School would like to purchase software to help improve our students’ communication.
Boardmaker is an online communication service that enables our teachers to develop communication
symbols to assist our students’ learning and understanding. Many of our students are non verbal are
rely solely on visuals for communication. An online subscription to Boardmaker would be used to
implement intensive communication programs and provide a whole school approach to
communication.

Replace roof over kitchen and bathrooms of Guildford Girl Guides Hall

The roof over the kitchen and bathrooms of Guildford Girl Guides Hall urgently needs to be replaced
as it is leaking. The corrugated iron roof sheets and flashing has deteriorated over a number of years
and will all need to be replaced

Scout Hall Sewer Line Replacement

The existing sewer line that runs from in front of the entry steps of the Scout Hall will need to be dug
up and replaced with new 100mm pvc line down the side of the building to the vertical riser in the
yard near the boundary fence. This section of the line needs to be replaced because of the large
amount of tree roots in the line causing the pipe to crack and block up. The concrete path way will
need to be saw cut and removed with an excavator to be able to excavate the sewer line

We were donated a club shed to house our training equipment and whilst we now have storage tabs
for the equipment we now need additional items to ensure the equipment is maintained and stored in
a safe, clean and organised manner

Equipment, uniforms and awards for the development and growth for the members of Greystanes Physie and Dance

This funding will enable Merrylands Rams JRLFC to provide the best available on and off field apparel and training gear for our players, coaches, managers, trainers and club officials to ensure a high professional standard is maintained. In additon our club will be able to obtain the necessary education and training skills for club officials, coaches, managers and trainers for them to be able to teach our players how to play the great game of Rugby League in a safe, sportsman like manner and to develop and improve players individual skills in thier game.

Our two physical honour boards are now full (taking 25 years information each) and we need to purchase a new honour board to recognise and record positions held by or club Committee members, Club Captains & Life Members

Require new track equipment

Sporting Apparal trying to buy modern, score books, gloves, bats, balls, tees etc.

The project is to assist local public school lawn bowlers to attend representative school bowls events throughout NSW and interstate as required

Pay for accreditation so we would like to subsidise the cost of accreditation and attendance at courses/clinics. Also, with roughly 170
players we need lots of equipment to maximise training and provide the most fun and fitness to our players.