This month at the

Balmoral Early

Learning Centre Now that it is September, after a very cold and very wet winter, the

children are now able to play outside in the beautiful sunshine!

“Treasure hunting” has been extremely popular, where the child

hiding the treasure gets a small bag of gold coins and hides them

all over the yard while the other children search the yard

excitedly to find the hidden treasure. Outdoor easel painting was

also another experience the children enjoyed out in the sunshine,

many of the children painted for much longer while outside than

they normally would inside, which proved interesting. September

also means “Fathers Day” so over the past few weeks the children

have been very busy and creative while making their beautiful

Father’s Day cards for all the wonderful Dads out there!

Over the next few weeks, all the children and staff at the Balmoral

Early Learning Centre will be working on a beautiful wall display

dedicated to the season “Spring” to add some colour, nature and

happiness to our room!

During the school holidays, I will be heavily working on your

children’s portfolios so they can be displayed in the front foyer of

the centre – ready for access by all parents and children!

A friendly reminder to all parents as it is now spring, all children are

required to wear sunscreen and a sun hat in accordance with our

Sun smart policy. Please make sure your child has a named hat to

wear outside each day. Also if you require your own brand of

sunscreen for your child due to allergies, eczema etc; you are more

than welcome to bring your own but please remember to sign it in!

Keira Dickerson

Childcare Team Leader

BBNC NEWS

Board Contacts

President

Mr. Neville Trotman

Vice President

Mrs. Georgie Leeming

Mrs. Katie Little

Members

Mr. Dan Pekin

Mr. Ryan Lloyd-Jones

Mr. Daniel Thomson

Mrs. Dani Smith

Executive Administration

Mrs. Sabrina Watt

Centre Contacts

Centre Manager

Lisa Hutchins

Clinical Nurse

Coordinator

Kim Dufty

Community Services

Coordinator

Lyn Iredell

Administration

Coordinator

Jodie Russell

Quality & Risk

Coordinator

Anita Weaver

Issue 136 | OCTOBER 2016

Community Partnerships

Visit us online at www.balmoralbnc.com.au Contact Details

PO Box 20 Balmoral, VIC 3407

Email: bbnc.admin@swarh.vic.gov.au

Web: www.balmoralbnc.com.au

Ph: (03) 5570 1304 Fax: (03) 5570 1482

Centre Hours

Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm,

Closed weekends & Public Holidays

"Connecting people, promoting knowledge,

investing in the health and wellbeing of our

community for the future"

We value your

feedback

To do our utmost to improve

our services to you, your

feedback is important to us. If

you have a complaint,

compliment, suggestion or

concern we urge you to let us

know. Forms are available at the

Centre or alternatively phone

the Centre on 5570 1304.

Lisa Hutchins

Centre Manager

In this month’s edition please note our walking

challleneg, 10,0000 steps and seek out a team to

be involved. Healthy active living is a community

culture and the team at the Balmoral Bush Nursing

Centre love this. Please contact Tallie Talay for more

information.

Playgroup is a wonderful way of meeting new people

and supporting young families. We also provide an

opportunity to meet our nursing staff and have young

children visit the clinic area so they are not scared or

uncertain when they become ill.

Kim Dufty our Clinical Nurse Coordinator demonstrates

“teddy assessment” to our next generation of budding

health professionals.

Staff have recently completed annual fire

safety training and attended an “all staff”

meeting. The catering for the lunch was

provided by the students of the Balmoral

Community College. Abbey Hobbs and Febey

McClure presented and served lunch very

professionally. The food was amazing!!

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 3 4

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Dr. David

10am - 4:45pm

5 6

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Men's Shed 1:30pm

7

Community Bus > Horsham,

Leave at 8:15am

SW Dental - 10:30—2:30pm

Playgroup

8

9 10

WDHS Psychologist

9:30am - 3pm

Diabetes Educator

10:20 - 2:50pm

Podiatrist

10:20am - 2:50pm

11

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Dr. Julia

2 - 4:45pm

12

M&CHN 9:30 - 11:30am

Dr. Slabbert (Video link)

13

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Men's Shed 1:30pm

14 15

16 17 18

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Dr. Coulson & Dr. David

10am - 4:45pm

19 20

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Optometrist 10am - 4:30pm

Men's Shed 1:30pm

21

Community Bus > Hamilton

SW Dental - 10:30—2:30pm

Playgroup

22

23 24

Podiatrist

10:20am - 2:50pm

25

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Dr. Prozesky & Dr. Julia

2 - 4:45pm

26

Dr. Slabbert (Video link)

27

Pathology 9 - 10am $4.00

Men's Shed 1:30pm

28 29

30 31

Visiting Services After Hours

Health Advice

National Nurse on Call

Is a phone service that provides

immediate, expert health advice from

registered nurses, 24 hours a day, 7 days

a week. Call 1300 60 60 24 for the cost of

a local call from anywhere in Victoria

Coleraine Medical Centre

NON URGENT OUTPATIENTS will be seen

by the doctor on call Saturdays, Sundays

& Public Holidays at 9am. Clinic phone

5553 2045 will be answered by a triage

nurse after hours.

Hamilton Medical Group

After Hours Clinic Service 8pm

weeknights. Clinic open 4pm Saturdays.

Sundays & Public Holidays 10am & 4pm

AH: 5572 2422

Field Name Availability

Doctor Dr. Jan Slabbert Alternate Wednesdays

Doctor Dr Brian Coulson Alternate Tuesdays

Doctor Dr. Greta Prozesky Alternate Tuesdays

Psychologist Angela O ’Brien One Monday per month

Maternal & Child

Health Nurse Judy Joyce 2nd and 4th Wed

Diabetes Educator Megan McLeish One Monday per month

Optometrist Glenn Howell May & October

Podiatry Phuong Hung Two visits per month.

Masseur Darcy Penrose Thursdays

Continence Nurse Annabelle Wilson 3rd Thursday of the month

South West Dental Dr. Craig Gove &

KyShen Tang Alternate Fridays

Payments can be made by cash, cheque, EFTPOS or direct deposit into our bank account

BSB: 083 440 Account: 515592666 Please include your name as a reference Need to make a payment?

If you would like any more

information regarding these

activities please don’t hesitate to

call the Centre

Tallies' Terrific

Tuesdays Every Tuesday during the school term

10am - 11am

Cost: $3.00 per session

Venue: BBNC

Strength Training

Mondays & Wednesdays

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Cost: $5 per session

Venue: BBNC

Public & Private dental care is available once a

fortnight at BBNC.

No need to travel out of town for dental care.

Balmoral Playgroup Term 4

Playgroup is aimed for ages newborn to 4 years.

Parents are asked to bring their kids along and

enjoy a relaxed morning of activities and have

the chance to meet other parents in the

community.

We will be coinciding playgroup with the

Hamilton Library bus every fortnight.

Playgroup Dates

for Term 4:

Friday 7th October

Friday 21st October

Friday 4th November

Friday 18th November

Friday 2nd December

Please remember to

bring a piece of fruit

to share

Please contact Leah at

the Centre for further

information regarding

playgroup

Ph: 5570 1304

Invitation for

New Bookworm

Members

Do you enjoy reading?

Then this club just might be for you!

The group meets on a Thursday afternoon

from 2pm at Sheila Rickards the day prior to

the mobile library visiting Balmoral.

They meet for a coffee and an informal

discussion about the book.

For more information regarding the

bookworm club please call the Centre and

speak to either Kim Dufty or Lisa Hutchins.

The next meeting will be on:

Thursday 3rd November

from 2pm at Sheilas house

and the next book will be

‘The Happiest Refugee’.

All books to be picked up from the BBNC

Planned Activity Group After the rains and water everywhere it was a great time to check

out Wannon and Nigretta falls on our trip back from Hamilton.

Hamilton PAC Athol Guy The Seekers Story we were taken on a

musical & visual journey on the amazing success of Australia’s most

celebrated musical group The seekers.

Our planned trip to Casterton worked out that we missed the floods

of the rising Glenelg River. Lunch at the Albion Hotel was enjoyed by

all, great meal in the newly renovated hotel. Then it was on the bus

for a guided tour around Casterton, up to the famous race course

with views over the valley to Sandford. Our tour took us up to the

Mickle Look Out with magnificent views looking straight down the

main street. We travelled to Ess Lagoon which is a very popular

picnic and fishing area lots of other places of interest, back to the

information centre for a cuppa before heading back to Balmoral.

Special thank you to Heather for being our tour guide for the day,

Heather had a great knowledge of the area and make it all very

interesting.

After lunch on Monday 12th we all tried our hand at folding napkin’s,

under the guidance of Betty we folded into the centre and folded

again turning the napkin this way and that and come up with 6

different styles that we mastered. The table looked like a Christmas

party with red napkins folded and covering the table everywhere.

Men’s Shed members have been flat out keeping up with all the

outdoor seat orders, and other projects on the go. BBQ lunches on

the first Thursday of the month have been very popular with lots of

advice given on cooking the BBQ and laughter. Anyone is welcome

to come and enjoy lunch with the group and stay for the afternoon

to help out the more the merrier.

Plans for a 2 night stay in Maryborough have been completed and

we head off Monday 19th full report next month.

Lyn Iredell & Bec Kearns

Community Services

Date Event

Monday 3rd Lunch at the Centre then Footy Tipping Presentation

Monday 10th NO PAG TODAY

Wednesday 12th Lunch in Hamilton, Melbourne Cup on display and War Horse

movie of the stage show at the cinemas

Monday 17th Lunch at the Centre then trip to golf club to look at the wild

flowers

Monday 24th Picnic lunch and out and about for afternoon tea. Leaving

Centre at 11am

Monday 31st Lunch at the Centre then visit the grade 6 students

October Program

Men’s Shed Dates

Thursday 6th

Thursday 13th

Thursday 20th

Thursday 27th

Account fees We wish to remind clients that due to the rising cost of administration there has been a $5 per month account

fee introduced for the provision of account services.

Please arrange payment for goods and services received at BBNC prior to the end of month processing to

avoid incurring the $5 account fee.

Family Single

Have you joined the Walking

Challenge?? Why 10,000 Steps A Day?

The '10,000 steps' goal puts a focus on the accumulation of activity

across the whole day. With continual advances in technology and our

workplaces becoming more sedentary it now takes a concerted effort to make active choices.

It is sometimes easier to make these choices when you have a motivational tool such as a

pedometer reminding you how many or how little steps you have done for the day.

10,000 steps is the recommended daily step goal for a healthy adult. The following pedometer

indices have been developed to provide a guideline on how many steps are enough.

After lengthy delays due to website updates our walking challenge is finally up and going. We have 6 teams this year vying for the right to be crowned champions of the winter (spring) walking challenge and hold aloft the much sought after Golden Sneaker trophy. Harrow Bush Nursing Centre and Loren Linto Personal Training are the two new teams up for the challenge with both heavily recruiting in the off season. The Balmoral Community team have changed their name to give them more selling power……..and with a name like “Chicks, Hens & Tough Old Birds” I’m sure they’ll be a team not to be taken to lightly!! The challenge goes for a duration of 6 weeks kicks off on the 3rd October (first day of Term 4) and will finish on the 14th November. Although the program promotes the idea of 10,000 Steps in a day, the truth of the matter is that the ideal number of steps is based on your current activity levels and your overall health and fitness goals.

There is no magic to 10,000 steps. For people who normally do substantially fewer steps almost any increase in daily activity will pay off in the long term. For example if someone is doing only about three-thousand steps a day, an increase to six or seven-thousand daily steps would result in long term health benefits and a substantial weight loss if they are currently overweight.

Of course more activity is almost always better, but the idea of setting some small goals and using

the pedometer to guide you towards success is the real beauty of the instrument. It really does

make a difference to the activity levels. Parking a distance away from the entrance to the shops is

now an opportunity to acquire those steps - a far cry from the previous frustration of not parking

right at the front door.

If you are not part of a team and would love the opportunity please contact myself at the Balmoral

Bush Nursing Centre on 5570 1304 or alternately you can contact one of the other team

captains:

Harrow Bush Nursing Centre: Tina Rogers

Balmoral Bush Nursing Centre: Tallie Talay

Balmoral Community College: Lyndal Shewry

Loren Linto Personal Training: Loren Linto

Chicks, Hens & Tough Old Birds: Dana Smith

Balmoral Golf Club: Joy Brody

Tallie Talay

Respite Carer & Case Management

Steps Per Day Activity Level

<5,000 sedentary

5,000 - 7,499 low active

7,500 - 9,999 somewhat active

>10,000 active

>12,500 highly active