Enrolling your child with Mandarin Stars

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Tel: 8437 2498 / Email:

To enrol for the Mandarin Stars Playgroup- click here for an enrolment form.

To enrol for the Mandarin Stars After School Club/ Weekend Club- click here  for an enrolment form.

Alternatively, pease call us 24/7 on (02) 8437 2498 / email us at: enrol@mandarinstars.com.au and we will send you an enrolment form.

Once we have received your enrolment form, we will allocate a session to you and contact you to arrange a date for your FREE TRIAL CLASS.

If we cannot offer your child a place, we will add your child’s name to our waiting list.

Term Fees:

Mandarin Stars: Playgroup Fees

Our fees for all of our 1.5 hour playgroup sessions is $363 (incl. GST)  per 10 week term.

All terms fees are payable per term. There is also a one off non-refundable $20+gst administration fee upon enrolment for your child’s first term.

• Note that there will always be a guaranteed Teacher: Student ratio of 1:6 in our playgroups sessions and no more than 18 children per session. This keeps the sessions nice and small and enables the ability for our teachers to engage in more level specific work in smaller groups. There will also, on most occasions, be an extra 4th staff member in training.

• Our classes are immersion style in our playgroup sessions- we speak Mandarin 100% of the time as this has proven to be the best way to acquire a second language in these very early years (especially for non-native speakers).

Mandarin Superstars: After School Club/ Weekend Club Fees

The fees for our 1 hour After School/ Weekend Club sessions are as follows (incl. GST):

Chatswood: $250 per 10 week term

Thornleigh:   $250 per 10 week term

Newtown:     $250 per 10 week term

All terms fees are payable per term. There is also a one off non-refundable $20+gst administration fee upon enrolment for your child’s first term.

• We offer small class sizes and average 1 teacher to 6 students in our Mandarin Superstars sessions enabling our teachers to engage in more level specific work in smaller groups. There will also, on most occasions, be an extra staff member in training.

• Our classes are also immersion style in these sessions- we aim to speak Mandarin 90% of the time as this has proven to be the best way to acquire a second language in these primary years.

• Please can you remind your child to pack his/ her pencil case and a bottle of water. All other materials will be provided by us unless otherwise discussed.

Term fees must be paid before the start of term. We cannot hold your place without payment. 

Payment Options:

We accept payment by cheque or direct deposit to our bank account.

Please make cheques payable to Mandarin Stars Pty Ltd

For all direct deposits / internet payments:

Account Name: Mandarin Stars Pty Ltd

Bank: Westpac Hornsby

BSB: 032 285

Account Number: 345 040

Please reference your internet payment with your child’s name.

Places are limited and we can only fully secure 

your child’s place once we have received payment.

Access to the Mandarin Stars Activity Centre!

Upon enrolment for the term, you will be able to access the online Mandarin Stars Activity Centre. Here you will be able to access an abundance of material including:

- Flashcards related to the themes taught for the term

- Sound/ Voice recordings of the flashcards (This aids our non-background speaking parents so that they check their pronunciation)

- Guides of useful phrases in Mandarin (with sound recordings) for parents to learn at home and at playgroup (This helps to support parents in developing their own Mandarin language skills and to foster our immersion approach in teaching our program)  

- Australian and Chinese nursery rhymes (with sound, translations and Pin Yin)

- Traditional Chinese recipes shared by our wonderful teaching staff. The recipes that are shared with you are local to the provinces that our teachers come from

-  A weekly Activity Sheet for you and your child to complete together. This is not intensive homework- we use these activities to reinforce the themes for the term.

- The latest developments and research updates on bilingualism

- Newsbites and reviews on recently published books about bilingualism.

TERMS & CONDITIONS:

CANCELLATION POLICY

To enable our program to remain viable we need to have guidelines on refunds. This is because venue hire and the number of classes we run need to be arranged for an entire term. Therefore, no refunds are available.

MAKE UP CLASS POLICY

If your child is unable to attend a class, make up classes may be available if we have had prior warning of non attendance. Make up classes do not carry over to the next term. We cannot guarantee there will be availability in all classes for a make up class. No credits are available for missed classes

FEE PAYMENTS

We only take bookings for an entire term and our fees are structured this way. Unfortunately we cannot take casual bookings or pro-rata weeks you may be away.Please refer to our make up class policy for missed classes. All fees must be paid for prior to commencing the term. If you have difficulty paying the fees please discuss this with the Mandarin Stars administration as payment plans can be arranged in special circumstances.

MANDARIN STARS HYGIENE HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY

• All food handling and preparation requires the use of gloves and our teachers only serve food with tongs.
• Where necessary, toys are disinfected after class/ before a next session.
• All toys are spray disinfected regularly throughout the term.
• Our hired rooms are disinfected daily (as per Council requirements).
• All equipment and toys are thoroughly mass-disinfected every term (usually every 10 weeks).
• If your child is sick, please do not bring him/ her to playgroup as you not only risk infecting our teachers, but also other the other children, parents and carers.
• As a reputable educational language provider, Mandarin Stars will ensure that there is least one qualified First Aid member on site.
• As a reputable educational language provider, Mandarin Stars will only conduct classes at venues that are either run by local Council or are actually supported by Council.
• As a reputable educational language provider, Mandarin Stars carries an Enterprise Business Insurance Policy which includes AUD$20million Public Liability Insurance.

Mandarin Stars- Courtesy Rules:

1.  The role of the parent is to observe, support and praise one’s child as he/ she is being engaged in the program.
2. In order to ensure that the children are not distracted and overwhelmed by the level of adult noise in the classroom, all parents should be sensitive to their own personal noise level.
3. Please remember to bring a quality piece of fruit to be shared with others.
4. Please respect that Mandarin Stars is strictly a nut-free zone.
5. Please remember to bring a water bottle to each class.
6. Only one adult should accompany each enrolled child. Special circumstances are considered- please discuss this with the administration staff on 8437 2498.

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