More early educators leaving the industry than ever before have been attributed to a "perfect storm" of reasons. Within the past week, 39 early childhood services shut down due to a lack of educators to run them.
The NSW Department Of Education has developed a free professional development course video for Educators on completing Transition To School statements.
With a record number of scholarship recipients announced recently, more than 1,000 aspiring early childhood educators in NSW are on their way to a rewarding career supporting the state’s littlest learners. Over the next four years, more than 18,000 early childhood educators and teachers will receive support thanks to the NSW Government's unprecedented investment in the ECEC workforce.
Gingerbread House Numbers Find and Colour is a number recognition game where children need to find the matching number from the gingerbread house door. Once they find the correct matching number children can colour it in. This is a great number recognition game and helps children to identify numbers.
The Department Of NSW has produced a special picture book to support a child's transition to primary school called Daisy's First Day.
Christmas Colour Match enables children to match the same colour objects under the correct colour Christmas tree. This is an excellent activity for children learning colours and sorting and categorising things based on colours.
Gingerbread Letter Match enables children to match the correct gingerbread to its house. This is great for children learning letters and for children to begin letter recognition.
The Shopping List Sort enables children to "go shopping" by finding the items on their list and adding the correct matching picture to their shopping trolley. This is a great game for children to begin to identify different objects based on the picture provided,
Numeracy encompasses a much wider notion than numbers – it can be understood as the suite of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need in order to use mathematics in a wide range of situations. The following provides a list of numeracy activities for children that can be incorporated into an emerging numeracy environment.
My Christmas Sweater encourages children to create their own Christmas sweaters by following the number task cards. Children are given number task cards and a blank sweater. Each task card has pictures and the amount the pictures should be placed on the sweater, thus creating a Christmas sweater. This is great for children to recognise numbers and to practice counting.
The Monthly Calendar Themes are blank monthly calendars that can be filled in with special events, birthdays, excursions and more. Each calendar has a theme to represent a special event that makes place during the month.
The NSW Minister for Education and Early Learning has released a Minister’s Statement of Expectations. This formal public statement covers how the education and care sector’s regulator will operate and what the public can expect of the government in ensuring that education and care services in NSW are appropriately regulated.
