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Outdoor Play With Babies

Outdoor Play With Babies

Right from the earliest years, outdoor experiences are an invaluable aspect of healthy human growth. Engaging with the outdoors and nature helps even babies to develop fully, realise their physical and intellectual potential as well as bond with the surrounding…
Learning With Nature

Learning With Nature

Over centuries, Nature has been represented by artists, poets and philosophers as the ideal setting for learning about humanity and the universe. Indeed they may have been onto something as everyday there is more evidence about how experiences with nature…
How Pretend Play Supports Children's Learning

How Pretend Play Supports Children's Learning

Pretend play is the acting out of stories by children that involves make-believe characters, emotions and situations. Developmental psychologists believe that children begin to engage in pretend play from around two years and it goes on to mark an important…
NSW Staff Ratios and Adequate Supervision

NSW Staff Ratios and Adequate Supervision

The Staff Ratios and Adequate Supervision information, for NSW early childhood services, has been revised and updated by the NSW Regulatory Authority, NSW Department Of Education.
Benefits Of Loose Parts

Benefits Of Loose Parts

When playing with things, children are usually attracted to those that are colourful, easily handled, made up of many components and allow enough room for their curiosity. Loose parts is a term used in early childhood learning to include such…
The Value of Play Based Learning In Early Childhood Services

The Value of Play Based Learning In Early Childhood Services

Play-based learning uses playful experiences in which children have some degree of agency and control as opportunities for teaching a range of skills and competencies.
Developing and Enhancing Literacy in Children

Developing and Enhancing Literacy in Children

Literacy skills cover the ability to read and write words, sentences and language. Since such skills are not just the basis of effective communication but also determine future academic progress, it is important to support literacy skills from early childhood.
Benefits Of Risk Play For Children

Benefits Of Risk Play For Children

Though as educators, we tend to value the well-being of children above everything else, there may be some merit in encouraging a bit of risky play in the early years.
Introducing STEM To Children In Early Childhood Settings

Introducing STEM To Children In Early Childhood Settings

STEM refers to an integrated learning approach that introduces Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics through play-based activities.
Encouraging Kindness in Young Children

Encouraging Kindness in Young Children

As Educators all over the world find out every day, there are certain life skills which fundamentally determine how well children will learn within their learning environment. One of the most important life skills children learn to develop is kindness.
Primary and Secondary Teachers Now Recognised As ECTs in Early Childhood Services

Primary and Secondary Teachers Now Recognised As ECTs in Early Childhood Services

The ACEQCA Board decided to extend and amend it's transitional measure by enabling primary and secondary teachers to be "recognised as an equivalent ECT" until the end of 2023.
Public Holiday Information For Educators In Australia

Public Holiday Information For Educators In Australia

This is the list of 2022 public holidays for each state and territory in Australia. Public holidays can be different depending on the state or territory you're in.
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