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Quality Area 3 of the National Quality Standard focuses on the physical environment.

Quality Area 2 of the National Quality Standard reinforces children’s right to experience quality education and care in an environment that provides for their health and safety.

Quality Area 1 of the National Quality Standard focuses on ensuring that the educational program and practice of educators are child-centred, stimulating and maximising opportunities for enhancing and extending each child’s learning and development. The following is a list of outcomes under each element within QA1, that can help services identify if they are achieving Quality Area 1. It also includes documentation to support each element. This list can be used as a guide for Self-Assessment purposes and the development of the Quality Improvement Plan.

Intentional Teaching examples are provided for each key focus and significant aspect of learning.

Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions describe how children explore during the Kindergarten Year within a holistic learning program.

The Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guidelines support kindergarten teachers’ professional practice across Queensland.

The National Quality Standard (NQS) sets a national benchmark for the quality of education and care services and includes seven quality areas that are important to outcomes for children. 

In each quality area, there are two or three standards. These standards are high-level outcome statements. Under each standard are elements that describe the outcomes that contribute to the standard being achieved. Each standard and element is represented by concepts that support education and care services to navigate and reflect on the NQS.

Here is the list of the MTOP Learning Outcomes that you can use as a guide or reference for your documentation and planning.

Here is the list of the EYLF Learning Outcomes that you can use as a guide or reference for your documentation and planning. The EYLF Learning Outcomes are goals that can be achieved by a child during their learning.

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