EDUCATION AND CARE Data collection in Out of School Hours Care: What data looks like and how it informs programs and practice By Fi Stevenson, OSHC Co-ordinator and Alexandra Ibbotson, OSHC Assistant Co-ordinator WHAT IS OSHC?
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SHC stands for Out of School Hours Care. This includes Before-School Care, After-School Care and Vacation Care. OSHC is also referred to as schoolage education and care. In an OSHC setting, educators work in collaboration with children to provide play and learning opportunities that are meaningful and support their wellbeing, learning, and development. OSHC aims to promote collaboration by simultaneously focusing on the needs and interests of each child. Children at OSHC have choice and control over their learning as they work in partnership with educators to extend and acquire life skills. As children move from preschool to school, their world is expanding. Play-based learning: A context for Children’s learning in a school-aged learning through which children care setting complements their organise and make sense of their social learning at home and school. At worlds, as they engage actively with OSHC, great importance is placed people, objects and representations. on strengthening children’s interests, developing secure respectful and reciprocal relationships and providing opportunities for children to learn through play.
Angela Xiong in Kindergarten (2019), with Educator Evie Charles
OUR CURRICULUM: NATIONAL QUALITY FRAMEWORK * The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority developed the National Quality Framework that includes National Quality Standards. These standards set a national benchmark for the quality of education and care services and include seven quality areas. In each quality area, there are two or three standards. Under each standard are elements that describe the outcomes that contribute to the standard being achieved. The quality standards are also underpinned by regulatory standards. Services are assessed and rated by their regulatory authority against the National Quality Standards and given a rating for each of the seven quality areas and an overall rating based on these results.
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MY TIME OUR PLACE FRAMEWORK ** This framework was designed to be used by OSHC educators working in partnership with children, their families, the school community and the wider community. This framework is linked to the early years framework. It extends the practices and principles and outcomes to the age range of the children and young people that attend school-age care settings. The framework guides educators’ practice to provide children with opportunities that develop a foundation for future success in life and emphasis a sense of enjoyment. *information from National Quality Framework **information from My Time Our Place framework
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