Earlier this month our Early Learning and Care Team hosted a Practical Playwork Professional Learning Day for Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) with Educational Consultant Kylie Keane.
Our OSHC teams from the north and south attended, and for the first time we opened the session to external organisations. We were excited to welcome colleagues from Adventure Patch OSHC, Discovery OSHC, Lady Gowrie OSHC and St Therese’s OSHC, along with Inclusion Professionals from Inclusion Agency Tasmania.
Together, we explored ways to enrich our play environments, remove barriers to play, and provide children with the time, space, and freedom to determine and control the content and intent of their play, rather than having it directed by adults. We considered how our interactions and environments can either support or restrict play opportunities, and how dynamic benefit-risk assessments can help us make informed, on-the-spot decisions that allow children to safely take risks and explore.
We also engaged in a critical cartography exercise, first expressing our own childhood memories through visual representations, then mapping out our spaces to understand how the physical environment shapes and influences children's play experiences.
This day provided a valuable opportunity to collaborate with other organisations, sharing ideas and insights on how to better support and promote children’s play experiences.
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Earlier this month our Early Learning and Care Team hosted a Practical Playwork Professional Learning Day for Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) with Educational Consultant Kylie Keane.
Our OSHC teams from the north and south attended, and for the first time we opened the session to external organisations. We were excited to welcome colleagues from Adventure Patch OSHC, Discovery OSHC, Lady Gowrie OSHC and St Therese’s OSHC, along with Inclusion Professionals from Inclusion Agency Tasmania.
Together, we explored ways to enrich our play environments, remove barriers to play, and provide children with the time, space, and freedom to determine and control the content and intent of their play, rather than having it directed by adults. We considered how our interactions and environments can either support or restrict play opportunities, and how dynamic benefit-risk assessments can help us make informed, on-the-spot decisions that allow children to safely take risks and explore.
We also engaged in a critical cartography exercise, first expressing our own childhood memories through visual representations, then mapping out our spaces to understand how the physical environment shapes and influences children's play experiences.
This day provided a valuable opportunity to collaborate with other organisations, sharing ideas and insights on how to better support and promote children’s play experiences.
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