NQS

6.1.1. 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.2.1, 6.2.2,
6.2.3

• Learn to confidently talk to all parents at drop off and pick up times
• Learn all parents’ names
•  Improve the quality and amount of information on children and families we share with team members
•  Provide more interesting information about each child’s day and learning with their family
•  Encourage families to share relevant information by discussing child’s daily routines at service, interests, achievements etc
•  Increase level of family input and showcase it in our curriculum
•  Advise all families about our complaints procedure and who to contact
•  Discuss available inclusion support at next staff meeting
•  Educational Leader to discuss access to inclusion support with relevant families

NQS

6.2.2, 6.2.3

• Choose several community organisations to develop connections with eg organisations which children or families attend, cultural groups or
  relevant businesses
• Learn more about local support services and organisations

NQS

2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3

• Properly implement a risk management process – identify, assess, remove/ minimise, monitor
• Always assess risk of new equipment and activities before involving children
• Teach children how to safely use equipment and complete activities
• Learn to immediately remove or reduce an identified risk
• Understand what effective supervision requires eg constantly supervise children when included in ratios – no phones etc
• Always tell team members if moving locations or temporarily leaving the room
• Be able to confidently discuss children’s medical managements and risk minimisation plans
• Practise our emergency evacuation procedures more often to increase confidence of children and staff
• Practise all identified emergencies eg lockdowns

NQS

2.2.3

• Learn to confidently identify the indicators of abuse and neglect
• Ensure everyone’s aware of service visitors and never leave children alone with them
• Be aware of what team members are doing and take action if they take children into secluded areas
• Learn how to report abuse or neglect
• Ensure educators always speak appropriately in front of children

NQS

3.2.3

• Include more practices which protect and respect the environment in service operations
• Include more learning and activities about environmental issues and practices in our curriculum
• Ask families for clean milk containers and get children involved in planting herbs etc in
  them

NQS

4.2.1, 4.2.2

• Learn to recognise and use the unique skills and knowledge all team members bring
• Improve understanding of professional interactions eg appearance, respect,
  interactions, privacy
• Look for solutions to staffing issues, room routines, cleaning duties etc
• Speak directly with a team member about issues of concern and tell them how you feel/why this is a problem for you
• Learn to confidently implement the complaints procedure if there’s still an issue after talking with the person
• Learn to confidently share knowledge and ideas about teaching practice

NQS

4.1.1, 4.2.1, 4.2.2

• Improve the level of support and encouragement provided to team members
• Get all team members to understand that it is everyone’s job to clean and comfort and care for children
• Improve the level of communication between team members so we all know what’s happening and who may need help
• Have regular 5-10 minute team meetings

NQS

1.1.1, 1.1.3, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 5.2.1

• Increase opportunities for children to share ideas and knowledge
• Be confident to research issues that I don’t know anything about and learn with the children
• Rearrange the outdoor spaces so children can engage in small, uninterrupted group play
• Collect lots of natural resources for loose parts play and bring inside the room

NQS

1.2.1, 1.2.2

• Become more aware of opportunities for intentional teaching eg as they emerge from daily activities and experiences
• Educational Leader to highlight cases from previous week’s curriculum/documentation showing educators how they could have implemented intentional teaching

NQS

1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2

• Look for opportunities to extend learning that can go on for days or even weeks
• Learn to extend learning without relying on equipment eg use children’s relationships and connections with community
• Educational Leader to highlight cases from previous week’s curriculum/documentation showing educators how they could have extended learning

NQS

1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.1, 2.1.3, 6.1.3

• Increase the amount of physical activity included in the daily curriculum
• Learn to recognise the physical activity that is included in daily activities eg cleaning, getting resources, emptying compost
• Implement new activities eg yoga, dance, ball skills
• Reduce the amount of time children spend watching TV, YouTube etc at the service
• Increase the amount of physical activity which offers challenges to children eg climbing trees

NQS

1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.2.1, 2.1.3, 6.1.3

• Only eat healthy food in front of children
• Talk about healthy food more with children eg what makes it healthy, how to cook eat, how it tastes, how to grow it
• Improve our service veggie garden
• Implement more cooking activities with children
• Learn more about the Australian Dietary Guidelines/Infant Feeding Guidelines
• Review our menu against the Australian Dietary Guidelines/Infant Feeding Guidelines
• Provide more information to families about healthy eating eg simple and quick recipes, info on salt/sugar

NQS

1.1.3, 1.2.1, 2.1.2, 3.1.2, 6.1.3

• Improve our knowledge about infection control procedures
• Learn to always implement infection control procedures
• Teach children cough, sneeze, nose blowing etiquette
• Learn when we should be wearing gloves
• Learn to reduce incidences of cross contamination
• Learn how to store perishable food properly
• Learn how long perishable food can be kept at room temperature
• Increase the number of times the bathroom/toilet is cleaned daily
• Make sure the room is clean and tidy at the end of every day
• Develop or improve our cleaning schedules
• Learn to confidently refuse entry to children who are ill or may have an infectious disease

NQS

2.2.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.1,
3.2.2, 3.2.3

• Display a supervision plan ie where educators must stand in the outside play area
• Sand the wooden cubby house to remove all splinters of wood
• Ensure all educators know how to clean and maintain the sandpit
• Replace sliding door so children can move more easily from indoor to outdoor
  environment
• Implement progressive morning teas which allow children to move freely around environment and activities
• Design a dry creek bed for outdoor area

NQS

1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 7.2.2

• Learn to write less but make it more meaningful
• Learn not to repeat what’s in a photo
• Learn how to document progress or achievement of learning outcomes
• Keep portfolios up to date so there is no mad rush at the end of the year
• Involve children in completing their learning documentation
• Keep a current record of children’s progress against the learning outcomes
• Improve the way we display our learning documentation to encourage family
  involvement

NQS

7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.2.3

• Look up those policies and procedures we’re not very familiar with
• Use the ACECQA Guide to the Regulations to become more familiar with the Regulations
• Use the Use the ACECQA Guide to the NQS to become more familiar with the NQS
• Make it easier to access our policies and procedures, and the Regs/NQS
• Develop an organisation chart which clearly shows who everyone reports to
• Develop a new Statement of Philosophy which is based on our core values

NQS

7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.2.1, 7.2.2,
7.2.3

• Improve our recruitment and induction practices
• Hold monthly staff meetings for all service staff
• Invite all staff members to contribute to staff meeting agenda
• Complete annual professional development appraisals with training plans
• All staff members can calculate ratio requirements for children at service
• Improve management systems to ensure staff always have appropriate qualifications and child protection clearances eg diary system and registers maintained
• Work on Quality Improvement Plan every week
• All staff contribute to Quality Improvement Plan
• Progress notes are added to Quality Improvement Plan every week where relevant
• Improve the security of personal information
• Ensure that records which are archived for certain periods in line with the Regs are accessible and easy to identify
• Ensure all staff members know what a serious incident is
• Ensure all staff members know that complaints about a breach of the law or that the health or wellbeing of children is being compromised must be reported to the Department

NQS

1.3.2, 7.2.1

• Learn to reflect on better ways to do things during daily activities
• Learn to think about things as if I was a child, parent, colleague etc – how might I feel, what might I think?
• Develop a mindset of continuous improvement – there’s always a better way to do things