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First Years Consulting Day Care Start Up Australia
  • 13
    June

    With the election over…

    We are working outside on a beautiful winters day. There are four tables set up with art (scissors, pens, magazines and glue); Uno cards; a giant tub of Lego and an assortment of small block and wooden figurines.

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  • First Years Consulting Day Care Start Up Australia
    12
    February

    School Readiness: Who is it for?

    We are working outside on a beautiful winters day. There are four tables set up with art (scissors, pens, magazines and glue); Uno cards; a giant tub of Lego and an assortment of small block and wooden figurines.

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  • First Years Consulting Day Care Start Up Australia
    15
    January

    Back to Basics

    Lately it seems that every second post on Early Childhood social media pages is someone selling something to make things “easier” or people asking for new ideas to “extend” children’s thinking.

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  • 09
    December

    The results are in! Early Childhood Services love the Vegepod KindyGarden

    First Years Early Childhood Consulting and Vegepod have teamed up to bring healthy eating and sustainability to Early Childhood Services. The concept of ‘patch to plate’ is often a foreign concept for young children, so we are working to make

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  • 14
    November

    Putting the ‘U’ and ‘I’ into Equality

    No one understands more than those in the front line, of the Early Childcare sector that the first five years of a child’s life is the most critical period toward their development of self, in conjunction with establishing connections toward

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  • 24
    September

    Quality Area 5 – Relationships with children

    Welcome to our new edition of the Quality Area Newsletters. Apologies for the delay, it seems like life just keeps moving in the fast lane. Never mind though, we are back on track and ready to look into Quality Area

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  • 10
    August

    We are spilling the beans about our new project!

    First Years Early Childhood Consulting and Vegepod have teamed up to bring healthy eating and sustainability to Early Childhood Services.

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  • 18
    July

    National Quality Standard 4 – Staffing arrangements

    Welcome to the newest edition of First Years Early Childhood Consulting quality area newsletter. This issue we look at Quality Area 4, staffing arrangements. Quality area 4 is broken into 2 standards and 4 elements, and focuses on 2 important

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  • 04
    July

    National Quality Standard 3 – Physical Environment

    Welcome to First Years Early Childhood Consulting’s third Quality Area Newsletter. The last two have been met with such overwhelming positivity, we thought we would keep going.

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  • 20
    June

    National Quality Standard 2 looks at how services provide children a healthy and safe environment to play, learn and grow in

    Children’s health and safety sounds pretty important right? However, a recent ACECQA (2017) report showed that this area was the third lowest area for meeting overall, with 60% of all rated services meeting this area and 23% exceeding this area.

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  • 06
    June

    Changes to the National Quality Standards that will be applied in 2018

    Before we start to discuss the changes to the National Quality Standards that will be applied in 2018, we thought we would look over the current National Quality Standards and provide provocations for educators to think about their practices and

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  • 28
    April

    Top tips for surviving the Assessment and Rating process.

    First Years specialises in supporting services throughout the assessment and rating process. Although achieving the standards can be done in different ways, we have devised some top tips for those educators who may not have gone through the process before,

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  • 11
    April

    Podcast with the crew from Manscaping

    The team at First Years has recently received lots of enquiries on how to incorporate loose parts in the environment.

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  • 28
    March

    Scores on Doors?!

    Walking down my local street this week and I saw this in the window of a local café. A rating system that tells customers how the particular café has met a set of standards and regulations to achieve a certain

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  • 23
    February

    Daycare accidents sending more than 1000 kids to hospital a year

    Injuries and accidents at day care centres sent more than 1000 Australian kids to hospital in just one year, government figures have reportedly revealed.

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NEWS

  • June 13, 2019
    With the election over…
  • February 12, 2019
    School Readiness: Who is it for?
  • January 15, 2019
    Back to Basics

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