Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Identify play and leisure interests of children in school age care
- Collect information about children in school age care through a variety of methods including asking the children
- Observe and evaluate children’s wellbeing, development and learning
- Use information collected to address the needs of children in school age care
- Identify and review a range of possible experiences and programs that are suitable to the school age care context
- Select activity or program based on children’s expressed needs, organisation requirements and resource availability
- Ensure individual children’s support and guidance needs are clarified by parents/carers, supervisor or other staff and child
- Prepare play and leisure experiences
- Plan experiences in consultation with children, parents and other stakeholders ensuring requirements and needs are met
- Determine operational arrangements for experiences and assess feasibility within budgets and timeframes
- Develop flexible implementation plans to suit a variety of contexts and to respond to contingencies
- Include evaluation strategies in the program plan
- Implement school age care experience and/or program
- Evaluate activities and programs in school age care