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Childcare Centre Must-have: Integrated Payments System
Xplor Childcare & Education, Australia’s leading early learning software solution, resumed its annual Space Cadets Pitch Night on 3 June.
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Space Cadets Pitch Night Returns for 2022
Xplor Childcare & Education, Australia’s leading early learning software solution, resumed its annual Space Cadets Pitch Night on 3 June.
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Increased funding and overhaul of preschool education for NSW and Victoria
Now’s the ideal time to invest in your centre. Substantial changes to the childcare and education sector are coming to New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, thanks to ongoing efforts between the state governments. The addition of a year of play-based learning is being hailed as “the greatest transformation of early education in a generation.”
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How Educators Can Foster Better Relationships with Children
Quality Area 5 of the National Quality Framework focuses on fostering relationships with children to maintain sensitive and respectful connections with them. This is one of the quality areas wherein the goal of the National Quality Standard is to build and maintain sensitive relationships with both educators and their peers.
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How better communication can help you with your NQS QA4 ratings
How your staff interact with each other in the presence of children has significant implications. Part of having a competent centre is having its educators, management and other professionals display professionalism at all times. A centre’s staff should aim to form and sustain professional and respectful relationships with one another, as this can directly impact the quality of education provided to children.
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Circle of Security Concepts and Building Strong Relationships
One way that centres can successfully compete for occupancy in the post-COVID environment is to maintain a high-quality service in line with national quality regulations. The National Quality Standard (NQS) rating of a service is a good indicator of the quality of care and education it imparts as well as its compliance with laws and regulations.
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Sleep and Primary Caregiving in ECEC Services
Primary caregiving relationships in the education and care sector help to build strong foundations for children’s development. It’s not only children who benefit from this close engagement but parents and colleagues as well.
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A guide to improving your centre’s physical environment
Xplor, Australia’s leading early learning software solution, has released a guide containing practical and actionable strategies for childcare centres to help improve ratings in Quality Area 3 (QA3) of the National Quality Standard (NQS).
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Respecting a child’s sense of agency and belonging
As babies and young children grow and develop a sense of agency, they realise that they have the ability to contribute and make their own decisions and control their own lives. A sense of agency is a very important part of a strong sense of identity and has been identified as a foundation to learning and well-being.
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Xplor’s guide on Health & Safety under the National Quality Standard
Xplor Education, Australia’s leading early learning software solution, has released a guide to support early childcare centres as they work towards increasing their ratings in Quality Area 2 (QA2) of the National Quality Standard (NQS).
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Why your centre’s physical environment needs an upgrade
Quality Area 3 (QA3), Physical Environment, is related to two aspects of your centre—how the indoor and outdoor areas are designed and used. Designing your facility should involve consulting with staff and experts to ensure that the environment is stimulating and safe for children.
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Xplor Space listed by AFR as Top 10 Most Innovative Technology Company for 2021
Xplor Education, the early childhood education platform delivering innovative software solutions to early learning services and families across Australia and New Zealand, proudly announces that it has been named sixth on the Australian Financial Review (AFR) BOSS Most Innovative Companies Top-10 list in the technology category.
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