Understanding the Journey: A Guide to Developmental Milestones in your Kinderloop

by KinderloopPosted in UncategorizedTagged developmentalmilestones, early childhood, early education, early years, early years documentation, EYLF documentation, kinderloop

What are Developmental Milestones? The Early Years Framework (EYLF) provides educators with a guide to assess young children’s development, using developmental milestones. Understanding developmental milestones helps educators identify gaps and support children effectively. However, the EYLF emphasizes that each child’s learning is unique and progresses differently. Instead of using the developmental milestones as rigid checklists, […]

Unleashing the Power of Childhood Theorists: Exploring their Impact on Early Years Learning

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, Kinderloop, UncategorizedTagged early childhood, early childhood theorists, early education, early years, early years documentation, kinderloop, theorists

Understanding the Importance of Childhood Theorists Childhood theorists play a pivotal role in early childhood education and care settings, they guide our practices and helping us create meaningful and effective learning experiences. By studying the works of these theorists, we gain insights into child development, learning processes, and the factors that influence children’s growth. This […]

Programming and planning in your Kinderloop: Part 2 – ways to program

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged early years, educator, eylf, planning cycle, programming

In our last programming & planning blog, we explained how to use your Kinderloop to create a planning cycle. Part of a planning cycle, is to plan for future learning (programming), here we will walk through the various ways to create a program in your Kinderloop. 1/ Calendar View Are you the kind of educator […]

Programming and Planning in your Kinderloop: Part 1-The Planning Cycle

by KinderloopPosted in Kinderloop, UncategorizedTagged early childhood, early years, early years documentation, educator, eylf, EYLF documentation, planning, planning cycle, programming

We asked our in-house Ed Leader to explain what a planning cycle might look like in your Kinderloop. Here is what she said… Here at Kinderloop, our aim is to empower educators to use their Kinderloop in a way that captures their pedagogy whilst supporting them to simplify their documentation. We give you the tools […]

Kinderloop for Families

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, Hints and tips, Kinderloop, UncategorizedTagged early childhood, early education, early years, early years documentation, educator, kinderloop, parent communication, Parentapp

Helping families navigate the Kinderloop Plus App

Simplify your QIP using Kinderloop

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, Hints and tips, Kinderloop, UncategorizedTagged acecqa, Assessment & Rating, early childhood, early years, educator, kinderloop, NQS, QIP, Quality Improvement Plan

Hey Educators, if you haven’t already heard, ACECQA are making some changes to the assessment and rating process in 2023 (you can read more about the changes by clicking here). With a renewed focus on the Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) we wanted to give you some top tips to getting your QIP ready for action. […]

Getting Organised for the Year Ahead with Kinderloop

by KinderloopPosted in UncategorizedTagged accident chart, app, childcare, childcareapp, childcaresoftware, children, daily activity chart, early childhood, early years, early years documentation, educator, families, incident chart, kinderloop, menu, organised, paperwork, parent communication, policies & procedures, setting up, summative assement, update

At the start of the new year, many educators are welcoming new children into their classroom environment. You may have read our handy blog – Helping children and families settle into a new environment, offering some tips to ease the uncertainties accompanied by these big transitions. But it is not just the children that are […]

Celebrating Excellence in the early years! Bellambi Point CPS achieves the Excellent rating

by KinderloopPosted in UncategorizedTagged a&r, acecqa, assessment and rating, bellambi point, Big Fat Smile, early childhood, early education, early years, early years education, educator, equity, Exceeding, Exceeding in NQF, Excellence in NQF, excellent, excellent rating, kinderloop, NQS, Preschool

Raising the bar of excellence, in Early Childhood Education & Care In December 2021, one of our valued customers, Bellambi Point Community Pre-School [CPS], (which is owned and operated by Big Fat Smile), was awarded the highest possible rating under the National Quality Framework (NQF) – EXCELLENT!! There are only 38 Early Childhood Education and […]

Simplifying Critical Reflections

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged compliance, critical reflections, critical thinking, early years, early years documentation, EYFS documentation, eylf

Those of us who’ve worked in the Early Childhood industry know full well there’s a considerable amount of knowledge required to perform our job. No matter how passionate about children we are, it’s not just about hanging out in the garden all day painting, making sandcastles and singing. There are so many considerations… terminology (pedagogy, […]

Helping children and families settle into a new environment

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged belonging, early childhood, early education, early years, educator, familyinvolvement, kinderloop, transitions, welcoming

As we approach the end of 2021 (and boy, what a year it has been!), it’s time to start considering the new year and all of the wonderful changes ahead of us… Most children within your care will be moving up to a new classroom environment, or if not, their educators may well be changing […]

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