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 […]

Meet Kinderloop’s new Custom Planning Feature

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, Hints and tips, UncategorizedTagged early childhood, early education, early years, early years documentation, educator, eylf, EYLF documentation, EYLF programming, EYLF reporting, kinderloop, planning

You may have noticed that your planning area looks a little different from a few days ago. Kinderloop has listened to your requests and have been frantically working behind the scenes to present to you our new Custom Planning feature! What is Custom Planning? At Kinderloop HQ, through feedback received from different service providers and […]

What on earth is a Schema?

by KinderloopPosted in Articles, UncategorizedTagged behaviour, behaviour in children, behaviour patterns, early years, early years educator, EYFS documentation, eylf, EYLF documentation, kinderloop, schemas

Educator’s who know the secret of Schemas are on to something big. They can observe a child at play and notice a pattern where others may just see the behaviour (behaviour that on the surface, ermmm, may not always be great). Because these knowledgable Educator’s can recognise certain patterns, they’re then able to see opportunities […]

Meet Kinderloop’s new survey feature

by KinderloopPosted in UncategorizedTagged early years, early years documentation, educator posts, eylf, surveys

Kinderloop now offers the ability to create surveys. They’re a great way to get a response from either your linked family or educators – depending on which audience you’re targeting. In a nutshell, they work like this… you create the survey, then a post is sent to each person which contains a link to the […]

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