This submission responds to the Committee’s invitation to provide views
Every morning I would feel overwhelmed by the noise level
Dr Sarah Alexander warns systemic failures in New Zealand’s early
Who is Who and Does What in Relation to the
Here is a policy and set of procedures for the Collection of Children that you may use and adapt for your early childhood service. Services are responsible for upholding children’s safety at all times. This includes responsibility for ensuring the safety of children leaving the premises.
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It is prestigious to belong to the OECE. Membership is usually by invitation. Online applications can be made if you think your service meets the criteria. To be a member a service must have as its first priority a focus on being high-quality for children and families. It must also agree to follow the standards in the Code of Conduct for ECE Services.
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Promoting your service online to parents is taken care of. The OECE has partnered with the My ECE website and the ECE Parents’ Council Aotearoa to give members free advertising for their service. For details directly contact My ECE
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Complimentary access to over 25 years of published NZ and international research – your service provider member login gives you free access to the Research Library and support.
Management and ECE employment resources and advice will be at your finger-tips 24/7. We have so much available in the service provider area of our website – ranging from templates for policies, guidance on managing cashflow and debtors, staff drug use, negotiating pay with staff, and through to topics such as best sandpit design.
We will make running a staff survey simple for you. You can use our specially designed survey. We collect the results and will provide you with a confidential report of the findings. (50% discount available to service provider members).
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Who is Who and Does What in Relation to the ECE Sector & Contacts Teacher Organisations and Associations NZEI – Union for the industrial interests
Wage and salary rates, pay scales, employment benefits and conditions Contents – on this page you will find: You’re welcome to join the Facebook group for
Redundancy and the process for making a position redundant.
There may not be the work for an employee because child enrolments have dropped, your service is restructuring, or you can not longer afford to keep an employee on.
Whatever the reason, there are certain processes to follow to ensure you do not run into legal problems.
This arti
The information provided here answers the following questions:
Does there need to be a minimum amount of staff at the centre? Our centre closes at 5.30 pm. We usually only have two children left at that time of the day. Is it legally OK to only have one staff member at this time or do the regulations require two staff members?
Is it okay fo
Making signs enriches play and learning.
All around us are signs – what ones can you see?
Signs can be used to tell us what to do like “stop” and “give way” on the road.
They can be used to let us know about dangers (e.g. “wet floor”) and to make announcements (e.g. “cooking at 2pm today”).
Signs can also be used to labe
Below are the titles and abstracts for articles published in the NZ-International Research in ECE Journal, 2018, Volume 21(2). To read any article a member
This research paper looks into inclusive pedagogy and planning in early childhood centres. It examines what early childhood teachers can do to better support science learning through play and child-instigated exploration. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.
This explains why and how to keep a record of meetings and what to record when writing the minutes.
Why take Minutes
Keeping a record of meetings, by writing the minutes of the meeting, allows the time spent in a meeting to be productive, by stopping the same discussions and topics coming up that have already been well threshold. Records
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