• You are Sharon Wallace the Educational Leader at Little.ly and have been in that role since the service opened.
• Occupancy is increasing at Little.ly and a number of new staff are going to join the team over the next few months.
• Hayley Schramm (Director) has asked you to create a new employee 'educational pack' to support the induction process and to help educators understand theexpectations here at Little.ly.
• The pack will be focussed on their role as an educator and will ensure consistency of care and education approaches across the service.
• Hayley has shared the below with you as the main objectives of the pack:

- to ensure Little.ly is meeting requirements under the National Quality Framework including Standards, Regulations and Laws

- to ensure all staff have a sound knowledge of the Learning Framework and how the service uses it

- to ensure new staff understand our approach to play pedagogy and environmental design

- to ensure all educators can effectively observe children in line with Little.ly's expectations and observation tools

- to ensure everyone understands safety requirements around learning and play.

- critical reflection is really important for us at Little.ly and given we are seeking to achieve an Exceeding rating during Assessment we need the educators to understand how and why they should critically reflect.

- Little.ly encourages all educators to have focus children and be involved in observing, planning for learning and implementing the curriculum (including environment set-up).

• The service philosophy has the following points which are fundamental to their practice:

- We believe in a play-based curriculum with teaching and learning enhanced through fun and exploration.

- We believe children's development is enhanced through encouraging the learning dispositions of curiosity and discovery.

- We believe in a holistic approach to children's education and care to support their development in all domains.

- We believe our learning environment is fundamental to our teaching practice and see it as the 'third teacher.

- We believe in a strength-based approach to teaching, learning and documenting children's learning

• Hayley has created a list of questions for you to respond to which will help you to create the employee educational pack. The questions relate to the importantinformation that staff will need to know during their induction

1. What is the learning framework used at the service and how is it used it to support educator practice?

2. Explain who is involved in the implementation of the learning framework including observing, planning, setting up play environments and reflecting on practice.

(Use the hierarchy structure to explain how they will be involved)

3. At Little.ly .we believe in collaborative practice. What are the key feature of and techniques for collaborative practice?

4. Identify the requirements under the National Quality Framework for our service to engage in critical reflection.

5. Describe to the new educators what critical reflection is, how and why we use it at Little.ly and our expectations around meaningful reflection.

6. Please download and upload the document once completed. 7. Please download and upload the document once completed 8. Explain learning dispositions to the new educators and how to focus on curiosity and discovery. Explain why these are so important and how they are linked to the Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes.

9. Prepare a 'how to' guide for the new educators about observations of children's learning. Answer the questions below to provide an overview of how and why we observe children's learning. Remember to write for educators who are inexperienced and experienced. List at least five different observation techniques and tools we have available and describe why we use each technique/tool.

10. Meaningful documentation is important within our service. Describe how we gather meaningful observations of children including information for the new educators about all of the below to support them to adopt our approaches.

What information we think is important to gather and why.

11. Where we gather information from including primary and secondary sources.

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12. Our belief in a strength-based approach to observations and why we believe this.

13. Why we use subjective vs objective language wherever possible.

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14. A description of labelling in observations and why we avoid labelling.

15. When and why we use past and present tense.

16. A description of bias and why we avoid it. Help them understand how they can avoid bias in observations.

17. Describe the information we gather from the below stakeholders and how we gather information:

• children
• families/carers and significant adults
• educators
• community
• other relevant professionals & who these are.
• 18. Detail the strategies we use to review and question the information we have gathered about children's needs and learning opportunities.

19. Explain how educators can be involved in collaborating with other educators about children's documentation and learning. Share with them the techniques such as questioning that we use for communication and how they can be involved in planning for children.