Focus Area 5

Designing and Delivering Experiences in OSHC

Understand My Time, Our Place, the approved learning framework for school age care, and how its themes, principles, practices and outcomes guide everyday OSHC practice.

Approx Duration1h
Structure10 Lessons

Designing and Delivering Experiences in OSHC

About this course

This course unpacks My Time, Our Place, the approved learning framework for school age care, and how its themes, principles, practices and outcomes guide everyday OSHC practice. You will learn how play, leisure, routines and children’s voices shape a meaningful program. You will also learn how to use the planning cycle to observe, assess, plan, implement and evaluate experiences. You will finish ready to make useful contributions to your service’s program and documentation.

Learning objectives

Use My Time, Our Place and the planning cycle to create engaging play, leisure and learning experiences.

  • Describe the vision, themes and key language of My Time, Our Place V2.0
  • Explain how the MTOP principles and practices guide what educators do and why
  • Support children’s play and leisure with intentionality
  • Identify the five MTOP Outcomes
  • Recognise how play, leisure, routines and everyday interactions make up the OSHC program
  • Use each phase of the planning cycle, with children’s voices informing your decisions
  • Contribute useful documentation that makes children’s voices visible
  • Connect MTOP and the planning cycle to your everyday practice as an educator

Lessons for this module

1. Focus Area 5: Designing and Delivering Experiences in OSHC

Learning Objectives At the end of this module, educators will be able to confidently:

Approx Duration 6 min
2. The Approved Learning Framework: My Time, Our Place V2.0

There have been two national approved learning frameworks in operation under the NQF since 2012. The original My Time, Our Place (MTOP) has been integral to the success of the NQF for over a decade and is internationally recognised as an exemplar of a high-quality learning framework for school age education and care.The current framework […]

Approx Duration 6 min
3. The Elements of the Framework

Principles Think of the principles as the WHY behind what educators do.These reflect contemporary theories and research evidence concerning children and young people’s play, leisure and learning and place-based and relational pedagogies. They are: (My Time, Our place V2.0. 2022) Practices Think of the practices as HOW educators do what they do in play and […]

Approx Duration 6 min
4. Play, Leisure and intentionality

Play and leisure are central to the learning that occurs in OSHC settings. After all, school age care children and young people have already spent several hours in formal education. Whilst there are many definitions of play and leisure, these are the definitions of the framework: AGDE (2023: 64-69) Definitions from MTOP V2.0

Approx Duration 6 min
5. Program Planning

The OSHC program includes much more than the activities planned for the morning or afternoon. It develops and changes throughout each session as children share ideas, explore interests and create their own play. Everyday moments, such as arriving, eating together, moving between spaces or chatting with friends, are also opportunities to support children’s wellbeing, learning […]

Approx Duration 6 min
6. The Framework Planning Cycle

Every educator has an important role to play in planning, delivering and evaluating learning experiences. The planning cycle describes the process educators should follow. The five phases of the planning cycle that are identified in this diagram can occur instantaneously, ‘in the moment’, throughout the day, or over a period of time. Educators use the […]

Approx Duration 6 min
7. Case Study: Game On
Approx Duration 6 min
8. Theoretical Perspectives of the Approved Learning Framework (ALF)

Educators’ professional judgements are central to their active role in facilitating children’s wellbeing and learning. In making professional judgements, they weave together their:

Approx Duration 6 min
9. Why is the Program Documented?

Documentation of the program is a regulatory requirement (Regulation 71-74 & 298A) and as such an important responsibility of an OSHC educator expanded on in each service’s policies and procedures. However, documentation offers additional benefits to an OSHC educator that are often overlooked. Documentation ensures: A service must document evidence about the developments of their […]

Approx Duration 6 min
10. Bringing it all Together

From Framework to Everyday Practice My Time, Our Place V2.0 is the approved learning framework for school age care. Its vision, themes, principles, practices and outcomes work together to guide educators in supporting children and young people’s wellbeing, learning and development through play and leisure. The themes of Belonging, Being and Becoming describe what matters […]

Approx Duration 6 min