Relationships and Interactions

Facilitated by Rarni Rothwell

"In school age care settings there is great importance placed on relationships and developing and strengthening children’s talents and interests. Children learn to know, to do, to be, to live - together and to transform oneself and society (UNESCO).” (My Time, Our Place, 2011:5)

As school age care educators, we are impelled to acknowledge the importance of our role in developing and nurturing positive and meaningful relationships with children, families and other key stakeholders. These relationships directly contribute to positive outcomes for each child and offer them a blue print of how to establish connections for their entire lives.

This session will not only explore the role relationships play everyday in OSHC through the lens of the National Quality Framework and Professional Boundaries, it will give educators practical strategies they can draw on to expand and strengthen each and every relationship they have in their OSHC community; setting up 2022 as the year of Belonging.