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QIAS - 7 Quality Areas and 33 Principles
Page Contents:
- Staff Relationships with Children and Peers
- Partnerships with Families
- Programming and Evaluation
- Children's Experiences and Learning
- Protective Care and Safety
- Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing
- Managing to Support Quality
Quality Area 1 - Staff Relationships with Children and Peers
- Principle 1.1: Staff interact with each child in a warm and friendly way
- Principle 1.2: Staff guide each child's behaviour in a positive way
- Principle 1.3: Staff initiate and maintain respectful communication with each child
- Principle 1.4: Staff respect each child's background and abilities
- Principle 1.5: Staff treat all children equitably
- Principle 1.6: Staff communicate effectively to promote respect and professional teamwork
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Quality Area 2 - Partnerships with Families
- Principle 2.1: Staff and families communicate effectively to exchange information about each child and the centre
- Principle 2.2: Staff encourage family participation and involvement in the centre
- Principle 2.3: The centre has orientation processes for children and families
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Quality Area 3 - Programming and Evaluation
- Principle 3.1: The program reflects a clear statement of centre philosophy
- Principle 3.2: Each child's learning is documented and is used in planning the program
- Principle 3.3: The program assists each child to be a successful learner
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Quality Area 4 - Children's Experiences and Learning
- Principle 4.1: Staff encourage each child to make choices and participate in play
- Principle 4.2: Staff promote each child's ability to develop and maintain relationships
- Principle 4.3: Staff promote each child's language and literacy abilities
- Principle 4.4: Staff promote each child's problem solving and mathematical abilities
- Principle 4.5: Staff promote each child's enjoyment of and participation in the expressive arts
- Principle 4.6: Staff promote each child's physical abilities
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Quality Area 5 - Protective Care and Safety
- Principle 5.1: Staff act to protect each child
- Principle 5.2: Staff supervise children at all times
- Principle 5.3: Staff ensure that potentially dangerous products, plants and objects are inaccessible to children
- Principle 5.4: The centre ensures that buildings and equipment are safe
- Principle 5.5: The centre promotes occupational health and safety
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Quality Area 6 - Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing
- Principle 6.1: Staff promote healthy eating habits
- Principle 6.2: Staff implement effective and current food safety and hygiene practices
- Principle 6.3: Staff encourage children to follow simple rules of hygiene
- Principle 6.4: Staff ensure toileting and nappy changing procedures are positive experiences
- Principle 6.5: Staff support each child's needs for rest, sleep and comfort
- Principle 6.6: The centre acts to control the spread of infectious diseases and maintains records of immunisations
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Quality Area 7 - Managing to Support Quality
- Principle 7.1: Written information about the centre's management is readily available to families
- Principle 7.2: Written information about the centre's management is readily available to staff
- Principle 7.3: Staffing policies and practices facilitate continuity of care for each child
- Principle 7.4: Management provides professional development opportunities for staff
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