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Play Active supports Educators, Directors and Parents to boost children’s energetic play.
Play Active is the only program of its kind in Australia that provides clear guidelines for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services to ensure all children are getting enough energetic play throughout the day, every day.
ECEC services have a responsibility to support and promote children’s physical activity under the National Quality Standards (NQS).
This is where Play Active comes in. It has been specifically co-developed to support services in meeting and exceeding in NQS Quality Area 2.1.
Energetic play is ‘huff and puff’ activity. Young children do it in bursts. It’s important children have lots of opportunities for energetic play throughout the day.
Energetic play is fun, healthy and good for children’s development. It not only makes bones and muscles stronger, but the brain too by improving language development, attention and memory.
Physical activity provides young children with many health and developmental benefits including:
Establishing good physical activity habits early in life sets children up for a healthy childhood and supports their development.
Services have a responsibility to support and promote children’s physical activity under the National Quality Standards:
But, there is little guidance and resources available for services to do this.This is where Play Active comes in. It has been specifically co-developed to support services in meeting and exceeding in Quality Area 2.1.
Find out morePlay Active has long-standing partnerships across the early childhood, health promotion, play and government sectors, alongside world leading research organisations.
Since 2013, partners from ECEC, government, play, public health and research sectors have worked together to develop Play Active.
Our previous research within the ECEC sector highlights there is great potential to increase young children’s energetic play while in ECEC and support their health, learning and development.
Ongoing research and evaluation ensures the high quality delivery, reach and impact of Play Active.
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20 minutes – FREE professional development to boost your knowledge about supporting children’s physical activity and energetic play.
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60 minutes for your service to become a Play Active member
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