Affective Playwork in OSHC - From Framework to Frontline
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If an invoice is required please email: play@topa.au
Join Izzy and Angus as they use their over 30 combined years of OSHC and Playwork experience to share, inspire and hopefully help practitioners trouble shoot challenges they may not know even exist! Playwork is strong as an ideal and way of working with children and has a rich history and evidence base to support.
However… OSHC services are not traditional Playwork run “Adventure Playgrounds” and must weave and navigate the interests and agendas of a multitude of stakeholders, many of whom will not yet be cognizant of what this “Playwork” stuff is all about when a project is kicking off (and beyond).
Through these sessions, Izzy and Angus will share with you their advice and ideas around changing this paradigm and bringing everyone along for the journey!
9:00am-9:15am: Housekeeping - What are we here for?
9:15am-10:30am: OSHC & The Framework - Practical ideas and anecdotes linking Australian School Age Care Framework with Playwork theory and practice. Since the addition of Playwork as a key term into the MTOP Framework, and other aspects of Playwork theory, there has never been a better time to showcase how Playwork is not just something that sits around the Framework, but can be deeply embedded within it.
10:30am-10:45am: Light Morning Tea
10:45am-12:15pm: Embedding Playwork as Practice (Angus) - Beyond the theory, and the resources, Playwork falls short without the practical, daily and embedded ability to lean into the actual practice of Playworking. This session supports this amazing way of working get off the pages and into the field in meaningful and inspiring way.
12:15pm-12:45pm: Lunch
12:45pm-1:30pm: On Advocacy – Connecting with staff and stakeholders (Angus & Izzy) - Creating a rich Playwork environment takes a village. Many projects we have seen over the last decade that do not survive have not lacked for individual’s passion, but rather collective involvement and investment. In this session we will navigate the many people involved, knowingly or not, not need to be engaged, informed and if possible, made a part of the process! Izzy and Angus will offer tips and strategies based not only from their collective experiences working with OSHC services across Australia, but also their own home grown stories running a hugely successful Playwork program in Brisbane’s Camp Hill State School OSHC.
1:30pm-2:30pm: Collaborative Advocacy (Group NQS Task) (Angus & Izzy) - To close out the day we are putting the advocacy back in delegates hands! Using information learned over the course of the day, or landed on intuitively as a result of tangents and conversations, the days delegates will have a chance to advocate, debate and champion how and why Playwork can and does link to all areas of the National Quality Standards… This is a practice we love playing with as it strengthens entire teams in those “put on the spot moments”.
