REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL
LINDFIELD NEWSLETTER 2nd September 2022
Principal’s Message Dear Parents, Thank you to all our families who have congratulated us on our recent assessment rating result. We are so very proud of achieving an Exceeding rating and extend our thanks to our educators and support staff. I thought I would take the opportunity to provide more details of the process of Assessment and Rating in this weeks Newsletter. The National Quality Framework aims to raise quality and drive continuous improvement and consistency in children’s education and care services through: • the National Law and National Regulations • the National Quality Standard • an assessment and quality rating process • national approved learning frameworks – Early Years Learning Framework Belonging, Being, Becoming. • a regulatory authority in each state and territory responsible for the approval, monitoring and quality assessment of services in their state or territory • a national body – ACECQA, which guides the implementation of the NQF and works with regulatory authorities The delivery of the NQF is guided by set objectives and guidelines to ensure consistent and effective function. As part of the National quality framework (diagram over page) The National Quality Standard (NQS) sets a high benchmark for early childhood education and care. The NQS includes 7 quality areas that are important outcomes for children. Services are assessed and rated by their regulatory authority against the NQS and given a rating for each of the 7 quality areas and an overall rating based on these results.
Ref: (ACECQA – Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority)