Supporting Participation & Collaboration Evaluation Sheet

APPENDIX 1 – ‘Supporting Participation & Collaboration’ evaluation sheet
‘Practice’ from MY TIME, OUR PLACE Framework for School Age Care in Australia
AGE GROUP: Mark and Daniel 8-10 years oldBEFORE COMMENCING DOCUMENTATION:
Discussed with Mentor/Supervisor
 strategies that the service uses to collaborate with families about the child
 policies for behaviour, children’s play, appropriateness of communication and interactions
between children
NOTICE children’s interests: ‘Collaboration with children’From your interaction what did you
notice about the children’s ideas, strengths, support needs and interests?
Interests:
This group is interested in construction and sports.
Strengths:
Strong physical well-being as they have shown the use of gross motor and fundamental movement
skills.
Strong emotional well-being as they expressed their feelings through their body language and
through words as observed in the sandpit and with the blocks. They also have good language skills
and use complex sentence structures and have good communication and social skills as observed.
Problem solving skills have been observed as well as the use of imagination and concept
development of using tools, construction and engineering. This has shown good cognitive
development.
Support needs:
The group may need support on scaffolding on their interests and abilities.
How did you build relationships with children?
By talking, interacting and responding to the children’s interests.
By talking and interacting with them, asking them questions and letting them be the master of their
play while suggesting ideas to scaffold their learning for instance we extended on the block play by
having pictures of different fortress and letting them build based on these pictures. In the sandpit
play I observed them and let them use their imagination and then told them that I was amazed by
what they did hence showing my interest in their work.

What conversations did you have with children to encourage participation?
“Look what I have here , I brought some woods and my tool sets and it’s for you to use and build
your own village!”
“It’s your own village tell me what you would like to do”
RECOGNISE the support needs of children: ‘Evaluation for wellbeing and learning’What are
the possibilities to extend children’s interests and strengths?
Building an outdoor Indian village with tippees or constructing the village with wood in the sandpit
as part of an extension of their interest and strength
Extending on their interest in sports by organising more group sports.
Extending on their concept of construction
Choose one possibility to invite children to engage in the experience and participate in the group:
Which learning outcome/s from MTOP: FSAC promotes this experience?
Building a village in the sandpit using wood and construction tools and getting the children to make
decisions about their environment and participating in the building process.
What developmental factors would you consider for this age group? Refer to communication and
social learning
The developmental milestones for this age group are as follows as per the following website
https://www.kidcentraltn.com/article/social-and-emotional-development-ages-8-10
At this stage, children will exhibit many of these characteristics:
l Learn to cooperate in group settings and group games; dislike playing alone
l Spend a lot of time talking with peers
Develop lasting friendships and begin to handle peer pressure
l Enjoy group activities and group games that focus on a common interest
l Demonstrate growing independence, leading to concern with rules that can lead to
bossiness
l Use problem-solving, negotiating and compromising skills with peers
l Develop interest in long-range projects

l Begin to develop sportsmanship and learn about winning and losing gracefully
l Develop competence in competitive games and team sports
l Become sensitive to what others think of them and to adult approval
Begin to consider clubs and groups important
l Become critical of their own performance and begin to evaluate themselves
l Become enthusiastic to tackle anything and will work hard to develop a skill
l Develop competitiveness—want to be first and best, and get things right
l Can express subtle emotions and experience moments of anger or frustration
May be quite sensitive and overly dramatic
Can change emotions quickly
Can become discouraged, which may lead to being shy in public performances
Show interest in being more grown-up and able to begin tackling more responsibilities
and routines
Begin to develop their own point of view, which is sometimes different from parents’
ideas
The milestones ticked are those that can be seen in the observations carried out and
are the ones that Mark and Daniel are meeting upon considering all the social and
communication milestones.
What support needs have you identified? How will you support individual or group needs? (e.g. age,
abilities, cultures, friendships, gender groups, and sibling relationships)
I will support the abilities needs and friendship needs of the group by extending and scaffolding on
their interests and their abilities and planning group experiences where the friendship needs will be
met. The construction of the village and the fortresses are examples on how these needs have been
extended upon.
The group needs family support. If one child leaves early then it can increase burden of other group
members. They will have to adjust that person’s work within the team. It may be possible that other
members do not support so it can create problem in the group. But it is also possible that all the
members support that child and understand its situation of early leaving and by this way bonding
will be improved and they will contribute more efforts in completing the work.
Explain how you are going to encourage the children and the group to participate?
I will encourage them to participate by getting them involved in the construction experience. I will
bring in all trhe equipment and tools ensuring that they are safe for the children with adequate
supervision of course and I will tell them about “our” project and emphasizing how their
participation is important.