🙌🏼 Woodlands Learning Progress Family Event✅.

Woodlands Learning Progress Family Event! This gathering is all about fostering a sense of belonging and partnerships in your child’s learning journey. We believe that when families are involved, it enriches the experience for everyone and strengthens our community.

The Learning Progress Family Event is a way to Collaborate and Connect, which is a wonderful opportunity for us Woodlanders to share an insight about each child’s learning while informing families and building on their understanding of  how we support their child/ren’s developmental goals through interests, needs, and unique learning styles.

It is a Meaningful way to engage in reciprocal Conversations as we want to hear families/guardians thoughts and perspectives! Their input is valuable and our event paints a  picture of their child/ren’s progress.

Celebrate children’s Learning: We will discover how your child is thriving at Woodlands. We’ll showcase their achievements and discuss ways we can extend their learning at home and in our community.

Together, We Make a Difference. 

Event Date and Time.
Date: (Decided by the campus and between January and April).

Time: After hours, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM.

Event Guest Invite.

All current enrolled families as well as waitlist and inquired families. Invitation can be made through the BB Event Bookings link that is located on your Campus hub-spot. The guide for setting up BB Event Bookings invitation can be found below:

(Find the BB Event Bookings Guide here: to be added later).

Optional*: members from the community, such as incursions for sports, music performers etc. (No additional costs should occur with the optional guests.) Representatives of neighbouring primary schools, or the Occupational therapists, or someone who you believe can provide useful information to the families, and also showcase our connections and authority within the sector or within the community.

Event Decoration.

Examples of the learning journey display: https://stonly.com/sl/e0e76ceb-b997-458b-aee8-623ac7a8f2da/Steps/ 

Common areas:
The campuses can decide on the decoration style, focus on festive style.

Learning Gallery: Each room in the centre will prepare visible learning areas, showcasing how play-based learning can look throughout the different age groups, parents are welcome to go through different rooms for visits, this can help educators to explain and show how learning is happening in the room. This directly reflects on the Woodlands Learning Progress Family Event. 

Grazing Table: Set up some finger food and soft drinks on a grazing table for families to have some snacks.

Event Flow.

Please have someone ready to receive and direct the families.
Inform the families that we will be having a gathering and information session, in the meantime, they can enjoy some food.

• Do an acknowledgement of the country. (example provided). 

Acknowledgment of Country Commence the event with a respectful acknowledgment of the traditional custodians of the land. “I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are all meeting today, the Wurundjeri, Woi-Wurrung people (change land if Wurundjeri land is not the land you are on) of the Kulin nation. I would also like to pay my respects to the Elders past and present and any people who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in the room today. At Woodlands we commit to learning the truth about the traditional land we are on and to respectfully teach our upcoming generations Australia’s history”.

• Introduce yourselves.
• Give a 5-10 minutes short information on how the event will go. Talk about the staffing for the rooms next year.
• Inform the families that after the introduction that they are able to go to different rooms to talk to the educators and that they are able to explore the campus and the rooms as they feel comfortable.

Key messages for educators to communicate with the families:

• Welcoming the families and explaining the difference between the different rooms, such as daily rituals, record sharing, ratio’s, learning philosophy etc.
• Settling: Focus on the strategies you have to help children settle into the rooms, to ensure a smooth transition period.
• Learning focus: how you structure your learning programs, how you identify learning goals etc.

Optional*: invite the families to sit in a learning area, preferable with table and chairs, and do a learning experience with the families to show how learning is happening in your room. This would be very impressive for the families, as most of them do not know how children learn in early years settings.

Event Wrap-up. 

The leadership team can conduct follow-up one-on-one reflection conversations among each other, and with team members, to discuss how they think the event went and what they think can be improved for the future.

***********Event Food List**********

$300 Budget, order from Woolworths.
Ensure you are aware of the dietary requirements and allergies of your service (children, families and educators), alter food selection to support that. 

Set up a Grazing Table for the event with the following:

• Mini pizza
• Finger Sandwiches (assorted varieties)
• Mini Quiches (vegetable and cheese, might need baking, optional)
• Fruit Platter (strawberry, watermelon, rock melon)
• Vegetable Platter with Dip (carrots, celery, cherry tomato, cucumbers. Hummus, French Onion, Beetroot Dip).
• Cheese and Cracker Platter 
• Mini Cupcakes (assorted flavours)
• Bread Sticks
• Mini Pastry (Ready to serve ones, such as croissants, pain au chocolate, danish etc.)
• Juice Boxes for Kids
• Water Bottles for Adults
• Bottle Juice for Adults.

******** Budget ******** 
$300.00 for Food and Drinks
$150.00 for Decoration

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NOTE:   Deli produce, optional based on dietary.
- Adjust the food quantities and selection based on the number of attendees and dietary preferences.
- Note that some of the items will contain dairy, please adjust based on your guests and children’s dietary requirements to avoid any unexpected situations.