You have been overseas for 10 years. You return to Australia to discover that there has been

Task: Respond to each of the questions below.

You have been overseas for 10 years. You return to Australia to discover that there has been

significant investment in, and resultant changes to Early Childhood Education and Care

(ECEC). You have decided to undertake study in this area and you are sent on placement to a

new high-quality ECEC service that has achieved an Exceeding rating from ACECQA. This

centre represents to you everything a high quality centre should be doing for the children,

families and educators. You have been asked to provide an analysis of this centre and explain

how the centre achieved the ‘exceeding quality status. To this, please respond to the

following:

1. Explain what the Exceeding rating means

2. What are the characteristics of this ECEC service that has achieved an Exceeding

rating? Structure this response using the 7 Quality Areas of the National Quality

Standard (ACECQA, 2018).

3. How does the service reflect the five principles and 8 practices of the Early Years?

Learning Framework

Use National Quality Standard (NQS) (ACECQA, 2018) and Early Years

Learning Framework (EYLF) (DET, 2019) to justify your responses.

Link to references: https://www.acecqa.gov.au/nqf/national-quality-standard https://www.acecqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2018-02/belonging_being_and_becoming_the_early_years_learning_framework_for_australia.pdf