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Welcome to the Office of Early Childhood Education

We are New Zealand’s national body for early childhood education and care

Teacher Member Posts

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Learning Activities - Outside the Box Ideas

Winter and Rainy Day Activities

Winter and Rainy Day Children’s Activities. When the children are getting restless and the noise levels are going up and up and you are thinking about how to get through the day, it’s time to bring in some new ideas […]

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Teaching and Putting Theory into Practice

The Importance of a Play Based Approach

The Play Based Approach – Helping young learners to flourish. The one thing every parent, caregiver and educator wishes most for a young child is to have a happy and fulfilled childhood. What is a Play Based Approach? A play-based approach is […]

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Service Provider Member Posts

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Financial Management and Record Keeping

15 Funding and Funding Rule Questions

15 Funding Questions put to the Ministry of Education. Has the MoE considered using the school payroll model to pay teachers? If the government paid the teachers to ratio and gave each centre an ops grant, in a similar fashion […]

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Health and Safety Management

First Aid Qualifications and Staffing Requirements – All ECE Services

Number of first aid qualified staff and which staff must be first aid qualified in which services From 26 February 2024, all persons designated the ‘person responsible’ in teacher-led education and care centres, including kindergartens must hold a first aid […]

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Governance and Committees

Governance Training and Capacity

Governance Training. Most board members have little, if any, training on how to govern an early childhood service effectively. They are often volunteers.  They may come onto the board thinking their role is merely to support the supervisor or manager and […]

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Health and Safety Management

Complying with the Food Act

Complying with the Food Act. All ECE services to whom the Food Act applies must apply for registration (under national programme 2) and be registered before they can provide food to children. Exempt early childhood services An early childhood service […]

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Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles

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NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education journal
2019 NZIRECE Journal No. 2

Screens or No Screens: Understanding Young Children’s Use of Digital Technologies

Maya Robinson-Kennedy. Full reference: Robinson-Kennedy, M. (2019). Screens or no screens: Understanding young children’s use of digital technologies.  NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal. Special issue presenting early childhood position papers, 22(2), pp. 18 – 25.  Page 18 Original […]

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2000 NZRECE Journal Articles

Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2000, Vol 3

The titles, authors and abstracts for papers published in the NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, Volume 3, 2000 are shown below. To view any paper, scroll to the end of this page for copies. The Early Years: Conceptual […]

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2012 NZRECE Journal Articles

Characteristics of Optimal Early Childhood Centre Outdoor Environments: Spaces and Places in which Children and Adults Want to Be

The purpose of this project was to investigate what teachers deemed optimal in their provision of an outdoor environment. This research involved 46 teachers from 15 early childhood centres in the North Island of New Zealand. The findings reported in […]

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2018 NZIRECE Journal, No. 1

Increasing Early Childhood Education Enrolment and Attendance Rates

Report on a project to increase child enrolment and attendance rates at early childhood centres in socio-economically deprived areas of NZ. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.

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The Office of ECE drives high-quality care, learning and teaching for all infants and young children and high-quality working environments for teachers and service providers.
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