CONTENTSA
Assessment
The process of noticing children’s learning, recognising its significance, and responding in ways that foster further learning. It includes documenting some, but not necessarily all, of what and how children are learning in order to inform teaching, and make learning visible.
C
Coordinator
The person who has primary responsibility for overseeing the education and care, comfort, and health and safety of the children, and providing professional leadership and support to educators within the service.
Culture
The understandings, patterns of behaviour, practices, and values shared by a group of people.
E
Educator
The person with the designated role of providing education and care directly to children in his or her care, and attends to the health and safety of those children.
Excursion
Being outside the licensed premises whilst receiving education and care from the services but does not include an outing for the purposes of:
- emergency evacuations
- drills or
- the receipt of urgent medical attention.
Regular excursion
Excursions that parents have agreed to at the time of their child’s enrolment, that are part of an ongoing planned and consistent routine of education and care.
Special excursion
Excursions that parents have agreed to prior to the excursion taking place, that are not a regular excursion.
M
Medicine
Any substance used for a therapeutic purpose and includes prescription and non-prescription preparations having the meaning assigned to these under Appendix 2.
N
Non-porous material
A material which does not allow water to pass through it.
O
Out-of-school care
The presence of any child during licensed hours who is aged 13 years or younger, who is enrolled at school, and who is counted towards the total number of children that can be present in the home, in line with the requirements set out in section 19 of the Education and Training Act 2020.
Education and Training Act 2020, Section 19 – New Zealand Legislation
P
Parent
- the person (or people) responsible for having the role of providing day-to-day care for the child and
- may include a biological or adoptive parent, stepparent, partner of a parent of a child, legal guardian or member of the child’s family, whānau or other culturally recognised family group.
Philosophy
A statement that:
- outlines the fundamental beliefs, values, and ideals that are important to the people involved in the service – management, adults providing education and care, whānau | families and parents, and perhaps the wider community
- identifies what is special about the service and
- is intended to be the basis for decisions about the way the service is managed and about its direction in the future.
Policy
A statement intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters.
Premises
A home in which education and care is to be provided, and its associated outdoor space.
Procedure
A particular and established way of doing something.
Process
A goal-directed, interrelated series of actions, events, procedures, or steps.
R
Records
Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved.
Regulation
A regulation under the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008.
S
Service
A home-based education and care service.
Service curriculum
All of the experiences, interactions, activities and events – both direct and indirect, planned, and spontaneous – that happen at the service. Teaching practices including planning, assessment, and evaluation form part of the service curriculum.
Service provider
The body, agency, or person who or that operates the home-based education and care service.
Specified agency
Any government agency or statutory body that a home-based education and care service is required to notify if there is a serious (or as defined) injury, illness, incident or allegation. This may include but is not limited to:
- the New Zealand Police
- the Ministry of Health
- Oranga Tamariki
- WorkSafe New Zealand
- the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand.
