Educators

Play Active provides you with the skills, confidence and knowledge to improve the physical activity levels, health and wellbeing of children in your care.

Why should your service become a Play Active Member?

Play Active has been designed to help Early Childhood Education and Care services increase the amount of energetic play children do every day in a safe and supported environment.

Why should I join Play Active?

Play Active is easy to use, providing you with lots of ideas to find opportunities throughout the day to boost children’s energetic play, helping you support children in your care be active, healthy and develop well.

The membership process is completed by your service’s director.

Educators receive free, brief, evidence-based professional development.

Making workloads less – aligned to National Quality Standards

Incorporating Play Active into your Quality Improvement Plan can help you improve practices, policies and environments to meet and exceed in Quality Area 2.1.

We know your time is valuable, so we’ve made it easy for you to incorporate more energetic play into your daily routine.

Play Active supports you to not only meet but exceed in the National Quality Standard 2.1: ‘Promoting healthy eating and physical activity’ and Element 2.1.3 ‘Heathy eating and physical activity are promoted and appropriate for each child.’

What are the benefits?

Play Active provides you with energetic play and physical activity ideas, resources, professional development and support.

Free Professional Development

Educators receive free, brief, evidence-based professional development and a personalised certificate.

Features:

Eight short Professional Development videos
A short quiz to check your knowledge
Complete at your own pace
Certificate – valid for two years
Aligned to the National Quality Standards and EYLF
Access to Play Active resources on the Educator Member Dashboard

It’s free, quick and easy to complete, you can do it on your phone.

Complete FREE Professional Development in 20 minutes

It’s quick and easy to join.

Step 1: Register here and complete a short (5 min) survey.
Step 2: Complete brief, online professional development involving eight short videos and a quiz and receive a personal certificate on completion – valid for 2 years.
Step 3: Enter your director’s email address to invite your service to become a member.

Testimonials

What educators say about Play Active?

Play Active made it simple to integrate energetic play throughout the day. This had instant benefits for us – we found that it helped to tire the children out a little, which improved their naps. It also had a calming effect and they ended up behaving better when they weren’t active.

Sandra

Educator

, 31

, western-australia

Like most educators I suppose, I thought my kids were getting enough physical activity. But we found out from Play Active that although the kids were moving, they weren’t moving energetically