2023 NSW Munch & Move Health Promotion Officer (HPO) Professional Development
The Centre for Population Health (CPH) is pleased to announce the 2023 NSW Munch & Move Health Promotion Officer (HPO) Professional Development Webinar series.
This series of three (3) interactive webinars will aim to provide engaging opportunities for HPO’s to build further on their professional development and understanding of the Munch & Move program.
The succession of webinars will look at the current landscape of the early childhood education and care sector, the new updates to the Early Years Framework, and a practical session that look into how we can incorporate healthy eating and active living strategies to create culturally safe environments in our early childhood education and care settings.
Further detailed information for each webinar and the invited speakers is below.
Dates and eligibility
The webinars are open for all HPO’s to attend:
Webinar | Date and time | Registration |
Webinar 1: Emerging complexities in the implementation in delivering Healthy Eating and Active Living | Thursday 29 June 2023 10.00 am – 12.30 pm AEST |
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Webinar 2: Deep dive into the Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) for Australia V2.0 | Thursday 20 July 2023 10.00 am – 12.30 pm AEST |
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Webinar 3: Creating culturally responsive settings and embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives within Munch & Move practices | Tuesday 1 August 2023 10.00 am – 12.30 pm AEST |
Webinars
Webinar 1: Emerging complexities in the implementation in delivering Healthy Eating and Active Living
Thursday 29 June 2023, 10.00 am – 12.30 pm AEST
In the first webinar, we will look into the current landscape of the early childhood education and care sector (ECEC), and the challenges we face moving forward. How have educators, families and children fared over the last three years, during and after COVID? And what policy changes have there been that affect us moving forward?
As we consider the challenges before us, we need to look at the opportunities ahead and strategise where we go from here….
Webinar 2: Deep dive into the Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) for Australia V2.0
Thursday 20 July 2023, 10.00 am – 12.30 pm AEST
What is Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Framework for Australia V2.0 and how does it affect us?
Much of the Munch & Move program has influenced changes in the recent EYLF update. In conversation with Professor Sue Irvine & Catharine Hydon, we will deep dive into the EYLF to understand the changes that have occurred and how that will impact our everyday work.
Webinar 3: Creating culturally responsive settings and embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives within Munch & Move practices
Tuesday 1 August 2023, 10.00 am – 12.30 pm AEST
How has the education and care sector embraced Reconciliation, and what more can we do to support families and our community?
In this final session, we will contemplate how we can all better support each other to provide a culturally safe and responsive environment for all to be inclusive. Hear practical examples of strategies and the active ingredients you could use to enable cultural diversity in your settings and support educators and families within your community.
Program
Please view the program for all three (3) webinars here
Facilitator
With over 30 years experience leading and advocating for quality early childhood education and care, Catharine Hydon’s work, as the Principal Consultant and Director at Hydon Consulting, focuses on supporting professionals to explore the relationship between theory and practice. Catharine’s collaborative approach and engaging style has taken her all over Australia to think alongside leaders and educators in a collective effort to create meaning, define quality and engage in the art of transformational change. Cultivating professional dialogue that responds to complexity and invites deep reflection is central to Catharine’s work and is informed by a Masters in early childhood education specialising in practice and governance. Amongst other pursuits, Catharine is a long-time member of Early Childhood Australia (ECA), an active contributor to ECA’s Reconciliation work and a regular contributor to ECA publications. Catharine has been a member of the ECA Code of Ethics working group for the last two reviews and is a co-author of ECA’s Ethics in Action Implementation guide. In addition, Catharine is a Board Member of the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority and Reggio Emilia Australia Information Exchange and has been appointed as a second-tier reviewer for ACECQA. |
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Speakers
Webinar 1: Emerging complexities in the implementation in delivering Healthy Eating and Active Living
Debbie Yates is a Be You National Manager with Early Childhood Australia. Her experience includes teaching across both early learning and primary school settings and working as a manager at a range of community organisations with a focus on supporting families and children. Debbie holds post graduate qualifications in management (non-profit sector) and her current focus is supporting the early learning sector to grow mentally healthy learning communities. | |
Amanda Archer has worked in the Early Education sector for 17 years and has held various leadership roles. In these roles, she’s held children’s rights at the centre of all decision making to ensure they have a voice in influencing quality care and education outcomes. Amanda has lead teams working with teachers and educators to provide professional learning and guidance so they may continually develop their skills to deliver on best practice outcomes and provide optimum service to children and families. | |
Katherine Wilson has worked in Early Childhood for 20 years in a variety of models including city based, a rural mobile service and for the last 10 years running her own services based at the Mid North Coast and now Blayney NSW. Katherine is passionate about play-based natural pedagogy and committed to secure relationship-based practices as a facilitator of Circle of Security parenting and Classroom Masterclass. Circle Early Learning has been created by Katherine to be a stand-alone centre that not only gives children an environment to grow and thrive but also Educators a welcoming workplace that believes in strong mentorship and creating a culture of lifelong learning with a high importance placed on wellbeing and positive attitudes. |
Webinar 2: Deep dive into the Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) for Australia V2.0
Susan is an early childhood professional with diverse work experience across a range of early childhood education and care (ECEC) contexts. She has held leadership roles in child and family policy, tertiary education and direct service provision and recently took on the role of Head, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at Queensland University of Technology. Susan’s expertise in public policy is widely recognised, and she continues to play an active role, working with government and sector colleagues, to support informed policy decision-making. She is currently a Chief Investigator on several collaborative multi-disciplinary research projects relating to development of the ECEC workforce, with policy and practice implications. Susan’s previous roles include CEO at Lady Gowrie Queensland and in Strategic Policy and Research and ECEC within the Queensland Department of Communities. |
Webinar 3: Creating culturally responsive settings and embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives within Munch & Move practices
Melody is a proud Gooreng Gooreng/Wakka woman from Yallarm (Gladstone) in Central Queensland. Melody has worked in Education for over 30 years as a Teacher, Educator, Principal Project Officer, and Manager, she began her teaching career at Wadja Wadja High School in Woorabinda, and now is the National Cultural Liaison for Goodstart Early Learning. Being in this position for 5 years has lead the organisation to weave Reconciliation through all they do both at a Centre level and organisational level with all 100% if Goodstart Centres signed up with Narragunnawali to develop their own Reconciliation Action Plan. Her previous role as a Principal Project Officer for Early Childhood Education and Care in the Remote Indigenous Professional Development Program, saw her deliver professional development around the EYLF to First Nations educators in Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia. Melody is passionate early childhood and about our little people growing being connected to First Nations People, Elders, Culture and the Land on where they live and play. |
Resources
- Resilience building for ourselves and to support the sector – Deb Yates, Be You
- Be You – Resource hand out
- Be You – Self-regulation
- Belonging, Being & Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia V2.0
- ACECQA Approved Learning Frameworks
- Intersections between the Updated EYLF 2022 V2.0 and Munch & Move
- Working with Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework (2.0) – Professor Sue Irvine
- Hunter New England Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives: A guide for early childcare services
- How to develop culturally responsive programs – Catharine Hydon
- How to develop your acknowledgement
- Yulunga Traditional Indigenous Games
- Reconciliation Australia – Narragunnawali
- Wingaru – Teaching Resources
- Deadly Choices
- NSW Aboriginal Education Consultive Group
- NSW Government Cultural Safety Framework Project
- SNAICC – Aboriginal Cultural Safety Framework for Early Childhood Education
- Closing the Gap – Priority Reforms
- Closing the Gap – Targets
- Webinar 3 – Jamboard – Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives
Recordings
Webinar 1: Emerging complexities in the implementation in delivering Healthy Eating and Active Living
Webinar 2: Deep dive into the Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) for Australia V2.0
Webinar 3: Creating culturally responsive settings and embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives within Munch & Move practices