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
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
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

Catharine Hydon

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.

Speakers

Webinar 1: Emerging complexities in the implementation in delivering Healthy Eating and Active Living

 

Deborah Yates	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	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	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

Professor Sue Irvine

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

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