OOSH

The B&B Highway Outside School Hours Care Program implementation involves interactive learnings and hands-on activities which align with the My Time, Our Place Framework and can be adapted to all age groups, abilities and sites.

Learning, play and wellbeing

Immersive Activities in Nature

Our Program enhances numerous areas of learning, play and wellbeing aligning particularly with the Quality Area 3 (QA3) of the National Quality Standard (NQS) focusing on the physical environment. Learning about living things coupled with immersive activities in nature at the school/centre, such as planting a pollinator garden, supports ACECQA’s requirement for ‘inclusive, engaging environments that foster curiosity and sustainable practices, facilitating play-based learning, connection to nature, and the participation of all children’.

National learning framework

Aligning with the My Time, Our Place framework

Our B&B Highway OOSH Program aligns with the My Time, Our Place (MTOP) framework. This is Australia’s official national learning framework for Outside School Hours Care (OOSH). It guides educators who run before-school, after-school, and vacation care programs for school-age children aged 5 to 12 years.

Aligning with MTOP Key Concepts

Belonging: Connecting with family, community, and the school-age care setting.

Being: Enjoying the present time, relaxing, and engaging in play.

Becoming: Developing skills, interests, and identity to shape the future.

GROWING CAPABLE YOUNG PEOPLE

Aligning with MTOP Five Key Learning Outcomes

Children have a strong sense of identity.
Children are connected with and contribute to their world.
Children have a strong sense of wellbeing.
Children are confident and involved learners.
Children are effective communicators.

Inside + Outside

Incursion outline and activities

Select an option to explore the indoor learning and outdoor activity.

Indoor:

Interactive presentation learning about local biodiversity, native plants and pollinators

Outdoor:

Biodiversity assessments in school grounds + planting of local and endemic flowering ground covers and shrubs. Bush Tucker plants can be requested. Participants learn how to be guardians of their garden, ensuring they monitor and take care of their plant for the whole year and beyond. Note:

A take home worksheet on which participants name, draw and add interesting information they have learnt about their plant is provided.
Parents will receive the list of plants in the new garden encouraging them to learn about their local species and contribute to creating corridors from the OOSH all the way home!