Criterion PF203#

A variety of equipment and materials is provided to ensure children have access to appropriate learning, challenges, experiences, and opportunities that support their developmental stages, abilities, and current and emerging interests.

Guidance#

How to show you are complying#

Educators must provide a variety of equipment and materials that provide children with appropriate challenges, opportunities and experiences. They need to support different developmental stages, abilities, and current and emerging interests.

Make sure the equipment and materials suit the range of ages, abilities, and interests of the children attending. Children need to be able to access materials that match their interest and help them build their skills and abilities.

Consider open-ended resources and materials that can be used in different ways and are easy to move. When items have a range of uses, children have more choice and control over how they use them which   supports learning experiences.

Observe children’s interest to make sure your equipment remains relevant to children’s interest.

Timely access

Children should have timely access to equipment and different materials.

The amount of equipment and materials will vary from home to home. What’s important is what you provide is suitable for the range of ages and abilities of children attending and that there is enough, so children don’t have to wait too long to use them. This does not mean there has to be one of everything for each child at the home.