Koorie Playgroup Kits

The Koorie Playgroup Kit has been developed to encourage development of quality Koorie playgroups for children aged 0-4 years and their parent or carer including aunties, uncles, nanas and pops.

Contents

  • Inside the kit are:
  • Koorie Playgroup Kit Handbook
  • Koorie Playgroups DVD (2008 Enhance TV ATOM Awards finalist)
  • Guide for Establishing and Running Supported Playgroups for Aboriginal Families ( VACCA)
  • Koorie Culture: A Guide to Implementing a Culturally Inclusive Curriculum in Early Childhood Services (VAEAI) 
  • Koorie Totems booklet  
  • Little Fellas Big Voices CD
  • Koorie Play Book

In the kit as well are the following products from Yarn Strong Sista, Sharing Culture: Indigenous Perspective through Play (YSS):

  • Aunty Wendy Happy To Be Me CD 
  • Kootear The Echidna book
  • Aussie Toddlers Can boardbook  
  • What I Wanna Be book 
  • Kookaburra finger puppet  
  • Wooden toys (recycled timber wombat, snake and echidna) for bush tale play 

Development

The Koorie Playgroup Kit was developed in consultation with:

  • Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc (VAEAI)
  • Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA)
  • Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
  • Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) 
  • Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC)
  • Best Start, Indigenous Reference Group, Darebin
  • Victorian Aboriginal Community Services Association Ltd (VACSAL)
  • Koorie Early Childhood Education Program Coordinator
  • Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) 
  • Save the Children Australia
  • Community Child Care Association, Resource and Development Unit (CCC).

Purchase

Non Koorie playgroups, agencies and organisations can purchase a kit at $200 each.  To find out more contact Sharon toll free 1800 171 882  email sharon@playgroup.org.



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