Planning an OSHC environment

You need to arrange the environment to support, assist and guide children's behaviour. Instead of Crowd Control, you need to ensure there is Planned Control.

Elements to consider

• when planning the OSHC environment, designate areas (indoors and outdoors) for active and passive activities
• include mostly adult-supervised experiences (all experiences need adult supervision)
• add a limited number of adult-supported experiences, based on staff numbers, for children requiring adult assistance
• allocate enough play spaces for the number of children booked into the program.

You will need to allocate 1.5 spaces for each child, in the room or outside or a combination of the two. Thus, for 30 children there will be 45 play spaces.

You need to make a realistic count of the number of children able to participate in each experience. Below is an example.