Playground
Never miss a moment with Playground
The Playground educator app enables you to prioritise each child’s learning, development and safety
- Foster relationships with families via meaningful communications and tailored updates
- Robust health and safety reporting to meet compliance
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Programming and planning in Playground
An innovative solution for educators to efficiently observe, document and track each child’s learning journey through various types of media, including audio.
- Capture each child’s learning in real time to avoid missing milestones—start on one device and finish on another with automatic cloud syncing.
- Updates, edits, insights and reflections can be added over time to capture live learning documents.
- Enrich your initial observations with easy-to-use tools, such as linking to other Posts/Documents to better monitor and add to the learning cycle over time.
Efficient health and safety tracking
Educators can track a child’s learning journey and quickly share reports with families and team members with our educator childcare software.
- Educators can log health events for individual children or in bulk, when necessary.
- Digital incident reports in line with ACECQA’s recommendations, including the ability to communicate with families.
- Record and remotely access transport and head counts and emergency and drills based on live data.
Direct line to families
Playground’s Messenger feature enables educators to stay in touch with families during the day.
- Seamless communication enhances collaboration between educators and families—fostering a nurturing environment for children.
- Direct messaging opens doors to family consultation, active communication and stronger partnerships.
- With the Home app, families can provide educators with regular updates—more focussed and personalised care for each child.
Discover why educators turn to Playground educator childcare software for their programming, planning and compliance needs
Educators save time with the Playground app to focus more on each child
Keeping children safe, families informed and staying compliant under the National Quality Standard—it’s what Playground educator childcare software was designed for.
Playground App—Frequently Asked Questions
The Playground educator childcare software makes it simple for you to tag learning outcomes against nationally approved frameworks or your service’s own custom frameworks. You can quickly share Posts with families who can view their child’s learning timeline in our free family app, Home.
The Playground educator childcare software helps ensure you never miss a moment while keeping children safe and fostering relationships with families. Playground works seamlessly with Home, our free family app, to help you deliver the best family experience and achieve positive learning outcomes.
Our educator childcare software platform, Playground, makes it easy to tag children in Posts, which families can then comment on. Additionally, Playground’s Messenger provides educators with a direct line of communication with parents/guardians via the Home family app to further foster collaboration and easily share updates.
Your service can use any of the nationally approved learning frameworks or create its own. Then, educators can quickly tag learning outcomes for children and share Posts with families. Additionally, Playground offers a variety of reports, from transportation lists, head counts and evacuation drills to health events and incident reports to streamline reporting for educators and admins.
The Playground childcare software platform offers both a web-based platform and a mobile app that works on Android and iOS. This makes it easy for educators to tag learning outcomes and communicate with families via the Home family app, using the platform that suits them best.
The Playground app is an innovative platform designed for educators to efficiently manage and document each child’s learning journey. It enables real-time tracking of milestones, planning across devices, and seamless communication with families, helping educators focus on what matters most—childcare and learning.
Playground provides educators with tools, templates and layouts to plan and track a child’s development efficiently. It allows linking learning outcomes to various media, providing an organised and comprehensive view of a child’s learning journey that can be shared with families.
Don’t just take our word for it—discover why educators rely on the Playground educator app
Playground provides educators with a wide range of tools for managing administration, programming and planning and documenting health and learning. Less time on administration duties means more time to focus on caring for children and engaging with families.
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