Professional development and learning
OT-led courses, workshops, and ongoing learning to grow your whole team.
Professional development funding for childcare centres
Turn your Kindy funding intolasting educator capability.
Queensland childcare centres can access government funding, like Kindy Uplift and Inclusion Ready, to bring occupational therapy directly into their kindergarten program. We'll walk you through your options and help you make the most of what's available.
What is Kindy Uplift?
Kindy Uplift aims to support educator capability and build inclusive environments for Kindy children to learn, grow and play.
Kindy Uplift priority areas
Culturally safe, inclusive & responsive programs
Social and emotional learning
Physicality
Executive function
Language and literacy
Mathematics and numeracy
OT aligns with 4 of 6 priority areas.
Our occupational therapists are well-versed in four of the six Kindy Uplift priority areas, making it easy to use one consistent provider to meet your centres' needs.
Social & Emotional Learning
We coach your educators in practical strategies for managing big emotions and growing children's emotional regulation and social skills across the whole class.
Physicality (Gross & Fine Motor)
We design motor programs that build the gross and fine motor skills children need for school, with ready-made resources your educators can use straight away.
Executive Function
We grow children's executive function by coaching your educators, adjusting the room through an environmental assessment, and providing ready-to-print visual supports.
Inclusive & Responsive Programs
We help your educators use universal design strategies that work for the whole class, not just one child.
Use Kindy Uplift funding for OT Support for Educators
Occupational Therapy resources
Ready-to-use OT visuals, printables, handouts, and video activities for every room.
Coaching and modelling
Registered OTs coaching and modelling alongside your team, in real time.
Environmental assessment
An OT walks your rooms and recommends changes that support every child.
Funding options for your centre.
Whether it is Kindy Uplift funding, Inclusion Ready, professional development budget or a combination of different funding programs, our team can provide OT support for your educators.
Kindy Uplift
- Used to build teacher and educator capability
- Focuses on Kindy Uplift priority areas: culturally safe, responsive and inclusive programs, social and emotional learning, physicality, executive function, language and literacy, and mathematics and numeracy
Inclusion Ready
- Ensures all children can meaningfully participate in kindergarten as their peers.
- Supports professional development, purchase of inclusion-focused programs, resources, equipment, and specialist support
Kindy Funding
- Used to strengthen the delivery of the Approved Kindergarten Program
- Funds professional development, extracurricular kindergarten activities and learning resources
Professional Development
- In-house funds used to build the skills of educators
- Supports targeted training and learning opportunities that strengthen everyday practice
Ready to partner?
Lift your whole centre, starting with one call.
Talk to our team. We'll walk through how Ready Kids fits into your centre, how we align with Kindy Funding and Kindy Uplift priorities, and what a partnership would look like for your educators.
A conversation, not a sales pitch.