Queensland kindergarten learning guideline news — August 2025

From August to October, the QCAA Kindy team will be on the road again offering free, practical, face-to-face workshops to support how you plan and assess children’s learning using the revised Queensland kindergarten learning guideline (QKLG 2024).

With your colleagues, you will use the QKLG 2024 to:

• strengthen your assessment skills and explore intentional strategies to assess children’s learning
• explore ways to gather and document evidence of what children know, understand and can do across the five learning and development areas
• share assessment practices and ideas with peers in your area
• use the continua of learning and development to reflect on learning and inform decision-making
• deepen your understanding of assessing learning for transition and learn how to use the updated KTS app to create transition statements.

Register now for a workshop near you:

• Emerald
• Roma
• Other Queensland locations including Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Wide Bay, Townsville, Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton.

We’re continuing to update the Kindergarten Transition Statement (KTS) app to align with the revised QKLG 2024. Thank you for your patience. We’re committed to delivering a smoother, more user-friendly experience when creating transition statements.

Here’s what you need to know:

Launch date and QCAA Portal access

We’re pleased to announce that the updated KTS app will be available in the QCAA Portal in early September. We will email kindergarten services when the app is live.

Do you have your QCAA Portal account and access to the KTS app set up? If not, explore our support resources on the QCAA website to get started. This will ensure you’re ready to go when the app launches.

New consent forms available

Updated versions of Consent form 1 and Consent form 2 are now available on the QCAA website under the headings ‘Consent to create a transition statement’ and ‘Consent to share a transition statement’. If you haven’t collected parent/carer consent yet, please use the new forms.

Already collected consent using the previous versions? No problem! They’re still valid for 2025, so you don’t need to collect them again.

Prepare now to save time later

Now is a great time to reflect on your monitoring practices and review the evidence that you have gathered on each child so far across the kindergarten year. You might like to consider:

• Can you identify any patterns in learning and development?
• What further evidence of learning and development do you want to gather prior to creating your transition statement?
• What action do you want to take prior to creating the transition statement?

These answers can give you a head start when you create transition statements in September

We also have a kindergarten webpage with information for parents and families that supports families to understand the purpose of kindergarten transition statements.

Our latest Kindergarten research insights article focuses on the topic of supporting self-regulation. The paper, developed by Professor Susanne Garvis, Marghi Ghezzi and Parian Madanipour from Griffith University, explores how early childhood teachers and educators can support children to develop strong self-regulation skills.

Self-regulation — the ability to manage emotions, thoughts, and behaviours to respond to different situations effectively — is a foundational skill for lifelong learning. You’ll discover how strategies such as predictable routines, meaningful choices, and play-based learning experiences can foster children’s resilience and adaptability.

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We’ve added two new videos and reflection resources to our website:

• Reflecting on the principle Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in kindergarten
• Reflecting on Connectedness in kindergarten.

These videos illustrate how one service has embedded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in its practice to support the learning and development area ‘Connectedness’ and the key focus of ‘Showing respect for diversity’.

Additionally, 19 video reflection resources are now available throughout the QKLG webpages to support your understanding of the QKLG and high-quality teaching and learning practices in the following areas:

• Engaging in responsive planning and decision-making
• Using intentional teaching strategies
• Identity
• Connectedness
• Wellbeing
• Active learning
• Communicating.

After presenting at the recent Early Childhood Teachers’ Association (ECTA) conference, Janis McDermott (Principal Project Officer, Kindergarten) shared some reflections on the day:

“I had a wonderful time at ECTA’s special 50^th annual conference on 28 June 2025, engaging in stimulating professional conversations with a wide range of early years professionals. We had a great turnout for our Assessing children’s learning session, where we collaboratively considered the what, why and how of play-based assessment. If you couldn’t make it to the conference, don’t worry! We look forward to continuing these important conversations about assessing children’s learning in our upcoming full-day workshops around the state. Hope to see you there!”

Early Learning Matters Week: 18–24 August 2025

Organised by Early Childhood Australia (ECA), Early Learning Matters Week promotes awareness and understanding of the importance of early learning in shaping the development and wellbeing of children. Visit the Early Learning Matters website to find out how you can get involved during this week-long celebration.

A-Z of early childhood newsletter

The latest edition from the Department of Education includes updates on regulatory and safety information, data from the Australian Early Development Census, and other early childhood education news and initiatives.

Don’t forget to follow the QCAA on Facebook and LinkedIn to stay up to date in between editions of QKLG news.

You’ll hear about new workshops, webinars, conferences, resources and more.

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