Sparky and Shady for Early Years
Early Childhood Educators
Easy to implement
Delivered two or three times weekly in small rotating groups on different days to ensure every child has the opportunity to participate.
Grounded in
co-regulation and attachment
Clear behaviour support strategies for big feelings and tricky behaviours that support connection.
Sense of agency
Children learn to be mindful, recognise their feelings and understand their thoughts. They are supported to make wise, kind choices.
Wellbeing, mindfulness and behaviour support for children aged 3-5
A practical, evidence-informed program that helps children build self-awareness, self-regulation and healthy relationships. It gives educators shared language and behaviour support strategies for everyday practice.
Includes family access, implementation guidance, and
resources aligned with early childhood practice.
Sparky and Shady for Early Years - Early Childhood Educators
A practical solution for quality practice
Early childhood services support children’s wellbeing, relationships, behaviour, agency, inclusion, family partnerships and emotional development every day.
At the same time, educators are responding to big feelings, tricky behaviours, peer conflict, transitions, family concerns, regulation requirements and different levels of confidence across the team.
Sparky and Shady helps services bring this work together through one shared, child-friendly framework.
It supports leaders and educators to:
- teach wellbeing, mindfulness and self-regulation intentionally
- respond to behaviour in calm, consistent and strengths-based ways
- use shared language across rooms, educators and families
- support children’s agency, relationships and repair
- connect everyday practice with EYLF, NQS and QIP reflection
- reduce educator uncertainty by giving clear strategies for real moments.
Sparky and Shady for Early Years is a practical approach that supports children, strengthens educator confidence and helps services describe the quality practice happening every day.
What’s included
Annual access to the Early Childhood Educators’ program includes:
- a detailed introduction containing a professional resource suite
- six pre-recorded step-by-step implementation sessions
- Just Watch, Jump In and Deep Dive implementation options
- five child-friendly wellbeing lessons
- short videos, stories, games, meditations and printable posters
- educator notes and suggested language
- mindful moment script
- five behaviour support strategies
- Families Program access for up to 40 families
- optional pre- and post-program data collection.
Professional resource suite
Informed by collaboration with early childhood educational leaders, the professional resource suite supports implementation, reflection and quality practice. It includes:
- Leadership Implementation and Quality-Practice Guide
- Sparky and Shady Philosophy for Early Childhood Education
- Behaviour Support Handbook: Big Feelings and Tricky Behaviours
- Evidence Base and Theoretical Foundations of Sparky and Shady
- EYLF V2.0 Detailed Alignment and Educator Evidence Guide
- Child-Safe Culture and Quality Practice Overview
- NQS Alignment and QIP Reflection Planner
- Early Years Outcomes and Quality-Practice Quick Reference Chart
- Australian State and Territory Regulatory Reference Guide.
Sparky and Shady for Early Years - Early Childhood Educators
14-day guarantee
If Sparky and Shady isn’t right for your early childhood service, contact us within 14 days and we’ll happily refund your purchase.
Testimonial
“As a preschool teacher, I’m extremely interested in enhancing every child’s development at such a young and significant stage. This program provides the foundation to empower children to recognise their emotions and learn strategies to manage their behaviour. Its holistic, positive approach is very exciting… I only wish I’d had this sort of guidance when I was a child!”
Giselle Pitt
Educational Leader, Lower Bucca Community Preschool