what is Activated OSHC?

Activated OSHC is an evidence-based program designed in consultation with the OSHC sector, government and child health experts to help OSHC services deliver high-quality physical activity and screen time programming.

It includes tailored online education and support to create a policy to embed the Australian OSHC Physical Activity and Screen Time Guidelines into your service.

By becoming an accredited Activated OSHC, your service will be recognised for best practice in physical activity and screen time.

what are the benefits?

Children

Supports children’s health and happiness

Staff

Enhances staff skills and confidence

Improves behaviour

Improves children’s behaviour and engagement at OSHC

Families

Increased satisfaction with your service

what’s involved?

You can become an accredited Activated OSHC in 3 simple steps:

Complete the online self-paced training modules, which take approximately 1 hour in total.

Use our easy online checklist to review your current OSHC programming and identify areas for growth.

Create and submit your physical activity and screentime policy. You can use our template or make changes to your existing policy.

our team is here to support you every step of the way!

The australian oshc physical activity and screen time guidelines

Find an Activated OSHC

ACT

Bright Lights School Age Program
St Francis of Assisi BASCA

NSW

Active OOSH Banora Point
Active OOSH Centaur
Active OOSH Coopernook
Active OOSH Hastings
Active OOSH Kendall
Active OOSH Kingscliff
Active OOSH Krambach
Active OOSH Lake Cathie
Active OOSH Macksville
Active OOSH Old Bar
Active OOSH Tacking Point
Active OOSH Telegraph Point
Active OOSH Terranora
Active OOSH Tinonee
Active OOSH Westport
Active OOSH Wingham
Cowra Early Childhood Service Out of School Hours Care
Emu Village Outside School Hours Service
Fair Play OOSH Edgeworth
Fun Club @ Albion Park
Fun Club @ Austinmer
Fun Club @ Balarang
Fun Club @ Lakelands
Fun Club @ West Wollongong
Muswellbrook Out of School Hours Care
NURRUBY BOGGABRI OOSH
Nurruby Narrabri OOSH
Nurruby OOSH
Paddington Out of School Care Inc
Parramatta West OOSH
Pennant Hills BASC
Ringrose OOSH
Sherwood Grange OOSH
The College Club
Whoosh Care Surry Hills
Widemere OOSH

QLD

All Saints OSHC
Citipointe OSHC
Redeemer Lutheran College OSHC

SA

Aberfoyle Campus Schools OSHC
Aldinga Beach OSHCERS
Annesley OSHC
Braeview Primary School OSHC
Brighton Primary School OSHC
Brompton Primary School OSHC
Christian Brothers College OSHC
Colonel Light Gardens Primary School OSHC
Emmaus Catholic School OSHC
Fairview Park Primary School OSHC
Forbes Primary School OSHC
Golden Grove Lutheran Primary School OSHC
Good Shepherd Lutheran School Para Vista OSHC
Goolwa Primary School OSHC
Grange Primary School OSHC
Hackham East Primary School OSHC
Hallett Cove East Primary School OSHC
Hallett Cove R-12 Primary School OSHC
Happy Haven OSHC Elizabeth North
Happy Haven OSHC Gawler
Happy Haven OSHC Gawler & District College
Happy Haven OSHC Glenelg
Happy Haven OSHC Hampstead
Happy Haven OSHC Keller Road
Happy Haven OSHC Kersbrook
Happy Haven OSHC Kidman Park
Happy Haven OSHC Lyndoch
Happy Haven OSHC Macclesfield
Happy Haven OSHC Mitcham
Happy Haven OSHC Naracoorte
Happy Haven OSHC North Haven
Happy Haven OSHC Ocean View
Happy Haven OSHC Pooraka
Happy Haven OSHC Stirling North
HAPPY HAVEN OSHC Vale Park
Henley Beach Primary School Out of School Hours Care
Kapunda Combined OSHC
Lockleys North Primary School OSHC
Madison Park Primary School OSHC
McLaren Flat Primary School OSHC
Mercedes College OSHC
Morphett Vale Primary School OSHC
my OSHC Blair Athol North
my OSHC Blair Athol North
My OSHC Prescott
Our Lady of the Visitation School OSHC
Pedare Out of School Hours Care
Prince Alfred College OSHC
Saint David's Parish School OSHC
Salisbury Heights Primary School OSHC
Seacliff Primary School OSHC
Settlers Farm Primary School OSHC
St Augustine's Parish School OSHC
St Francis School OSHC
St Martin de Porres School OSHC/Vac
St Pius X School OSHC
St Raphael's Parish School OSHC
Tea Tree Gully Primary School OSHC
UniSA OSHC
Walkerville Primary School OSHC
Wynn Vale Primary School OSHC
Xavier College OSHC Evanston
Xavier College OSHC Two Wells
YMCA Emmaus South Plympton OSHC
YMCA Flaxmill School OSHC

TAS

The Hutchins School

VIC

Kiewa Valley Primary School Combined Out of School Hour Care
St Kilian's Primary YMCA Outside School Hours Care
Tyers Primary School
Valkstone Primary School Outside School Hours Care
Vermont Primary School Outside School Hours Child Care Service

WA

Camp Australia - Freshwater Bay Primary School OSHC
Camp Australia - St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School OSHC
Discovery Kids - Our Lady of Good Counsel
Doubleview Primary School OSHClub
Eden Hill Outside School Hours Care
Federation Of WA Police & Community Youth Centres - Kensington PCYC
Federation Of WA Police & Community Youth Centres - Midland PCYC
Go Bananas Outside School Hours Care - Banksia Grove
Harmony OSHClub
Hillarys Out of School Care
John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School Out Of School Care Programme Mirrabooka Campus
John Wollaston OSHClub
Jump Carey Early Development Forrestdale
Jump Carey Early Development Harrisdale
Kalamunda Out Of School Centre
Little Learners Place Southern Hills OSHC
Mundarda Child Care Centre
Orana Outside School Hours Care
Riverlinks Child Care Centre
Sacred Heart Primary School Thornlie OSHC
Settlers OSHCLub
St. Columba's Outside School Hours Care

what services have to say

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meet the team

Research Team

Dr Nicole Nathan

The University of Newcastle

Professor Carol Maher

University of South Australia

Kylie Brannelly

National Outside School Hours Service Alliance

Mandy Richardson

Department for Education

Dr Ty Ferguson

University of South Australia

Dr Rosa Virgara

University of South Australia

Professor Anthony Okely

University of Wollongong

Professor Richard Rosenkranz

Kansas State University and University of Nevada

Dr Rebecca Stanley

University of Wollongong

Associate Professor Dylan Cliff

University of Wollongong

Professor Svetlana Bogomolova

Flinders University

Professor Adrian Esterman

University of South Australia

Associate Professor Rachel Milte

Flinders University

Professor Hayley Christian

The Kids Research Institute Australia

Luke Wolfenden

University of Newcastle

Professor Lucy Lewis

Flinders University

Activated OSHC Project Team

Dr Rachel Curtis

University of South Australia

Dr Jacinta Brinsley

University of South Australia

Bethany Robins

University of South Australia

Industry Advisory Team

Gabrielle Fisher

Preventive Health SA

Perry Campbell

Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority

FAQs

The Australian OSHC Physical Activity and Screen Time Guidelines were developed in consultation with national and international experts and stakeholders from the OSHC sector, education, government, health and academia. The guidelines were published in 2021 and are available here.

The Activated OSHC program is free!

Increasing children’s physical activity and reducing their recreational screen time has wide-reaching benefits for their physical health, social and emotional wellbeing, and academic performance.

Almost 200 OSHC services across Australia have engaged in the Activated OSHC research trial, here are some of the benefits that they experienced:

  • Children are more engaged and invested in activities at OSHC
  • Increased satisfaction and enjoyment from both staff and children when staff engaged in active play with the children
  • Families and schools observe that children are excited to go to OSHC
  • Supports reputation for providing high-quality service
  • Opportunity for free professional development to upskill all staff in best physical activity and screen time practices

Select your OSHC service from the drop-down menu and create your user profile. You can then access the Activated OSHC website and begin the steps to becoming an Activated OSHC. One of our friendly team members will touch base with you in a couple of weeks to chat through the program and answer any questions.

If your service isn’t in the drop-down list, you can click on the ‘My service isn’t listed’ form and provide your service details. We will give you a call to confirm these and then add your service to the website.

The four online training modules take approximately 1 hour to complete in total. Training is self-paced and can be completed in stages, or all at once, whatever you prefer.

Creating the physical activity and screen time policy is simple. Depending on whether you’re creating a policy from scratch, editing an existing policy or tweaking our sample policy to suit your service, we estimate it should take between 20 and 45 minutes.

Yes, it is! Activated OSHC accreditation recognises services for meeting the Australian OSHC guidelines for both screen time and physical activity practices. Offering no screen time means your service already meets the screen time component of accreditation. Activated OSHC is relevant to all OSHC services.

A policy states what a service will or will not do in particular situations, and why. Your policy includes procedures which gives instructions on how and who will carry out the steps to meet the policy objective. Policies enable consistent practice, provide information for families, support staff and provide ongoing working documents to guide high quality practice.

Click here for more information on policies.

Physical activity is essential for children’s physical health and wellbeing. It provides a range of benefits including better physical health and fitness, academic performance, sleep and mental health. Most importantly though, it’s fun!

Studies show that too much recreational screen time can have a range of negative effects on physical, social and psychological outcomes for children and takes away form time that they could be physically active.

Your Activated OSHC accreditation will need to be renewed after 3 years.

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