The EYLF Principle, Practices and Outcomes as well as the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines give educators a direction or outline as to the skills, dispositions and areas of development that can be explored during the early years learning journey. The students prior knowledge, interests and development are also taken into consideration when planning and allow educators to plan intentional teaching programmes as well as lead to spontaneous play experiences. 

In this instance, we focussed on the Kindergarten Guidelines of 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 and EYLF 5.4.1 and 5.4.8, which aim to develop oral language/phonological awareness skills and constructing messages using symbols. We firstly  assessed the students knowledge of syllables and took note of their ability to write their name (directionality, pencil grip, sequence of letters).  Follow up experiences were then placed into our planning for the coming weeks. These experiences not only developed the students positive sense of self as it directly related to their name but it also built on their syllabication skills and gave them an opportunity to  practice writing their name.