Child voice should be able to change the activity plan

Collecting comments is not the end of participation. Ask specific optional questions, look for an actionable issue and tell children what changed as a result, while recognising that one response cannot stand for the entire group.

Invite varied responses. Identify an actionable pattern. Explain the adjustment.

Show the link between feedback and adjustment

Use more than one response method and show the resulting adjustment. Child voice is visible when feedback influences practical decisions, not just collection.

Feedback about crowded materials can lead to two supply trays.

What changed because of feedback? Use anonymous picture responses.

One response does not represent everyone.

Resources

• Reflection Journal Template — Use the editable reflection prompts to record observations and one practical next action.

Further reading

• ACECQA — play, leisure and intentionality

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• Record the adaptation and the response, not a universal promise

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