Nursery World - Learning & Development: Childhood journeys

Pre-school Learning Alliance's latest publication, The New Child in Focus, explains the benefits to all parties of records of achievement or learning journeys.

Children's records of achievement are sometimes referred to as a learning journey, or as a developmental 'profile' or 'portfolio'.

Maintaining a portfolio of a child's achievements across all aspects of development or areas of learning helps practitioners with:

- tracing children's direction of progress;

- sharing progress with parents or other professionals;

- planning to further children's progress; and

- presenting assessments in an attractive and meaningful way so that parents and children will enjoy contributing to it as well as looking back on it in years to come.

USING CHILDREN'S LEARNING JOURNEY PORTFOLIOS

- Tracing children's direction of progress

The learning journey portfolio provides a means of demonstrating that children are making good progress towards the early learning goals at the end of the Foundation Stage. It also provides a means of celebrating that child as an individual learner, who is progressing in a unique way, developing their own approaches to tasks and activities, building their own ideas and understandings, their own talents and abilities.

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