Nursery World - Learning & Development ICT: Logging in

Kerry Hastings and Louise Young describe how keeping an electronic diary of the learning progress of each early years child, accessible to parents, family and the child, can create a more complete picture.

As every nursery practioner knows, it is a requirement of the Early Years Foundation Stage to keep a record of each child's individual progress. Many early years settings choose to record these assessments through a learning journey, which usually takes the form of a scrapbook and includes photographs and comments by the child's teacher or key person about the child's progress in relation to the EYFS early learning goals.

To date, these diaries of children's early learning, development and experiences have usually been kept in a paper format. Many are rarely updated by parents and carers except, perhaps, at parents' evenings and review meetings.

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