Our Interests and Likes Board has been up and running for a while now. It is up in our entrance for everyone to see and for anyone who cares about a child to add information to. We’ve found it to be a great way for the bairns to speak about their learning and they love adding things to it themselves and showing off their space on the board to people. We speak about individual interests as well as shared ones.

We leave a pen out for parents and carers to add to or take away as interests change, and staff are always adding things too.

Some of the additional benefits we have seen so far have been:

• it is useful for new members of staff/supply staff to help them remember names and for them to  make a connection with children straight away
• staff use it to help inform planning, making it another tool in our child-led approach
• it is good for information sharing between staff, parents and children
• apart from their learning folders, pegs and trays, it is another space dedicated solely to a child – helpful in a place where sharing is usually the norm
• the bairns love it and really open up when given the chance to speak about themselves

Please have a look and remember to add or change the board as necessary. What do other Early Years Setting do? We’d love to find out if you have any ideas to help make this even better!