Tracking your child’s learning and development is extremely important to us. At St. Mary’s ELC, we use an online system called ‘Learning Journals’ to track your child’s learning and development.
What does this mean?
- You can access your child’s profile any time you want, as long as you have an internet connection.
- Easy access to the development and progress of your child.
- You have the option to comment on observations and add photos. You can contribute descriptions of significant moments in your child’s development, and activities you and your child have taken part in at home – Moments from Home, Star Moments or something similar.
- Learning Journals enable your child’s keyworker to make observations of learning in a fraction of the time. Giving them more time to play, teach and care for your child.
- Each staff member has an electronic tablet which allows observations to be taken at the time. These can be shared with the children and uploaded ‘in the moment’, allowing for more meaningful observations.
- Observations are instantly uploaded to the server so you will be able to see the observation as soon as we publish it.
- It’s environmentally friendly!
Additional Benefits and Features
- We as staff have the ability to access a ‘Child’s View’ option, which allows the children to browse their own stream safely, without changing any of the observations. It stays with them throughout their nursery life, showcasing your child’s entire journey from where they began at nursery to their point of departure.
Security
- The system is very secure. The connection is made using a secure server holding an SSL certificate (meaning the address starts with https and carries the padlock symbol). You will be the only one outside of the nursery that can view your child’s profile and you will access it with a unique username as well as a password and PIN that you create.
We hope you look forward to getting online and seeing all the wonderful things your child has been learning about each day at nursery. If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to the Early Years Depute.
Please click on the following link for a Parents’ guide:
Our Learning Journal app can be downloaded by clicking on the links below:
