Documenting Children’s Learning and Development
At AWELC your child’s development, routines and activities are recorded for you to enjoy and share. As part of our practices, we record information and observations that are designed to not only keep you informed, but to further extend on your child’s abilities, interests and strength.
We provide a Centre-to-Family communication platform through Storypark, so families can maintain contact with their children’s experiences through photos, stories and learning outcomes. Each family is provided with a secure login to access their Storypark account on their mobiles, computers and through the app.
Our aim is to provide a holistic learning approach, focusing and capturing each child’s learning achievements within our learning environments. Your child’s learning journey is shared through our weekly posts and their individual Monthly Learning Summaries. Families are able to comment on what their child is doing and learning at the centre and also share photos and updates with our educators and teachers.
Log
into Storypark - Day to day sharing - Toileting / Food Intake / Sleep
- Weekly sharing - A summary of the weeks learning highlights
- Individual Monthly Learning Journey - Your child’s engagement and progress across the month
Storypark is used for the following:
- Our emerging Curriculum Wall
- Floor Book
Within the Rooms, we provide:
Our Weekly Post
In each weekly post we share an overall view of what teaching & learning was occurring in the Learning Space throughout the week showing how our intentional teaching supports the holistic development of all children within the learning environment. We share photos on the posts to provide families with a visual representation of learning through play and as a reflection point to share and use as a talking point with their children at home
Our Monthly Learning Journey
Our aim is to provide a holistic learning approach, focusing and capturing each child’s learning achievements within the learning environment. Our team of Educators collaborate and compile meaningful observations each individual child’s learning and development across each day / week. These are shared on Storypark, with hard copy versions available in the Learning Spaces, allowing for both child and family engagement throughout the year
Our Emerging Curriculum Wall
Our Emerging curriculum is a collection comprised of the Weekly Posts, where we put the photos and the documentation on display for the children to be able to see and track their learning journey as it evolves
Our Floor Book
Our floor books are designed to create a balance between intentional teaching, child autonomy and the children being supported to engaged and develop a disposition for lifelong learning. We use photos and documentation from our Emerging Curriculum Wall, scrapbooking collaboratively with the children and reflecting together upon our previous month of learning
