🌏 Children's Learning Journey scrapbooks.

🌏 Children's Learning Journey scrapbooks.  
The Children's learning journey scrapbooks are needed for each individual child.

It HIGHLIGHTS the Children's learning and development.

It is a way to collate visual evidence of each child's achievements and learning that links to their individual goals throughout the year. 

Children's learning journey scrapbooks need to be accessible to all children and families as it will ensure that children's voices (verbal and non-verbal) are heard and documented in a way that children can see, contribute to as well as understand.
It is a form of reflecting and a way to observe/document that can be linked to the active planning that is happening through group and individual learning. 

Children's Learning Journey scrapbooks offer the opportunity for parents to see their child’s developmental progress in action and gain an understanding of what their child’s experiences are away from home, families are able to provide feedback on the Learning journey scrapbooks. 

This is a way that supports sustainability practices to minimise the use of paper. 

🔆 How/What are they used for?

• They will include children's art work. 
• You can include the '1st day in the room' online observation into the learning scrapbook. 
• To empower children to take lead of their own learning and be able to reflect back. 
• The children can create learning directly in their Learning Journey scrapbooks and not need other paper.
• Supports Woodlands sustainable Philosophy to minimise the usage of paper. 
• Children being supported to appreciate, be proud of and care for their creativity. 
  
• To capture each child's learning interests. 
• You can only print out learning from Playground if you find that it links to the learning that is in the child's learning journey scrapbooks. However, the learning journey scrapbooks are not to be filled with Playground print outs. 
• You are able to have the children's Summative Assessments in there. 

Visual guide on children's learning journey scrapbooks: https://stonly.com/sl/3c524139-db2f-4afc-943b-1e27d1ee998c/Steps/ 

It is a way for children to engage in reflective thinking about their learning experiences, both verbally and non verbally, as well as providing the necessary evidence that supports all developmental documents that link directly to the child’s interest and goals. They can be used as a a reflective tool of children's learning that clarifies where their learning is going, what is the children creating through their interests. 

❌ What will it NOT include?

• Excessive learning printed out directly from Playground, families have access to playground. The scrap books are for children to have direct access to their own learning as it is unfolding, as well as families being able to come in and see their child/ren's learning when they want to.
• An over load of written documentation- remember this is for the child.
• The families cannot take it home for excessive periods of time, we don't want it lost or never returned.