We buy into a programme called 'Learning Journals' that enables us to share photographs and stories about children's learning with parents. Staff also write a 'spotlight' for each child, that captures progress and development, approximately every six months, which again, is shared with parents.  Twice a year, staff meet with parents/carers to chat to parents and carers about how their child is doing in nursery, what they've been involved in and what we're working on next.   

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In addition to this, children's work is portrayed on the walls in nursery, captured and documented to tell the stories of learning. This might be documentation of a group of children, or sometimes the learning of just one child. We want everyone who walks through our door, whether that be a parent, grandparent, member of the community, colleague, visitor or Ofsted inspector, to very quickly understand what goes on here and the kind of learning we promote and value in all our children.

 

The reflections for the staff incorporated into the work will highlight the learning, so that every reader can see and appreciate what happens in our school and how we support children's curiosities, questions, lines of enquiry, discoveries, knowledge, vocabulary and expertise. Our walls speak and hopefully shout out the learning to every interested observer and reader who wants to find out about the way we work.  ​