green hippo Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Hi all, Just thought I would start a discussion (if anyone is interested) on the use of the learning journey sheets from the EYFS - what are people's experience of using these now we're 1/2 a term in? How do you use them? Currently we are doing 4 per week (2 each from key group) - which means 1 per half term per child. We use these and other incidental obs from the week (and previous weeks) to plan 1 or 2 activities/enhancements/support for these children - making sure the activities/enhancements will also appeal to others. I would also be interested in hearing from people who do individual plans for each area of learning - this seems mind boggling even thinking about it to me? We plan our other activities and enhancements from other observations of all children and also fit some within our theme which tends to last 2-3weeks and is child-led. My only real concern about using the learning journey sheets in this way is that you might always end up covering the same area of learning everytime you do this for a child? green hippo xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlettangel Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Not sure what you mean by learning journey sheets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green hippo Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 They are the sheets for recording long observations on - have a section for what happened, learning, child's response, and next step for key person and parent. They are on the EYFS website. green hippo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Hi green hippo, we use the sheets too. It sounds like we do the same as you with regards observations and planning. I also use a summary sheet per child with columns for the six areas of learning across the top to tick off when we have done an observation in that area. This shows,over time, which area of learning hasn't been observed so you can decide if it's because the child doesn't access that particular area or if you missed an observation of the child in that area. We don't do 6 individual plans (one for every area of learning)because one activity will always cover several areas of learning anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louby loo Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 we do one learning jouney sheet per half-term, if I child attends a different setting we send them a copy - this is what we locally have agreed to be our 'sharing of information' between settings. xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Hi all,Just thought I would start a discussion (if anyone is interested) on the use of the learning journey sheets from the EYFS - what are people's experience of using these now we're 1/2 a term in? How do you use them? Currently we are doing 4 per week (2 each from key group) - which means 1 per half term per child. We use these and other incidental obs from the week (and previous weeks) to plan 1 or 2 activities/enhancements/support for these children - making sure the activities/enhancements will also appeal to others. I would also be interested in hearing from people who do individual plans for each area of learning - this seems mind boggling even thinking about it to me? We plan our other activities and enhancements from other observations of all children and also fit some within our theme which tends to last 2-3weeks and is child-led. My only real concern about using the learning journey sheets in this way is that you might always end up covering the same area of learning everytime you do this for a child? green hippo xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 We use them after we have done an observation then we add a picture to back up the childs next steps, not sure if this is the right way but I'm finding that I'm spending all day writing and observing and not having the time to interact with the children. Can anyone else out there relate to my experience of this EYFS ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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