Creating a manageable system for making children's learning visible

Documenting children’s learning is important for several reasons. It should be a resource for teachers, assessment information should be used to inform curriculum design and make visible children’s learning progress to families. Different purposes and audiences can present challenges and we often end up with unmanageable systems or just recording information without thinking about its purpose and whether it is making a difference. In addition, many find narrative writing time consuming and/or just hard and have got to a point where documentation is just being pumped out because “we have to do it”.