Recall is a key learning strategy. Discuss these pictures with your child. What do they remember?

Recall is a key learning strategy. Discuss these pictures with your child. What do they remember?

Fifty things to do before your'e 5

Tapestry is a secure online learning journal. Both settings and parents can upload and access a child's profile. At CGPS we use Tapestry in Pre-School and Reception to share "wow" moments. We also encourage parents to share things they have done at home as this provides good talking points for children when at school.

In 2021, the EYFS statutory requirements were changed to ensure adult time was spent with the children in the setting rather than on paperwork.

The Statutory Framework states the following 2 points:

• "Practitioners should keep parents and/or carers up to date with their child’s progress and development"  and
• "Ongoing assessment (also known as formative assessment) is an integral part of the learning and development process. It involves practitioners understanding children’s interests and what they know and can do, and then shaping teaching and learning experiences for each child reflecting that knowledge. In their interactions with children, practitioners should make and act on their own day-to-day observations about children’s progress and observations that parents and carers share. However, there is no requirement to keep written records in relation to this."

At CGPS we prefer to keep parents up to date verbally. This may be at pick up or drop off in a short conversation about something that has happened during the day or during one of our termly parent's meetings. We also provide parents with an end of year report.

Ongoing assessment is done in a variety of ways in Pre School. Each adult observes their key children within play, independent tasks (such as dressing/putting on coats) and within adult led activities. From here, key workers will tailor some interactions throughout the day to focus on the child's next steps. Where there are a number of children working on the same next step, there may be group activities planned to support this area of learning as well as some structured tabletop activities that children can do independently and adapt in their own way.

Where possible, we will upload the moment of achievement to Tapestry however, we may share this with you in other ways such as sending home a piece of work or telling you at collection.