My EYFS Learning Journey

Here is a picture of me:

EYFS 2012 Child’s Learning Journey

How this Learning Journey works

This Child’s learning journey is the first stage of the EYFS Circle and feeds into child’s Observation, assessment & planning record developed in stage two.

Use one learning journey for each child in your care.

All about me section

This contains four pages, ‘All about me’, ‘My family’, ‘What I like to eat and drink’ and ‘Things I like to do’.

You can either ask the child’s parents/carers to complete this section, or you can fill it in with the child when you first start caring for them. As some of the information is likely to change over a period of time, if a child is old enough, a good activity could be to update these pages with the child taking the lead.

Learning stories section

The second section contains ‘Learning Story’ sheets; these are sheets for recording information about specific activities that you undertake with the children. You can add a photo of the activity, the outcome of the activity, ideas for follow-on activities and how the story links with the EYFS seven areas of learning & development. There is also space for the child and parents/carers to comment on the story. Filling out a story sheet for each activity would create too much paperwork, just focus on activities that are relevant.

Observations section

Here there is space for you to write observations as and when you see them or are told about them happening away from your setting. Make the observation more relevant by highlighting which of the seven areas of learning and development it relates to.

These observations are used to feed into the observation boxes in the child’s Observation, assessment & planning record.

Fun stuff section

Finally there is a section for you to add any fun stuff the child has been doing.

All about me!

My name is

My date of birth is

My home language is

Other childminders / playgroups / nurseries or schools I attend

What I like to do with my family

My special friends are

Special times I celebrate

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My family

This is a picture of my family

Stick a picture of my family

here please

Here is a bit of information about my family (and my pets if I have any):

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What I like to eat and drink

There are lots of things that I like to eat and drink and a few things I am not so keen on…

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What I like to do

There are lots of activities that I like to do and things that make me happy but there are also a few things I am not so keen on…

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Learning Story

Overview of activity:

Age:Date:

What was noticed / Ideas for next story
Parent’s /Carer’s voice / Child’s voice