Child learning documentation monitoring

Planning, monitoring, assessing, reflecting and documentation of a child’s learning is critical in early childhood. This provides the foundation to be able to make informed decisions and influences, promotes and enriches children’s holistic learning and development.

This document is a good opportunity to track and document the individual documentation for each child.

The month can have either a code for the type of documentation or can be a simple tick to ensure you have gathered documentation for that month.

This can also be done as much as quarterly to ensure you are meeting requirements and have a variety of documentation for each child.

A half yearly overview of a child’s learning is good practice to ensure their learning and development needs are being met and to acknowledge their progress. This can be shared with the family.

By utilizing a sheet such as this example will assist in ensuring all children have sufficient documentation.

A child should have at least 6- 8 pieces of documentation for a 12 month period. If a child attends 5 days per week clearly they would have more than a child who attends one day a week but the 6-8 pieces is a recommended minimum required for regulation documentation purposes.

• Developmental checklist
• Learning story
• Art work sample
• Pic collage
• Photos
• Individual information sheets such as ‘all about me’, ‘my favourite things’, etc

The way to track is as simple as a document with each child’s name for the room and the month’s in a table and then to take a tally each month during planning to ensure you have documentation for each child. It is a simple and easy way to keep track.