Buckstone Nursery Class

EjournalYour child’s learning portfolio

Aims of the session• Explain the purpose of PLPs • Introduce the new Ejournals• How you can access the Ejournals• What you can expect to see• Questions • Opportunity to see examples of

numeracy and literacy group activities

PLPPersonal Learning

Portfolio• A home / school partnership • An ongoing record of your

child’s learning and development

• Planning of Next Steps• Not a photo album• Record of your child’s

significant progress in each area of CfE

• A recognition of the interests and wider achievements of the child

• A transition document for P1 reflecting the Early Level of CfE

What are we doing now?

Easy, Online Learning Journals

What does this mean to you?• The purpose of the portfolios haven’t

changed since introducing Ejournals.

• Different - you can log in and see the latest observations that have been made and comment on them at anytime.

• The home achievement sheets will not be in the new format at this time and some of the all about me pages.

• We plan to introduce news time

Newstime

• On a weekly basis we will share news/achievements from home

• Staff will also share things they have seen at this point

• We will make sure that at some point every child will have something mentioned

If you complete the slips of paper and post in the box.

How does it work

Log in details

Enter your user name and password

Enter your pin number

You will only be able to access information on your child

What will you see when you log in

Security• Every account is set up on it's own sub-

domain of yourlearningjournals.co.uk, meaning to login you will have to go to

• nurseryname.yourlearningjournals.co.uk.

• Each subdomain has its own TLS certificate. These let web browsers know that the site is protected by encryption to provide security.

• In addition to this every user account can only be access with 2 forms of authentication, a password and PIN number.

Information taken from Learning Journals user manual

Numeracy & Mathematics

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Puzzles

Comparing

Shape

Numeracy & Mathematics

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Number line

Computer number games

Counting

Numeracy & Mathematics Focus

• Numeracy and mathematics group time

• Numbers all around us in and out of doors and exploring number sequences and quantities

• Through daily routines e.g. snack, line up

• Exploring time and seasons

Number is fun!

• Numbers all around – be a number spotter

• Writing numbers• Using numbers• Money, money, money• Don’t forget zero• Helpful fingers

Listening & Talking

Role Play

Problem Solving

Whole class

discussion

Listening to and following instructions

Reading and Writing

Mark Making

Scribing

Identifying letters and

sounds

Independent

writing

Literacy Focus

• Literacy Group time• Wow word of the week • Book of the week • Sound of the week• Rhyme in all context

Reading is fun!• Sharing books• Don’t forget Nursery Rhymes• Letters and sounds• Not just books – print all around us

Writing is fun!• All sorts of writing materials• Drawing• Be a good model – let them share our

writing• What is writing? Handwriting plus being

able to put ideas and information on paper

• What about spelling?

Big Thank You

Please spend some time looking at the literacy and numeracy

resources that we use in nursery and at group time.

Post its are available for you to give us your feedback on this session