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Assessing your children's success
Key person and your child
Our setting uses a key person approach. This means that each member of staff has a group of children for whom she/he is particularly responsible. Your child’s key person will be the person who works with you to make sure that what we provide is right for your child’s particular needs and interests. When your child first starts at the setting, she/he will help your child to settle and throughout your child’s time at the setting, she/he will help your child to benefit from the setting’s activities.
Assessment
We assess how young children are learning and developing by observing them frequently. We use information we gain from observations as well as photographs or videos of the children, to document their progress and where this may be leading them. We believe that parents know their children best and we ask them to contribute to assessment by sharing information about what their children like to do at home and how they as parents are supporting development.
These assessments form part of the children’s record of achievement and these records, with parental permission are passed on at times of transition, such as when a child moves to a different group or when they go on to school.
Records of achievement
The setting keeps a record of achievement for each child. Staff and parents working together on their children’s records of achievement is one of the ways in which the key person and parents work in partnership. Your child’s record of achievement helps us to celebrate together his/her achievements and to work together to provide what your child needs for his/her well-being to make progress.
Your child’s key person will work with you to keep this record. To do this you and he/she will collect information about your child’s needs, activities, interests, and achievements. We also have a diary system which is shared between home and pre-school and allows for a two-way flow of information. Your child’s key person will discuss your child’s diary with you on your pre-arranged visits.