Grass Roots Early Years Provision

​At Grass Roots Private Day Nursery we are always assessing our practice and looking at how we can improve and have taken the decision to use online learning journeys. These are made up of the information, observations and photos that the team gather for each child. All of this information helps us to assess the children’s learning and development and plan appropriately for each child. Traditionally these individual records have been collected in scrapbooks or binders, building up into a treasured memoir that children can take with them when they leave for the next stages of their journey.

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We started to look at how technology can help and discovered a system Famly. Famly is an online nursery management programme which allows Grass Roots to keep online learning journal as well as care diaries, invoicing and messaging the staff working in your children's rooms. This system is hosted on secure servers.  We use tablets to instantly produce the information we require to support each child.

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Each observation we make will be done directly onto the app and linked into your child’s personal profile. These observations can include notes, photographs and EYFS assessments, characteristics of learning and videos. They can be enhanced by comments from other staff and parents, and each page appears in a pleasing and coherent way. You will be able to view the complete set of observations as a learning journey, flipping through your single child's observation pages, in time-order, or filtering in flexible ways to access your favourite records. 

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Each child's journey can have individual accounts set up for parents and relatives to access. Parents can comment on new entries and even add their own. We thought that this part of the program was particularly good. You will be able to access what your child has been doing at nursery. You will receive automatic emails generated for parents when new entries are made. These records will also help us make assessments of your children to ensure their learning and development is being met correctly. Then finally, when your child is ready to leave or move to their next journey, we will convert to PDF and send to parents.

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