Lochlan

Lochlan’s Learning
Journal

Semi Circle Group
Ante-pre Year

Baseline Assessment

Baseline settling in journey

Date 30th
August 2021

PLP September 2021

H&W-Bundle 3- I play co-
operatively share with others
and take turns.

Literacy and English - Bundle
5- I listen and talk in a small
group.

Numeracy and Maths-
Bundle 2 - Touch and count
a set of objects using 1-1
correspondence to 5.

Personal Plan

For my own personal
learning target I
wanted to learn to
make my own dough.

I made red dough 

Bundle 2 Health and Wellbeing
Date 23/09/21

I can play cooperatively, share and take turns

Lochlan has been joining in
with his friends sharing lots
of resources. He shows
wonderful waiting and turn
taking.

Bundle 2 Health and Wellbeing
Date 26/10/21
I can play
cooperatively,
share and take
turns

Lochlan shows wonderful
turn taking and sharing
skills. He was waiting for
his turn at the football
and sharing the bike with
his friends. Indoors he
shares all the resources
with no adult prompting.

Bundle 5 Literacy

Date 30/09/21
I can listen and talk in a small group.

Lochlan showed super
concentration skills
when listening to the
story.

Lochlan listening to Miss
Macnamara at grouptime.

Bundle 5 Literacy
Date 02/11/21
I can listen and talk in a small group.

There’s my halloween .I
was a Police man 

Lochlan was showing
super listening skills
during group time and
at the Halloween
party.

Numeracy

1,2,3 

Lochlan is getting lots of opportunities
to reinforce his counting skills to 3, he
is rote counting to 5 with adult support.

Bundle 2
Date 26/10/21
I can touch and count a set of objects to 3 using 1:1
correspondence.

Happy
Halloween There’s my halloween .

I was a Police man 

Autumn in the Woods.

That’s the woods,
I’m on a swing . 

Christmas Time It’s Christmas Time.  You get chocolate
in there. 

Santa was there. There’s me
. He gave you my present
and you gave me my
present. 

PLP Evaluation December 2021

Lochlan loves the company of his
friends . He likes mark making and is
often at the writing table. He loves
using the dough and water play. He
loves drawing and will make at least
one picture a day to put in his bag.
Lochlan has loved visiting the woods
and exploring and climbing. He
enjoyed the walk to the local park .
His listening and attention skills are
really developing and he is joining in
more often at group time. He is
practicing rote count to 10.

PLP January 2022

For Lochlan’s targets he will be given
lots of opportunity to be independent
in his dressing. He will be encouraged
to put on his own jackets, outdoor
clothes shoes and wellies. For his
literacy outcome he will be given lots
of chances to look at books, listen to
story and act out story to enhance his
understanding of story and who, why,
where questions. During his numeracy
challenges he will have lots of
experiences finding and making
patterns in the classroom. For his
own personal plan he told me he
wanted to build a house at the blocks.

Personal Plan

For my own learning
I wanted to build a
house with the
blocks.

I build a bridge for
the cars to go on.
And I made a road . 

Bundle 11 Health and Wellbeing

Date 10/03/22
I can manage shoes, jackets and some
fastenings independently.

Lochlan had great fun making Lochlan enjoyed a visit from the
pancakes.they he ate them all Primary 1class to read lots of
up for snack. Delicious stories for World Book Day.

Lochlan has been
enjoying playing in
the snow when we
have had lots of
snowfall in the
garden.



Bundle 4 Literacy
Date 03/03/22
I can listen to who, what
where and how questions.

Lochlan could chat confidently about the pictures in
the books. He could answers who, why, what and
where questions with lovely answers.

Lochlan has really embraced You can’t catch me ,run run as fast as
the story of The you can.  You can’t catch me I’m a
Gingerbread Man. He can use gingerbread man 
props to tell who was first,
what the gingerbread man
said, where the gingerbread
man went what the fox did.
Fantastic understanding of
the whole story.

Bundle 13 Literacy
I mark make with greater control.
10/03/22

I did a big
circle
rainbow

A road and a It’s another rainbow
dinosaur so again with colours on it.
somebody can go
and see a dinosaur.

Numeracy

A banana , an apples, a
banana , an apple. I want

to do patterns  again. 

Lochlan has had many opportunities to explore pattern Bundle 7
making. He can continue a colour pattern, a size Date 03/03/22
pattern and a funny fruity pattern at the snack area. I am able to
He was also continuing a pattern by himself. copy a simple
pattern.

PLP Evaluation March 2022

Lochlan has achieved all his targets
this term. He is so confident getting
ready at home time and when he is
going outdoors. He has really enjoyed
listening to the stories we have had,
especially The Gingerbread Man which
he can retell from start to finish. He
has a firm grasp of pattern and can
continue and make up his own.
Lochlan has enjoyed lots of outdoor
learning this term and really enjoyed
the snowy weather. He has enjoyed
using the new blocks and can build
great dens and structures. Lochlan
enjoys playing in the home corner and
makes lovely meals and drinks for his
friends.

PLP April 2022

For Lochlans personal targets he will be
introduced to life cycles and we will chat
about various life cycles of chickens,
butterflies and frogs. We will chat about
babies and flowers and tree and other life
cycles we discover. For his literacy targets I
will give him lots of opportunity to develop
his fine motor control and hand
coordination. He will have access to scissors,
drawing materials, pincers and threading
experiences . During his numeracy
experiences we will work within the numbers
1 to 5 and reiterate 1:1 correspondence. We
will match numerals and begin to recognise
them . For Lochlans own plans he said he
wanted to make dinner for his friends in the
house corner.

Personal Plan

For my personal learning target I said I
wanted to make dinner for my friends.

Health and Wellbeing

Bundle 17
Date 26/04/22
I am learning
about life cycles

Lochlan was looking at the life cycle of a chicken,
from egg to chick to hen. He then made his own
life cycle picture.

Health and Wellbeing The wee caterpillars
 turn into a butterfly 
The caterpillar
turns in to a
butterfly.

There was 5
butterflies 

Bundle 17
Date 03/05/22
I am learning about life
cycles

Spring fun in the Woods.

Jubilee shorts and shades party.

Literacy Bundle 11
Date 26/04/22
I can use small
tools effectively

You can cut the paper
you put your fingers in

the holes here. 

Numeracy

Lochlan was counting out 5
dinosaurs 1,2,3,4,5 he was
then matching the numerals
too.

Bundle 2
Date 26/04/22
I am number confident forwards to
5.

Numeracy Bundle 2
Date 26/04/22
I am number confident
forwards to 5.

Lochlan was
really interested
in continuing his
matching game
and found other
number toys
that match. He
then began to
count the
bubbles on the
fish game.

PLP Evaluation June 2022

Lochlan has achieved all his targets
this term. For his Health and Well-
being target we looked at various life
cycles. We looked more closely at the
frog and butterfly. Lochlan liked
looking at the caterpillars in class
during the stages of change. For his
literacy targets he was given lots of
opportunity to develop his fine motor
control threading, cutting, lacing and
drawing. He is showing a deeper
understanding of amount and counting,
he is matching numerals consistently
and is beginning to recognise a few.
He has enjoyed visits to the woods and
outdoor play. He is showing lovely
imagination and leads lots of play in
class.

Lochlan, I am so proud of all your
achievements this year. I hope you have
a fabulous summer and can’t wait to see

you after the holidays.