Emily

Emily’s Learning
Journal

Stars
Group

Elderbank Early Years

Settling back into Early Years and having fun, welcome back Emily

Emily She particularly
enjoys likes drawing
playing pictures for her
outside on mummy.
the bikes.

Emily is in
the Stars

Group

Date: September 2020

Child’s Plan

I would like to I am learning to take
learn about ... responsibility for and
begin to plan my own
learning. As part of my
PLP targets I identified
that I wanted to draw

pictures.

Happy with plan

Drawing

Viewed on Seesaw. 11/09/2020

Date: 17.09.2020

Outside
playing on

the bike

Dinosaur
dance 

Bundle 12/1 Splashing
Emily is learning to talk about how energetic activities make in the
puddle
her feel.
Date: September 2020

A plane

Banged
the

drum 

the
toilet 

Bundle 2/1
Emily is learning to listen and discriminate sounds in the

environment.

Date: September 2020

12345, 54321




Bundle 2/3 4
Emily is learning to become number confident counting to

5 forwards and backwards.

Playing
hide and

seek 
Date: October 2020

I’m 4

Happy birthday Emily
from all of your

friends at nursery



I love your star
glasses Emily

Emily’s interests It’s a love
heart

My
name 

Painting

Emily enjoys creating lovely pictures. She is beginning to
experiment with writing and create representative letters.

Date: October 2020

Emily is the Star Helper ⭐ I’m the
star

helper 

It’s windy 

Date: October 2020

When we go down to the woods...

Emily enjoyed having her
snack under the shelter
and then she collected

some Autumn leaves.

Date: October 2020

Concentrating and engaged in my I was the
learning witch

Date: October 2020 Looking at the
shapes 

Building relationships

I was helping
Riley

Date: October 2020

Emily participated in our Autumn Treasure
Hunt challenge to help raise funds for our
nursery. She collected all of the items on

her list and donated £60. Well done Emily
⭐

I got an
apple.

October 2020

I’m Minnie
Mouse

Playing outside Playing outside

Emily enjoys outdoor play

I’m on the bike.

Date: November 2020

My socks 

Fantastic friends

Decorating the 2020
Christmas tree
I was making a
snowman 

2020

Emily had a great
time at her

Christmas party.
She enjoyed all

the party games
and dancing with

her friends.

93.88 Evaluation of Learning Plan
%
Emily has settled well into our new
Really happy with Emily’s progress. nursery routines this term. She enjoys
our outdoor learning environment and
exploring in our extended wooded area.
Emily is beginning to experiment with

writing to create representative
letters.⭐

Discussed with mum. 11.1.2021
19.01.2021

Date: January 2021

Child’s Plan

I would like to learn ...

Happy with plan.

I am learning to take responsibility for and
begin to plan my own learning. As part of my
PLP targets I identified that I wanted to do

some writing.

Discussed with mum. 11.1.2021 Date: February 2021
19.1.2021

Ice Challenge I was
throwing 
Our first home
learning challenge
was to make some
ice then help rescue
the animals that

are frozen.

Date: January 2021 Bundle 11/3
Emily is learning to throw and catch a ball with both both

hands.

Date: February 2021

Cleaning
the oor

fl
That’s Pringles  McDonalds

Bundle 10/2
Emily is learning to recognise
signs, labels and logos in her

environment.

Date: February 2021

Emily made a beautiful necklace at Emily identified
home, she was sorting then threading the shapes to

lots of colourful beads. colour a
beautiful boat

picture.

Emily went on a
number hunt
around her
house and
found lots of
numbers.

Date: February 2021

5
That’s 3 

Bundle 2/4 Date: February 2021
Emily is learning to recognise regular dot patterns without

counting.

Emily is the Star Helper ⭐ Emily’s interests

I’m writing my
name. 

Emily enjoys creating lovely
pictures and playing outside

with her friends.

Date: February 2021 Date: February 2021

When we go down to the woods...

I’m looking through the
binoculars.

It’s a beetle 

Emily is on the look out for mini beasts
She even made her own magnifying glass from natural resources.

⭐

Date: March 2021

Happy with progress Evaluation of Learning Plan

Learning plan extended due to lockdown
restrictions. Emily enjoyed her hub

placement at the start of the term and had
fun taking part in learning activities while
at home, it has been fantastic to see some
of the photographs and videos of Emily
being busy and happy. Emily is happy to be
back at nursery and playing with her
friends again, she especially likes exploring
down at the woods. Emily enjoys creating
lovely pictures and can write her own name
and just recently she can copy other names
too. ⭐

Shared on Seesaw. May 2021 Date: May 2021
May 2021

Planting
seeds 

Bundle 17 Emily enjoyed
Emily is learning about plants and what they need to live and planting some
sunflower seeds.
grow. We are planting
butter beans to
Date: May 2021 watch them grow

too.

Milestones I’m looking through
the diamond
That’s a number 8
1,2,3,4....

Date: June 2021 Emily is learning to describe some features and properties of
shapes during play. e.g. straight, curved, corner and edge.
Emily is learning to recognise the difference between letters and
numbers. She can recognise familiar letters in the alphabet. Date: May 2021

Emily enjoyed visiting primary one, she met her new class teacher Mrs
Cook.

Working hard and having fun at Elderbank Early Years. ⭐

Evaluation of Learning Good Luck and enjoy the next
chapter of your learning
Emily is enjoying our walk to the woods, she
likes to explore her environment and has lots journey into primary 1 Emily.
⭐
of fun playing on the tree swing. Emily has
been busy learning about plants and what they







need to live and grow and she has planted
some sunflower seeds and butter beans.

Emily is learning to recognise the difference
between letters and numbers, she can

recognise familiar letters in the alphabet.
Emily embraces any art activity and has very
good fine motor control, she has created some

lovely pictures to take home.
Emily enjoyed visiting her new class teacher
Mrs Cook and the Primary 1 environment as

part of her transition.
She has worked so hard during a very
different and challenging year due to Covid

restrictions.
I will miss her chat in our Stars Group.

Good luck Emily ⭐

Date: June 2021