The staff at my daughter’s nursery spend a lot of time compiling observation books for each of the children. They’re crammed full of photographs, comments, Post-It notes and drawings, but I wonder what’s the actual purpose of them?
We have kept DD1’s (Dear Daughter 1) Learning Journey since she left nursery to go to school and have a folder that her childminder put together. Then we were recently given DD2’s Learning Journey because the book was full, so my husband and I spent a lovely evening looking through them, reminiscing and comparing our daughters at different stages. The girls both really enjoyed looking through them too.
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