Please look out for this letter and your child’s QR code coming home today:
Dear Reception Parents and Carers,
As you know, we collect observations of your child throughout the day as they play and learn in our Reception class here at St. Matthew’s.
These observations help us to build up a profile of their learning and development across the 17 areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile.
We currently use an app called Seesaw to collect and file these observations. Every half term, we plan to enable parental access to this app so that you can find out more about what your child has been doing at school.
We are sending home a QR code that is unique to your child’s Seesaw profile. Please follow the included instructions to create a Seesaw account and view your child’s observations online.
Please note:
- Seesaw access will only be open from Saturday 21st October until Sunday 29th October (i.e. during half-term).
- Seesaw will be open again during parent’s evenings as well as during each half term and over the Christmas and Easter breaks.
- At the end of the year, you will be invited to download a zip file of your child’s profile.
- Any photos within your child’s profile that include other children from our class must never be reposted or shared on any social media account – thank you for your understanding!
- Finally, we welcome your feedback and would encourage you to add comments to your child’s observations on Seesaw (for example, you could add to an observation if you child has followed up on their learning at home perhaps through a conversation with you or something they made or wrote).
Do feel free to ask if you have any further questions.
Kind regards,
Miss Cronin
Thank you for all your work in capturing each child’s work and learning journey at school. It is a delight to see inside their world … most parents don’t know what thrift children get up to each day so this is helpful to understand that they really are developing and learning loads each day.
Fab! Ranga and I both really enjoyed looking at these updates about his school life. Given that he says “Fine” everytime I ask how school was, I was blessed to get insight into his development and what happens daily. He was tickled at the pictures and descriptions. How nice of you to capture all this for us.