Child notes demonstrate the planning cycle and encourage reflective, intentional practice by enabling stories/documentation to be linked to goals, opportunities, milestones, aspirations or 'where to from here' statements. This can evidence the implementation of specific goals/ideas in both a formative and summative way.

Within a child note, stories can also be linked together, enabling continuity and observation of the learning journey. This provides educators with another way of observing, analysing and supporting children's progression over time.

Here are a few different ways you could use child notes:

Child notes are private between that child’s admin family members (usually a child's parents) and the teachers at an early learning service. Unlike stories, they are not visible to any other invited family members, and will only appear on a child’s ‘Child notes’ page.

A child's notes area is found on each child's profile and can include text, attached documents, embedded video, embedded images, links to stories, links to notes, and comments.

You can add categories to notes to allow easy filtering of different note types. All services start with a base set of categories but you can then edit and add your own categories. You could, for example change the 'Goal' category to 'Aspirations'.
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​📝 Other articles you may be interested in:
​Create a child note
​Edit or delete a child note
​Child note categories (for educators)
​Linking stories and child notes (for educators)
​View child notes on the Storypark for Families app (for families)
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