Home Education Learning Record
Record what your child has been learning, add short notes, and export a monthly summary without turning home education into school at home.
What this area is for
- Use Home Education Learning Record to keep a calm, organised picture of what your child has been learning over time.
- The record is designed for examples of learning, parent notes, learner reflections, and progress snapshots rather than formal attendance or school-style tracking.
- You can use it for work completed inside CanDoLearn and for learning that happened away from the screen.
Adding and reviewing records
- Choose Add learning record when you want to enter something manually such as a project, discussion, practical task, or life skills activity.
- Completed CanDoLearn sessions can appear as imported drafts so you can review them, add context, and decide what belongs in the longer-term record.
- Keep entries short. A clear activity title, a few skills practised, and one honest note are enough to make the record useful.
Using notes and reflections well
- Parent notes work best when they describe what helped, what felt tricky, or what improved rather than trying to sound formal.
- Learner reflections can stay short and natural. One sentence about what they liked, found hard, or want to try next is enough.
- Use Suggested next step to capture a gentle next move, not a heavy plan.
Monthly summaries and exports
- Open Export monthly summary to choose the learner, month, and whether to include all records or only key progress examples.
- You can include or leave out parent notes, learner reflections, next steps, and subject breakdown depending on the summary you need.
- Use Print for a clean browser print view, Copy summary text for quick sharing, or Download PDF for a branded summary.
A few good habits
- Aim for small, regular updates rather than trying to record everything at once.
- Mark key progress examples when something shows a genuine step forward in confidence, independence, or understanding.
- Use filters by learner, month, subject, learning type, or confidence level when the record starts to grow.