Enable the correct framework/curriculum:
Curriculum for Excellence, Realising the Ambition: Being Me, and Getting It Right For Every Child are currently available on Blossom.
To ensure you have the correct frameworks enabled, follow these steps:
More > Settings > Learning > Curriculums > toggle on the frameworks that you wish to use.
Add a child's starting point:
Click Children > Child > Learning Journey > Framework > select 'Curriculum for Excellence' or 'Realising the Ambition: Being Me'.
You will see a framework below with statements relevant to the area of learning selected in the dropdown menu.
Record a child's progress:
Click each statement > select progress level > Save.
You can record a child's progress based on the following stages:
Starting Point: By marking a statement as a Starting Point on Blossom, this means the child has secured this statement.
i.e. Joe Smith is 9 months old and is sitting up independently on this first settling in session with mum. In my professional opinion, Joe has secured this statement. Therefore, I am confident to mark it off as a Starting Point.
Emerging: By selecting Emerging, you are recording that perhaps the child has carried out this statement in their settling in period, but they may not be secure.
i.e. Joe Smith is 9 months old and appears to be sitting up independently, but as it’s only the first settling in session with mum, I can not confidently say Joe is secure in my professional opinion.
📌Always refer back to your nursery processes to determine how you want staff to interpret these progress levels.
After your settling in period, you can create a Starting Point formative report. This will be the first report that appears in your Cohort Tracking.
Formative Reports > + Create > Term: Starting Point > input period of time you are assessing > Type of report: Formative report > Create Report.
📌If you have linked statements to Curriculum for Excellence, completed statements and statements being worked on will pull through to the formative report. If you have linked statements to Realising the Ambition: Being Me, statements will not pull through to formative reports in accordance with framework guidance.