Starting your Evidence for Learning journey as a parent or carer
Everything you need to understand your child’s learning, see their progress, and feel more connected to their journey at school.
Built from real experiences of families and schools working together using Evidence for Learning.
Join the next live onboarding webinar
This will be an opportunity to meet with the EfL Team and potentially other schools who are just starting their journey with Evidence for Learning.
From seeing learning to understanding your child’s progress
Here’s how schools and families use Evidence for Learning to build a shared understanding and support each child.
- 1. Getting started
Understanding your child’s learning can sometimes feel difficult.
Progress does not always look the same for every child, and it is not always easy to see what happens during the school day.
Without regular, clear communication, it can be hard to feel fully involved or confident in how your child is being supported.
- 4. Impact
As EfL becomes part of everyday practice, families feel more involved.
Parents and carers describe feeling more confident, reassured and able to support their child’s learning at home.
Small steps of progress become easier to see, celebrate and understand.
- 2. Challenges
EfL helps make learning clear and visible.
You can see photos and videos of your child’s learning, understand their progress, and feel more connected to what they are doing at school.
It helps build a shared understanding between you and your child’s school.
- 5. Top Tips
Take time to explore and stay involved.
Look through updates regularly, watch clips of learning, and use them to talk with your child about their day.
Sharing what you notice at home helps build a fuller picture of your child’s learning.
- 3. Benefits
EfL brings clarity to everyday practice.
It helps capture learning beyond written work, linking evidence directly to targets and making small steps of progress visible.
It supports stronger team discussions and helps families feel more connected to learning.
- 6. Next Steps
As confidence grows, EfL becomes part of everyday communication.
Families and schools begin to share learning more regularly, building a stronger partnership around each child.
Over time, this helps ensure your child is supported, understood and able to thrive.
What our parents and carers are saying
Features:
- Work with customised assessment criteria and individualised targets
- Supports individual learning plans, EHCPs, progression frameworks, and accreditation
- Record small and subtle improvements using photos, videos, audio, notes, and judgements, all linked to targets
- Create Assessment Books with your own assessment schemes or widely-used models like MAPP
- Evaluate learning using areas of engagement and generate rich learning journeys instantly
- Share progress with families and carers through a simple app and secure parent portal
- Gain real-time access to valuable insights for you and your stakeholders, based on comprehensive data and evidence collected through Evidence for Learning
Benefits:
- Create a comprehensive picture of learning, well-being, and progress, demonstrating the impact of your curriculum and support while showcasing learner achievements.
- Assess and track progress using any curriculum framework, including custom and EHCP targets, with automatic links between evidence, outcomes, and judgements.
- Use tools for assessing engagement and gain deeper insights into learner needs and effective pedagogy.
- Save time and stay informed for planning, assessment, and learning discussions, while better engaging parents, families, and carers in their child’s development.
- Support multi-agency collaboration with evidence-informed conversations, fostering a culture of inquiry across the school.
- Generate and share data that reflects actual learning and progress in your setting.