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Curriculum
coverage map.

A colour-coded map of how your activities are landing across Montessori areas and the National Curriculum. Tap any area to see exactly which sessions covered it.

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What it shows

‘A suitable education,’ on a single screen.

There is no national curriculum requirement for UK home-ed families, and there is no list of subjects you must tick. What there is, is the Section 7 standard: an efficient, full-time education suitable to age, ability, and aptitude. The coverage map turns the question ‘are we covering enough?’ into something you can look at.

Areas that have had recent activity colour up. Areas that have been quiet stay pale. You decide whether the pale ones are a gap to fill or a season your family is choosing to spend somewhere else. The map reflects what you have logged, not what the app thinks you should be doing.

A way in, not a checklist

A way in. Not a checklist.

Tap any area on the map and the activity log opens already filtered to the activities that covered it. Useful when an LA officer (your local-authority home-education officer) asks for examples in a specific subject. Useful when you're pulling together a year-end review. Useful when you want to remember what a child has been drawn to lately.

The map covers Montessori areas and National Curriculum subjects together, so families that work across both frameworks see one view. Pick the framing that matches how you describe what you do.

Pairs with materials

Pairs with materials and presentations.

Montessori families can record what is on the shelf, what is in rotation, what is stored, and what has been retired. The presentations checklist tracks what each child has been shown and what is ahead. The Five Great Lessons get a small ticked record on each child's profile, so the second one does not silently never happen because nobody wrote down whether the first one already had.

Reading and free play

Reading and free play.

Reading sits on the reading log: pull a tidy list of titles and authors as a CSV when you want it alongside your council report. Free play and child-led work get captured through Quick Observe, and a quiet afternoon does not vanish from your notes.

In the app

How it sits inside Willowfolio.

Five surfaces. The map is the view, the others are the underlying records that colour it in.

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  • Curriculum · Heatmap tab

    Coverage map

    Colour-coded map across Montessori areas and the National Curriculum. Tap an area to jump to the activities that covered it.

  • Materials · All Materials tab

    Material library

    Record Montessori materials with area, age range, condition, and shelf status (on shelf, in rotation, stored, retired).

  • Materials · default view

    What's on the shelf

    A focused view of what is currently on the shelf, grouped by Montessori area, with a plane-aware nudge that surfaces stored materials your child is ready for.

  • Activity log + Materials

    Link a material to a log

    Tag activity logs as presentations against a material from your shelf. The log doubles as a presentation chip, the material's row tells you how many activities have used it.

  • Each child's profile page

    Great Lessons tracking

    Mark which of the Five Great Lessons each child has been told, and when.

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Common questions

The things families ask first.

Will the map tell me my child is behind?
No. There are no targets, no benchmarks, no red flags. The map shows what you've touched and what you haven't, and you decide which of those is a choice and which is a gap. If you want to fill one, the suggested-activities tab is one path in, the materials library is another.
Do I have to use both Montessori and National Curriculum framing?
No. Pick the one that matches how you describe what you do. The map renders both, but you can read it as a Montessori-only view or a National-Curriculum-only view depending on what you log against.
What about reading and free play?
Reading sits on the reading log, you can export a tidy CSV of titles, authors, and dates to attach alongside the report. Free play and child-led work get captured through Quick Observe and sit alongside activities in your records, where you can tag them against whichever Montessori area or subject the work touched.
Does it work without a Montessori background?
Yes. Most families using Willowfolio aren't AMI-trained. The materials library and presentations checklist are built so you can pick them up without a 9-month course.

Try it with real data

See your year as a coverage map.

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