Feature · Progress
A child’s year,
kept lightly.
A Progress report for you and a co-parent, a Learning Journal as a keepsake, and a Portfolio of the moments worth keeping, all drafted from what you have already logged.
~ the story comes first, the numbers sit small
Why it exists
The year is the story, not the spreadsheet.
A home-ed year is hundreds of small decisions, the wet morning that turned into baking, the page they kept turning back to. A reflective summary, shaped around your child, holds the shape of the year you actually lived.
The Progress report is for you and a co-parent. The Learning Journal is the keepsake your child can read back later. The Portfolio is the curated shelf behind both.
In the app
How it sits inside Willowfolio.
Four surfaces, one shape. Each one reads from your activity log, observations, and the moments you starred along the way, so the year has somewhere to gather without you writing it twice.
Reports · type Progress
Progress report
Opens with a warm observation about your child by name, a soft summary of where their work has clustered, and the moments worth noticing. The numbers sit in a small footer rather than at the top, because the story comes first.
Reports · type Journal
Learning Journal
A small A5 keepsake. It opens with a soft hexagonal bloom of where their work has clustered, then walks chronologically through observations, activity notes, and your child's own words, including the work they considered and set aside.
Portfolio
Portfolio of starred moments
The curated shelf, drawn from anything you have starred on an activity or observation. The app also auto-suggests entries where your child showed deep focus, high repetition, or Stage 3 recall, so the quiet wins are not missed.
Children · child profile
Child profile
A quiet picture of one child. Their plane, Key Stage, normalisation trends, child-initiated work ratio, and the Great Lessons they have heard. Not the family view, just them.
Common questions
The things families ask first.
- Who is the Progress report for?
- You and a co-parent, mostly. It is the gentler cousin of the Council report, written so two adults can sit with a cup of tea and read where a child has been over a term. Share it with a tutor or grandparent if that helps; it is not a Local Authority document.
- Is the Learning Journal something my child can read?
- Yes, that is what it is for. An A5 keepsake that walks the year chronologically, with observations, activity notes, and your child's own words. Photos pinned to the work appear at the back as a Photographs appendix.
- Can I edit what the report drafts?
- Every section is editable before you finalise. Rewrite a paragraph, add detail the app could not see, or soften a tone. The draft saves you the blank page; the words that ship are yours.
Try it with real data
See a year already drafted.
The demo is a fully populated workspace you can poke around in. Real shapes, real flows, fictional family.