StoryLoop guides
Documentation advice written for the floor, not the office.
Plain-English guides on learning stories, Te Whāriki and EYLF links, observation technique, and getting your evenings back. Written for kaiako and educators in Aotearoa and Australia.
Notice, recognise, respond: the assessment cycle in plain words
What this looks like on a normal Tuesday, why respond matters, and how one story leads into the next in an ECE setting.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
Learning story examples for toddlers that keep the child's words intact
Toddlers repeat, test and rarely explain. These learning story examples show how to write what you saw, keep their exact words, and make repetition count.
1 October 2026 · 7 min read
Learning story examples for babies and infants
Three short learning story examples for babies, written from what the infant actually did, with the learning named plainly.
24 September 2026 · 7 min read
Learning story examples and a template you can actually use
Three complete learning story examples, each with the rough note beside it, plus a reusable format for writing your own.
28 July 2026 · 9 min read
Documentation without losing your evenings
Practical ways educators are cutting documentation time without cutting quality, including where AI genuinely helps and where it does not.
28 July 2026 · 2 min read
The five Te Whāriki strands in plain English
What Mana atua, Mana whenua, Mana tangata, Mana reo and Mana aotūroa actually mean when you are standing in the room.
28 July 2026 · 1 min read
How to write a learning story that actually says something
A plain-English method for turning one real moment into documentation that families read and assessors respect, without writing an essay.
28 July 2026 · 2 min read