Records, transcripts & portfolios
A practical home for homeschool record keeping, K–8 transcripts, portfolio examples, worldschool documentation, and evidence that a receiving school can understand.
A useful homeschool record is not a warehouse of worksheets. It is a small, dated account of what a learner did, what it shows, and how that work connects across a year. Kept lightly as learning happens, those moments can become a portfolio for the family, a transcript for a receiving school, or a clear answer when an official asks what education looked like.
The right document depends on the question. A transcript summarises subjects, attendance, and parent-entered grades or mastery. A portfolio shows selected work and context. A learning log preserves the source evidence behind both. Worldschool families need the same foundations, with extra attention to dates, locations, programme names, and documents that can travel between systems.
Start with the smallest habit you can sustain: one dated sentence or sample at a time. Organise later from real evidence rather than reconstructing a polished story from memory. The guides and reports below explain what to keep, what each document can honestly prove, and where a receiving institution still makes its own decision.
Keep dated moments, samples, books, projects, and attendance while they are fresh. A light source record is more trustworthy than an elaborate year-end reconstruction.
Choose representative evidence and add enough context to explain the learner's contribution and progress. A portfolio is selective by design, not a backup drive.
Translate the year into familiar subjects, dates, attendance, and parent-entered grades or mastery. Keep the evidence behind every summary claim.
Worked examples
Age 8 · doubled a recipe, noticed the batter looked wrong, and checked every quantity.
Age 10 · tested a cardboard bridge, recorded the weak point, then added diagonal bracing.
Age 7 · dictated a first draft, reread it aloud, and chose a clearer opening sentence.
Age 12 · compared two routes using time, cost, transfers, and border requirements.
Curated path
What to include, when you need one, and how to reconstruct carefully.
Open GuideSee what useful samples look like and the small amount of context each one needs.
Open GuideTurn projects, lessons, and everyday learning into a coherent record.
Open GuideSeparate useful documentation from paperwork families do not actually need.
Open GuideThe core documents that travel well across borders and systems.
Open ResearchA research view of how families document learning and where systems diverge.
Open ResearchA measured framework for portfolios, evidence, and interpretation.
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