What Spark helps you capture
These are the learning areas Spark will help you log, reflect on, inspire activity ideas around, and include in your portfolio.
Real-world skills
Skills and knowledge acquired through authentic everyday experiences — shopping, cooking, travel, conversation, building things.
Exploration and play
Unstructured time to play, imagine and explore freely.
Passions and deep dives
Spending extended time on a passion or question the child cares about.
Community participation
Learning through involvement in the wider world — volunteering, local events, libraries, conversations. The world as classroom.
Natural mathematics
Numbers, patterns and problem-solving encountered through real life. Maths that has an obvious point.
Self-directed reading
Reading driven entirely by the child's own curiosity.
Technology and media
Learning through digital tools, games, video making, coding, and creative software.
Creative expression
Art, music, writing, drama, building, designing — whatever form creativity takes.
Social learning
Learning through relationships — navigating friendships, collaborating, understanding different perspectives.
Problem solving
Encountering a genuine obstacle and working out how to get past it — building confidence and resilience.
Self-directed writing
Writing the child initiates for their own purposes — stories, lists, letters, journals, scripts, game rules.
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