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Choosing a school as your child transitions to Reception
by Alicia Wilkins
Early Years Practitioner and Tiney home nursery leader, Alicia Wilkins, shares her experience of looking for a school for her son, with advice for families and reminding early years educators of all the emotions that parents/carers feel.
Podcast: Neurodiversity affirming practice in Speech and Language Therapy
In this week's podcast, Stephen chats to Ruth Jones who is a Speech and Language Therapist based in Wiltshere. They discuss how Ruth's core practice has developed over time, how we can start addressing ableism in our schools and the importance of co…
Social Entrepreneur, Speech and Language Therapist, adjunct lecturer a…
In this article, Warda explains why developing advocacy skills is important and shares strategies on how to do it effectively.
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Professionally printed copies of the journals
We have teamed up with a publisher, Group Hugs, to offer professionally printed copies of children’s journals. Prices start at £14.95 + postage and can be purchased by the schools and settings or by parents and carers directly. When managers on a Tapestry account export PDF copies of the journals for parents and carers, the relatives will see an option to purchase a printed copy of the journal, alongside the existing option to download the PDF copy for free. Relatives, schools, and settings can also order printed journals by uploading PDF copies to Group Hugs. This is particularly useful when it comes to ordering backdated copies. In a few weeks you will also be able to purchase multiple copies at once. You can see more information and the full price list on our tapestry.info website. -
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Bespoke Frameworks Summative Assessment Screen
Today we have released a Summative Assessment screen for Bespoke Frameworks. That joins the Thoroughness screens in the Tracking menu. Those of you who have added one or more Bespoke Frameworks can use this screen to: View and monitor attainment for each child in each period. You’ll be able to see the assessments that have already been made. This is shown via a tick next to the parts of your framework that have been selected, and a drop down displaying the most recently chosen scale. You’ll also be able to tap on ‘Show Details’ to see a list of the corresponding observations and any overrides that have been made in this period. Override any assessments you think need updating, and add quick new assessments. You can use the tick boxes and scale drop downs to make assessments – these can be overrides of existing ones or filling in gaps. You can add as many assessments as you like in one go, but they will have to be per child. Once you have saved your assessments, a new ‘staff only’ observation will be created to act as a record – that way you will be able to easily see who added the assessments and when. You can edit those observations to add any notes or evidence if you’d like. Lock each period for each child. If a period is not quite over yet, but you don’t want any further observations made during it to impact what is recorded in the summative assessment screen, you can ‘Lock’ it. Export data to CSV or PDF. This is our latest monitoring screen for bespoke frameworks, but it won’t be last! The next one is most likely to focus on progress. If you have requests for what you’d like to see in that, please get in touch – customer.service@eyfs.info. The Bespoke Frameworks feature is available to all Tapestry users as part of your subscription. To see more about it please take a look at our Bespoke Framework feature page.- 1
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How to purchase a printed book of your child's journal
We at Tapestry are working with a publisher, Group Hugs, to offer parents and carers the ability to purchase printed copies of their child/ren's learning journals. This tutorial will talk you through how to purchase them. Take a look at our video below to see how they will look! To buy a printed version of your child's journal, it will have needed to be exported by your child's setting first. If the setting need any support with doing this, please ask them to contact us at customer.service@eyfs.info. Start by logging into Tapestry using the web browser version through our login page, https://tapestryjournal.com/. If you have any difficulties logging in, please contact your child's setting and they will be able to help you. Once you are logged in, click on your name in the top right of the screen (1) and select 'Your Downloads’ from the drop-down list (2). On the Downloads page you should see all downloads you have available. Click the ‘Download’ (1) button to download your PDF copy of the journal or ZIP file of the media. A reminder that you will have 90 days from when the journal or ZIP file was exported to download it, so do make sure to do this in time. To order a printed copy of the journal, click 'Order a printed book' (2). Please note, it is only possible to purchase printed copies of journals when they are between 46 and 1596 pages long. If this is not the case for your child's journal, please contact the setting. Next, you will be taken to the page where you will be able to order the book. We recommend you read the information on this page before proceeding. You must first select both tick boxes (1) before you are able to click on 'Order Printed Book' (2). Once you have selected this, you will get taken to the Group Hugs website where you are able to purchase the book. We have more good news! If your child/ren have already left their setting and you have a copy of the PDF saved, then you will be able to upload this on the Group Hugs website and order it as a printed book. If you need any support with your order, please get in touch with settings@grouphugs.co.uk. Back to the main tutorial page -
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Is the care diary available on the app?
Hi @HappyHomeChildminding, I'm afraid the Care Diary isn't available on our iOS app yet. But rest assured it's a top priority and we're working very hard to get it released as soon as possible! I've noted your interest in this, so once it's added to the iOS app we'll be in touch to let you know. 🙂 Best wishes, Alexandra
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