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Reflecting on Kerry Murphy’s talk on ‘Neurodiversity – Affirming Commu…
by Vanna Fossella
Educator and Tapestry product support specialist Vanna Fossella shares her reflections after attending a key note talk by Kerry Murphy at the 2024 Newham Early Years Conference.
Podcast: The role of a childminder
Helen and Stephen are joined by Tina Maltman, Executive Director of Childminding UK. They talk about childminding as a career option and the state of the profession in 2024, as well as how Childminding UK supports childminders nationwide.
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What does it mean to be antiracist? Education and racial literacy cons…
Education and racial literacy consultant, and former headteacher Orlene Badu explains that we need to focus on our own antiracist journey in order to be able to model how to challenging and disrupt racism to our children.
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Registers - when a child leaves all their attendance data disappears?!
Hi @chloemorgan The partially deleted status is now live on Tapestry - please see Emily's post above. Tutorial can be found here to help you -
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🧾 Survey Invitation – Teachers Wanted!
📣 Are you an early childhood teacher in the UK? We’d love to hear about your experiences with digital technology in the classroom! I’m conducting a short survey as part of my PhD research at the University of Sheffield. The aim is to understand how digital tools are being used in early childhood education and what support teachers need. 🕐 It takes about 10 minutes to complete 🔒 Your responses are anonymous and confidential 🌍 We are looking for teachers in the UK 👉 Click here to take the survey: Teacher Survey | Digital Technology in Early Years Education 📧 If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at: she39@sheffield.ac.uk Thank you for supporting this research! -
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Emergency contacts
I currently have a section at the bottom of my all about me forms to add emergency contacts onto but this is very time consuming when trying to access them. Could there be a way to add emergency contacts to a child's profile and a way to access them based on what children are signed in? -
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Reflection in relation to Professional Development
To complete my Early Years Educator qualification I need to discuss the importance of reflection in relation to professional development. Is there a particular theorist you feel supports this in a better way? Has anyone got any views how this works in practice? Do you use this often in your own setting to think about your teaching methods and for identifing areas of growth? Many thanks -
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Bespoke frameworks in reports
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to include bespoke frameworks in the report. I have tried to create a custom report but there is no option to add bespoke framework assessments as a section. Does anyone know if there is an option/way to do this? Thank you.
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