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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: Exploring contemporary digital childhood and children’s play
Jules and Stephen chat with Dr Yinka Olusoga about children’s digital literacies, how children’s play is evolving, and how we can shift our mindset to recognise and participate in their digital and post-digital play.
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Teacher, Varinder Kaur Johal, reflects on 10 years as an educator
In this reflective article, teacher Varinder Kaur Johal responds to the question ‘is your role as a teacher evolving and how has it changed?’ after a decade as an educator.
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Staff Schedules
Hi, @Kellie Compton A staff scheduling feature is something we are working on! I will update you here when that feature is released. Let me know if you need anything else :) Jack -
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Safer Sleep Cot Question
With the new Safer Sleep guidance, it provides a list of British Safety Standard codes so we can check that our beds and matresses meet these. We recently purchased sleep pods for the baby room which were very expensive but their BS code does not match any of those on the list. Does anyone know if the sleep pods can be used for babies both under and over twelve months old? -
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Medicine, incident and bumps and bruises from home forms
Are these forms that can be added or the option for us to add the forms we use in the settings for staff to complete online and parents to be able to sign? -
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Staff Schedules
It would be really helpful to be able to add staff rotas and allocate staff to each room. -
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Tapestry App Update – Version 1.0.2
A new update to the Tapestry Education Platform app (v1.0.2) is now live across all operating systems. This release focuses on performance improvements and bug fixes to make everyday use smoother and faster, particularly when working with media. What’s improved: Media uploads now display progress, so you can see exactly how they’re progressing Faster uploads for media captured within the app Improved loading speeds when navigating throughout the app If your app is not set to update automatically, please download the latest version from your device’s app store. Please note: On Amazon devices, the update may take up to 24 hours to appear.
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