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Wishing you all a really happy Easter. Xx

Morning all. Mousie, hope it's not to long a wait! 🐣 Sunnyday great that the show went well. 🕺 I've just had our little Easter Egg hunt 🥚🥚🥚 🐥🐇 Hope everyone has a good weekend. x

Good morning - 'tis Friday Oh Mousie - every good wish for the safe arrival of your 'little hatchling' ❤️ Matilda was really good (last Friday) - I want to know why my youngest granddaughter can learn lines and be absolutely word perfect and yet can't apply that to her weekly spellings 🤦‍♀️🤣 I am organising a little garden Easter egg hunt for the two youngest today - should be fun! Sunday lunch invitation to eldest son's house - looking forward to that. Happy Easter one and all x

Hi Alexandra, Thank you so much for your response! Looking forward to seeing this feature incorporated into Tapestry. Best wishes, Angie

Wow Froglet! Well done in taking such a big decision, I wish you all the best with whatever comes next. Have a great weekend all, hopefully the weather isn’t too unkind. I’m impatiently waiting for our own little hatchling as new GC is due any day 🐣

Hope all goes well, I'm a stang believer that everyhting happens for a reason. I hope all goes well for you xx

Goodness Froglet that is a huge decision. Good for you for making such a huge decision, I’m sure you will not regret it. Sometimes there just comes a point when you have to prioritise. I haven’t regretted leaving for one second and I really think that you instinctively know when that time comes. I wish you all the luck in the world for whatever the future brings. It’s been so great this week to have been able to do loads of jobs in the garden, feel like I have caught up a bit, and now the rain is here again! Sunnyday hope the performance was good. Happy weekend all.

Thanks Sunnyday. For now I am just stopping. I want to spend a little more time with family whose circumstances have changed but am also going to take the opportunity to try some things out that I’ve had in mind for a while.

Whoa young Froglet that is big news - are you moving to a different school - are you giving up teaching altogether? Whichever and whatever - I wish you nothing but the best going forward xxx

Ahhh, thank you both. I'm ok - just have been really busy and not doing anything very interesting to tell you all about. However, I do have some news... I have resigned from my job as of the end of this term. So I'm spending this week and next wrapping things up and setting them in order and then I am not in school for a bit. I'm going to take time to properly rest - it's been a very long time since I had a holiday without a school TDL to complete and then I'm gradually going to start doing other things and hopefully begin to find my sparkle again. I'm a strange mixture of looking forward to and being very apprehensive about it but it will definitely be a new experience with lots to learn from!

Afternoon all. A very non eventful week for me 😊, have had a few trips out with the GC, but only doing routine things! It is very quiet here I must agree, and like sunnyday hope everyone is well. I have a two night sleepover with the GD to look foward to tomorrow - I have been given a list of 'games we will be playing' and have been told we need to make passports! 🤣 Sunnyday have a lovely afternoon at Matilda xxx Have a good weekend all.

Good morning - 'tis Friday How is everyone? I am going to have to send out search parties for young Froglet and Fm soon 🤣 no seriously, hope both are okay... Off to watch youngest granddaughter in 'Matilda' this afternoon - she has spent the week at a drama workshop type thingy - really looking forward to that. Hope the weekend is kind to all x

Good morning, Thanks for reaching out! I have passed on your feedback to our development team and we will get back to you if we have any updates on this feature. Pop us any future questions or queries you have to us on customer.service@eyfs.info if you need anything else :) Best wishes, Vanna Tapestry Product Support

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Hi Beth, Have you come across the articles here on the FSF yet? They refer to the two 'biggies' of reflective practice- Dewey and Schon 😀 In my view, reflective practice should be a cyclical endeavour- carried out with an open, questioning approach. Starting with an open-ended question is often a good place to start, eg 'How are children using the outdoor area? What can we improve on?' or 'How do we support parents with learning through play at home? How can we develop this so that all families feel included?

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?

Hi, I too am completing my Level 3 and need to discuss reflection. Your findings pretty much align with mine. However, Klobs Experential Lerning Cycle model focuses on learning through experience. This has four stages; Concrete Experience where you are actively engaging in an activity or event; Reflective Observation where you can reflect on the actual experience so you can think about what went well and what could be improved; the using Abstract Conseptulisation you can form new ideas or theories based on your own reflections; finally with Active Experimentation you can then apply the new ideas and test them in your own practice. I believe this also aligns well with your point on Schon's Reflection in Action. I strongly believe that by remaining actively engaged in reflection you will continually have a natural reflection cycle for continuous learning which will maintain continuous CPD and improvement in practice.

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

Hi @Angie12, You can create your own Report template to go alongside your Bespoke Framework. But at the moment I'm afraid it's not possible for assessment data to pull into bespoke reports, so you would need to fill out the details manually / copy them across from your observations. But I've made a note of your request for this and fed it back to our development team. If we have an update about this feature we'll be sure to let you know. 🙂 Best wishes, Alexandra

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.

Exactly !!!

The problem is you’re bombarded with so many emails now to read, action, sign up to, answer county surveys, get someone on this or that county training, funding updates, safeguarding partnership updates, EYA updates….….how many unpaid hours are spent reading, replying, actioning emails because you’d never have time at work 😔

Well I've not seen anything. - maybe I need to start actually reading emails like I used to! 🙄

Oh blimey, it just gets worse! Huge respect to anyone still battling on! Very glad to be out of it all.

Oh Mousie - that is just awful - I'm so sorry that you are having to deal with that... I can tell you that 20 years ago I was convinced that the Government wanted rid of PVI settings That quote 'better standards...' is particularly hard to read and in my humble completely unjustified