How to purchase a printed book of your child's journal

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We at Tapestry are working with a publisher, Group Hugs, to offer parents and carers the ability to purchase printed copies of their children'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, a PDF will need to be generated by your child's school or setting first. If they need any support with it, please ask them to contact us at customer.service@eyfs.info.

Some useful things for them to note are:

• The journal needs to be exported by a manager from the Control Panel. The purchase option will not appear for any other PDFs e.g. the one that can be generated by selecting multiple observations on the Observations page.
• We recommend including the 'cover page' in the export (this option is included by default). 
• We also recommend adding a profile picture for the child - Group Hugs use the image used from the cover page for the front cover of the printed book.

 

 

If there is no cover page or no profile picture, then the child's photo will be replaced with an image of a tree.

 

 

Now, onto what you can do as the parent or carer!

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 teacher, key person, or childminder 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 20 and 1596 pages long. If this is not the case for your child's journal, please contact your child's school or setting.

 

 

Next, you will be taken to the page where you will be able to order the book. Please 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). Please make sure you have read and understood those before you select them! 

 

 

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 has already left their school/early years setting and you have a copy of the PDF saved, then you will still be able to purchase a printed copy, it will just need to be done from the Group Hugs website. 

Some useful things to note here are:

• If your PDF does not include a cover page or the cover page only shows a silhouette placeholder image, then the front cover of the book will show a tree rather than a picture of your child.
• If you are uploading a PDF of a previous year directly to Group Hugs, and the PDF you have starts with an observation rather than a cover page or content pages, your printed book will show a tree instead of the child's picture, and the school name will not be shown. 

 

If you need any support with a book you have already ordered, or with the ordering process generally, please get in touch with settings@grouphugs.co.uk. 

 

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