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Navigating New beginnings: A Mother’s perspective on Early Years Educa…
by Alicia Wilkins
Alicia Wilkins, a mother who has also been a teacher and a home nursery educator, shares her reflections on the transition from home to early years setting for a parent/carer.
Podcast: Telling the stories from the Early Years
Jules chats with Elly Roberts, Editor of Early Years Educator, about the importance of creating a community of practice, raising the status of the early years, and finding and telling the stories from the sector. (edited)
View the full articl…
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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This would be so, so helpful. Any idea when this feature will be released please? -
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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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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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