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An author’s insight – how books can aid emotional literacy
by Hannah Peckham
Author Hannah Peckham shares her reflections on how books can support children's emotional literacy.
Podcast: Reflecting on being a nursery manager and owner
Ben and Jules chat with Rob Fox who is a nursery manager and owner. They discuss how to share a vision with your team and families, embodying practice and pedagogy, and the challenges of being an ‘edu-carer' working with children while also running a…
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Allergies and Permissions
Hi @Lisabroomers, That's great to hear. We're always looking for ways to improve so thanks for getting in touch with these suggestions. These are all features we're looking into adding, so I've made a note of your interest in them and fed your ideas back to our development team. When we add any of the requested features we'll be sure to get back in touch and let you know. 🙂 Best wishes, Alexandra- 1
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Allergies and Permissions
The management system has some really great features, we currently use Connect Childcare but are keeping up to date with Tapestry improvements with a view to moving over as it develops more. It would be good to have a box to tick if a child has any allergies and then somewhere to write what the allergies are so the staff can all see this. Also a section for permissions would be useful. Our registration form has a number of questions which parents tick yes or no to, for example "can your child have nappy cream applied", "can you child have sun cream applied", Can staff apply plasters", "can you child have face paint".... etc. A printable report for meals would also be useful - one which has the children's names on who are having lunch, grouped into which room they are in. One last thing which I think has already been mentioned, is emergency contacts which the staff can see easily from the register. Thank You -
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Check an early years qualification
Early years managers can now use the new digital service Check an early years qualification to quickly verify whether staff qualifications meet the requirements for staff:child ratios in England. The new service can be accessed at https://check-an-early-years-qualification.service.gov.uk/?utm_source=bedford&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=la This free GOV.UK tool allows managers to check a qualification’s approval status by entering key details such as: • course start date • level • awarding organisation At the end of the process, a clear outcome is provided, which can be printed for your records. Why use the new service? Using the new Check an early years qualification service: • saves time during recruitment and HR processes • supports workforce planning ahead of the September 2025 expansion of funded childcare entitlements • reduces confusion when checking qualifications- 1
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Nursery Management System - Various updates and improvements
Alongside annualised invoicing, we also released a few other updates and improvements to Tapestry's Nursery Management System. These include: Allowing users on mobile and tablets to enter negative and decimal line items when creating an invoice Itemising funded hours separately on invoices to make billing more transparent for families Providing the option to hide inactive children when looking at your account balances -
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Staff rota
The management system is amazing. It would however be even better if you could add in the staff rota so that we can see who is in each room/expected at that time, and whether staffing meets the ratio needs. To improve this even further it would be really useful if it also took into account qualification ratio's as well. Allowing us to see that staffing was definitely meeting the requirements for the day. -
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Nursery Management System - annualised invoicing
You now have a choice of three calculations to use when invoicing families: Actual charges: This is the current approach and the default one. The invoice will be based on the actual charges that fall within its date range Fixed monthly fee: The cost of regular schedule bookings and charges will be replaced by a set fee that you choose. Extra bookings and ad hoc charges will be charged separately. Annualised monthly fee: The cost of regular schedule bookings and charges are annualised based on the number of chargeable weeks and number of months to be invoiced. This is calculated by Tapestry. Extra bookings and ad hoc charges will be charged separately. You can use any of the three types of calculations for each child in your setting, which gives you the flexibility you need. See how to put it in action: Invoices: Setting your invoice calculation method Annualised invoicing is part of Tapestry’s multi-functional Nursery Management System, included in every subscription.
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