mrsbat

Hi there,

I have been trialling a way of tracking ready for September, I have done 1 observation a couple of weeks after a child started at Easter where I have added the age band and refinement for an initial assessment (we don't do this for every observation we do any more as it was becoming too 'tick list' like), I have now done the same for an end of term assessment update, but I can't see how to now see a comparison on the same screen of how the child has developed, using the tracking section I can only see Summer term 1 or Summer term 2. I hope that makes sense! Is there a way to see it all on one screen please?

Thank you :)

Hi, sorry I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but can someone please remind me how to merge child accounts together? We had a child who came to us and another setting so has an account at both settings, their account from the other setting has now been transferred to us so I want to merge the 2 journals into 1 - I've done it before with another child but I can't seem to find how to do it again....... 

We do toast, cereal, rice cakes, pasta, soup, smoothies, yogurt etc

We actually have a policy to say that any staff member who leaves then wants to come back does not get any preferential treatment, they come along just like anyone else and have an interview etc.

My personal thoughts are that if they handed in their notice there was a reason for it so why would they want to come back again......you said they were having a tough time - did they actually tell you at the time that they had had a bereavement? if so why did they not ask for some compassionate leave? call me cynical but it seems strange that they had another job lined up yet were handing their notice in with you because they were going through a tough time?

That makes me sound really cold but I don't mean it in that way  

We stay open wherever possible and if needed would work to minimum ratio - we always have lots of children off if the weather is really bad and schools are closed anyway. Staff who don't get in don't get paid unfortunately - not their fault I know but not the settings fault either. We haven't had to close once and absolutely LOVE snow days. We are lucky in that 5 of us staff live within walking distance of the setting so staffing hasn't been a problem so far - touch wood!

Log in on the browser

Click on 'Children'

Click on the name of the child who's 2 year check you want to do

In the drop down list click on 'reports'

Click 'New Report'

then name it and write in the boxes - we just do the Prime areas for ours

Hi, I share a child with another setting but the child is leaving us and moving full time to the other setting, we have had separate Tapestry journals for the child so I am going to transfer our one to the new setting but is there any way for them to actually combine both journals once I have done it? So they just have the one journal?

Hope that makes sense!

Sandwiches or similar first, then fruit and then whatever else they fancy - although treats are limited as some children bring 3 or 4 chocolate bars etc!

I am definitely not technically minded in any way, shape or form but I have easily managed to set up a website using 'Weebly' it's very straightforward  It's free to use, however I have paid to upgrade so I can password protect some of the pages that have photo's on  

As the title suggests I'm looking at how other settings manage staff using tapestry in session. I have had to speak to my staff on numerous occasions because I've walked into the room and see them buried in their iPads. It's tricky because I know they need to complete their obs but they are the eyes and ears in the room first and foremost. We never leave a member of staff alone in a room with children but at times I've seen 3 out of 4 staff on their iPads at once!

 

Would be interested to hear if this is an issue for any other settings.

 

Thanks

We had exactly the same issue so now staff take the photo 'in the moment' jot some notes and then they have 1 hour non contact time each week to type them up fully then they do the linking at home. It works so much better and everything runs much smoother now

I have also put my foot down and limited to 1 in depth, multi linking observation per week per child as some staff were doing 2 or 3 a day. We do have one observation per child each half term which is just updated with wow moments or snippets they have said etc and then that is added to journal at the end of the half term - so at the moment the observation is called 'Summer chat' - Hope that makes sense?!

Hi there,

I've just found out that y LA is not renewing their subscription at the end of June - their reason being that most settings only use this site to use Tapestry and Tapestry is not something they promote (No idea if they have actually spoken to any settings but I don't know any that only use this site for Tapestry!!)

Anyway, what do I do as we do use Tapestry and I don't want anything to happen to my account.....do I need to email someone to link up a subscription to this site and my Tapestry account?

Thank you

My understanding is when I child draws something or builds something with bricks and tells me what it is - for example draws a shape of some kind and says it is their Mum, or builds a line of bricks that joins up at both ends, then puts a toy duck in the middle and says it's a pond

So yes I would agree with what your thinking is too

They chose a child then asked the key person to basically talk them through their journey so far, wanting to see and hear about starting points, baseline, if they were behind/ahead in any areas wanting to see documentation of discussions with parents, asking about what the focus was now and what next steps are being planned for etc

We send home after one 'episode' and are very strict with enforcing our 48 hour rule - this is the government guidelines.

The exclusion periods for all illnesses can be found here - http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/sites/default/files/A2%20Schools%20poster_1.pdf(although I believe that one is out of date now?) so we also have the document found on her - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infection-control-in-schools-poster

We do have some complaints from parents saying their child was only sick once or they only had an upset tummy once because they had eaten loads of vegetables or something but we do stand firm

We gave parents the choice to either bring a memory stick/card or disc in or they could download them themselves

Do you have staff declaration forms for medications etc? getting all staff to renew them then speak to the staff member in question could open lines of communication then you can get first hand information?

I'm sure the HSE states the minimum legal temperature for workers is 16 degrees.....I think it might be higher where children of this age are concerned though?

Not yet, but we're working on it!

Thanks Helen ::1a I haven't downloaded next steps for while and couldn't remember if I needed to do them one by one or all together lol

Hi there,

Is there a way to generate next steps for a whole key group in one go rather than going to each child and doing them individually?

Thank you

I would imagine it is good practice but none of mine are on the update service - mainly because I got them all re-done before it came in and there was no way I was paying for 10 staff to all be done again!

Hi Rebecca,

Sorry I didn't think what I had written made much sense lol!

Basically at the end of each term on the old Tapestry I used to do summative assessments for each key group so staff could see roughly where the child was working in each area. When I did it there was different choices (from what I can remember) I think there were 'from selected period' or 'from highest age band and refinement' 'from lowest age band' etc?

But when I try to do it on the updated version it is only giving the option 'year' and 'period' when I go to the group view?

Sorry not sure if that makes any more sense?!?!

Good evening mrsbat -

Currently there's no way to use different fonts unfortunately. The notes field was originally simply a way to enter a few paragraphs describing an observation. However, we hope to be improving this soon. Also, we hope soon to being work on developing a better way for you to send out newsletters, which will have much better controls and appearance features. :1b

Fab thanks Steve ::1a

Is there a way on the 'new' Tapestry to select 'highest age band and refinements' when looking at the group snapshots? That's how I've printed out key groups each term but I can't see where to change it from just the period instead? (Hope that makes sense!)

Apologies in advance if this is already available (if it is could someone please tell me how to see it) but would it be possible to have the option when adding observations to be able to make writing bold/different colour/underline/centralised etc as you can on here?

I add newsletters as observations and it would be really good if I could make bold certain dates etc?

Hope that makes sense! ::1a

If you go to 'control panel' - 'manage settings' - 'Options: Relatives' - then click the top box to allow relatives to receive notifications :1b