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Hello and welcome to our August newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work at a Nursery I'm a Childminder I work in Reception I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: New Articles and Guides Rosie’s Final Video Body Maps on iOS Register CSV Exports The Inclusive Early Years Educator: A Reflective Toolkit We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team New Articles and Guides We have a new article and new Beginner’s Guide for you this month. This article, collaboratively authored by Tîm Dysgu Creadigol Cymru/Creative Learning Cymru Team, explores how creativity is woven into all aspects of the Welsh Curriculum from the early years onwards. And the “The Beginner’s Guide to Linguistic Justice”, written by Warda Farah and Dr Vishnu Nair, aims to support educators in having necessary conversations about linguistic justice. Rosie’s Final Video It’s the end of an era! We’ve followed Rosie’s development since her very first week and this month she’s turning 3. We’ve all learnt so much from watching Rosie grow up and we hope the series has provided you with some valuable insights into child development. This will be the final instalment of this video series as Rosie has a very important job coming up… Body Maps on iOS We are happy to announce that the ability add body maps to your accident forms is now possible on the iOS app, as well as Android and the browser version. To add a body map, just click the “Add Body Map” button when creating an accident, circle the affected area and “save”. Register CSV Exports We’ve recently added the option for you to export your online children and staff register data as a CSV file. You can access the exports from Bookings > Exports And finally… A reminder that the new book The Inclusive Early Years Educator: A Reflective Toolkit, written by Early Years Inclusion Officer at Doncaster Council, Ann Lowe, and Tapestry’s SEND Advisor Stephen Kilgour, is out now! The book supports us to consider areas where our provision needs adjustment in order to be truly inclusive, and encourages us to change our mindset when it comes to children with learning differences and disabilities. You can order the book here.

Hello and welcome to our July newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work at a Nursery I'm a Childminder I work in Reception I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: Messaging now available Body Maps now available Printed Journals Survey Results iOS app update New CPD Course: An Introduction to Educator Wellbeing An article from Tapestry’s education team Book Pre-orders now open We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Messaging Now Available We are excited to announce the arrival of our newest feature: Messaging! Messaging allows you to quickly and securely communicate with other staff and relatives. Messages can be sent and received via the browser, iOS, Android, or Fire app meaning they’re easy to access for all users. Messages must be between two individuals, and at least one of those must be a staff member - so two staff members can use it to talk to each other, but relatives cannot connect with other relatives. Start using Messaging today. Managers can enable this feature from Control Panel -> Features. More information can be found on the feature page. Body Maps Now Available We are also happy to announce you can now add a body map to your accident forms when creating them from the browser or the Android app. When adding your accident form, you’ll now see a blue button for “+ Add Body Map”. Simply circle the affected area and “save”. Reminder: Printed Journals As we near the end of the academic year you might be thinking about sending families the downloadable copy of their child’s Tapestry journal. You could also let them know that their PDF journals can now be turned into beautiful printed books! Relatives can order these directly from within Tapestry after you generate the PDF for them. But you can also order printed journals on behalf of your relatives in bulk! For more information, please visit the feature page. iOS App Update We’ve rolled out a couple of updates to the iOS app in the past few weeks. These brought several changes, but the most notable are that the Care Diary and Register are now available on the iOS app! These new areas should both appear on the bottom task bar within the app. Please ensure you’re using the most up-to-date version of the app via the AppStore and keep an eye out there for further improvements. Survey Results The results are in! Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in our survey this year. As always, the findings are an interesting insight into the sector – this time focusing on the expanded offer for two year olds, advice to the next government, and how we make and use observations. We have prepared a blog post discussing some of the findings which you can read here. New CPD Course: An Introduction to Educator Wellbeing We have another new CPD course this month. Created by early years educator Kate Moxley, this course has been created to support and promote awareness of wellbeing and positive mental health for educators. Access the full course here. An article from Tapestry’s education team Ben, from our education team, has recently written an article for Nursery World reflecting on how early years educators can ensure collective events and celebrations are inclusive for all children and families. You can read the article here. The Inclusive Early Years Educator: A Reflective Toolkit This new book, written by Early Years Inclusion Officer at Doncaster Council, Ann Lowe, and Tapestry’s SEND Advisor Stephen Kilgour, encourages us to change our mindset when it comes to children with learning differences and disabilities, considering areas where our provision needs adjustment and guiding us to strive to be truly inclusive. The book: Provides a holistic picture of a child’s learning, considering an array of reflective opportunities, while always keeping the child at the centre of our thoughts. Includes a wealth of real-life case studies and worked examples. Features a diverse range of contributions from early years professionals as well as the voices of parents. Contains printable forms to encourage and consolidate reflections throughout the book. Is full of signposting and links to further resources and reading, making it an essential guide for the early years. It’s now available for pre-order and comes out on July 11th. Pre order your copy here.

Hello and welcome to our June newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work in an early years setting I lead a Nursery Chain I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: Reminder: Printed Journals Now Available New Articles to Support Your CPD A New “Beginner’s Guide” Last chance to complete our 2024 survey We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Printed Journals Now Available You may have seen that we’ve recently teamed up with Group Hugs to start offering a service which turns your children’s PDF journals into beautiful printed books. After listening to some questions and feedback, we’ve compiled a few bits of advice to help you get the most from this service: Make sure to export journals from the Control Panel. If you're not sure how, this guide will show you all the steps. By default, the PDF export will include a cover page, a contents page, and observations will run one after each other (the option is called 'split across pages'). We recommend leaving those as they are. You can make the books even more special by adding a profile picture for the child (and including the cover page when generating the PDF) and by adding your school/setting logo. Doing this will mean the child's photo appears on the front cover of the book and your logo will appear in the top right-hand corner of each page, instead of the Tapestry logo. Lastly, we’d recommend reminding parents to download the PDF to their computer/device even if they do buy the printed journal as well. More information on Printed Journals, as well as some FAQs, can be found on this page. New Articles to Support Your CPD We have two new articles this month: Anya, from our Education Team, attended the MHFA England, Adult, Mental Health First Aid (MHFAider®) course, delivered by Kate Moxley, who is an Instructor Member and the founder of Wellness for All. Here, Anya reflects on some key things she learned from the course. And manny, Joss Cambridge-Simmons, reflects on the importance of being present for children, how presence equals love, and how to cultivate a feeling of safety. A New “Beginner’s Guide” The free document ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Islam’ has been written by Suma Din to help childminders, nurseries and schools have a better understanding of Islam. Last chance to complete the 2024 Tapestry Survey Just a reminder to complete the Tapestry Survey if you haven’t already! The survey is for everyone working in the early years and primary education sectors. We’d love to hear from you on topics such as the expanded offer for two-year-olds, how educators are using AI, and proposed Labour early years and education policies. The survey should take 5-8 minutes to complete, and it closes on 7th June. To take part, please follow this link.

Hello and welcome to our May newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work in an early years setting I lead a Nursery Chain I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: Bespoke Frameworks: Summative Assessment Screen The Tapestry Survey A New “Beginner’s Guide” Championing Wellbeing: A Toolkit A New Article to Support your CPD We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Bespoke Frameworks: Summative Assessment Screen We’ve added a new tracking screen which is compatible with your bespoke frameworks. The new Summative Assessment screen allows you to: View and monitor children’s attainment against the framework for each child in each period Override any assessments you think need updating, and add new assessments quickly Lock each period for each child Export the data to a CSV or PDF There’s more information on this new bespoke framework tracking screen here. You can access the screen yourself on Tapestry from Tracking > Bespoke Frameworks. The Tapestry Survey Get your voice heard – Tapestry 2024 survey Our annual survey is now live and is for everyone working in the early years and primary education sectors. It's quick to complete and we’d love to hear from you on topics such as the expanded offer for two-year-olds, how educators are using AI, and proposed Labour early years and education policies. As in previous years, we use the findings in our articles, to support our public relations and marketing, and to help shape the development of Tapestry and the Foundation Stage Forum. The survey should take 5-8 minutes to complete. To take part, please follow this link. A new Beginner’s Guide The free document ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Things in Educational Settings’ has been written by Let’s Grow to help nurseries, schools and childminders consider opportunities to grow more plants with their children. For more information and to download the document, visit this page. Championing Wellbeing: A Toolkit The Championing Wellbeing Toolkit[OG6] , created by Kate Moxley to guide and support you in building your own bank of practical ideas to promote compassion resilience, is now available in an interactive format. A New Article to Support your CPD This month Richard Waite, early years practitioner and technology specialist, has written an article which shares his experience in supporting e-safety learning with children in the EYFS

Hello and welcome to our April newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work in an early years setting I lead a Nursery Chain I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: Printed Journals! Tummy Time Evaluation Tool A New Article to Support Your CPD Rosie’s Story Siren Films – Interviews A new CPD Course – Tapestry Reports We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Printed Journals We are so excited to announce that you and your families can now order printed versions of children’s learning journals! We’ve teamed up with publisher Group Hugs who will be turning your children’s PDFs into beautiful printed journals. Here are some of the key features: Parents and carers will be able to order copies of the journals you make available to them, via Tapestry. Parents and carers will be able to purchase backdated copies of previous years’ journals by uploading the PDF copies they hold to Group Hugs. Schools, nurseries, and childminders will be able to order copies of journals on behalf of the families. This year that will be done via the Group Hugs website. For more information on this, check out our info site. There’s also this handy information poster, which you could display in your setting, to help get the word out to parents. You can download the poster here. Tummy Time Evaluation Tool Specialist Children’s Occupational Therapist, Carly Budd, has created this free resource to help support educators working and leading in Baby Rooms. You can use this to reflect on and evaluate your individual or setting wide understanding of Tummy Time. You can download the full guide here. A New Article to Support Your CPD We have a new article on our info site this month. In it, Simmone Boyce and Anya Edwards reflect on how settings can develop their expertise around developmental trauma in order to support children. Read the full article here. Rosie’s Story “Rosie’s Story” is our video series documenting the growth and development of Rosie. The series has been ongoing since Rosie was just 3 days old and she will be 3 years old this summer! If you want to learn more about typical development milestones, and child development generally, we thoroughly recommend watching along. They are all available on our YouTube channel and you can find the most recent episode here. Siren Films – Interviews Still on the subject of using video to support professional development, our friends over at Siren Films have been busy creating interviews with specialists in the sector - some of whom we have worked with recently ourselves. Prof. Eunice Lumsden discusses her work around inclusion, diversity and holistic safeguarding (among many other topics) in her interview here. Warda Farah discusses intersectionality, creating safe spaces, social justice and more in her interview here. A New CPD Course – Tapestry Reports We have another new Tapestry CPD course to help support your use of Tapestry. This one is all about the Reports feature. The course will cover everything you need to know about Reports. This includes how to create them, export them and share them with relatives.

Hello and welcome to our March newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work in an early years setting I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: New Tapestry Feature – Staff Register Improvements to the Booking Feature Ed Tech 50 – Tapestry voted Number 1! A new article in appreciation of school libraries We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team New Tapestry Feature – Staff Register We are happy to announce another new feature in our management system! Alongside the register for children, we now have an online Staff Register. This register lets your team members sign themselves and their colleagues in and out. Some of the key functionality includes: Order the staff list by first or last name. Record notes and edit or delete in/out times as needed. Click on a staff member’s name to see their registration history for the day - when they were signed in and out and by whom. View any edits to sign in/out times in your History section. The history entry will include the original time. Like all our existing features, the Staff Register is available for free to all Tapestry customers. Improvements to the Booking Feature In addition to the above, we’ve also made some smaller improvements to parts of the management system. Firstly, you can now send payment reminders to bill payers: we’ve added the ability to send a short message from Tapestry telling them how much is owed and how to pay it. You’ll find a button to do this on a child’s “Finance” tab. Secondly, we’ve made it easier for you to see exactly how many unpaid and unsent invoices there are on your account. Just go to Finance -> Invoices and you’ll see the tabs at the top. We’ve also made tweaks to some warning messages to make them clearer, added some new History events and made improvements to the register layout on smaller screens. Ed Tech 50 - Tapestry voted Number 1! We are happy to announce Tapestry was voted Number 1 in BusinessCloud’s Ed Tech 50 this year, which celebrates “the UK’s most innovative education tech creators.” We’d like to offer another heartfelt thank you to everyone who voted for us. You can see the full list of 50 winners here. A new article in appreciation of school libraries Our article this month is by primary school librarian Rumena Aktar, who takes a close look at how a library, and its librarian, can support children to become enthusiastic readers. You can read Rumena’s article here. A New Event from Early Education Lastly, we’d like to bring attention to this event, run by our friends over at Early Education. The event will be “Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths (STEAM) in the early years.” Themes likely to be covered in the sessions include: How STEAM approaches support play and learning across the EYFS How to develop and design opportunities for investigation, experimentation, and reasoning to support characteristics of effective learning and communication and language Ways in which the Arts can be used to develop learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths For more information, visit Early Education’s page here.

Hello and welcome to our February newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work in an early years setting I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: New Articles and Guides to Support your CPD New Tapestry CPD Courses An Invitation to join the Tapestry Support Group BusinessCloud’s Edtech 50 We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team New Articles and Guides to Support your CPD This month brings a new Beginner’s Guide and two new articles to our Tapestry site. The Beginner’s Guide for Establishing Meaningful Relationships with Families, written by Jaziea Farag, is a free document to help childminders, nurseries and schools engage in important conversations about meaningful relationships with families. You can download the guide here. Winsome Duncan, book confidence coach and bestselling author, has written an article about Amplifying Young Voices in UK Children’s Literature. Read the full article here. And Sarah Sudea – founder of Finding the Flex – has written a piece about improving wellbeing in your school by adopting a more flexible approach. Read the article here. New Tapestry CPD Courses It’s been a busy month for our CPD site - 3 new courses went live last month! Firstly, we have a course titled An Introduction to Intersectionality . This is based on the Beginner’s Guide to Intersectionality in the Early Years written by Warda Farah. The CPD course version provides extra levels of engagement with helpful videos and tasks. Enrol on the course here. We also have two new courses specifically about Tapestry features: Tapestry Reflections and Reflective Practice shows you the ins and outs of the Reflections feature and discusses reflective practice more generally. And Activities on Tapestry teaches you everything you need to know about the Activities feature. An Invitation to join the Tapestry Support Group If you’re a Facebook user this one is for you! Ben, who is one of our Education Team members and founder of the Tapestry Support Group (TSG), would like to invite you to join this supportive group. The TSG is an excellent space to stay up to date and get help from the community. You can join here. BusinessCloud’s Edtech 50 We’re delighted to announce that for the third year in a row Tapestry has been shortlisted for BusinessCloud’s Edtech 50 - an annual ranking which celebrates the UK’s most innovative startups, scaleups and established firms creating original technology for education and workplace development. We’d like to extend a humble thank you to anyone who voted for us. The final 50 will be published on the BusinessCloud’s website on February 12th. That's all for this month. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team

Hello and welcome to our January Newsletter If you’re thinking about using Tapestry in your setting or school, but aren’t yet a customer, you can find out more about how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children from EYFS to Year 6 by clicking on a link below: I work in an early years setting I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: Update to the Management System New Articles and Guides to Support Your CPD Tapestry Price Increase Updates from Early Education We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Firstly, happy new year everyone! We hope you’ve all had a great start to 2024 and wish you all a calm, happy and fulfilling year ahead. Now, on to business. Update to the Management System We are happy to announce another big update to our management system. For the full details on all the changes, please check this post. The main changes include: The introduction of ‘Account Balances’ for each child and the ability to allocate part and full payments Children now have a new ‘Finance’ tab making it easier for you to see a child’s invoices and transactions You can now add a name and billing address to invoices Changes to invoice statuses, including a new ‘Part Paid’ one You can now set funding to any number of minutes instead of only intervals of 15 minutes You can export a CSV file of invoice data from the export screen A new Extra Charges screen in the Rooms section which makes it easier to see what Extra Charges have been used on each day We really hope these improvements help you get more out of the management system. As always, if you have any questions or feedback contact us on customer.service@eyfs.info New Articles and Guides to Support Your CPD We have a new article and a new ‘Beginner’s Guide’ this month. Education and racial literacy consultant, Orlene Badu, looks closely at what it means to be an anti-racist in this article. Gemma Lees is a disabled and neurodiverse Romany Gypsy and has written “The Beginner’s Guide to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Inclusion. Download the full document here. Tapestry Price Increase On March 1st our prices will be increasing slightly. Please see the information below on the exact new figures. If your renewal invoice is due to be generated after March 1st, it will use this new pricing structure. If your renewal invoice is due to be generated before March 1st, it will use the current pricing structure. These prices are per year. 6 child account: £60 Excluding VAT - £72 Including VAT 12 child account: £75 Excluding VAT - £90 Including VAT 20 child account: £110 Excluding VAT - £132 Including VAT 40 child account: £135 Excluding VAT - £162 Including VAT 60 child account: £175 Excluding VAT - £210 Including VAT 90 child account: £240 Excluding VAT - £288 Including VAT 120 child account: £305 Excluding VAT - £366 Including VAT 150 child account: £380 Excluding VAT - £456 Including VAT 180 child account: £450 Excluding VAT - £540 Including VAT 210 child account: £520 Excluding VAT - £624 Including VAT 240 child account: £595 Excluding VAT - £714 Including VAT 270 child account: £665 Excluding VAT - £798 Including VAT 300 child account: £745 Excluding VAT - £894 Including VAT 350 child account: £870 Excluding VAT - £1,044 Including VAT 400 child account: £1,000 Excluding VAT - £1,200 Including VAT Updates from Early Education Early Education have an upcoming course for the Spring and Summer, led by early childhood specialist Kerry Murphy. This course will focus on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Neurodiversity. You can find out more here. That’s it for January. We’ll be back with more information and resources next month.

Hello and welcome to our December newsletter If you’re considering using Tapestry Online Learning Journal but aren’t yet a customer, take a look at how it can help you transform learning outcomes for children in EYFS right through to Year 6 - click a link below: I work in an early years setting I work in a school If you’re already a customer, read on for our latest news and updates, including: Articles to support your CPD A new “Beginner’s Guide” Our latest podcast episodes Education Scholars – Volume Two Feature Focus We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Articles to support your CPD We have two new articles on our website this month. Firstly, speech and language therapist, lecturer and author Warda Farah discusses how everyone can promote and develop advocacy skills. Read the full article here. Secondly, Varinder Kaur Johal reflects on 10 years of being an educator in this article. A new “Beginner’s Guide” We have a new “Beginner's Guide” joining our growing collection this month. Independent education consultant and trainer, Sejal Payne, has written the ‘Beginner’s Guide to Supporting Children Learning English as an Additional Language’. You can download the full document here. Our latest podcast episodes You may be familiar with our podcast series already, but if you’re not, be sure to listen! Members of our education team here at Tapestry and the FSF discuss a wide range of topics with an even wider range of guests. You can listen to all our podcasts here, or wherever you normally download your podcasts. This month we have two new episodes: Jules talks with education consultant and antiracism trainer Orlene Badu in this episode titled “Where to start your antiracism work”. And Ben and Jules talk to Beatrice Merrick in “Being and becoming – reflecting on the present and the future of Early Childhood Education and Care”. If you enjoy the podcasts, do considering subscribing so you never miss a new episode. Education Scholars – Volume Two We are excited to announce the release of Volume Two of our Education Scholars project. This instalment explores the work of Indian scholars in education. Volume Two has been curated alongside early childhood teacher and consultant, Rachna Joshi. You can download the full document here. Feature Focus Did you know you can create and print name labels directly from Tapestry? It’s as easy as navigating to your “Children” tab, selecting the correct children and then choosing “print name labels” from the bottom left. For more information, have a look at this feature page.