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Please note the EYFS 2021 flag set was formerly called 'Development Matters 2020' on Tapestry. This was updated to incorporate the Birth to 5 documentation. Having selected the EYFS 2021 flags in observations, you will now be in a position to use these to help spot any areas that children may require further support in. You will be able to find the Areas of Concern screen from the 'Tracking' tab (1) along the top of your Tapestry page, and then in the 'EYFS 2021' section (2). There are two options; 'Guided View' and 'Group View'. We are going to focus on 'Guided View' (3) in this tutorial but you can find the 'Group View' tutorial here. Once you have selected 'Guided View', it will take you the following page. You can see previous review sessions that have been completed in the last 30 days (1) or choose to start a new session (2). Starting a new session will take you to the page to select the children you want to review. You can search for a specific child using the search box (1), or you can use the filters (2) to select a group. If you want to review all children in view, you can use the 'Select All' button (3). You can also choose by selecting the box next their name (4). Once you have chosen all the children you want to review, select 'Next' at the bottom of the page (5). The screen that follows is where you can choose the areas that you would like to review in this session. You can choose to select all 7 areas (1) or choose specific ones by selecting the box next to them (2). Once you are happy with your selections, you can move on by selecting 'Next' (3). You have now reached the review screen, where you can consider whether you have concerns about that child's development in that area or not. The options you have to select are 'Concerns', 'No Concerns' or 'Review' (1). If you are already sure on your selection, you can press on the one you would like, and this takes you to the next screen. If you are not sure on what selection you should make at that time, you can either choose to skip that area (2) or use the information below this box to help you decide. You will find support observations (3) which will show all observations that have been flagged in that area for that child. You will also find any Reflections (4) which have been added for that child and flagged in that selected area to refer to. (If you do not have Reflections enabled in Features, then this section will not appear on this screen for you.) Any reference materials that you may like to look through also appears at the bottom (5). Once you have made your selection, and completed all the areas you have chosen to review, you will be taken to a filtered 'Group View' screen. This will just show the children you have just assessed in those areas, and the selection made (1). If you have changed your mind, or realise that you have made a mistake, you can update the selection here too. If you would like to go back to viewing all children on this screen, select 'Return to viewing all children' (2). Go back to Main Tutorials Page

Don't have any reading that I can point you towards, but I remember having a similar situation with a child in my class once. We decided in the end that the child was not going to be harmed by not eating for the day, but being 'forced' to eat (and I don't mean literally!) might cause more stress which can lead on to other long term issues, especially around eating. I think once the pressure was off, and people weren't worried about whether the child was eating, they then started eating with the other children! We did expect them to come and join the other children at lunch time, listening to the story etc, but if they didn't want their food, they didn't have to get it. This was also all done with the relative's permission of course!

Hi Ciara, Thank you for your message. Registers are on our development plan and currently being looked into. I have added your ideas to the developer notes for this and we will hopefully be able to share the feature soon.

Enjoy half term!!!

Hi, Thank you for your suggestion. This is something that we are looking into at the moment, so I have added your comments to the developer notes on this. If it's any help, my wife uses the Chrome extension 'Mote' to leave voice notes in the comments. When she creates the clip using the extension, she then copies it to her clipboard, which she then pastes into the comments box. It looks like this: Click to hear my voice note... https://mote.fyi/xxxxx/ although you can change the text to say whatever you want it to before the link. Following the link takes them to a page to listen to your voice memo. It is a free extension, but there is a paid for version, which gives you 90s to record the clip instead of 30s which you get with the free version. The only thing to be aware of with Mote is, as I'm not too sure about their data policies, it is probably not wise to share too much personal information through it - such as the child's full name etc - which the reality is, you probably wouldn't anyway.

I think your response is the right one - not dismissing the child's feelings, but also making them feel part of the class. As @finleysmaid says, they'll just be showing you that you're an important part of their lives.

Thank you for your post. Whilst I do understand your point about the panda, the activity is just one of 20 in the series, and is just a suggestion of something to create with your child. It went through the skills taught which the child could then go ahead and use in their own creations later. I know when I was teaching, I would teach a skill, such as the little dot painting, using a small image that the children could follow, but then got them to use that skill to create any picture they wanted - such as a house or themselves. The Maslaha videos are very accessible for many families, especially where English is not their first language, but if you feel that these would not be appropriate for your setting, please see it as only a suggestion of ideas.

Hi, Welcome to the FSF! It's great to hear that Tapestry is going well at your setting. Due to the nature of providing bilingual support, it is not something that we are likely to be able to add in the near future. There are a number of browser plugins available that will translate pages for you, but the quality of these translations is not always the best so it may be worth warning relatives of this!

I think giving little things that they can do at home with resources that they have / can make is a great start. You can also record short introduction videos to share with the children to explain what you want them to do and model. As Jules says, structure will help - think about what the children would normally be doing if they were in, and try to organise things around that. You might not always do a maths input for example, but you would probably do maths every day with some children through their play. Think about how you support their play and get that in to an activity that they can do at home. It's really not about long tasks though with Reception - that would just be so frustrating for the parents and the children, and might actually put a lot of them off from doing things. You might find some of these sheets useful for activities: https://tapestry.info/infographic-library.html#EYFS Let us know what you think of or if you need further help.