Hello and welcome to our March newsletter
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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.