Tapestry change log
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Today we have made some changes to the Cherry Garden framework. We have: - Amended some statements in the 'Communication, Language and Literacy' and 'Mathematical Development' Branch Maps. - Removed the statement ‘Responds to own name’ in Branch 2 of Attention and Understanding. You can find out more about these changes, including a short explanation of why we have made them and a full list of the amended statements in our forum post about it: https://eyfs.info/forums/topic/53915-changes-to-the-cherry-garden-framework-february-2022/
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We have released a new screen to help you monitor the accidents recorded on your Tapestry account. You can find it in the 'Tracking' section under ‘Care Diary’ or ‘Accidents’ (depending on which you have enabled). There you can filter for specific children and choose the date range you’d like to look at. The screen will tell you how many accidents matching those filters have been recorded and give you an overview of each of them. That page can be exported as it is, or you can go straight from there to the ‘Download Accident Forms’ page, where you can export a PDF for each child containing only their own accident records.
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The latest update to the Android/Fire app update is now out (version 4.0.6). This is for those of you using the Tapestry app on Android devices and Amazon Fire devices. There aren’t any new features this time, but there are quite a few tweaks and bug fixes, all of which should improve your general experience with it. Some of the most noticeable ones are: - Improvements to the EYFS 2021 flag selector. - Fixed a bug so that the app does now honour the ‘show me my Key Children only’ preference for managers. - Improvements to how the app handles drafts and edits to drafts. This isn’t for anyone using the Apple iOS app, but there will a…
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Our latest initiative comes following the renewed calls for high-quality CPD. We’re well aware of the benefits of CPD but also appreciate that many settings struggle to offer their staff suitable opportunities. This can be due to time and/or costs involved. So, recently, we have been working on a feature we’re calling Tapestry CPD. It’s a site where educators can find engaging and interactive courses. They’ll cover education based topics e.g. areas of child development, and Tapestry specific topics e.g. how to set up your Tapestry account for a new academic year. You can find them by clicking on the ‘CPD’ button on the browser version of your Tapestry accou…
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Tapestry is constantly being worked on. Although we tend to only announce big new features in our newsletters, social media pages, home page colourful boxes, and yellow banners, we make small improvements every month. Here are some of the most interesting small additions made in October: The ability to sort the Activities Catalogue by ‘most recent’. This means you’ll be able to see the latest activity suggestions at the top of your page, rather than having to scroll though the list. The ability to edit which children you’re exporting a PDF journal for after you’ve already started the process of deciding what’s included. A new filter on the…
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We are aware that many of you are only using the new Development Matters curriculum guidance and would prefer not to see the Birth to 5 Matters aspect flags (the gold coloured ones) or reference material. You can now turn off the Birth to 5 Matters part of the EYFS 2021 flag set from within your control panel. Just ‘configure’ the flag set and untick the box that asks if you would like to include the Birth to 5 Matters aspects. Our enabling and disabling the Birth to 5 Matters flags and reference material tutorial shows you that in more depth. If you turn them off, you’ll notice a few changes: · Any Birth to 5 Matters aspect flags you’ve already added…
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You may have already started using flags within your observations and reflections. They are premade sets of single words or phrases which you can use to categorise your observations and reflections. Some examples of the existing flag sets are ‘EYFS 2021’, which let you highlight when an observation or reflection is about a specific area of learning, and the ‘Play’ flags, which let you say when a post includes an example of a particular type of play (‘Free play’, ‘Construction play’, ‘Games with rules’ etc). These were created by the Tapestry team, but if you have ideas for your own unique ones, or you’d like to create your own versions with the specific words you …
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You may have seen over the last few months that we’ve added some features for the early adopters of the new EYFS. Those were: New flag sets (under the EYFS 2020 heading). The Development Matters 2020 Areas of Concern screen The ELG 2020 EYFSP form. We have now released some further changes to introduce the Birth to 5 Matters guidance, tweak the Areas of Concern screen, add a new thoroughness screen, and add a new a report template. I’ll go through each of those below. Name changes to new EYFS features Today we have changed the names of some of the features mentioned above. We wanted to reflect the year the EYFS reforms…
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This latest update (version 4.0.3) comes with a collection of new features. You can now use the Android and Fire Tapestry apps to: Add and view flags Adding flags is just for staff members, but you can decide if you want relatives to be able to see them too when you turn on each flag set. Record audio clips and attach those to observations Switch between separate Tapestry packages This is a feature for you if you have multiple Tapestry logins e.g. if you have children at two different schools/settings or you are an educator covering multiple year groups and each year group at your school uses a different Tapestry account. It sto…
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You can now find a link to your existing support tickets from the 'contact us' page on the browser version of Tapestry. That will bring you here, to the Foundation Stage Forum site, and direct you straight to your tickets (after making you login). Please note that it will only show the tickets you have sent either via Tapestry, via the forum, or from the email address you use to sign into those with. It will not show tickets sent by anyone else on your Tapestry account.
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