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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.

Hello and welcome to our November 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: Resources to support your CPD Resources to support and champion wellbeing Important information about security and safeguarding on Tapestry A quick note on some recent changes to Amazon Fires We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and as always we welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Resources to support your CPD For our regularly scheduled podcast episode this month Ben and Jules chatted with Hannah Clifford, founder of Seren Kids, which provides children and adults with digital skills and e-safety knowledge. Hannah shared a wealth of knowledge and ideas about children and technology. You can listen, and find links to loads of useful resources, here. This month also brings you a new Beginner's Guide, written by early childhood specialist Kerry Murphy. Download the ‘Beginner's Guide to Self-directed Neurodivergent Play’ here. Kerry is running a course for Early Education this month, titled Supporting Neurodiversity, Disability, and Special Educational Needs in the Early Years. The first of 5 sessions begins on 14th November. This is part of the Early Education Learning Circle which offers the opportunity for in-depth, tailored professional development through facilitated peer learning. You can find out more here. Lastly, we'd also like to tell you about a set of resources that Laura Henry-Allain MBE has written to support her new book, My Family, Your Family, illustrated by Giovana Medeiros. You can access the resources from this link. Resources to support and champion wellbeing Early Years Wellbeing Week took place at the beginning of October. In recognition of this important week to reflect on and engage with educator wellbeing, founder Kate Moxley has created a new free resource: Championing Wellbeing, a Toolkit for Early Years Educators. The toolkit, which can be downloaded here, is designed to help guide practitioners in reflecting, evaluating and building their own bank of practical ideas for promoting compassion resilience. It includes information on how to promote wellbeing in your setting, support wellness action planning, promote professional dialogue around wellbeing and much more. Professor Eunice Lumsden and Warda Farah joined Kate, along with Jules and Stephen from the Tapestry education team, in a special edition of our podcast for Early Years Wellbeing Week. Their discussion centered on an intersectional approach to cultivating wellbeing, and you can listen to it here, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a good moment to remind you of the Beginner's Guides written by Warda and Kate, and of the Mandela Model Workbook written by Eunice - you can download them from the links below: A Beginner's Guide to Intersectionality in the Early Years by Warda Farah A Beginner's Guide to Educator Wellbeing by Kate Moxley The Mandela Model Workbook by Professor Eunice Lumsden Important Information About Security and Safeguarding on Tapestry Whenever you're adding relatives to your Tapestry account, we recommend taking the following security and safeguarding precautions as you do so. And if you've already added lots of parents, it is still worth checking through this list: Have you double checked your relatives’ email addresses to ensure they are correct? It’s important to ensure these are correct because if an email is entered incorrectly and belongs to someone else, they could gain access to the Tapestry account by resetting the password. When considering the security and safeguarding around your Tapestry account it’s also worth thinking about your passwords. Tapestry accounts are only as secure as the passwords that protect them. It’s important to never share your Tapestry password with anyone else and to ensure your password is as strong as possible. You can read current government advice about password setting here. If you are the only person using a device to access Tapestry and the device supports Face ID or fingerprint unlocking we would recommend enabling these for the Tapestry app (this will make it quicker and easier for you to login as well!). Have you checked how your User Permissions are set on your account? These control what non-manager staff and relatives can do and see on an account so it’s worth ensuring these are set up appropriately for your setting. Once you’ve checked these you may also want to set up a fake parent account for yourself and login to this so you are clear what parents can see from their end. It’s also worth taking the time to check what users you have set up on your account. If you still have staff, parents or children on your account who no longer need to be there, we would recommend deleting them to ensure you are in line with your data retention policy. Are relatives linked to the correct children? Children and relatives have to be manually linked together on Tapestry in order for parents to be able to see entries on Tapestry for their child/ren. When you do this it’s important to ensure the correct children are linked to the correct relatives otherwise parents will be able to see entries for other children. This tutorial talks you through how to link parents to children. A Quick Note on Some Recent Changes to Amazon Fires It appears that Amazon have issued an update to their Gallery/Camera software which prevents users from uploading multiple bits of media at the same time. As this is something Amazon have changed themselves, regrettably it's not something we're able to control. However, if you use the Tapestry app to upload observations you can still select multiple items of media if you choose to select media from the 'Camera' folder.

Hello and welcome to our October 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: Several key updates to our Management System New courses and guides to support your CPD Introducing: The Mandela Model Workbook A reminder about ‘Rosie’s Story’ Early Education’s Centenary Book We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Several key updates to our Management System We are excited to announce more functionality for our management system. For full details on all the changes we’ve made this month, please take a look at this post. There are two main updates. First is the addition of “Extra Charges” (sometimes referred to as ‘consumables’) which allows you to add a charge for anything you want to a child’s schedule or on an ad-hoc basis. This is great for regularly charging for meals, nappies etc or for one-off charges like trips. Secondly, you can now assign ‘Bill Payers’ and send invoices directly to relatives from Tapestry. After you’ve chosen the relatives responsible for paying invoices for each child, you can send them a copy of the invoice with the click of a button. Other updates include new filter and configuration options for invoices, pre-populating new regular schedules for quicker set-up, and other quality-of-life tweaks. New courses and guides to support your CPD We have two new CPD courses and another “beginner’s guide” this month. Emily who heads our Product Support team, and Ben from our Education Team, have combined their knowledge and experience to bring you “Parental Engagement” on Tapestry CPD. This course focuses on strategies for involving parents in their child's learning journal. Access the full course here. Meanwhile, Alexandra from our Product Support team has created “The Care Diary on Tapestry”, which covers everything you need to know about using the Care Diary. Access the full course here. The collection of free beginner's guide resources continues to grow, and this month child psychologist Siya Mngaza has written “The Beginner’s Guide to Belonging”. This is designed to support childminders, nurseries and schools interested in having necessary conversations about belonging. Download the full guide here. Introducing: The Mandela Model Workbook We are delighted to share The Mandela Model Workbook, written by Professor Eunice Lumsden. This is a free, interactive resource which is designed to help early years leaders develop and foster belonging for the families and staff in their setting's community. You can watch Eunice explaining more about the workbook, and download it, here. A reminder about ‘Rosie’s Story’ This month is a great opportunity to remind you about “Rosie’s Story”, as Rosie has just turned 2! The on-going video series about Rosie started on her very first day. It documents Rosie’s development and how she interacts with the world as she grows up; a great resource for exploring child development. For more information, visit this page. And a very happy 2nd birthday to Rosie! Early Education’s Centenary Book We’d like to draw attention to Early Education’s Centenary book which is now on sale on their website. The book is titled “Early Childhood Education: Current realities and future priorities” and features a wide range of sector professionals as chapter authors. For more information, visit Early Education’s website here.

Hello and welcome to our September newsletter Are you interested to learn about how Tapestry Online Learning Journal can help you in your setting or school, but you’re not yet a customer? Click on a link below to find out more: · 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: · Two new courses to help support your CPD · A reminder about your renewal payments · A reminder about our Product Support Team We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team Two new courses to help support your CPD We are excited to share a couple of new courses with you this month on Tapestry CPD. Firstly, Ben and Jules from our Education Team have created “Personal, Social and Emotional Development in a Child's Fifth Year”. This course encourages educators to reflect on PSED and what that may look like for a typically developing child, as well as pedagogical approaches to support those working with children at this developmental stage. Access the full course here. Secondly, written by Carly Budd – founder of the Developmental Play Academy – we have “An Introduction to Developmental Play”. Access the full course here. A reminder about your renewal payments A gentle reminder from the Tapestry finance team: if you are paying by BACS please ensure that the invoice number is quoted as the payment reference, and that a remittance advice or email is sent to bacs@eyfs.info. A reminder about our Product Support Team A reminder that our friendly Product Support team offer support 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday (exc. Bank holidays). As always, you can reach us by email on customer.service@eyfs.info for any queries or questions. We aim to respond to all emails within 24 hours. As September/October is our busiest period, it may take a little longer, but rest assured we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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 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 · The Tapestry Infographic Library · Feature Focus: Tapestry CPD We hope you enjoy catching up on our news, and we always welcome your feedback. Wishing you all a good summer, The Tapestry Team New Articles and Guides to support your CPD We have a new article and a new 'Beginner's Guide' this month. Both have been written by Speech and Language Therapist, education consultant and scholar activist Warda Farah. In her article, Warda explains Pathology of Agency, and reflects on the impact it has on children in the early years, as well as what we can do to combat it. Read the full article here. The Beginner's Guide to Intersectionality has been created by Warda to support childminders, nurseries and schools in having necessary conversations about intersectionality. Download it for free here. The Tapestry Infographic Library Did you know we have over 20 free infographics, covering a whole range of Tapestry and education related content, free to download? Want to give your relatives more support with using Tapestry? Or information on why play is so important? Or maybe it’s the start of a new year and you’re looking for a “Tapestry To-Do List?” There’s infographics for all this and more. Download them here. Feature Focus: Tapestry CPD If you are looking for some high-quality CPD then try Tapestry CPD. Currently, all the courses on Tapestry CPD are free to everyone. If you access through your Tapestry Manager or Staff Log in, you’ll be able to save progress and get certificates for some courses. We have courses all about using Tapestry more effectively - for example, Starting a New Academic Year. And we have courses on education topics such as An Introduction to Safeguarding and Communication in a Child’s Fifth Year. Access all these and more from here, or by clicking the CPD button on the top task bar within your Tapestry account.