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Hello everyone, welcome to the February newsletter. It's a busy one this month! Android 5.0 We are happy to announce another big update to our Android app! Version 5.0 brings you reference material for staff using the new EYFS, access to the Care Diary for relatives, and the Online Register beta (more on this last one further down). Lots of smaller quality-of-life, security, and performance improvements are also included in this update. It will be slowly rolling out to all Android users over the next week. Please note, this Tapestry app version is the last one where we fully support Android devices running below Android 8. App updates will still be available to those users, but we can no longer address any specific issues for these devices. You can check your Android version within your device’s settings. Online Register (beta) We are pleased to announce another development in our ongoing management system – Online Register (beta) is now available for you all to use. Located within the “Booking” feature, Online Register will show you the children you are expecting based on the regular schedules, extra bookings and absences you’ve added in the Booking section, and allows you to easily mark them in, out, or absent. You’ll also be able to: See the notes you’ve made on the bookings and add additional ones. Mark additional, unexpected, children in. Filter and sort the children list. Check past registers. Export any of your registers to PDF for your records. The reason we are releasing this as a “beta” is because you may see some tweaks over the next few months - most notably the Online Register becoming available on both our apps. As mentioned above, it is available on the most recent version of the Android app, but we are still working on iOS. Editable Comments We also have a little extra enhancement for you. Staff and relatives can now edit their own comments on Observations, Memos, and Reflections - helpful for fixing any typos! The original comment will be recorded in each account’s History section, so managers can still see the original comment if necessary. Mckie Mastery Phonics For any setting who use Mckie Mastery Phonics, there is now a pre-made CSV file you can upload to our Bespoke Frameworks feature if you’d like to start assessing with it on your Tapestry account. You can contact them directly for access to this CSV. To find out how to upload it to your account, please refer to our tutorial. Articles We have two new articles on our info site this month: “Are Observations Still Important in the Early Years?” This article is an amalgamation of information from statutory and non-statutory guidance, quotes from early years experts, and our own reflections on the importance of observations. “A Q&A with Professor Eunice Lumsden.” In this written interview, Professor Eunice Lumsden discusses, among other things, inclusion & diversity; holistic safeguarding; and the qualities of an early years educator. And in case you missed it - “How to Make Assessment More Inclusive.” This article was originally published by TES in October last year but deserves revisiting. Written by our resident SEND advisor Stephen Kilgour, it discusses inclusivity in the context of settings curating their own assessment approaches. Toddlers, Tech and Talk Led by Professor Rosie Flewitt, Manchester Metropolitan University is collaborating with the universities of Lancaster, Queen’s Belfast, Strathclyde and Swansea on a project researching how the home lives of children aged three and under intersect with digital technologies in diverse families in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Through survey research, interviews and innovative participatory research methods, the project will generate new understandings of contemporary home learning environments, and generate guidance for parents and educators on creative and fun ways to make the most of the early learning opportunities offered by digital media. You can read more about the project here. The research team need your help to disseminate the survey, so if you are able to, please share the survey link with parents at your setting. If you are the parent of a child aged 0-36 months, then please also complete the survey yourself 😊. The survey is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French, Gujurati, Polish, Panjabi, Romanian, Ukrainian, Urdu and Welsh. This forum post includes a poster in English which you might display in your setting. If you would like more information about the poster, as well as posters in languages other than English, or if you have any questions about the study, please email Rosie, r.flewitt@mmu.ac.uk And finally … Happy Birthday to the FSF! February 14th 2023 marked the Foundation Stage Forum’s 20th birthday! Despite the myriad changes in the sector over the past 20 years, the Forum remains the place it always was - a space for the supportive network of education professionals to discuss any and all things: to help, to share and to connect. To mark the occasion, we have opened a new forum thread for you to come and share your most positive experiences working with children over the past 20 years. We are also planning some exciting changes to the FSF in the future, so watch this space.

January Newsletter Hello everyone and a Happy New Year from all of us at Tapestry. New Resources and Courses We have two new additions to our growing suite of “Beginner’s Guides” and a new CPD course this month. The Beginner's Guide to Developmental Trauma: this document has been created by Child and Adolescent Counsellor Simmone Boyce to support childminders, nurseries and schools in understanding and supporting developmental trauma. The Beginner's Guide to Safeguarding: this document has been created by Safeguarding expert, speaker, and author Ann Marie Christian to support childminders, nurseries and schools in having necessary conversations about safeguarding. The Beginner's Guide to Developmental Trauma has also been adapted into a CPD course available for you via Tapestry CPD. New Articles We also have a new article on our info site this month. “The Importance of Parental Engagement” by Jamel C Campbell, is an insightful reflection on parent partnerships in the early years through the lens of a new father. Bespoke Frameworks Have you used our Bespoke Frameworks feature yet? It's perfect for adding assessments to observations in areas that you would like to monitor alongside your usual processes. Many schools have already added frameworks linked to approaches such as Launchpad for Literacy. Other schools have added criteria from phonics schemes or RE curriculums. If you use a specific program or scheme, why not contact your provider to let them know about Bespoke Frameworks on Tapestry - they could then create a CSV file that their users could easily upload to Tapestry. Feel free to use our example message: 'As Tapestry users we would like to upload your assessments to use alongside our regular monitoring. The Bespoke Framework feature allows us to upload a CSV file containing assessment information that we can then add to our observations. This tutorial explains the process of creating a CSV file which you could then share with your customers (only those users in possession of the file would have access). For more information, you can contact the Tapestry team here: customer.service@eyfs.info'. Bespoke thoroughness screen Speaking of the Bespoke Frameworks feature, we are pleased to announce that the first monitoring screen compatible with your bespoke frameworks is now available. This is a “Thoroughness” screen and, as with most of our other screens, it has an “individual” and “group” view. This screen will be helpful if you need to see things like the number of times a certain statement has been used in Observations; which children in your class have observations in a certain area; or if there any gaps in your provision. You can access the Bespoke thoroughness screen via the browser version of Tapestry. Just click Tracking > Bespoke Frameworks. If you would like more information on how this screen works, check out the tutorial Access the FSF as a Tapestry Member Did you know, as a Tapestry member you also have membership to our Forum? The Foundation Stage Forum is a place for the community of education professionals to talk and support each other. It also houses hundreds of helpful resources and is updated regularly with new articles and podcasts. You can access the forum here and to sign in, simply click “sign in” at the top right and then “Sign in with Tapestry” We hope to see you there! iOS Support Update As mentioned in previous newsletters, iOS 9 (along with versions up to 15) will no longer be supported on the app with the next release. We are also ending formal support for iOS 9 for the browser. For more information about this, please see our 'Which device to use” forum post. Price Increase From March 2023 our prices will be increasing. More information on this, along with the revised pricing structure can be found on this forum post. BETT Awards We are so delighted that Tapestry has been shortlisted for two categories in the 2023 BETT Awards: Early Years Digital Product or Service, and Assessment, Planning and progress Monitoring. This is the first time we have entered these awards, and it is especially exciting to be a finalist not long after we celebrated 10 years of Tapestry. Tapestry has also been shortlisted for the Business Cloud EdTech 50 Ranking - for a selection of innovative firms creating tech for education and workplace development. This is the second year running that we've reached the shortlist. We now eagerly await the results for this ranking and want to thank anyone who voted for us. Look out for upcoming announcements about this on our socials.

Hi, everyone. An early newsletter this month to try and reach you before the holiday period, with just a few things to announce. New Articles We have a new article on the Tapestry site this month. "When I think about the importance of conversations” by Jamel C Campbell recounts his own important experiences with conversation and discusses the integral part conversations play within the Early Years, as well as reflecting on the experience of having conversations to create his recently published book, co-authored with Sonia Mainstone-Cotton. Resources to Support your CPD As we come to the end of another year, we thought it would be helpful to give you a round-up of some of the resources we’ve been adding to throughout the year. Tapestry CPD Our very own CPD area with a range of Tapestry and Education focussed courses. All the current courses are free and accessible to anyone via this link. However, to save course progression and (in the case of some courses) receive a completion certificate, you can log into the CPD site using your Tapestry sign in. The FSF and Tapestry Podcast The Foundation Stage Forum (FSF) and Tapestry podcast release bi-monthly episodes. There’s over 130 episodes in the back catalogue so far on a variety of education topics from a diverse range of knowledgeable and experienced guests. You can listen to all the existing episodes, and subscribe for future releases, here. Tapestry Articles As mentioned above in our New Articles announcement - we publish at least one new article a month on Tapestry.info. If you want to browse the articles you can do so from here and keep an eye on our socials for new articles being announced. The Infographics Library Last but not least, Tapestry.info is also home to our Infographics library where you can find Tapestry guides, EYFS activity ideas and many others – all in a more visual format. Notification Timings One quality-of-life improvement we have made this month is changing the time your “daily” and “weekly” email notifications from Tapestry get delivered to you. Previously, these email notifications could get to some users in the early hours of the morning. We have now changed that so they can only arrive between 3:30pm and 8:30pm GMT. The “Immediate” and “Internal” notification preferences are unchanged. Product Support Lastly, our Product Support team will be working Monday to Friday as usual (excluding bank holidays) throughout the holiday period so if you need to contact them about anything just email customer.service@eyfs.info

Hi everyone. We hope you’ve had a lovely November. Care Diary on Android This Month we are very excited to announce our first iteration of the Care Diary on the app. The Care Diary is now available to all staff who use the most recent version of the Tapestry Android or Amazon Fire app. You will now be able to add, view, edit, and approve Care Diary and Accident entries. As you can on the browser, you’ll be able to make individual or group entries (with tweaks for specific children as needed), and collect signatures for accident forms. If you are an iOS user or a relative, app versions of the Care Diary are still actively being worked on for you. If you would like to be notified via email when these are available, please email our customer service team on customer.service@eyfs.info and they will be happy to keep you up to date. New articles We have a new article on the Tapestry site this month: "Supporting parents and carers of children with EAL” by Sejal Payne. In this article Sejal explores the difference between involvement and engagement, discusses the numerous barriers that parents and carers could face and provides some experience-backed strategies to help support you and your community's families. Printed Register Enhancements We’ve made some improvements to the printed register within the Booking feature. In response to lots of great feedback from our users, you can now: generate weekly registers as well as daily ones; include specific times of the session(s) children are booked in for; include children’s date of birth, booking notes (for daily registers only) and additional blank rows for unexpected children; and finally, some additional options to how you sort the children on the list and some additional “layout options” have been added. Hopefully these changes mean you can get the most out of the printed registers on Tapestry! Memos for Enrolling Children One small “quality of life” improvement we have made is you can now use the Memos feature with Enrolling children. This should help make and maintain those initial links with parents via Tapestry before you are ready to fully activate the new children. New Infographic There’s a new addition to our growing infographic library. “Using Tapestry to Support Your Processes in Preparation for Ofsted” is written to help you reflect on how you are using Tapestry. Hopefully it will help to guide you in using Tapestry in the most effective way on a day-to-day basis, but especially when preparing for a visit! New CPD Course The popular “The First Year” course on Tapestry CPD has been updated with its third and final module. Module 3 focusses on Social and Emotional Development: learn how babies develop socially and emotionally, and what to typically expect for a new-born and at months one, three, six, nine and twelve. During this module you can expect 3 tasks, a suggested article and a short quiz to finish. Successful completion also gets you a certificate! This course has been made in collaboration with Siren Films and Layton Sixth Form College. You can access this course, and others, by clicking “CPD” in the top task bar of your Tapestry account or via this link.

Hi, everyone! Tapestry Turns 10! This month marks Tapestry’s tenth birthday. It's an opportunity for us to thank everyone in the education sector for their dedication to children, families and colleagues in their communities. You keep us inspired. To celebrate, over on our Twitter we’ve been looking back at just some of the knowledgeable people we’ve been lucky enough to connect with over the years, and Jules from our Education Team has written this article: 10 Reflections Over 10 Years. Early Years Wellbeing Week In case you missed it in our last newsletter, we were proud endorsers of Early Years Wellbeing Week earlier this month. The week is designed to highlight the need for awareness about mental health in the sector, and to support settings to embed mental health literacy in their practice with colleagues and their communities. All the resources and information can still be accessed – go here for more. Feature Focus – Booking This month’s Feature Focus is “Booking” It’s Tapestry's first release in our commitment to developing a nursery management system. Here’s what you can do with Booking right now: · Add and create custom rooms and sessions, and easily book children in. · Keep an eye on room occupancy and planned and unplanned child absences, to raise concerns and manage ratios. · Establish staff ratios for each room, to guarantee you always have the minimum staff required. · Set your opening hours and closures to manage your setting, children, and staff. · Print out daily and weekly registers for each room. As with all features, Booking is included for free on every Tapestry subscription and you can find out more about it here. Tapestry Tip You can assign multiple children to the same relative and multiple relatives to the same child! If you have a parent with more than one child, or if mum, dad, grandma and grandad all want to be linked to one child, that process is really simple. Just make sure everyone has their own log in and then link each relative to the correct child(ren) by following the steps in this tutorial. Launchpad for Literacy As many of you may know, you can upload your own Bespoke Frameworks to Tapestry using a CSV file. Well, those of you who use Launchpad For Literacy will be please to know the CSV file has already been made for you! To get a copy, just email Kirstie on kirstie.page@launchpadforliteracy.co.uk and upload to your Tapestry account to get started. Articles This month you might want to check out a couple of articles written by members of our education team that have been published in sector media. Ben’s article ‘Falling in love with observations all over again’ for Nursery World, reflects on rethinking observations - for the good of the child rather than the spreadsheet. Meanwhile, Stephen discusses developing inclusive assessment approaches in an article for TES.

Hi Everyone. We hope those of you starting a new academic year have had a really positive beginning. We have lots of news and announcements this month so read on for more details. Booking 2.1 This month we’ve made some further improvements to our newly released Booking feature. We've added more details to the way you set up your Rooms. You can now specify a minimum and maximum age for the children in that room. And you can set a maximum capacity for the room along with a staff ratio. This change then feeds into your Daily and Weekly booking screens where you can see how many staff are required for specific periods of time and whether you’ve hit your maximum capacity for children booked into a room. The last change is the addition of a calendar view within each child’s Dashboard which shows all the bookings, holidays and absences. You can view this as a weekly calendar or a monthly calendar. “Newsletter Children” Some Tapestry users have created “Newsletter children” on their accounts, which involves adding a fake child and attaching all relatives to this child, for the purpose of sending out news/updates to all relatives at once. This method is much less common now we have the Memos feature, which was specifically designed for sending news/updates to families. However, we do still see a few settings with these fake newsletter children. The inherent problem with this method is because all relatives are attached to this child, any relative can upload something from their own account, accidentally tag the newsletter child in the observation and then all other relatives would be able to see this observation. As you can imagine, this sometimes ends up with data protection issues if the relative uploading the observation includes any personal information only intended for the teacher. If you do have one of these ‘newsletter children’ on your account, we recommend you delete them and switch over to using the Memos feature. New CPD Courses We have two new CPD courses available right now on Tapestry CPD. “Setting up relatives on Tapestry” and “' Making observations with Tapestry” The 'Making Observations with Tapestry' CPD course goes beyond writing notes, attaching media and linking children, and looks at tips and tricks for creating observations to support and develop your provision. https://cpd.tapestry.info/course/view.php?id=24 Aimed at Managers, 'Setting Up Relatives on Tapestry not only goes through the basics of adding new relatives individually and in bulk, it also looks at the most common issues they can run into when activating their accounts and logging in to Tapestry, and helps you to identify and resolve these swiftly. https://cpd.tapestry.info/course/view.php?id=25 Your Tapestry Account Name If your setting has changed its name, a manager can update the account name by going to Control Panel > Settings > Your Setting. New Articles We have a new article on our info site this month. “Looking Back, Looking Forwards” by David Wright is not only a reflective piece on his varied experiences over a long career, but also a closer look at how the Early Years sector has changed and his hopes for its future. And do take a look at an article published in The Headteacher, written by Anya from our Education Team. It’s called “Scaffolding the development of your TAs”, and in it Anya shares insights from her own experience as a TA. You can read it in full here. Early Years Wellbeing Week We encourage everyone to visit the Early Years Wellbeing Week website to find out more about the week itself, which this year runs from 10th to 16th October, and to find supportive resources and information: Kate writes: “There is increasing evidence that the prevention of mental ill health is needed for early years educators. We believe we can all play our part in raising awareness and increasing mental health literacy by promoting preventative wellbeing measures and addressing mental health stigma and discrimination.” Tapestry is proud to be an endorser of Early Years Wellbeing Week. Keep an eye out for an upcoming FSF and Tapestry podcast with Stephen, Jules and Kate Moxley.

Hello everyone. We hope you’ve managed to stay cool this August! We have a few things to tell you about this month so read on for more info. Documents for Specific People We have released an update to the Documents feature. As requested, you can now upload documents for specific relatives. Whereas as before you could choose to upload a document for staff or ALL the relatives on your account, you can now tag specific children when uploading a document, so only the linked relatives of those children have access to it. When you next go to upload a document, you will see the extra choice here: Teach Primary Awards Finalist! We are so excited that Tapestry’s Cherry Garden Branch Maps have been shortlisted for the Teach Primary Awards 2022] for the ‘SEN’ category. Developed by the Ofsted Outstanding specialist school Cherry Garden, the Cherry Garden Branch Maps are a unique and flexible framework to monitor progress for children with learning differences and disabilities. The unique interactive orchard provides the opportunity to celebrate progress and engage children and families with their learning. Tapestry is the exclusive online home of the Cherry Garden Framework, and, like all our other features, is included for free in all subscriptions – you just need to enable the framework from your control panel to get started! September and Product Support As September is our busiest time of year, responses from our customer service team may take slightly longer than usual - we all really appreciate your patience. Also, our training sessions are now on hold. They will resume on the 17th of October so if you are interested in a bespoke training session after this date then please do get in touch. Thank you! Useful Resources for the Beginning of a new Academic Year. Starting a new academic year is always busy so we have compiled a few resources to make the things you need to do on Tapestry as smooth and as quick as possible. Firstly, this tutorial: How to Prepare Your Tapestry Account for the Next Academic Year covers managing multiple packages, downloading important data, transferring children, deleting previous users, and adding new users, among other helpful tips. This “To Do” list also covers some similar topics and includes links to other helpful tutorials. We also have a CPD course all about starting a new year if you wanted something a bit more hands-on! We hope you have a fantastic September!

Hi, everyone What Does Tapestry Do? We have released a new video on our YouTube channel. It’s a whistle-stop tour of Tapestry and covers all the main features. This video is helpful for those thinking about joining Tapestry and it might also reveal some features you aren’t using yet and may like to try. New Articles We have a new article on our website this ­­­­­­­­­­“Empowering Children Through Listening with Love" by Tamsin Grimmer explores the importance of truly listening to children, and how this can offer them agency and empower them in their learning. You can read the full article here. Tapestry Tip! As the end of the academic year is upon us, many of you are now generating journals for relatives and deleting children from your Tapestry account. Did you know, as soon as you have your PDF’s queued up and ready to download, you can delete the child’s profile. This will immediately create room on your account so you can begin to add your new children, or activate your enrolling children. Infographics. Speaking of the end of the academic year, it might be a good time to check out our infographics library. We have a few resources there which are especially useful this time of year such as our “End of Year To Do List” series. You can see them all here: We also have a CPD course (available for free via Tapestry CPD) titled “Starting a New Academic Year on Tapestry” which is great for more in-depth instruction on getting everything set up correctly. That’s it for July! Talk to you all again next month.

Hi everyone New Feature – Booking We have another exciting announcement this month; The first release of our Management System has gone live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wn10WHM6Os Release 1, available to you all right now, focuses on booking and printable registers. Future releases will include further occupancy planning, billing and invoicing, and digital registers. Read more about our Booking feature here and if you want to get started right away, you can find our tutorials here. Bespoke Frameworks Just in case you missed our announcement last month, Bespoke Frameworks went live on Tapestry! Bespoke Frameworks allows you to add your own frameworks to Tapestry and use them within Observations. The Feature page will tell you more about it, and if you want to get started using Bespoke Frameworks, please find the tutorials here. This video also gives you a quick introduction to what this feature looks like and how it works. A Beginner’s Guide to Anti-Racism If you are looking for support to start necessary conversations at your setting about Anti-racist practice, A Beginner’s Guide to Anti-racism written by Early Years anti-racist trainer and consultant Liz Pemberton, is a free resource to help you. You can read more about Liz, and download a free copy of the Beginner's Guide to Anti-Racism on our website. Tapestry CPD We have another CPD course available. Module 2 of 'The First Year', written in collaboration with Siren Films and Leyton Sixth Form College, is available now. You can learn how babies develop key physical skills, such as reflex walking movements and rolling over. Find this, and Module 1 - Communication and Connection here. Becoming an Ocean Superhero! Tapestry HQ hosted some special guests last month. Representatives from the Marine Conservation Society and the Life Recreation ReMEDIES project put on an event exemplifying, among other things, the importance of sea grass. This quote from their website may be of interest to some of you: “As partners in the ReMEDIES project, The Ocean Conservation Trust and Marine Conservation Society are working with schools to show children the wonders of the underwater world. Through an outreach programme as well as downloadable lesson plans and virtual content, we aim to bring the amazing seabed habitats into your classroom.” You can read more about becoming Ocean Superheroes and download their fantastic resources from here. New Articles We have a new article on the Tapestry site this month. Author, Autism & ADHD Specialist, Adaptive Cognitive Behaviour Therapist & Speaker, Suzy Rowland, has written a piece exploring the importance of emotional support and trauma informed approaches and how this impacts children’s behaviour. You can read Little People, BIG Emotions here. EYE Guide to… In association with Early Years Educator (EYE), Tapestry has created a resource titled Communication and Connection: creating and maintaining effective relationships in the EYFS. Written by the education team here at Tapestry, the guide is designed to be both reassuring, and a celebration of Early Years settings and educators. Key content includes: · working in partnership with families. · Monitoring children’s learning and development. · Building your curriculum and adapting your provision. · Supporting your team and their professional learning. The hardcopy guide will be going out in EYE’s July edition, but you can also download the full guide here. In addition, Tapestry Education Team member and content editor, Jules, has written an accompanying blog post, explaining in more detail some of our thinking behind what is written in the guide. You can read the blog post here. Are Your Details Correct? This time of year is an excellent time to make sure your invoicing details are up to date. A lot of accounts come up for renewal around September so it’s important to check your invoice is going to be sent to the right person and it includes the right details before it’s generated. If you are a manager on Tapestry, you can see detailed information about your account by going to Control Panel: As you can see, this overview page shows your subscription size, expiry date and invoicing address. If any of these things need updating please contact us on customer.service@eyfs.info. Quoting your most recent invoice number in your email will ensure your query can be dealt with as quickly as possible. Tapestry Survey Thank you to everyone who completed the Tapestry 2022 survey. The findings are now available on our website. The main messages are: · the value of CPD needs closer attention to ensure educators receive relevant training and that they have the opportunity to follow through within their setting or school. · the majority of respondents feel more confident using technology now than before the pandemic, but understanding the impact of it’s use on teaching and learning is more challenging. · Encouraging children to think and talk about their learning happens in a variety of ways within settings and schools, with two fifths using video to prompt discussions with children. And congratulations to Tricia Hawkes, who is the winner of the prize draw from the Tapestry survey – and a £50 M&S voucher!

Feature Release: Bespoke Frameworks Our newest feature release is one we’ve all been looking forward to. Bespoke Frameworks allows you to add your own frameworks to Tapestry and use them within Observations. The Feature page will tell you more about it, and if you want to get started using Bespoke Frameworks, please find the tutorials here. This video also gives you a quick introduction to what this feature looks like and how it works. New CPD Course Available There's a new Tapestry CPD course available for free! Written by Tapestry's education advisors and former teachers Ben and Jules, 'Communication in a Child's Fifth Year' is designed to support your reflective practice in this area of development, for new and existing Reception teachers and support staff. New 2-year-check Guidance For those of you who do your two-year checks on Tapestry, you may well be aware that new guidance was released earlier this month – you can read the new guidance here. The two-year check report format on Tapestry remains relevant and available for you to use if you wish. We also published an interesting article last year: “An Interview with Fliss James, the project lead of ‘What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents.’” That guide for parents is something mentioned a few times in the new two-year check guidance and continues to be an excellent resource to share with your relatives. You can download the full document here. Articles We have two new articles this month. "7 Things You Didn’t Know About Tapestry”, is worth a read if you think you could be doing more with your Tapestry account. It’s 7 things I think are really helpful about Tapestry that sometimes fly under the radar. “How you can use Tapestry journals to support your provision”, written by Ben, helps you to get the best use out of some of the existing Tapestry features. Ben discusses Observations, Flags, Reflections and Child Login. A Message for Finance If you are planning on paying an upcoming or pending invoice by BACS, please note that the processing of BACs payments is not automated so we do ask that you allow 5 to 7 working days for the payment to be processed. To ensure your payment is assigned to your invoice as quickly and efficiently as possible, please make sure you do the following: · Include your invoice number in the payment reference. This is vitally important if your setting has a name likely to be duplicated by another setting such as ‘St Josephs’ etc. · Send a remittance advice to bacs@eyfs.info confirming the amount being sent and your invoice number. This is especially vital if your payment is coming from an academy trust where your setting name or invoice number will not appear in the payment reference. You can also notify us that a payment has been sent from within your Tapestry account by clicking on the ‘contact us’ link. · Ensure your remittance advice refers to the organisation making the payment on your behalf, such as a local authority or academy trust. · Finally, a reminder that we moved banks in October 2019 to HSBC (Account name The Foundation Stage Forum Ltd - sort code 40 18 22 - Account number 42445565). Payments made to our old Lloyds bank account will not be processed. If after 7 days your invoice has not been marked paid, please do contact us as it might be that we have not received sufficient information to process monies received or that funds have not reached us. All payment queries can be directed to customer.service@eyfs.info. Android Support We will be dropping support for Android version 4.4. This means if your Android device is running Android 4.4 you will no longer be able to update your app. You can still use your Tapestry app on the version you currently have but in order to upgrade the app any further you will need your device to run a version of Android above 4.4. Reflection Toolkit This month also sees the release of the Reflection Toolkit, a resource created by the Education team at the Foundation Stage Forum and the Early Years Inclusion and Portage team at Doncaster Council. The Toolkit encourages educators to reflect on their provision and adjustments they can make to it to support children with learning differences and disabilities. You can read more about it, and download a free copy of the Reflection Toolkit, here. Infographics We have a new Tapestry Infographic this month. This one explains a bit more about the ELGs and the EYFSP on Tapestry including the difference between the flags and the assessment frameworks. Very useful for this time of year! You can download that infographic here. Tapestry Survey This is just another reminder that our Tapestry Survey is still live so if you haven’t had a chance to fill it out (and be entered into the prize draw) then you can do so from this link. Thank you!

Hi everyone! Management System Update We are very excited to share some news about our upcoming Management System on Tapestry! This system is going to be released in phases, the first of which will be available to you this summer. You will be able to add and create bookings and generate a printable register for your custom rooms. Phase 2, which includes capacity planning, will follow shortly. The rest of the phases will be released over time and will bring extra features such as billing, invoicing and digital registers to name just a few! As with all our feature releases, this will come at no extra charge to you. If you want more of an idea of what’s to come, take a look at this preview video (Keep in mind, the look may change as development continues). Child Login webinar This month, Ben and I recorded a short webinar about Tapestry’s Child Login feature. We discussed what the feature is, how we think it could be used and what we like about it. If you’ve never heard of this feature, or just want to know more about it, the video is a great place to start. It’s up on our YouTube and you can access it directly by clicking here. Feature Focus: Reports This month’s Feature Focus is Reports. A manager can enable Reports from Control Panel > Features. You can then access Reports from the top task bar. The Reports feature gives you a list of different Report Formats that you can then add to, edit and customise. We have templates for EYFS 2021, the Two-Year check, SEND and many more. (Please note, the report formats you have access to depend on which assessment frameworks you have enabled). New Articles We have a new article on the Tapestry site this week: Outdoor Education – Past, Present and Future by Naomi Clarke explores outdoor education as an approach in the UK and exemplifies “the timeless need for nature to play a part in every child and young person’s personal and academic development.” Read the full article here. Tapestry Survey This month we have something interactive for you! We have created a short survey about teaching and learning, and professional development. We will use the findings in our articles, to support our public relations and marketing, and to inform the development of Tapestry and the Foundation Stage Forum. We would love to hear your views. To take part in the survey please follow this link.

March Newsletter Hi everyone! We hope you are all enjoying the beginning of Spring. This month we have new resources, useful reminders and an exciting Feature Focus so read on for more details. Deleting and Restoring Data. Our Support team have had a number of requests recently around deleting and restoring data. So, this section will hopefully explain a bit more about how that works on Tapestry. Firstly, data is deleted from Tapestry either by you selecting it to be deleted or a whole account expiring and then later being deleted. We would never delete any data from an account unless we had explicit request to do so If your whole account expires because the renewal invoice has not been paid, then you have 90 days from your expiry date in order to pay your renewal and restore your account. If you go past this 90 day mark, your whole account will be deleted and moved to our backups for another 90 days. At this point, in order to reactivate your whole account you will need to get in touch with us via customer.service@eyfs.info from a “manager” or the FSF account holder email address. To restore a deleted account from our backups is a manual process performed by our developers, which means it comes with an extra charge. It costs £30 (excluding VAT) to restore a deleted account. If you exceed 180 days from the day of your account’s expiry date then the whole account and all the data therein will be permanently deleted. It’s also worth mentioning your yearly renewal invoices are generated automatically 30 days before your expiry date and all “managers” on Tapestry can view, download and pay for invoices via the Tapestry Control Panel. This 90 – 180 day rule also applies to everything else you can delete/restore on Tapestry yourself. The most common example would be a child’s profile. As soon as you delete a child from your Tapestry account you’ll notice it enters an “awaiting deletion” stage with a 90 day countdown (don’t worry – they don’t count towards your account limit anymore. Only “active” children take up spaces). Within this initial 90 day “Awaiting Deletion” period, you can restore that child yourself if you need to. This tutorial will show you how: After that 90 day period, they are deleted and moved to our backups. Similarly to how it works with accounts, they can be restored from the backups within another 90 days. Prices for restoring child accounts can vary and that will be explained when you contact Customer Support. Again, 180 days after you delete the account it will be permanently deleted and no recovery will be possible. Hopefully this offers some clarification but if you’re ever unsure about anything, you can always contact the support email and we’ll be happy to help! New CPD Course: An Introduction to Ableism. This month we released another free course on Tapestry CPD. Written by Tapestry’s SEND advisor, Stephen Kilgour, and Autistic speech and language therapist, Emily Lees, this course is called “An introduction to Ableism.” It’s aimed at anyone working in education but would actually be helpful for everyone, regardless of their job. This course will introduce you to ableism and its impact, helping you as you reflect on your practice. Access this course along with all our others, here. New Infographics. If you haven’t explored our Infographics library yet I would thoroughly recommend it! We have helpful guides on all sorts of topics aimed at both parents and educators. Our newest additions are designed for parents and carers, and they are a kind of “jargon buster”. They help unpack some of the words and phrases used in the sphere of early years. You can find these new ones, and all our others here. Celebrating Books 2022 We have a new section on our info site dedicated to Celebrating Books this year. Take a look at it here. You will find a few short videos made by some wonderful contributors reading snippets of one of their favourite books. Definitely worth a look if you are on the hunt for more quality texts for your bookshelf. Feature Focus: Cherry Garden. This month’s Feature Focus is Cherry Garden! Designed to help you support children with learning differences and disabilities, the Cherry Garden Branch Maps were created by Ofsted Outstanding specialist school - Cherry Garden. Development doesn’t necessarily look the same for all children, and the Cherry Garden framework offers a unique approach to monitoring and supporting your children in early years and Key Stage 1 and 2. You can celebrate progress and engage children and families with their learning through the unique interactive orchard, which comes alive with every observation – so you can watch it grow together. Cherry Garden is available to all Tapestry users and managers can enable it on your account by going to Control Panel > Settings > Assessments. This tutorial will also help you with getting everything set up: https://eyfs.info/forums/topic/51203-setting-up-and-using-the-cherry-garden-framework New Articles This Month We have a new article on Tapestry.info this month by writer and educator, Naomi Clarke. Naomi discusses the importance of taking an intersectional approach to outdoor learning and what we need to consider in our settings. You can read the full article here. EYFS 2021 on Tapestry Lastly, a quick reminder that we have a page on our website dedicated to all things EYFS 2021 on Tapestry. If you have any questions around that, this page will likely have the answer, but as always we are available on customer.service@eyfs.info for any other questions.

Hi everyone, Just a few things to tell you about this month, so read on for more details. Featured CPD Course: EYFS 2021 On Tapestry This month we would like to focus one of our free courses currently on Tapestry CPD. “The EYFS 2021 on Tapestry” course explains how we implemented the new EYFS (which became statutory in 2021) and the new non-statutory guidance documents (Development Matters and Birth to five Matters) on to Tapestry. The course takes you through what the different flag sets are and how to use them as well as how the different monitoring screens work. This course is perfect for new users but even if you’ve been using the new EYFS on Tapestry since last year it might teach you something you didn’t know! Business Cloud’s Ed Tech 50 Tapestry was very proud to be included in Business Cloud’s Ed Tech 50 choices for 2022 among other fantastic ed-tech providers. If you’d like to view our entry on the list, you can do so here. The Accident Tracking Screen This month we released a new monitoring screen for accident forms. If you don’t already know, the accident forms can be created within the Care Dairy feature. There is also an option to have Accidents only if you prefer. This new screen gives you greater control over your accident forms on Tapestry. You can filter, view accidents forms from a certain period, and download them in bulk from this screen. The tutorial will show you how it all works. BBC News Article We were happy to be featured along with other online journals in a recent article by Katherine Latham for the BBC. The piece explores how early years settings are using online journals to connect with families, nurture parental engagement, and inform their provision to support children’s development. You can read the article here. That’s it for this month. As always, if you need to reach us you can do so by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info

January Newsletter Hello everyone and a happy new year from all of us at Tapestry HQ. There are lots of new things to tell you about this month so please read on for more details. Tapestry CPD We are excited to introduce our newest initiative: Tapestry CPD. Available for all full staff and managers on your account, Tapestry CPD brings you courses to support your professional learning, as well as training to help you with using Tapestry in your setting. In collaboration with sector experts, such as Siren Films, our experienced education and support teams are creating engaging and interactive content that you can access at a time that works best for you. We would love to hear what you think of it. A Beginners Guide to Ableism Firstly, I want to draw your attention to this new document: A Beginner’s Guide to Ableism. This has been created by autistic Speech and Language Therapist Emily Lees, a speaker at our last Tapestry Education Conference. This resource has been designed to help settings to have important and much-needed conversations about ableism. The document is completely free and you can download a copy from our website. Price changes On March 1st our prices will be increasing slightly. Please see 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 - £53 Excluding VAT - £63.60 Including VAT · 12 Child account - £70 Excluding VAT - £84.00 Including VAT · 20 Child account - £88 Excluding VAT - £105.60 Including VAT · 40 Child account - £112 Excluding VAT - £134.40 Including VAT · 60 Child account - £142 Excluding VAT - £170.40 Including VAT · 90 Child account - £196 Excluding VAT - £235.20 Including VAT · 120 Child account - £252 Excluding VAT - £302.40 Including VAT · 150 Child account - £310 Excluding VAT - £372.00 Including VAT · 180 Child account - £370 Excluding VAT - £444.00 Including VAT · 210 Child account - £430 Excluding VAT - £516.00 Including VAT · 240 Child account - £490 Excluding VAT - £588.00 Including VAT · 270 Child account - £550 Excluding VAT - £660.00 Including VAT · 300 Child account - £610 Excluding VAT - £732.00 Including VAT · 350 Child account - £715 Excluding VAT - £858.00 Including VAT · 400 Child account - £825 Excluding VAT - £990.00 Including VAT P Scales Removed We will be removing the P Scales assessment framework on February 21st The Government have now replaced P Scales with The Engagement Model and The Pre-Key Stage Standards. You can add The Engagement Model to Tapestry using Flags (see our tutorial on adding bespoke frag sets) and we have a separate assessment framework for The Pre-Key Stage Standards (you can turn that on from the ‘Assessments’ section of your control panel). If you are still using the P Scales and you wish to keep a copy of any of your assessment data please make sure to download it before the 21st of February. You can do that by exporting a PDF and/or CSV of the Summative Assessment Individual and Group View screens (found in the Tracking section of your account), and by exporting PDF journals for the children with P Scale assessments. Just follow our PDF export tutorial and make sure to include P Scale assessments. This will not affect any other assessment framework on your account and all of your observations will still exist – it will just be the P Scale assessments themselves that will disappear (as though you’d just turned off P Scales). Changes to Cherry Garden In the light of more recent research, Cherry Garden school have made minor alterations to some of their branch maps. This means we are updating the framework on Tapestry as well to reflect those changes. If you’ve been using the Cherry Garden framework on Tapestry, these changes may have an effect on the assessments you have made up to now, so I thoroughly recommend reading this post which details what is changing and when It’s changing. Android update available There’s an update available for our Android app! The update includes a few bug fixes so please ensure you update your app via the PlayStore as soon as possible. It will be version 4.0.6. The APPG Section of our Forum Lastly, you may already be aware that Tapestry is one of the sponsors for the APPG for Childcare and Early Education. To keep you up to date with news from the APPG, we have a space on our Forum with information about it. One of our newest forum posts is all about how you can attend an APPG meeting – they are open to anyone and are currently held over Zoom. The APPG meetings have speakers talking on a different topic each time. It’s a chance to see how MPs are informed about the early years sector and how the process of raising awareness of early years provision works. If you would like to attend the next APPG meeting, details on how to sign up can be found in this forum post. Best wishes, The Tapestry Team.

Hi everyone! Just a short (and slightly earlier than usual) newsletter this month. Communicating Progress with SLT Webinar and Article Firstly, we have released some extra resources this month: A webinar and an accompanying article both aimed at practitioners. They explain how you might show progress with the new EYFS on Tapestry and how you can communicate this to your SLT. Another helpful article Another article published on the Tapestry website this month was from Anya, one of our Education Advisors. In this article, Anya explains how you can use your observations and reflections in conjunction with the Areas of Concern screen. If you’ve been wondering how to get the most out of this new screen, or if you’re interested in using Reflections more effectively then do take a look. Product Support Reminder Just a quick reminder that our Product Support team will be working 9 – 5 every weekday over the festive period. Bank holidays not included. If you need to reach us about anything, please email customer.service@eyfs.info. Ed tech awards We are delighted to be recognised in the 2021/2022 EdTech 50 Awards Yearbook – ‘a celebration of the people, products and organisations shaping the use of education technology across the UK’ Feature Focus You can enable an “additional information” box to use on your observations by going to Control Panel > Settings > Observations. This box will appear underneath the “notes” section and can be used for whatever you wish. This was initially created as a space to add information that wasn’t needed in the notes section. By default, this ‘additional information field’ can’t be seen by relatives but you can manage that permission from User Permissions > Relatives > Observations. Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays.

TEC Recording Earlier this month we hosted our 5th Tapestry Education Conference. This TEC was reflecting on the importance of CPD in the early years and we were delighted to hear from our 3 speakers: Iram Siraj, Annie Richardson and Emily Lees. If you’d like to watch the recording of this event, you can do so on our website, and we also have recordings of our previous TECs here. Dr Julian Grenier and Ofsted Webinar This month we helped facilitate a webinar from the Early Years Adopter 2020 Facebook Group. Dr Julian Grenier was joined by Wendy Ratcliff HMI and Gill Jones HMI, with special appearance by Rahima Begum, to discuss Development Matters and the changes to the EYFS. It was a very informative event which answered a lot of frequently asked questions. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel. 2 year check report We have released a new report format: EYFS 2021 Two Year Check. As you might expect, this is an updated version of the 2 year check report format you may have seen previously on Tapestry, but this one is now in line with the new framework. This report format will be available automatically, provided you already have the EYFS 2021 flag set enabled. You can find it by clicking ‘Reports’ in the top task bar and then ‘EYFS 2021 Two Year Check’ from the table on the right-hand side. Articles this Month We have two new articles on Tapestry.info this month. Firstly, “An Interview with Fliss James, the project lead of ‘What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents’” by Caroline Vollans. And secondly “The Power of Parent Observations” by Kate Cowan and Rosie Flewitt. #EYFS2021OnTapestry This month we are running a Twitter and Facebook campaign using #EYFS2021OnTapestry. Use this hashtag on both Twitter and Facebook to search through helpful resources and tips about implementing the revised EYFS on Tapestry and in your provision. You can see our twitter posts so far here. Feature Focus This week’s Feature Focus is Activities! The Activities feature was designed to help educators and families with home and independent learning. You can create bespoke activities on Tapestry which children and relatives can then access from their own accounts. They can also reply directly to your activity with an observation of their own. Not only can you create your own from scratch and keep them organised in your “Activities Collection.” You also have access to the Tapestry Activities Catalogue. This has over 120 pre-made activities covering a range of topics, ages, and stages of development. These activities are made by members of the Education Team here at Tapestry and we add new ones on the 1st of every month. If you want to give the Activities feature a try, you can enable it by going to Control Panel > Features. That’s all for this month. Best wishes from the Tapestry team

Hello everyone! We hope you’ve had a great October. TEC We’re happy to announce our next Tapestry Education Conference. The theme for the event is Reflecting on CPD in the Early Years, at a time when the need for quality CPD is in the limelight. If you want to attend live so you have a chance to submit questions to our panelists, then please sign up here. It’s on the 4th of November from 6 to 8 p.m. There you will also find information about the three speakers at the event: Iram Siraj, Annie Richardson and Emily Lees. These conferences are completely free, online, and available to watch on our website and YouTube channel after the live event. You can see some of our previous TECs here Recordings and downloadable versions of the presentations can be used to support your CPD. New Articles We have two new articles on the Tapestry site this month. The first by our upcoming TEC panelist Annie Richardson is all about the importance of knowledge of child development to our early years practice. The second is by one of our previous TEC co-hosts, Liz Pemberton, who reflects on a year of anti-racist discourse in the Early Years sector. BACS Payments We are aware that some remittances sent to bacs@eyfs.info didn't find their way through to us as a result of a Microsoft quarantining issue. If your payment has been made in the last month but your account has not been updated accordingly, please send the remittance to bacs@eyfs.info again, marked 'copy remittance', so that we can check through our unallocated payments and ensure there’s no interruption to your service. Feature Focus: Reflections. Reflections has been on Tapestry for quite a while now, but we wanted to draw attention to it again in conjunction with the way the new EYFS works on Tapestry. If you aren’t familiar with Reflections, we recommend having a quick look at our Feature Page which will tell you a bit more about it. If you want to get set up and start using Reflections right away, these two tutorials will help: Setting up Reflections Adding a Reflection Reflections can support you and your team as we all settle into the new EYFS Framework. With the move away from collecting data towards a greater focus on a narrative for children’s development you can use Reflections as a space to reflect on children’s individual journeys. Reflections can link directly to the Areas of Concern screen, so that along with your observations, your reflections can help guide your practice and planning for your children. If you have any questions about Reflections, you can email us on customer.service@eyfs.info That’s all for this month. Best wishes from the Tapestry teamfile:///C:/Users/Jack/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image008.png