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Tapestry Journal

Journals are created for each of your children, with full control over who can view and edit them (you will receive login details for your account from the Preschool). You will have personal access to your child’s own learning journal and provide two way feedback to help the preschool understand your child and what they enjoy doing to help develop them in their areas of interest. Please log onto Tapestry to see what your little one has been up to, and give us your feedback.

Tapestry Explained
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Learning Journals and special books have grown in popularity over the last decade, offering early years settings a way to record the special moments of their children, and to keep parents involved in a partnership as their children blossom and grow. More recently they have been used in conjunction with the EYFS developmental stages to assess more formally how children are progressing.

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Traditionally these individual records have been collected in scrapbooks or binders, building up into a treasured memoir that children can take with them when they leave for the next stages of their journey through life – each entry forming a thread in the warp and weft of the tapestry that is their life.

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The cost, in both time and money, of providing these journals has often caused great problems for managers and staff in EYFS settings. The purchase of the scrap books alone can be significant, and printing photographs, and cutting, pasting and writing in the journals is a time consuming affair.

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Additionally, managers experience the trauma of sending their journals home with parents, only to find they return them late or even lose them. In the event of parents who are separated it can be difficult to make the journals available to both in a fair way; and if one parent is away for other reasons (for example a serving member of the armed forces who is on active duties) it is impossible to use the physical journal as a means of keeping up to date with a son or daughter.

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What if it was possible to create records of observations instantly? To add notes and images and have them immediately available to any authorised person as part of the complete story of the child’s life at their nursery. To have parents able to view and comment on these special moments, and to be able to contribute their own stories of the child’s life outside nursery?

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Well, we believe you can. This is what we call Tapestry. Online Learning Journals, from the imagineers at the FSF!

Features
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  • A complete standalone application with your own web address, with full management functions to control access and communication, for parents and staff, and editorial control over all journals and records.

  • Journals created for each of your children, with full control over who can view and edit them.

  • A growing number of designs for you to choose from.

  • Each observation or page can include notes, photographs and EYFS assessments, characteristics of learning and videos. They can be enhanced by comments from other staff and parents, and each page appears in a pleasing and coherent way.

  • View the complete set of observations as a learning journey, flipping through a single child’s observation pages, in time-order, or filtering in flexible ways to access your favourite records. Bookmark your favourites for quick access.

  • Upload an observation to multiple childrens’ journals simultaneously, then split and edit individually if necessary.

  • Convert to PDF and give to parents as CD or print hardcopies as appropriate.

  • Observations can be uploaded in one single process that makes a new entry immediately available or, optionally, hidden until the manager has approved them.

  • Each child’s journey can have individual accounts set up for parents and relatives to access.

  • Parents can comment on new entries and even add their own.

  • Mobile apps allow new entries to be made from iPhones,iPads and Android devices.

  • Intuitive EYFS ‘tagger’ allows assessments to be made down to statement level, and multiple EYFS assessments can be made for a single observation (optional – you decide in your management screen).

  • Automatic emails generated for parents when new entries are made.

  • Click Here to learn more about TAPESTRY.

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