Tapestry

Part of the requirements of children being in an Early Years Setting is to document a child’s progress through the form of a ‘Learning Journey’. Up until now we have used a paper format, after careful consideration and much research we have decided to create individual ‘Learning Journeys’ for your child through a piece of educational software called ‘Tapestry’.

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Tapestry is a secure online E-learning journal to record the development of each child in our setting. This system allows us to work with parents and carers to share information and record the children’s play and learning in and outside of the setting.

So what is ‘Tapestry’…?

Tapestry provides each individual child with their own e-learning journey held online. Parents and carers are given their own log-in using their email and a password made by the parent. Staff have access to Tapestry on tablets (Samsung) so they can upload observations and photographs linking to the EYFS curriculum. An email is then automatically generated to parents/carers set up to that child’s account and they are informed that an observation has been added.

One of the key reasons we chose ‘Tapestry’ over many other learning journey systems was because of the interactive opportunities for parents. With Tapestry parents can view, add comments and photographs from the comfort of their own home via a secure password system.

As parents/carers you can choose who has access to your child’s e-learning journal. Only those people who you have given permission to have a login and password will be able to see your child’s journal.

E-safety is extremely important to us at Brook Early Years, therefore we ask you to sign an agreement to show that you understand and will agree to adhere to our guidelines.