What Is Tapestry? • An Online learning journal system. • Staff record children's progress and activities using tablet devices and PCs. • Parents can view their child’s journal on mobile devices and on their home computers, and can make observations of their own using a secure login system.
Why Are We Using Tapestry? • It creates a two way communication between us (the EYFS team), and you (the parents and carers). • It reduces the amount of letters we need to send (ECO friendly) • We can upload flexible media meaning you can see pictures and videos of what your child is really up to at school. • Greater opportunities to extend your child’s learning at home – you can view what your child is currently working on and next steps and support them at home. • Unlike a physical, hard copy book, it’s easy to share with the child’s relatives (although please do not share photo’s or video’s on social media).
How Does It Work? • Photos, videos and observations are uploaded to Tapestry. • It is accessed via the Android/iOS app or the Tapestry website. • It enables you to like and/or comment on observations and make your own observations so you can show us what your child is doing outside the school day – weekend trips, exciting learning opportunities, trip to the shops etc.
How Is The Data Protected? • A password is required to access Tapestry, and parents can only view observations of their own children. • Hosted on secure cloud servers within the EU. • Tapestry uses the same encryption as online banking. • Data is stored separately for each school. • At the end of the academic year we delete your child’s account of the system (but you have the chance to have a copy of all the observations before this is done.)
What Does It Look Like on the Computer?
What Does It Look Like on the App?
• We would ask that you look at Tapestry daily to check for specific observations sent to you about your child, group observations or whole class information posts e.g. number of the week/letter of the day/asking you to post something for the learning the week ahead. • Please like each post sent to you by pressing like or the little This shows us you have seen the post. • Make comments on posts if you wish. • We love to see what your child has been doing at home. This may be related to learning your child has done at school (finding m on a sign), major mile stones your child has completed at home (riding their bike without stabilisers) or weekend activities you or your child would like to share.
If you have any questions, please ask before you leave. Thank you for attending this meeting.
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