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Tapestry Childhood Education Platform & App

Nurturing Children Educators Families

Tapestry has the tools you need to help you run your setting or school smoothly and to celebrate, support and engage with children, families and staff.

Created by educators for educators, we’re the original and leading Childhood Education Platform celebrating children and engaging families through EYFS and Key Stage 1 and 2, in mainstream and SEND provision.

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What is Tapestry?

Available both as a website and app, Tapestry is the Childhood Education Platform that provides comprehensive, award-winning tools to help you build strong relationships with families, and reduce barriers to engagement. You can document each child’s unique learning and development and streamline your planning, monitoring and reporting processes through EYFS to KS1 and 2, for mainstream and special provision.

Nurseries and childminders can also benefit from Tapestry’s Nursery Management Software, which provides clear, transparent and accurate invoicing, smart occupancy planning and in-app attendance registers for children and staff.

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Why choose Tapestry?

Because these four principles form the heart of our Childhood Education Platform
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Nurturing Relationships with Families

Work closely with parents and carers to build and maintain communication, collaboration and engagement, creating an environment that celebrates every child’s growth and learning.
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Supporting your Staff to Elevate your Provision

Reflect on practice and pedagogy individually and as a team to implement inclusive provision that has an impact on learning and development.
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Enabling Child-Centred Assessment and Planning

Put each child at the centre of their development and education, encouraging their interests and following bespoke learning pathways to ensure every child can thrive.
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Supporting Nursery Management Processes

Use effective management tools such as smart booking, accurate invoicing, in-app attendance registers and adult ratios, to simplify and streamline processes for staff and families.

Who we work with

We collaborate with a range of organisations, educators and sector experts to create educational resources, software integrations and meaningful initiatives for the sector. Explore the organisations we work with below and learn more about the professional relationships that support the Tapestry community.

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What we connect with

Less switching between systems, more time for what matters. Explore how Tapestry connects and integrates with the tools and platforms your setting already depends on.

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It has really benefitted my parents as well as my patients. The patients love looking back through the photos on their Learning Journal. It makes them smile and laugh which is very heartwarming to see considering what they are going through. I am so grateful to all of the Tapestry Team for allowing myself to use this amazing resource, thank you so much.

Alternative Provision
October 2026

We are very much enjoying using Tapestry so far and are already reaping the benefits of it as a system.

Nursery School
September 2026

We are enjoying maximising the use of Tapestry this academic year. It has so much to offer!

Key Stage Teacher
September 2026

We have been really impressed since changing over to Tapestry. It is easy to navigate which has really helped the staff get used to it. The things that have most stood out to us have been the invoicing, this is much simpler than the previous platform we used. The recent change of seeing the children who are booked in on that day, rather than all the children in that room has helped staff. They have said that daily dairy entries are easy to input especially for meals which is more time effective.

Early Years Practitioner
September 2026

The Preschool I am now working at uses [competitor] and I personally don’t find it anywhere near as good as Tapestry!

Nursery School
July 2026

I have asked lots of people, watched lots of videos and done quite a bit of research and to be honest, the possibilities that Tapestry can offer my setting compared to the software I currently use excites me, so I will definitely be taking the free trial and having an explore!

Childminder
June 2026

Siren Films

We’re proud to collaborate with Siren Films, the award-winning video producers specialising in child development and early years practice.

Through this partnership, professionally filmed video content enhances the free-to-all-users feature Tapestry CPD, bringing real early years experiences and expertise closer to educators.

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46% of early years educators are using AI in their work

Yet 1 in 4 say it has no place in early years. In this year’s survey, 637 professionals shared their experiences in the sector.

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Using the Care Diary

Give parents a clear picture of their child’s day, from feeding and napping to accidents, incidents and medication. Log everything in one place, let parents sign off forms digitally from their own device, and use dedicated reports to spot patterns and support safeguarding.
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Tapestry CPD

Tapestry CPD offers high-quality, flexible professional development for your team. Created in-house in collaboration with sector experts, courses cover a variety of topics from child development, to getting the most from Tapestry.

Certificates are available on completion, and everything is included as part of a Tapestry subscription.

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An example Reflection

The Early Years manager at Tapestry Primary School, Gabriel, has noticed issues with storing objects for loose parts play. He adds his thoughts to Tapestry as a reflection, and outlines what he hopes to achieve.

An illustration of an Early Years manager, Gabriel, adding a reflection to Tapestry.

His co-manager, Jules, thinks it would be great to get the children’s families involved, and comments on the reflection to say she’ll speak to the Head about sending out a letter to parents.

Comments from staff members on a Tapestry reflection.

Staff member Katie reports that after the letter is sent out, several parents have brought in some excellent repurposed items to use for Gabriel’s idea.

Tapestry Reflections are designed to be returned to as many times as needed – Gabriel, Katie and Jules can keep adding comments, and report on the impact once everything has come together!

Tapestry Reflections

The Reflections area of Tapestry is a structured, staff-only space for understanding the impact of your provision. You can add individual reflections to record thoughts about specific children, your practice, or even procedures within your setting. Capture notes individually or collaborate as a team to share insights, highlight strengths, and plan meaningful next steps for children and your school or setting.

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Using Documents

Tapestry’s Documents feature gives you a secure, central space to store and share important files with families and staff. Whether it’s policies, forms, or helpful resources, everything is easy to organise and access when needed.

You can control who sees each document, with built-in virus scanning for added peace of mind.

Screenshot of Tapestry's Documents feature, showing the files and folders that can be used to organise documents.

Unlimited Media

Tapestry allows you to upload unlimited photos, videos, documents, and audio, making it easy to capture and share children’s learning in ways that feel natural and meaningful. Visual media helps bring observations to life, supporting understanding for all families, regardless of language or confidence with written communication.

With no limits, you can focus on what matters most – the moments themselves.

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By encouraging Family Observations

Tapestry allows relatives to add their own observations from home, helping you build a fuller picture of each child’s development. These moments offer valuable insight into a child’s interests, experiences, and achievements beyond the setting.

By involving families, you can create a more connected and meaningful view of each child’s learning.

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Using Reports

With Tapestry’s Reports feature, you can choose from a range of ready-made templates or design your own using a flexible editor. This makes it easy to create reports that reflect your approach and your school or setting’s needs.

Reports can be shared with families, helping you communicate each child’s progress, development, and next steps clearly.

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Using Messaging

Tapestry’s Messaging feature makes it easy to communicate directly with relatives in a secure, familiar environment. Whether it’s a quick update before the day begins or a follow-up afterwards, conversations stay clear, private, and easy to manage.

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Using Activities

With Tapestry’s Activities feature, staff can share ideas for learning at home, helping families stay connected to their child’s development. Activities can be simple, flexible, and easy to fit into everyday routines, making it easier for parents and carers to get involved.

Families can also respond with their own observations, supporting a more complete view of each child’s journey.

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Using Memos

Tapestry’s Memos feature allows staff to send messages to groups of relatives, making it easy to share announcements, reminders, and important updates in one place. Staff can even use Memos to introduce themselves to families before a child’s first day, helping everyone feel familiar and prepared ahead of the transition. Everything stays within Tapestry, helping communication remain clear, consistent, and easy to access.
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Using Messaging

Tapestry’s Messaging feature allows you to communicate directly with individual staff members or relatives, keeping conversations private, secure, and easy to follow. It’s ideal for sharing updates, asking questions, or having more personal conversations about a child’s day.

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Using the Admin Toolkit

As part of Tapestry’s Admin Toolkit, you can transfer child profiles, together with their connected relatives, between Tapestry accounts. This ensures their learning journey continues smoothly, even as they move settings.

Alongside this, you can customise your account, schedule posts in advance, add unlimited staff and relatives, store unlimited data, and tailor notification settings to suit your team.

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Bring it all together

Each part of Tapestry strengthens the next. Use Memos to share reminders or keep everyone aligned for the week ahead. Follow up with Direct Messaging when a parent needs reassurance, a quick clarification, or a more personal conversation. Set Activities to extend learning beyond the classroom – whether it’s practising spellings, noticing maths in the real world, or encouraging creative thinking at home.
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Together, they keep communication clear, learning connected, and families involved in the everyday life of your classroom.

Bring it all together

Each feature on Tapestry supports the next. Observations capture the everyday moments of learning, with flags helping you highlight what matters as you go. If a child needs extra support, the Areas of Concern screen brings those flagged moments together so you can see everything in one place and from there, Reflections help you plan and record the actions you want to take.

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Together, they help you celebrate the small moments, notice emerging needs, and plan thoughtful support for every child.

Using Bespoke Frameworks

Build your own curriculum using a CSV file, ready to import into Tapestry. You can create your own areas, aspects, statements and scales, organise them into a structure that suits your setting, and assess against them in observations.

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Using Flags

Flags allow you to label an observation with specific points of reference, such as the EYFS areas, celebrations, or custom flags you have created. Once applied, these flags can be viewed and filtered for a specific child, or the whole setting, helping you quickly locate relevant observations.

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Using the Areas of Concern Screen

The Areas of Concern screen gives you one place to note where a child may need more support across the EYFS areas. Any observations you’ve flagged in those areas appear here automatically, making it easy to look back at what you’ve seen and what it relates to. You can also start reflections from this screen, helping you keep track of the support you’re planning, 

Screenshot of Tapestry's Areas of Concerns screen, with comments from a reflection that staff have started about a child.

Using Reflections

Use structured staff-only reflections to understand the impact of your provision. Make notes for yourself, or work as a team to share insights, highlight strengths, and plan meaningful next steps for children, or for your setting as a whole.

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Using Tapestry’s Monitoring tools

Whether you’re using EYFS flags, working with specific frameworks, or building your own curriculum, Tapestry keeps everything in one place. Our monitoring screens give you a clear, holistic picture so you can celebrate strengths and plan for what comes next.

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Using Observations

Tapestry’s Observations feature allows you to capture photos, videos, notes, and audio in the moment. Add area flags and assessments, link other observations and activities, and build each child’s journal — then share updates with families with a single tap.

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