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Using Tapestry in Specialist Learning Spaces within Mainstream Schools

Whether they are labelled Resourced Provisions, Resource Bases, SRPS or ARPS, there has been a huge proliferation of specialist learning spaces being set up within mainstream primary schools to support learners who have increasingly complex learning differences. At Tapestry, we have seen a large rise in requests for accounts to...

Monitoring Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) Outcomes on Tapestry

Many settings and schools now use Tapestry to monitor children’s outcomes from their EHC Plan. Our Bespoke Frameworks feature allows you to upload assessment criteria that is unique and add this information into your observations. Using Tapestry in this way can be very helpful when considering progress and coverage against...

10 Best Children’s Picture Books 2024

Are you looking to update the book corner in your setting or at school? Or are you searching for the perfect gift for a child that you know well? Every year, a wealth of new children’s picture books are published, but it can be tricky to find just the right...

The DfE Early Years SEND Assessment Guidance

Our SEND Advisor Stephen Kilgour shares how the new DfE Early Years SEND assessment guidance can be used on Tapestry. New SEND assessment guidance and resources have been released by the Department for Education (DfE) to support those working in the EYFS. The guidance has been written in collaboration with the...

An interview with Dr. Becca Wilson

7 min read: Could you tell us a little about yourself, your role and your journey to finding it? I’m a researcher at the University of Liverpool and I develop software and processes that help to share sensitive health data that’s used in research. When I was six, my...

Cherry Garden Branch Maps – A Practical Guide

How to use the Cherry Garden framework within your SEND provision to support your planning and assessment The Cherry Garden Branch Maps were created by Cherry Garden School in order to improve the planning and assessment protocols that were previously in place at the school. The over-arching aim was to...

The Engagement Model and Tapestry

We have been contacted by many settings, asking if we will be including a new framework for ‘The Engagement Model’ in September 2020, when it becomes statutory to use the guidance when assessing children who are working below the old P Scale 5. Have a look at our Engagement Model...

The Engagement Model

In 2016, after many months of speculation, the Rochford Review was published by the government. Contained within were recommendations for how the assessment of children with special educational needs should take place. The ‘headline’ of the piece was that ‘P Scales’ should no longer be used to report on the...

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