Articles for Educators

Articles by Ben C

A Labour of Love: Reflecting on the Realities of the Early Years Sector

Quick Read: The role of the early years educator is both deeply rewarding and highly challenging, balancing joy with stress and pressure. Many practitioners feel undervalued and unsupported, with stress and poor recognition contributing to high levels of burnout and attrition. Despite difficulties, educators describe their work as a vocation—driven...

What is Tapestry’s approach to data security?

Ben Case, from our product support and education teams, takes a closer look at data security on Tapestry, and answers some FAQs. What is Tapestry Learning Journal? Since Tapestry began in 2012, the market for online journals has grown considerably. Starting out as a way to build links between settings...

How you can use Tapestry journals to support your provision

5 min read: Observations – why and how One question I see asked on a regular basis when looking at early years conversations on social media is “How many observations do you write for a child per week?”. Each time the responses are wide ranging, showing that people have taken...

Keeping the EYFS ethos while learning at home

The pandemic has thrown up challenges for those involved in teaching in a way that has never been experienced before. The ‘schooling of the future’ that was shown in the 80s on Tomorrow’s World, became the reality for many, and new skills were learnt by staff and students around the...

Planning for all children to succeed and make progress

I have recently been discussing the start of term with a Reception teacher, and during our chat the subject of expectations came up. There is no doubt that for children starting school in September 2020, the challenges they have experienced beforehand and the transition into school has been very different...

Development Matters on Tapestry – a few questions answered

N.B. Since this article was written, we have continued to discuss the 2021 changes to the EYFS and refine our approaches to them. Although this article is now outdated, we have retained it to show the journey we are all on – please read this article for an update on...

Development Matters for Early Adopters on Tapestry

N.B. Since this article was written, we have continued to discuss the 2021 changes to the EYFS and refine our approaches to them. Although this article is now outdated, we have retained it to show the journey we are all on – please read this article for an update on...

Enhancing and maintaining parental engagement with Tapestry

Since schools closed their doors to the majority of their children on the 20th March, educators have done what they always do at times like this; they have risen to the challenge of keeping a sense of normality for the children and found ways to enable access to learning while...

Looking around Schools

You’ve been hoping that this day will never arrive, but your child has reached that age where you need to choose where they’ll start their school life from. Then you’ll get the pack from the local authority with all the forms to fill out! You’ll start seeing ‘Open Days’ for...

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