EYFS Learning Journal
Tapestry is the only learning journal tool you need to support your child-centred practice in Reception
Reception is the beginning of a child’s relationship with school, and that means their time with you is hugely important. As educators, you support each child and their family to navigate this starting point, and build the foundations for their future.
Tapestry has been carefully designed to support you and help you develop a unique provision tailored to the needs of each one of the children in your care – from building a celebratory digital EYFS learning journal to forging strong collaborative partnerships with families.
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Helping you build a unique EYFS curriculum
Every school, class, and child is unique, and your EYFS curriculum will be unique too. Say hello to the flexible software that adapts to your needs.
- Design and add bespoke curriculums.
- Tailor your curriculum goals and assess progress in a way that works for you and your children.
- Follow the EYFS framework, with supporting reference material available whenever you need it.
- Create central, downloadable reports to share with SLT and families.
Inform your teaching with intuitive EYFS tracking and assessment
We are here to reduce workload and help you stay on top of things, so you can focus on spending time with every child.
- Create observations that act as visual memory jogs about each child’s learning and development.
- Use your reflective practice to implement changes and demonstrate the impact of your provision.
- Stay organised with consistent categories for your observations and reflections.
- Support your EYFS summative assessment by highlighting where you need to adapt your provision for each child, and build a timeline to show the impact on their learning.
- Customise your child-centred assessment by adding tailored curriculum goals for specific areas such as phonics.
Nurture meaningful partnerships with parents
Partnership with parents and carers remains at the heart of the EYFS framework.
With Tapestry, you get to know your children and their families, and they get to know you.
- Reassure families and celebrate children’s learning by sharing photos and videos.
- Discover children’s interests and experiences outside school.
- Keep families up-to-date about important and day-to-day information.
- Provide clear reports to parents and carers, informing their understanding of their child’s development.
- Share learning opportunities and ideas with families.
- Provide families with a copy of their child’s EYFS learning journal – a beautiful end-of-year keepsake.
Have you heard about Tapestry’s printed learning journals?
Parents and carers of children at your school or setting can also have their children’s Tapestry journals professionally printed! We’ve teamed up with publisher Group Hugs to bring Tapestry journals to life as beautiful books, with no extra work from you.
Supporting transitions in the EYFS
Whether it’s moving from nursery to Reception, or from Reception to Year 1, the early years is a time of transitions for young children. Tapestry helps you to be ready for each child.
Learn all the important things about a child before they join you, and learn more about them while they are with you.
Get organised for your new children in advance – because new academic years are already hectic enough!
Welcome children to their new classroom with customised labels for pegs, drawers and special creations.
Send photos and videos about the classroom and staff to your new families to help them get to know you.
Help a child’s next teacher understand the developmental journey of each child.
Award-winning tools for every Reception teacher
Take a look at all of our features, carefully designed to reduce your workload and boost parental engagement.
And, what’s best, they are all included in every Tapestry subscription. One price, all features.
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