@ Simmondley Pre School
Dear Parent / Carer
At Pre-School we use an on-line Learning Journal called Tapestry to record your child’s progress and development whilst they are with us.
This is an interactive journal and to build a strong parent partnership we encourage you to share it with your child and add to it either leaving comments and feedback to our observations or by adding your own photo’s and comments.
Feedback from parents has been very positive, especially as a way of finding out and talking about what children have done at Pre School – a photograph often gets them talking! We would also like you to use the journal to tell us what your child enjoys at Pre School and what they would like to do more of so that we can take their idea’s and interests into account when planning.
You can install the Tapestry app to your iPhone, iPod, iPad or Android device. Search for Tapestry Mobile: Online Learning Journal. You can then login using the
e-mail address and password given on your Registration Form. You will be prompted to create a 4 digit pin of your choice and should then be able to see any observations that have been added, comment on them and add your own pictures etc.
To access Tapestry using a PC search: https://eylj.org/ and enter the same login details as for the app.
Additionally, each time an observation is made you will be notified via an e-mail from Tapestry Online Learning Journal. Just follow the link and it should take you straight to the observation.
Each child’s journey can have individual accounts set up for parents and relatives to access. Currently the accounts are set up to the main e-mail address given on the registration information. If you would like individual accounts as parents or for any other relatives please let me have their e-mail and a password and I can set this up.
If you have any problems please let me know.
Tapestry allows staff to record photographs, videos, Development Matters statements and Characteristics of Effective Learning (CEL), all of which you will be able to see and comment on.
I am sure you appreciate that staff will post observations as frequently as possible, but that it is more important that they are spending time with the children on session not just writing and posting observations! You can expect your Tapestry journal to be updated at least once during a 2 week period, this may be photographs/video with a short explanation, just a written observation and may or may not be linked to Developmental Matters statements or CEL’s. The journals are as individual as the children they are about and therefore it may be that you seem to get a lot of posts at some times and not as many at other times.
We hope that you enjoy Tapestry and please let us have any feedback at any time.
Kind regards
Lindsey Farrow
Natural Explorers @ Simmondley Pre School