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Reflective Practice: What is Reflection, why should it inform our prac…
by Dr Jen Colwell
This article is the first in a series looking at Reflection and its role in Early Years Practice. In this paper we focus on the theory of reflection, what the potential benefits may be and what it requires of practitioners.
This series of art…
Podcast: Men In The Early Years
Stephen chats with Richard Waite about his long and varied career in the Early Years. They discuss barriers men might face in entering early education, why working in the Early Years can be a great career choice and how Richard's love of technology …
What does it mean to be antiracist? Education and racial literacy cons…
Education and racial literacy consultant, and former headteacher Orlene Badu explains that we need to focus on our own antiracist journey in order to be able to model how to challenging and disrupt racism to our children.
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New Feature: Tapestry Pay
Tapestry Pay is now available for all settings and schools using Tapestry’s Nursery Management System in the UK. Tapestry Pay allows parents and carers to pay invoices directly within Tapestry using: Credit or debit card Google Pay or Apple Pay Bank transfer Tax-Free Childcare Payments made through Tapestry Pay are automatically reconciled on the setting or school’s side, helping to reduce admin time. To learn more about Tapestry Pay and how to set it up, please visit the dedicated support page: Tapestry Pay Tapestry Pay (and the full Nursery Management System) is included as part of your subscription. However, please note that transaction fees apply to payments made using this feature, full details can be found here. -
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Tapestry App Update – Version 1.0.4
A new update to the Tapestry Education Platform app (v1.0.4) is now live across all operating systems. The latest Tapestry app update includes: Faster media upload speeds The underlying code infrastructure for the upcoming Tapestry Pay feature This update also includes a number of bug fixes and general improvements. If your app is not set to update automatically, please download the latest version from your device’s app store. Please note: On Amazon devices, the update may take up to 24 hours to appear. -
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Safer Sleep Cot Question
With the new Safer Sleep guidance, it provides a list of British Safety Standard codes so we can check that our beds and matresses meet these. We recently purchased sleep pods for the baby room which were very expensive but their BS code does not match any of those on the list. Does anyone know if the sleep pods can be used for babies both under and over twelve months old? -
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Medicine, incident and bumps and bruises from home forms
Are these forms that can be added or the option for us to add the forms we use in the settings for staff to complete online and parents to be able to sign? -
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Staff Schedules
It would be really helpful to be able to add staff rotas and allocate staff to each room.
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