At Eastchurch, we use Tapestry as our assessment tracker to record our children’s knowledge, skills and learning dispositions. It is a consistent and reliable way of demonstrating progress through the EYFS.

The statements within Tapestry correlate with Development Matters which reflects an ‘age related expectation’. Tapestry recognises the importance and values the 'how' of learning and so the characteristics of effective learning and levels of well-being and involvement are recorded too.

Through interactions with the children we are able to build a rich and accurate understanding of each child across all aspects of learning and development. Our assessments are meaningful and impact on our children’s learning and development as we use them to inform our children’s next steps which are personalised and challenging. Our observations then inform the assessments we make on Tapestry as children approach the end of each range milestone. We bring our knowledge of a child together to make a summative assessment about where they are in relation to key developmental milestones.

Learning Stories

 We use the electronic online Learning Stories provided by Tapestry to record the observations and then use them to support our ongoing assessments. These observations can then be shared with families. You can share all the wonderful things you do with your child at home using Tapestry, by uploading via the website or App.

We love to show you all the wonderful things your child has been doing throughout the day, but we also know and value the importance of actually being with the children and not having an iPad in between us. Therefore, some weeks you will have more observations than others, because we have been engaging and playing and didn’t want to stop the flow to take a photograph. We also welcome contributions from yourselves on your child’s progress and development, so if there are activities they have taken part in outside of school that you would like us to know about, please upload these onto Tapestry, as well as any pieces of writing or work on numbers they may choose to do at home.

You will be given an access code to Tapestry when your child joins our school to see their learning story at home. At the end of Reception their learning story can be downloaded for you to keep and treasure.