All the better for hearing you and the team!

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The 2025 Tapestry survey is now live!

If you're an early years educator we’d love to hear how you work with parents & carers, how you feel about your role and what you think about using AI.

Deadline: 30 May. We’ll share findings in July. Thank you!

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Loved being a part of this conversation.

Many don’t realise that Tapestry is for KS1&2 not just EYFS, and invaluable in preparing for Pupil Progress Meetings, as highlighted by our recent Teach Primary Award.

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My latest article published in Teach Primary.
It's important to respect each phase of education and appreciate the different skills needed to be a good teacher and leader if you find yourself in that position.

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We’re delighted that our very own Dr Helen Edwards contributed to this article from Nursery World Magazine alongside an array of other early years professionals.

VIEW HELEN'S 4 WISHES FOR EARLY YEARS EDUCATION IN 2025, IN THE GRAPHICS

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@stephen.tapestry.info might be a good person to speak with

Great chat with @laurahallain.bsky.social today around the inspirations of Maya and Marley: The Great Big Tidy Up! So many layers to book that I hadn't fully appreciated before.
As always, a great conversation and looking forward to being able to share the podcast next year.

Story time (including poetry at times) was one of the best times of the day with my class. We would choose some great chapter books and they were all hooked and wanting to carry on. It's the power of books!

As my little boy was very tired this evening, we were just chilling and chatting and we started to come up with stories. We then asked Google Gemini if it could help us with a story and it did such a great job at giving us story starters, all through conversation with it. Really impressed.

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I found setting app time limits helped me break the habit of looking for the sake of looking.
Having listened to Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear, it made me appreciate setting smaller achievable targets to ensure my habits changed.

Morning Chris and team!

Hi - and you :)

When I dropped my little boy off at nursery this morning, his eyes lit up when he saw they had the tray of dinosaurs out! Always a winner in his eyes.

School-based nurseries - our reflections on their rollout | Tapestry This article explores the benefits of school-based nurseries such as early curriculum building, inclusive SEND support, and family engagement.

Imagine 300 brand new nurseries bursting onto the scene by next September! The ambitious plan could be a game-changer for children. But is it the right move?
The idea promises brighter futures, but it's important to consider existing childcare providers too.
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I was reminded of this graphic yesterday in a conversation with a colleague.

It features in 'The Inclusive Early Years Educator' & is a prompt for us to simplify our practice. Until 20th Nov you can get 20% off the book using code GNOV20

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Creativity in the Curriculum for Wales | Tapestry Co-authored by Tîm Dysgu, this article shares how creativity is being woven into the Curriculum for Wales from the early years onwards.

Is there anybody here who has been involved in the very inspiring work going on in Wales- bringing creativity back into the curriculum?

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Thank you for the reply. That's what I'm thinking too, and feels more appropriate too as there could be so many different ways that a pupil is demonstrating the skills you are assessing, and they probably won't all be in one place.

Hi, former primary teacher, now working as an advisor with schools and teachers around the world, with my work at Tapestry.
#eduSky

I'm hopeful that the 'next generation' are better at exploring things at a deeper level than face value, thanks to their understanding of how things work.

There certainly is a lot for us to understand if using AI tools. My hope is that over time, the tools learn to search from a diverse pool, without needing to specify, but think we all know the chances of that happening. This is why teaching how to use and search using AI is going to be important.

Would be interesting to also see how connected to these parents the educators are, to be able to say this confidently.
It's a bold statement to say they don't care, whereas maybe they don't know how to support their child.
So much more to unpack here as you say.