Tapestry Childhood Education Platform & App

Nurturing Children, Educators and Families

Tapestry has the tools you need to help you run your setting or school smoothly and to celebrate, support and engage with children, families and staff. Created by educators for educators, we’re the original and leading Childhood Education Platform celebrating children and engaging families through EYFS and Key Stage 1 and 2, in mainstream and SEND provision.

Tapestry's Childhood Education Platform is for Early Years to Year 6

What is Tapestry?

Available both as a website and app, Tapestry is the Childhood Education Platform that provides comprehensive, award-winning tools to help you build strong relationships with families, and reduce barriers to engagement. You can document each child’s unique learning and development and streamline your planning, monitoring and reporting processes through EYFS to KS1 and 2, for mainstream and special provision.

Nurseries and childminders can also benefit from Tapestry’s Nursery Management Software, which provides clear, transparent and accurate invoicing, smart occupancy planning and in-app attendance registers for children and staff.

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Tapestry’s Latest Awards & Recognitions

Tapestry is an exceptional education platform that transforms learning by offering personalised, flexible solutions for both educators and students. With features like Child Login, it engages children in their learning journey, allowing them to upload work and receive meaningful feedback. Tapestry’s integration of formative assessment, planning, and progress monitoring supports whole-school approaches and enhances relationships with families. Its specialised support for SEND through the Cherry Garden Framework is particularly noteworthy. Overall, Tapestry is a cost-effective, comprehensive tool that enriches education while reducing staff workloads.

Matt Rogers – NAACE

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Teacher Tapp Gold Recommendation Award 2024
EdTech 2024 Voted No.1
BETT Awards 2023 Finalist
Teach Primary Awards 2022 Finalist

Yesterday 9,794 observations were uploaded to our servers, containing 14,367 photographs and 898 videos, along with notes and educational assessments. Responsibility for this data is something we care deeply about.

Why choose Tapestry?

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Nurturing Relationships with Families

Work closely with parents and carers to build and maintain communication, collaboration and engagement, creating a supportive environment that celebrates every child’s growth and learning.

Support Parent Partnerships.

Tapestry Childhood Education Platform helping staff develop their provision using Activities, Observations and Reflections

Supporting your Staff to Elevate your Provision

Reflect on practice and pedagogy individually and as a team to implement inclusive provision that has an impact on learning and development.

Support Educator Professional Development & Wellbeing.

Tapestry Childhood Education Platform enabling child-centred assessment and planning using EYFS 2021 and Reflections

Enabling Child-Centred Assessment and Planning

Put each child at the centre of their development and education, encouraging their interests and following bespoke learning pathways to ensure every child can thrive.

Support Child-centred Development.

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Supporting Nursery Management Processes

Use effective management tools such as smart booking, accurate invoicing, in-app attendance registers and adult ratios, to simplify and streamline processes for staff and families.

Support Nursery Management Processes.

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“Moving to Tapestry has been a fantastic experience, and throughout the setting our practitioners love all that it has to offer. From making invoicing an easy process, to scheduling in children and being top tier for observations and parent communications. Tapestry are fantastic if you ever need support and always willing to hear suggestions and feedback, and even better, continuously act on them and continue making Tapestry a fantastic service for settings!”

Woodlands Nursery School, August 2024

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What does Tapestry do?

As featured in

teachwire
TES
Nursery World
Nursery Management Today
Headteacher Update
Edurio

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Have you heard about Tapestry’s printed journals?

Parents and carers of children at your setting or school can now have their children’s Tapestry journals professionally printed! We’ve teamed up with publisher Group Hugs to create these beautiful keepsakes.

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“I just love the product. As a parent it’s the best thing getting those photos each day of your child and the assessing and recording is great from my point of view! I recommend your product to everyone.”

Tapestry Parent, July 2024

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Get Started for Free

If you’d like to see how using Tapestry can support your setting or school – whether you’re working in the EYFS or in Key Stages 1 or 2 – why not take out a free, no obligation, 2 week trial today.

Try Tapestry for free

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Who's behind the Tapestry Childhood Education Platform?

We’re a dedicated, small and enthusiastic team coming together from a variety of backgrounds; teaching, technology, event management, digital hypermedia storytelling and the civil service, to name a few! Most of us are based in East Sussex.

Dig a little deeper into the Tapestry team...