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Early years Foundation Stage Parent Morning How to help your child at home

Aims

• Tapestry
• Bug Club
• Reading

What is Tapestry?

• Tapestry is an online Learning Journal to securely

record photos, videos, observations and comments in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.

• It allows us to work with parents and carers to

view work from school and build up a record of your child's experiences during their time with us.

• It also enables parents and carers to share

pictures and videos with school in order to inform

• ur planning and assessments of children.

• r visit

https://eylj.org/login/

Download Tapestry Mobile app

• n Google Play or itunes

Enter Email Address and Password

• Once you have given us an email address, we will set

up an account for you.

• Login using your email address and the password we

give you.

Click on the Plus (+) sign

Once logged in, you will see your child’s observations on your home screen in a list.

How do I add an entry to my child’s Learning Journal?

Press the pencil Icon and write a title and your comment

Choose a photo from your library or take a photo

Remember to save your observation

How do I know that my child’s Learning Journal has been updated?

• The system will automatically send you an

email when an observation for your child has been added.

Online school reading programme

Why are we using eBooks?

• Children can enjoy reading books onscreen and completing fun quiz

questions found in the eBooks

• The quiz questions will help the children practise their reading skills
• The Foundation and KS1 eBooks are also audio-books, so children can

enjoy hearing an expressive reading of the story.

• Carefully graded reading books and eBooks

When can children use the eBooks?

• If you have access to an internet connection

at home, your child can log on whenever they want to, from home.

Using the eBooks

Example login details Username: singg22 Password: 0411 (DOB & Month) School ID: bgap Each child’s login details will be different

Log in here with the details we will give you

A child’s homepage

• We will allocate eBooks according to the reading

level children are on.

You will find the ebooks in ‘My Stuff’

Using the ebooks

Parent notes on inside front covers

• Practise high-frequency

words and sounds that appear in the book

• Don’t worry if your child

struggles on the tricky words

• Use the games and

questions for discussion

Child activities on inside

back covers

• Play the games to

encourage going back through the book

• If you want, there are ideas

for making things, drawing things etc.

Click on the bug for a quiz question.

Bug Points and Rewards

• When they have finished all quiz questions in an eBook, children

will gain some Bug Points.

• When they have read a few eBooks, they will have enough Bug

Points to gain a reward.

• A reward will appear on their screen, and they can see this reward

in ‘My rewards’.

A Reception reward screen – collecting stickers.

Reading at home

• Reading book, Bug Club
• Reading record- sign when they have read
• Library book – to read to your child

Turn off the TV, ask questions about the pictures, give lots of praise!

phonics

• Children can use phonics to help them to

decode words

• Some words are ‘tricky’ and cannot be read

phonetically What, said, the, was, no, go, I, a, we These need to be learned by sight!

Any Questions