At Applecroft Preschool, we use Tapestry, an online learning journal, to keep parents and carers connected and up to date with their child’s learning and development. Through Tapestry, you can view your child’s observations, progress reports, photos and videos, giving you a wonderful insight into their experiences and achievements at preschool. We value working closely with families and encourage parents to engage with and contribute to their child’s learning journey.

On Tapestry, parents/guardians and other relatives can view, like and comment on the observations we make for your children. You can also add your own observations of what your child does outside of the setting.

We use the Care Diary function on Tapestry which allows us to record food, drink and toilet entries as well as nap times. The Care Diary also has an accident form section and comments tool which we can use to send messages back and forth between you and us.

Tapestry also has a Documents feature that we use to upload documents to share with you, such as our policies and protocols.

If you give your permission, we will set you up with your own individual account using your email address. This account will be directly linked to your children's account/s, which means you will only be able to see observations that include your child. You will then be able to login with your email address and password to either the browser version of Tapestry (tapestryjournal.com) or to the app.

Tapestry has apps for iOS, Android and Amazon Fire devices. If you choose to use the app, after you login initially, you can use a 4-digit PIN to quickly log back in.

Tapestry securely stores all the data we input to our account on their servers. If you want to find out more information about how Tapestry keeps our data safe and secure, you just need to go to https://tapestry.info/security.html.

Once your child has started at Applecroft Preschool, if you would like access to Tapestry, please speak to a member of staff. You will be given a registration form to complete, and once this has been processed, you will receive your personal login details.

This will allow you to access your child’s online learning journal and keep up to date with their experiences, learning and progress at Applecroft.

Many Thanks

The Applecroft Team