Tapestry Journal
At the URC Preschool we use an online journal to track your child's progress and regularly update you with their development in our setting. Tapestry has been a welcomed addition to our methods of communication with parents and not only allows us to connect with you, but also for you to connect with us. Parents can reply to observations sent to your individual accounts and allows you to see your child's progress during their time with us. Once your child is enrolled in the setting, you will be sent log in details for the online portal - you can find the website linked below and also in our parents area drop down menu.
Areas of Learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This area of learning covers:
- Having a positive approach to learning and finding out about the world around them.
- Having confidence in themselves and their ability to do things, and valuing their own achievements.
- Being able to go on, work and make friendships with other people, both children and adults.
- Becoming aware of and being able to keep to the rules which we all need to help us to look after ourselves, other people and our environment.
- Being able to expect to have their ways of doing things respected and to respect other people's way of doing things.
Physical Development
This area of learning covers:
- Gaining control over the large movement that they can make with their arms, legs and bodies, so that they can run, jump, hop, skip, climb and lift.
- Gaining control over the small movements they can make with their arms, wrists and hands, so that they pick up and use objects, tools and materials.
- Learning about the importance of and how to look after their bodies.
Communication and Language
This area of learning covers:
- Being able to use conversation with one other person, in small groups in large groups to talk with and listen to others.
- Adding to their vocabulary by learning the meaning of and being able to use new words.
- Being able to words to describe their experiences.
Literacy
This area of learning covers:
- Looking at books and listening to stories.
- Having favourite stories, rhymes and songs.
- Distinguishing between different marks when writing.
Mathematics
This area of learning covers:
- Building up ideas about how many, how much, how far and how big.
- Building up ideas about patterns, the shape of objects and parts of objects, and the amount of space taken up by objects.
- Starting to understand the numbers help us to answer questions about how many, how much, how far and how big.
- Building up ideas about how to use counting to find out and how many.
Understanding the World
This area of learning covers:
- Finding out about the natural world and how it works.
- Finding out about the man made world and how it works.
- Learning how to choose and use the right tools for a task.
- Learning about technology, how to use it and what it can help us to do.
- Starting to put together ideas about past and present and the link between them.
- Begin to learn about their locality and it's special features.
- Learning about their own and other cultures.
Expressive Art and Design
This area of learning covers:
- Using paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play to express their ideas and feelings.
- Becoming interested in the way that paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play can be used to express ideas and feelings.