In this tutorial we’re going to look at the EYFSP screens for the ELG assessment framework — Tapestry’s version of the EYFS Profile. For each child in a cohort, they bring together the ELG assessments you’ve made in observations into an Emerging or Expected score for each of the 17 Early Learning Goals, let you check and change those scores, show a cohort side by side, and work out which children have reached a Good Level of Development (GLD).
Please note that this tutorial is about the ELG assessment framework, which has its own tab on the Monitoring page — not the ELG flag set. Flags are labels you attach to observations and children, whereas the framework is what you assess against when you add an observation, and it’s those assessments that feed these screens. The framework needs to be switched on first — our Enabling an assessment framework tutorial shows you how.
To find the screens, click Planning & Monitoring in the menu on the left, then Monitoring.
Select the ELG tab and, under Snapshots, click Individual View, Group View or GLD View in the EYFSP box. Once you’re in, the Individual, Group and GLD tabs at the top of the screen let you swap between the three.
The Individual View shows one child’s EYFSP score for each Early Learning Goal, and is where you can change and lock them.
Choosing the child
Choose the Child. Beneath the filters, Tapestry reminds you that any changes you make to the status or the scores are only kept once you click Save EYFSP. The Status box lets you lock the child’s EYFSP once you’re happy with it: tick Locked and click Save EYFSP, and the scores stay as they are until someone unticks it and saves again.
Reading the scores
The Early Learning Goals are listed by area of learning. Each has a Score — Emerging, Expected, or No Score if the child hasn’t been assessed against it yet — taken from the most recent ELG assessment in the child’s observations. A pencil beside a score means a member of staff has set it by hand; the Manually defined key above the list reminds you of this. Click Show Details to see where a score came from. The CSV and PDF buttons export the child’s scores.
Seeing where a score came from
The Snapshot Details show the child’s current EYFSP Score, an Overridden box if someone has set it by hand — with who did so and when — and the Most Recent score from the child’s observations, followed by the observations themselves. Click an observation’s title to open it.
Changing a score
If your own judgement differs from what the observations suggest, open the goal’s Score menu and choose No Score, Emerging or Expected. Change as many goals as you need, then click Save EYFSP. A pencil appears beside each score you’ve set, and the Snapshot Details record who changed it and when.
Do bear in mind that changing or locking scores here changes the child’s EYFSP itself — it doesn’t create an observation, and relatives don’t see it. New ELG assessments in observations won’t replace a score you’ve set by hand.
The Group View shows a cohort of children side by side. The Cohort filter starts on the current academic year’s cohort — change it to look back at an earlier year — and the other Children filters let you narrow the list, for example to one group; we’ve chosen the 2023 cohort and the Daffodil class. Order chooses how the children are arranged.
The Early Learning Goals run down the left, with a column for each child showing Emerging, Expected or a dash where there’s no score yet. A pencil beside a score means it was set by hand — hover over it to see who set it and when — and clicking a child’s name opens their Individual View. The CSV and PDF buttons export the grid, and Calculate GLD opens the GLD View for the same children.
In the exports, Emerging is written as 1, Expected as 2 and no score as A. When you click PDF, you can give the PDF a title and notes, choose a font, and tick Landscape page layout — a good idea when the grid is wide — before clicking Download PDF.
The GLD View shows which children have reached a Good Level of Development. Click the GLD tab — or GLD View on the Monitoring page, or Calculate GLD on the Group View. The same Children filters apply, so choose the cohort and group you’d like to look at.
At the top, Tapestry shows the percentage of the children listed who are at GLD. Below, each child has an Overall tick or cross, followed by a tick or cross for each of the five areas that count towards GLD — Communication and Language (CL), Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED), Physical Development (PD), Literacy (L) and Mathematics (M). A dash means the child has no scores in that area yet.
Please note that a child is at GLD only when they’re Expected in every Early Learning Goal in those five areas — 12 goals in all. Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design don’t count towards GLD, and an Emerging or missing score anywhere in the five areas shows as a cross.
And that’s it! We’ve found the EYFSP screens for the ELG framework, read and checked a child’s scores in the Individual View, seen how to change and lock them, compared a cohort in the Group View and exported it, and checked who has reached a Good Level of Development in the GLD View.