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  • Tips & Tricks

7 ways to improve parental engagement using Tapestry

  • March 21, 2025
  • By Jack
  • 2 min read

Here’s 7 of the best features on Tapestry to help improve parental engagement at your setting.

Positive first Impressions

Use our starting resources to ensure families are excited to get going on Tapestry.

These resources are designed to help relatives pick up how to use Tapestry quickly and easily, so you can begin building your parental engagement.

Tapestry Family Guides

Observations

Sharing observations helps you to build a connection between setting and home.

Provide instant updates and share pictures/videos/documents/sound recordings directly with parents and carers.

It’s a two-way street! Relatives can make observations from home giving you a fuller picture of the child’s learning and development and enhancing parental engagement.

Visit the Observations feature page
A screenshot of observations on Tapestry

Memos

Keep relatives informed about all the goings-on in your setting so they never miss a trip or a new menu.

Memos is the best way to share announcements with individuals or groups of relatives.

Visit the Memos feature page
A screenshot on Tapestry of two Memos

Management System

Make life simpler for relatives. Tapestry’s efficient management system helps to keep your admin transparent and organised. Knowing what to expect can contribute to parents’ trust in their child’s setting.

Send relatives their invoices, log payments and send receipts, all through Tapestry.

And parents can always stay up to date on finances by accessing their own invoices and account balance.

Explore Tapestry’s Management System

Activities

A screenshot of the Activities feature in Tapestry.

Help families with at-home and independent learning.

Tapestry’s Activities feature helps you support parental engagement in children’s learning. You can create your own bespoke activities, or choose from our catalogue of over 100 premade ideas, and send to families to try at home. Encouraging parents to send a video or photo observation of their child having a go at an activity helps to nurture the connection between setting and home.

Visit the Activities feature page

Messaging

Stay in touch – message relatives directly.

Messaging allows you to securely and easily initiate conversations with relatives and vice versa, perfect for those time-sensitive situations.

Explore Tapestry’s Messaging feature
A screenshot of Tapestry's Messaging feature, where a manager is about to start a new conversation with a parent

Care Diary

Provide instant updates on children’s wellbeing.

The Care Diary makes it simple to record children’s food consumption, toileting, sleeps, milk feeds, accidents, and anything else you’d like through the general log. Relatives can access this information immediately through the Tapestry app helping them stay informed and engaged.

Visit the Care Diary feature page
Various devices showing different screens from Tapestry's Care Diary. It is one of the parental engagement features on Tapestry.

Jack

Product Support Specialist and Education Advisor
Jack started his career in education as a volunteer in a Brighton-based Charity for children with motor disorders. After which he was hired as an assistant conductor. During his time there, he studied at the University of Brighton to qualify as a primary school teacher. After a short stint as a supply teacher, Jack got his first job teaching Year 6. He remained in that role for a few years before moving to Year 4. Jack joined Tapestry in August 2019 after many hints from his former housemate and now manager, Emily. In his Product Support role, Jack can be found answering customer emails and offering Tapestry advice on the phone. As part of the Education Team, you’ll find him writing articles, recording podcasts and offering words of educational wisdom while drinking mugs of coffee.

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