In this tutorial we’re going to look at Strand Scores for the Cherry Garden framework on Tapestry. The Cherry Garden Branch Maps are organised into six main curriculum areas.  Each of these areas is then broken into various ‘Strands’. — the Communication, Language and Literacy Branch Map, for example, contains four strands — and the Strand Scores screen totals a child’s statement assessments branch by branch within each strand, so you can see at a glance how much of a branch they’ve covered and how securely.

Getting there

Click Planning & Monitoring in the menu on the left of your screen, then select Monitoring from the panel that opens.

The Tapestry side menu with the Planning & Monitoring panel open, showing the Monitoring option
Planning & Monitoring › Monitoring in the side menu.

On the Monitoring page, select the Cherry Garden tab, then click Individual View under Strand Scores in the Snapshots column.

The Monitoring page on its Cherry Garden tab, with the Strand Scores snapshot's Individual View button in the Snapshots column
Individual View under Strand Scores on the Cherry Garden tab.

Choose the Year and Period you’re interested in — they default to the current term — and then the Child.

The Cherry Garden Strand Scores page with its Year, Period and Child filters and the Please select a child message
Pick a Year, Period and Child.

Reading the table

The child’s scores appear area by area, with a colour band for each strand and a row for every branch the child has assessments in. There are three columns:

  • Proportion of Statements — how many of the branch’s statements have been assessed. In the screenshot below, one of Branch 2’s statements has a score so far.
  • Score / Max Score — the child’s total across those statements, where each statement contributes its refinement’s number (here Emerging = 1, Developing = 2, Secure = 3). A branch of four statements therefore has a maximum of 12 — and a single statement at Developing shows as 2 / 12.
  • Percentage Score — the same as a percentage: 2 ÷ 12 ≈ 17.
The Strand Scores table for one child, with colour-banded strands and each branch's Proportion of Statements, Score / Max Score and Percentage Score
Each branch’s coverage, score and percentage.

For further information on how scores are calculated for the Cherry Garden Framework, please see this tutorial. 

Checking the evidence

Click any branch row and a Snapshot Details window opens listing the observations behind that line — each with the statements it assessed and the refinements recorded. Clicking an observation’s title takes you to the observation itself.

The Snapshot Details window opened from a strand scores row, listing the observations with their statements and refinement chips
Snapshot Details — the observations behind a branch row.

And that’s it! Strand Scores gives you the quickest per-branch summary of a child’s Cherry Garden picture — and every number on it can be traced straight back to the observations it came from.

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