After having used the EYFS flag set within your observations, the Thoroughness monitoring screens can be used to quickly see how many observations and reflections have been added for specific areas or for specific children.
The Thoroughness screens were designed to help you see you an overview of your provision, ensuring you are providing broad and rich opportunities across the 7 areas of learning. It’s also a useful screen if you want to navigate to all the specific observations you have made in certain areas.
If you haven’t yet enabled the EYFS flag set, please take a look at this tutorial to see how.
You will need to be logged into the browser version of Tapestry to access these monitoring screens.
There are two Thoroughness monitoring screens: Individual view, and Group View. In the next two tabs of this tutorial we’ll take a look at each screen separately.
Let’s get started!
On this tab, we cover how to use the Thoroughness Individual View screen for the EYFS framework.
The Thoroughness Individual View was designed to help you get an overview of your provision, ensuring you are providing broad and rich opportunities across the 7 areas of learning. It also useful if you want to navigate to all the specific observations you have made in certain areas for a child.
To access the screen go to Planning & Monitoring > Monitoring and select the EYFS tab. You then select the Individual View under the Thoroughness option.
When you have pulled up the Throughness Individual View screen, you can go ahead and select a child. You can also specify the period for which you wish to see data about this child. You can choose the full history for the child by selecting Full History or one of your assessment periods by choosing Select Period.
You can also add a custom period that you want to see data for for that child by selecting Custom Period.
Once a child is selected, you will see the 7 areas of learning and the aspects within on the left-hand side (if you have the Birth to 5 aspects enabled). Down the right-hand side you will see the number of observations and reflections the child has with those flags.
If you would like to use the Reflections feature to record information on your reasons for judgements made you will need to enable the feature on your account.
A manager can do this from Configuration -> Features -> Reflections and clicking on Enable.
Reflections are just available for staff and you can set staff User Permissions for Reflections as part of enabling this feature, by selecting Staff permissions, once the feature is enabled.
When you click on any of the figures, you will be shown a pop-up box with the observations related to that figure, with the title and some of the notes included in the observation or reflection.
If you want to see more information, you can click the title of the observation/reflection and it will open it, in full, in a new window.
Similarly to other screens on Tapestry, you can export this data as a CSV file by clicking on CSV or as a PDF file by clicking on PDF; both buttons are above the table of data on the screen.
And that’s it! You now know how to access and use the EYFS Thoroughness Individual View screen!
On this tab, we cover how to use the Thoroughness Group View screen for the EYFS framework.
The Thoroughness Group View was designed to help you get an overview of your provision, ensuring you are providing broad and rich opportunities across the 7 areas of learning. It also useful if you want to navigate to all the specific observations you have made in certain areas for a group of children.
To access the screen go to Planning & Monitoring > Monitoring and select the EYFS tab. You then select the Group View under the Thoroughness option.
On this screen, you can select the period of time that you want the data on this screen to include. You can choose to see a full history or select from one of your assessment periods.
You can also add a custom period between two dates by selecting Custom Period.
There are also filtering options for selecting children, such as Cohort, Group, Key Children etc. You can reset all those filters if needed by clicking the Reset Filters button.
You can also export the data on this screen as a CSV or PDF file.
Scrolling down will show you the results based on your selection. The areas of learning and aspects (if you have Birth to 5 aspects enabled) are listed down the left-hand side of the screen and the names of your children are listed across the top. You can use the top scroll bar to move across the list of children you have selected.
This screen will show you the number of observations and reflections that each child has with those flags. Clicking on any of the blue links will show you more detail and you can navigate to each post that includes this flag if you want to see the observation or reflection in more detail.
If you would like to use the Reflections feature to record information on your reasons for judgements made you will need to enable the feature on your account.
A manager can do this from Configuration -> Features -> Reflections and clicking on Enable.
Reflections are just available for staff and you can set staff User Permissions for Reflections as part of enabling this feature, by selecting Staff permissions, once the feature is enabled.
And that’s it! You now know how to access and use the EYFS Thoroughness Group View screen!