Celebrating the progress made by children with learning differences and disabilities
A flexible framework
The team at Tapestry worked with Cherry Garden School, an outstanding specialist school for pupils from 2-11 years old in the London Borough of Southwark, to bring their SEND assessment framework to life on Tapestry.
Using their years of teaching experience working with children with learning differences and disabilities, Cherry Garden have created a unique and child-centred framework for students working at a level expected for typically developing children aged 0-5. There’s also an additional bridging framework for branch maps 11 and 12 in key areas at a level expected in Year 1.
It can be used seamlessly alongside other monitoring tools on Tapestry.
The Cherry Garden Monitoring Screen: A Complete Solution
Thousands of settings or schools use the Cherry Garden framework to support their assessment of children working below national curriculum levels, and there is now a purpose built screen which provides the opportunity to effectively monitor progress and engagement.
Seeing children flourish
One screen that we’re particularly excited about for branches 1-10 is the Orchard graphic. This was created to fulfil a key element of what Cherry Garden wanted to achieve with this framework – demonstrating lateral progress. Many alternative assessment tools have an expectation that progress is always linear. We know that is often not the case, especially for children with learning differences. Cherry Garden allows children to follow their own path.
Need help?
Stephen Kilgour, Tapestry’s SEND Advisor and Outreach Teacher, helped develop the successful Cherry Garden Branch Maps. Stephen now provides free support to mainstream and specialist settings and schools wanting to develop their SEND provision.
Using Tapestry in Specialist Spaces
In this on-demand webinar, Stephen Kilgour covers how you can use Tapestry in your specialist learning space to celebrate children’s learning, monitor their progress and consider enhancements to the provision. Register below to receive your link!
Your current view of a child
The Cherry Garden statement screens are one of the ways you can monitor where your children are at in their development during each period. There are two views available - Individual View and Group View.
Emerging into the National Curriculum
The Bridging Framework follows on from the main Cherry Garden framework and includes branches 11 and 12 in the areas of Mathematics and English, allowing for the assessment of children working within Year 1 expectations.
The MOVE Programme
If you use the MOVE programme, you can also enable a branch map that can be used with Cherry Garden. Just get in touch with MOVE with your Tapestry account ID – they will be able to instruct us to turn it on for you.
The DfE Early Years SEND Assessment Guidance
Our SEND Advisor, Stephen Kilgour, shares how the DfE Early Years SEND assessment guidance (DfE and Dingley’s Promise) can be uploaded and used on Tapestry, to work alongside other monitoring tools.
