Help for school leaders

Priorities, self-evaluation, inspection, monitoring, assessment, exams, appraisal, CPD and cover.

Create a school improvement priority: School Priorities turns your school improvement plan into a working board. Each priority is linked to an evaluation area from your school’s inspection framework, has an owner and a review date,…
Draft a priority from your data with AI: The AI-assisted route on School Priorities turns what your data is telling you into a structured draft priority. You describe the improvement you want, answer a few questions, and AI suggests a…
Export priorities for governors: School Priorities can produce a school-branded document of your improvement work whenever you need one: a full priorities report for a governors’ meeting, a one-page summary, or a spreadsheet for…
Write your self-evaluation: The Self-Evaluation (SEF) page holds your school’s evaluation of itself, area by area, against the inspection framework your school has selected. For each area you record a judgement, write an…
Sign off and download a SEF: When your self-evaluation is ready, you can download it as a document to share, and the headteacher can sign it off. Signing off saves a permanent snapshot of the evaluation as it stands, with its…
Get ready for inspection: The Inspection Hub brings your self-evaluation, school priorities and evidence together in one place, so you can see what’s in good shape and what needs work before an inspection. It also lets you…
Log inspector requests on the day: During an inspection, inspectors ask for documents, data and conversations, often at short notice. The Inspection day tab of the Inspection Hub keeps a list of every request: what’s needed, who’s…
Prepare the headteacher’s report for governors: Headteacher’s reports help you prepare your termly report to governors from the school’s own records. Student Radar collects the figures for each section, you and your colleagues add the…
Plan and record a monitoring activity: Use Monitoring & QA to plan a monitoring activity, such as a learning walk, a lesson observation or a look at pupils’ work, and to record what you find. Each activity starts as a private draft…
Share monitoring findings and build an evidence pack: Once you’ve recorded a monitoring activity, use Monitoring & QA to write up your findings, check them against the evidence and share them with colleagues. You can then turn the findings into a…
Review attainment from whole school to pupil: Assessment & Outcomes shows your school’s assessment results in one report that you can narrow down step by step: from the whole school to a year group, then a class, then a single pupil. Each…
Enter GCSE results and view Attainment 8: Use KS4 Measures to record your Year 11 pupils’ GCSE grades, subject by subject, and see each pupil’s Attainment 8 score worked out from them. You can also download the figures as a spreadsheet.…
Set up your assessment subjects and scales: Before staff can record your school’s own assessments, someone needs to set up what’s being assessed. In Assessment setup you add each subject or named assessment, and choose how it’s recorded: as…
Import assessment results from a spreadsheet: If your school’s assessment results come from another platform, you can import them into Student Radar instead of typing them in. You upload the file, check how its rows match your pupils, then…
Complete the EYFS Profile and parent reports: At the end of Reception, you record each child’s EYFS Profile: an outcome for each of the 17 Early Learning Goals, with notes on how they learn and your comments. Student Radar shows whether the…
Export EYFS Profile data for the local authority: Once your Reception children’s EYFS Profiles are complete, you can download their outcomes as a common transfer file (CTF) to send to your local authority. Student Radar checks that every child…
Schedule an exam and assign candidates: Exams & Assessment Windows keeps your exam timetable, the candidates for each exam, their access arrangements and the results in one place. This article shows you how to schedule an exam, choose…
Record exam results: Once an exam is over, record each candidate’s result against the exam in Exams & Assessment Windows. You can type in a score and grade for each candidate, or enter raw marks for each paper and let…
Schedule a recurring report: Report Automation creates a report for you on a regular schedule, so you don’t have to remember to run it. At the moment, the report you can schedule is the assessment data archive: a private CSV…
Set up an appraisal cycle: An appraisal cycle holds a year’s staff reviews and sets the professional standards that staff are rated against. This article shows you how to create a cycle, add a review for each member of…
Complete and sign an appraisal review: Each appraisal review moves through the year from agreeing objectives to a final review that both the member of staff and their reviewer sign. This article shows you how to move a review on, rate…
Plan a CPD session and take attendance: The CPD workspace keeps a record of each training session: what it was for, which school priorities it supports, who ran it, the materials used and who attended. This article shows you how to plan…
Log a staff absence and arrange cover: When a member of staff is off, log the absence in Student Radar and decide who covers each of their lessons. The cover page shows every lesson that still needs cover, so gaps are spotted before…
Turn on and approve an automation: Automation rules watch for something happening in school, such as a pupil’s attendance dropping below 90%, and then do something you’ve chosen, such as creating a review and a task. Every rule…