In their words
What educators say about Student Radar
What people say about Student Radar, in their own words. Every quotation says where it came from, so you can weigh it for yourself.
People using it
From people using Student Radar in their setting.
Demonstrations
First reactions during a live demonstration, anonymised. Not a measured result.
Professional perspectives
From education professionals who have reviewed our approach.
From people using Student Radar
I’ve never been able to fully explain what it is that I have needed and I have only scratched the surface and I’m already blown away!!
Nathan
BEES UK
Written message, October 2026
“Having all the information I need in one place has been so helpful. From office staff responding to parent requests to supply staff, having it in one place means support isn’t missed. We’ve managed to save hours per week.”
SENCo
Pilot primary school
Shared anonymously
“So we’ve looked at the heat map. We’ve looked at the identified 37 pupils that are at risk of PA when we’re doing an attendance intervention with them.”
Using: the attendance heat map to plan interventions. PA is persistent absence.
Inclusion leader
School using Student Radar
Onboarding follow-up, October 2026
“But attendance, I think, is fairly self-explanatory. It’s sort of you look at it, you identify the kids, and then you do your interventions and record them, I think.”
Inclusion leader
School using Student Radar
Onboarding follow-up, October 2026
Feedback from school demonstrations
Headteachers, senior leaders and SENDCos, reacting to a live demonstration of Student Radar.
“I’ll be honest, I think we’re all very impressed. You’ve captured everything.”
Seeing: information brought together for reports and other school work
Headteacher
Primary school, Birmingham
October 2026
“Yeah, and that’s so useful. […] All of this we do by hand at the moment.”
Seeing: attendance patterns connected with SEND and whole-school attendance
Assistant Head and SENDCo
Secondary school, Birmingham
September 2026
“I really like it. I think it will solve some of the problems that we’ve got.”
Senior Deputy Headteacher
Secondary school, Birmingham
October 2026
“Thank you for showing the leadership team the platform. There was lots of positive discussions about it after.”
School
Email after a demonstration to the leadership team
November 2026
“So I really like the idea that Student Radar could, you know, break those out, the EHCP outcomes down, and kind of really look at those small steps.”
SENCo
Secondary school
October 2026
“And what I really liked about Radar, from what I’ve seen, was the sort of parental engagement in it as well.”
Inclusion leader
School
“All the others, all the others that we’ve been to, they were like, ‘Oh, this is a new concept.’ But that just makes sense to me.”
Seeing: information from professional reports used when writing ISPs
SENCo
Primary school, North West England
October 2026
Feedback from alternative provision and further education
Leaders in alternative provision and colleges, reacting to a live demonstration of Student Radar.
“…using technology, spending less time writing up things and actually being fully present where we can because these roles have just absolutely stretched at the moment.”
Alternative provision college
East Midlands
September 2026
“…it sounds really good and it sounds like you’re very proactive in terms of responding to what your specific AP needs, which is what we would need to get it right.”
Leadership team
Alternative provision provider
October 2026
“That’s amazing. That was one of my questions. My like make or break questions was, can we have a tuition branch?”
Seeing: tuition booking alongside commissioned AP places
Alternative provision provider
November 2026
“Amazing. That would answer the problem.”
Seeing: commissioning schools viewing attendance for their own pupils
Alternative provision provider
“So it’s interesting that you’ve got this wellbeing opportunity as well because it might help with the discerning between the two.”
Seeing: the wellbeing area alongside safeguarding
Alternative provision provider
Short reactions from demonstrations
Said during or at the end of a live demonstration, word for word.
“What do I do now? How do I get it?”
Inclusion leader
Secondary school, Birmingham
“I’m so happy I found you”
Inclusion leader
School
“I could talk about this much longer because I absolutely love this.”
Practitioner
Further education
“But I’ve seen enough to say that we’d like to go with it.”
Alternative provision provider
Professional perspectives
From education professionals who have looked closely at how Student Radar works and why it was built.
Perspective
“Built from the point of view of school leaders and teachers, not IT departments. It takes what would normally be an hour of spreadsheet work and makes it available in seconds. It reduces workload rather than adding to it.”
Jon Gibson
Director, Backdrop Education Services
Perspective
“The data’s all there. You just can’t see it in one place. […] Student Radar pulls it all into one view. You spot the pattern before it becomes something serious. […] What Student Radar can do is show you the cause.”
Lee Parkinson
ICT with Mr P
Independent perspective
“This is what Student Radar does through patterns of synthesised data - connection and communication. This is social justice in education.”
Dr Anita Devi (UK)
(No commercial interest to declare)
Shortlisted for national awards
Each award links to the organiser’s own published list, so you can check it for yourself.
Bett Awards 2027 shortlist (opens in a new tab)Bett Awards 2027 · Finalist
Leadership and Management Solutions
nasen Awards 2026 shortlist (opens in a new tab)nasen Awards 2026 · Shortlisted
Inclusive Technology of the Year
BESA Awards (opens in a new tab)BESA Awards 2026 · Shortlisted
Start Up of the Year
How we present feedback
In the speaker’s words
Quotations are verbatim, from written messages or meeting transcripts. An ellipsis or […] shows where we have shortened a passage.
Labelled by source
Each section says whether the speaker uses Student Radar, saw a demonstration or reviewed our approach. Demonstration feedback records first impressions, not measured results.
Named with permission
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