Wellbeing, Digital Wellness & Safeguarding Resources

Cambridge Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring – Cambridge Wellbeing Check

The Cambridge Wellbeing Check is a simple, student-led digital assessment that empowers schools to develop a positive approach to wellbeing. The Check was developed by world renowned experts at the Cambridge University Faculty of Education. It gives schools unprecedented insight into how students are feeling.

It is inclusive – The 22 questions are clear and simple enough for children as young as seven, and for children with English as a second or additional language.

It is accessible – The assessment is flexible and free from paperwork and marking - It takes about 20 minutes of screen time (it works on desktop, tablet and mobile devices).

It is trackable – Multiple students can complete the Cambridge Wellbeing Check at the same time. Schools can use the Cambridge Wellbeing Check as much as they want or need to over the course of the academic year.

It is useful – With an instant wellbeing snapshot, plus twelve reports, it’s designed to help schools track, monitor and evaluate wellbeing throughout students’ learning journeys, such as in the run-up to exams, starting a new year or school, or any other significant milestones. It also comes with easy to integrate follow-up lesson plans.

 

 

CPOMS Systems – CPOMS

CPOMS is an intuitive system which helps ensure that children, young people and adults are safe and fully supported. “The bottom line is that our children and families are safer because we use CPOMS” – Jon Barr, St Barnabas CE VC Primary School. We are proud to be the market leading safeguarding, pastoral and wellbeing solution now working with over 16,100 schools. 2022 has seen a record number of customers switch to us from other providers. “The switching process was a dream, probably the easiest I’ve ever has to do. The support is absolutely brilliant, such nice people. The product speaks for itself – best in its field.” – Philip Crompton, Manor Academy. As a result of using CPOMS, staff are able to focus on teaching and providing support instead of focusing on administration. Following the great success of CPOMS, 18 months ago we were delighted to announce the launch of CPOMS StaffSafe. Within CPOMS StaffSafe you can upload, keep, record and govern all information regarding adults working within your setting. Alongside CPOMS and CPOMS StaffSafe we have 2 new products, CPOMS Engage here in the UK and StudentSafe in the US.

 

 

LGfL – The National Grid for Learning in partnership with Child Bereavement UK – The Child Bereavement Toolkit

 

The LGfL Bereavement Toolkit is a free, online, resource that is available for anyone to use, whether that is teachers, leaders and pupils in schools, or parents with their children at home. To create it LGfL partnered with its fellow charity Child Bereavement UK. This combination of their expertise built up over years and backed up by research, and our capabilities in developing educational resources and putting them online for anyone to use resulted in this comprehensive mix of practical advice, guidance, and activities to help schools through situations that can be traumatic and unsettling for the whole community.
It’s approach is both pragmatic and non-prescriptive, clear that there is no ‘right way’ to behave or react at such times, and includes specific guidance for learners with special educational needs and disabilities, and for those who are autistic.
Presented as a combination of short videos, written policies and advice, and lesson planning and resources it gives schools and staff the practical support they need to deal with an emotional subject.

 

Lightspeed Systems – Lightspeed Alert

Lightspeed Alert helps schools prevent suicide, self-harm, bullying, and violence, providing an early warning threat detection solution on school-owned devices and within school-managed learning platforms Statistics prove time and time again that early warning signs of a students’ potential crisis are visible and recorded on digital platforms and, as more and more school devices are placed in the hands of students, schools are turning to Lightspeed Alert to ensure every step possible is being taken to support the mental and physical wellbeing of the young people in their care.

Patented and advanced AI technology scans student activity in email, chat, documents, social media, search queries, and images for concerning behaviour, adding incidents to a case management system for review by school safeguarding teams. Depending of the severity of the incident, cases are also flagged to be reviewed by Lightspeed System’s internal Safety Specialists, a highly-trained multi-national team providing 24/7/365 coverage to ensure timely intervention is provided where an imminent risk to student safety is discovered.

 

National Online Safety – National Online Safety Certified School Membership

National Online Safety’s library of resources and CPD training not only addresses clear and present online safeguarding issues such as sexting, grooming and exposure to age-inappropriate content – it also incorporates more over-arching wellbeing themes, such as how internet-enabled devices can make it easier to reach out to friends who are experiencing a difficult time; to find inspiration for activities that boost mental health or reduce stress; and to become (and remain) aware of the considerable risks to self-esteem that could stem from emotionally investing in social media too heavily.

This entire collection is available to education providers who complete our Certified School programme, which engages and empowers the whole school community (including governors and support staff), with role-specific training for specialised positions (such as DSLs and ICT leads). In addition to reinforcing and improving staff’s knowledge and confidence in the online safety arena, securing Certified School status also enables settings to evidence their online safeguarding credentials – both to Ofsted inspectors and to the parents and carers of current and prospective students.

 

School Wellbeing Accelerator – Welbee

Welbee from School Wellbeing Accelerator is an easy-to-use online evaluation and staff wellbeing improvement tool, designed to help senior leaders and HR directors create mentally healthy schools, retain and motivate staff, reduce costs, drive up student attainment, and enhance their Ofsted Leadership and Management Judgement, where relevant.

The survey used to establish the current position and track progress is recognised by the DfE Education Staff Wellbeing Charter – a voluntary declaration of support for, and set of commitments to, the wellbeing and mental health of everyone working within their establishment.

Benchmarked scores give Multi-Academy Trusts, schools and colleges confidence in their current position, measuring against the Health and Safety Executive’s Management Standards. The dashboard provides a comprehensive report, including recommended actions, alongside heatmaps, analytics, and an editable PowerPoint presentation, meaning results can be quickly shared and action taken. MATs can also benchmark their schools internally and anonymously.

Leaders can respond to open comments while maintaining anonymity, boosting engagement, and continue this throughout their subscription year with Welbee Voice. The Welbee Toolkit provides interactive training and resources to support implementation. All backed by remote support and a full money back guarantee. Meaning building wellbeing into the culture has never been easier.

 

South West Grid for Learning – ProjectEVOLVE

ProjectEVOLVE is a free digital literacy toolkit that supports online development in children and young people. It assists professionals in educating, guiding, and supporting children and young people throughout their use of technology within their online lives.

ProjectEVOLVE is an essential solution for the modern-day concern of maintaining online safety awareness, digital development and digital wellbeing in children and young people. The toolkit covers over 600 separate resources that cover various topics, themes, curriculums and age ranges from very young children, right up to 18. It establishes some of the fundamental building blocks around the right sort of education needed for their online development and digital wellbeing.

 

 

Thrive – The Thrive Approach

For over 25 years, Thrive’s unique approach to wellbeing has been proven to make a positive impact on children and young people’s learning and lives. The Thrive Approach has two components – high-quality training and a mental health mapping and action planning tool called Thrive-Online. The combination of both allows educators to monitor and measure progress in wellbeing and to create action plans to improve things, building positive relationships as the catalyst for change.

Thrive is used by those working with children and young people aged 0-25 years and is underpinned by neuroscience, attachment theory and child development research. Thrive is currently used in more than 2 600 school settings in the UK as well as by organisations supporting families and those in social care, youth justice and the healthcare sectors.

Settings using the Approach report that mental health and wellbeing, attendance, staff morale, relationships with parents and carers, behaviour and attainment have improved while fixed term exclusions, absenteeism and long-term mental health problems have decreased. Settings also report that they are saving money on interventions and additional staffing costs to support poor behaviour and that they are well-prepared for Ofsted inspections because they have data to evidence pupil’s progress.

 

Leadership & Management Solutions

2Simple – Inspection Coach and Improvement Hub

The core purpose of Improvement Hub and Inspection Coach (Coach and Hub) is to enable school leaders to save time with their school improvement planning, ensuring they have one point of truth that they can share with all key stakeholders, safely and securely in one place. It combines top-quality consultancy with technology to simplify the process of school improvement and self-evaluation. The platforms have been designed to take the pressure off school leaders, dramatically reducing the time and resourcing required and enabling them to focus on leading their schools.

Hub and Coach are both housed in a secure online GDPR compliant platform, access can be set at specific levels for groups of key stakeholders and because it is all housed online, it is both sustainable and good for the environment as there is no need to print or have all documentation in bulky folders it is all in the one place accessed securely on any device.

 

 

 

4Matrix / New Media Learning – 4Matrix Fusion

4Matrix is produced by New Media Learning Ltd, the largest independent data solutions provider to secondary schools in the UK. We currently provide over 1200 schools with 4Matrix across 200 Multi-Academy Trusts.

4Matrix Fusion is the premier performance analysis system for Multi-Academy Trusts and their schools. It provides a clear picture of school performance across the Trust, reporting on attainment, progress, and subjects for key stages 4 and 5. Fusion will support your Trust’s data strategy, promoting an action-research approach to school improvement.

4Matrix Fusion can be used throughout the year to monitor Trust performance and trends over time. All displays include functions to filter by school and pupil demographics, offering a multitude of data comparison techniques. Each display presents information using practical and dynamic methods which draw upon our 20 years’ experience of working with schools on the use of performance data.

Best of all, no programming is required. Fusion is a unique ‘off-the-shelf’ performance management system, hosted and maintained by 4Matrix.

Designed to be used alongside our school-level products 4Matrix Desktop and 4Matrix Cloud, the 4Matrix platform provides a powerful combination of tools to support Trusts and their schools in obtaining the maximum value from their performance data.

 

 

Best Practice Network – National Professional Qualifications (NPQs)

The National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) are the go-to qualifications for teachers and leaders wishing to improve their practice and progress their careers. The qualifications are fully-accredited by the DfE.

Autumn 2021 saw the introduction of a reformed suite of NPQs based on DfE-created evidence-informed frameworks, validated by the Education Endowment Foundation.

As a Lead NPQ Provider, Best Practice Network (BPN) built on the reformed NPQ frameworks to create a suite of evidence-informed qualifications delivered through a national alliance of Teaching School Hubs (TSHs) and other school groups.

 

 

CPOMS Systems – CPOMS

CPOMS is an intuitive system which helps ensure that children, young people and adults are safe and fully supported.

“The bottom line is that our children and families are safer because we use CPOMS” – Jon Barr, St Barnabas CE VC Primary School.

We are proud to be the market leading safeguarding, pastoral and wellbeing solution now working with over 16,100 schools.

2022 has seen a record number of customers switch to us from other providers.

“The switching process was a dream, probably the easiest I’ve ever has to do. The support is absolutely brilliant, such nice people. The product speaks for itself – best in its field.” – Philip Crompton, Manor Academy.

As a result of using CPOMS, staff are able to focus on teaching and providing support instead of focusing on administration.

Following the great success of CPOMS, 18 months ago we were delighted to announce the launch of CPOMS StaffSafe. Within CPOMS StaffSafe you can upload, keep, record and govern all information regarding adults working within your setting.

Alongside CPOMS and CPOMS StaffSafe we have 2 new products, CPOMS Engage here in the UK and StudentSafe in the US.

 

 

 

Derventio Education – SchooliP

SchooliP provides better personal outcomes for pupils and staff through joined-up school improvement, staff professional development, self-evaluation, policy management and school-wide audits.

SchooliP is web-based requiring no installation, with easy access for staff to record evidence of professional development through a browser and mobile/tablet too.

Staff record evidence of professional development through ongoing dialogue and evidence capture. Evidence may be linked to school-wide targets, monitoring like lesson observations and the latest Teachers’ Standards.

Evidence of CPD and training is captured too and rep[sorted back to school leaders through many comprehensive dashboard displays and reports.

SchooliP seamlessly links the process of development planning with self-evaluation to report on the progress of improvement.

Additionally, SchooliP supports the management of school-wide policies and facilitates the capture of audits like sustainability, safeguarding and competency frameworks.

SchooliP, National Association for Environmental Education (NAEE) and NGA have come together to provide schools and trusts with a free online tool to help governing boards adopt environmental sustainability as a strategic priority and develop a climate action plan.

SchooliP must be seen to understand the power of the solution, on delivering whole school improvement and providing ease of use for staff.

 

 

iAM Compliant

iAM Compliant is a comprehensive and affordable web-based compliance tool built specifically for schools. It’s been designed to help you with the everyday management of your school’s estate, health and safety, statutory reporting, staff training and more. You can manage your assets, create and record building condition reports, monitor your energy usage, forecast your budget, track your DfE policy compliance, produce governor reports, and manage your risks and incidents. Forget the endless spreadsheets and juggling of constant tasks, iAM streamlines all your compliance and estates management in one simple and cost-effective tool.

Unlike many other systems available, iAM has been created to be as simple as possible to use, with straightforward set-up and free onboarding with the team so schools can manage their compliance right away. Even if wider support is required by large MATs, the team is there every step of the way at no extra charge. The app is fully inclusive so that you don’t need to purchase individual expensive modules or additional systems – it’s a one-stop compliance shop if you will! iAM’s ethos is about sharing knowledge, experience and advice so schools can remain compliant and safe in the easiest and most affordable way.

 

 

Leadership Matters

Leadership Matters (LM) is a unique online professional development platform that provides access to a suite of high quality diagnostic tools, carefully curated learning resources, inspirational events and a global community of education leaders.

It provides schools with a one-stop shop for their leaders at any stage of their development journey.

The platform delivered professional learning and development to over 22,000 teachers and 2,000 schools across the UK and over six continents in 2021.

The essence of the Leadership Matters programme is that each leader is guided on their own LM Pathway, based on their own characteristics and those of the school. The unique approach allows leaders at all levels, from those aspiring to middle leadership, right through to those in executive roles, to take evidence-based content and personalised diagnostics and apply them to suit their context.

The whole LM approach provides a blend of teaching, mentoring, coaching, personal reflection peer-learning and goal setting, all of which contribute to an empowering and positive feeling for staff of being stretched, supported, challenged and above all developing their leadership abilities.

 

 

 

Tes – Staff Management Subscription from Tes

The new Staff Management Subscription from Tes brings together our recruitment, training, development and wellbeing solutions in one all-inclusive subscription – for one annual price. This innovative product supports schools to prioritise staff needs and take a strategic, holistic approach to recruitment, training and retention that helps the school thrive.
The Staff Management Subscription contains:
• Tes recruitment services
• Whole school online training
• Our award winning digital magazine
• Wellbeing surveys
Bringing these elements together helps school leaders to manage their budgets, as some of their most important lines of expenditure are all in one place. It puts the major levers of staff recruitment and retention together: a crucial toolkit at a time of a teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

 

 

Tes – Tes Magazine

The Tes Magazine has been a source of support, guidance and innovative thinking for teachers and school leaders for over 112 years. School leaders rely on the exclusive content and in-depth pedagogy research, to better manage their busy school workforce. As a key part of the overall Tes offer to schools, Tes Magazine helps teachers and schools be the best they can be. Teachers describe Tes Magazine as “like having the staffroom in your pocket”.
Thanks to a major relaunch, the Tes Magazine offers even more for school leaders and managers than ever before. This includes regular, up-to-date and insightful analysis on the issues that matter to them, including on school strategy, staff management, compliance, HR, finance and much more.

International Digital Educational Resource

Alef Education – The Alef Platform

 

The Alef Platform is a leading global education technology platform that is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to create personalized learning experiences that transform the way the world is educated. It has a growing presence in key education markets worldwide, such as the United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Indonesia, and Egypt. The award-winning Alef Platform provides AI-powered learning and teaching solutions that leverage real-time data to drive improvements across the education ecosystem.

 

 

ClassLink – ClassLink Suite

ClassLink empowers students and teachers around the world with instant access to their learning resources. ClassLink® LaunchPad includes a library of over 6,000 single sign-on apps and instant links to file folders at school and on Google, Office 365, and Dropbox cloud drives. ClassLink Roster Server easily and securely delivers class rosters to any publisher using open technology standards. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1-to-1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives.

As recognized through our many awards, ClassLink’s primary benefit is instant login to any web app through our LaunchPad technology. With dozens of programs and applications for each student to access during the school year, management of usernames and passwords becomes a time consuming, expensive task for staff.

 

 

Edmentum – Exact Path

Exact Path is an online resource, developed by Edmentum, combining computer-adaptive assessment with individualised learning paths for K-12 students on an international scale, helping support progress in maths, reading and language arts. Used in 30 countries around the world, the different grade-based interfaces provide accessible, age-appropriate support, helping pupils take ownership of their learning.

Using adaptive research-based algorithms and instructional design, learners are supported in real time. Further, Exact Path has more than 7,000 assessment items, including the ability to perform gap analysis which identifies weaknesses in learning, and automatically generates a personalised pathway to support progress. Exact Path also facilitates off-grade learning, enabling students to re-visit lower grade content or accelerate learning as needed. In doing so, students can also track and celebrate their own accomplishments by earning trophies and completing challenges.

Supporting teachers, Exact Path alerts them to any immediate needs for intervention. By isolating skills, educators can focus on what matters, ensuring students have a strong foundational understanding, preparing them for secondary education and beyond. Using Exact Path for 20 minutes per session and 40-60 minutes per week, per subject has been shown to improve academic achievement in critical subjects including maths, reading and language arts.

 

 

 

Edpuzzle

Edpuzzle is an interactive video learning platform that allows teachers to measure student engagement and results.

Teachers can choose from a variety of ready-to-go videos including Edpuzzle Originals (currently available in the United States and in select schools in the rest of the world), videos from YouTube and other external sources like National Geographic, content created by the community of Edpuzzle teachers around the world, or record their own videos with our built-in screen recording tool. With Edpuzzle, any video you can find or make can become an interactive video lesson in minutes.

One of the things teachers and administrators love about Edpuzzle is the diversity in which it can be used. Edpuzzle lends itself perfectly to the flipped classroom, self-paced learning, and the station rotation model. It has been widely relied on for remote and hybrid learning and was listed as one of UNESCO’s remote learning solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, it’s remained a vital part of the teacher toolkit for educators worldwide.

 

 

Fiction Express Education – Fiction Express

Fiction Express is an award-winning literacy resource designed to improve all areas of English language training (ELT) in secondary schools worldwide. Reading is an integral part of learning English as a second language. Our unique methodology improves poor reading habits by getting children excited about reading through the power of a deeply engaging experience of co-creation between students and authors.

Fiction Express is offering teachers a unique and complete literacy solution:

• Covering all four aspects of language learning for ELT levels A1 to C1 (CEFR)
  • Easy to integrate into lesson planning
  • Continuous assessment, monitoring learning outcomes and progress
  • High level of pupil motivation and personalised, cross-curricular learning paths
  • Great value for money, much cheaper than a similar amount of paper books (cost per pupil)

We publish our stories in weekly instalments; each week, pupils read the chapter and, at the end, are rewarded with the option to vote to decide what happens next. The author then writes the following chapter in real time.

Pupils also interact with the author and other readers worldwide on the online book forum to actively participate in the creative story-writing process.

 

 

Renaissance Learning – myON

For more than a decade now, myON has burnished its credentials as a truly international resource – supporting and motivating millions of native and foreign English Language Learners in almost 80 countries. Much more than a digital library, it supports an international teaching community, helps to develop writing skills, and engages students of all abilities with daily myON News article available in multiple languages. Whole county adoption in places like the Seychelles and most recently the United Arab Emirates demonstrate its global appeal and ability to help ‘Accelerate Learning for All’. Providing unlimited, 24/7 online and offline access to authentic texts, myON supports schools and students in the most remote locations where internet access is poor – enabling them to read when and wherever they like. Meanwhile alignment to 94 different curriculum frameworks empowers teachers to assign books based on the standards they are currently teaching no matter where they are located. A growing library of books and ongoing product development, such as the new ‘Read Aloud’ feature allowing students to record themselves reading a book, keep myON fresh, engaging, and relevant for readers everywhere.

 

 

 

Scirra – Construct 3

Construct 3 by Scirra Ltd is a state-of-the-art game development software used by schools, independent game developers and large organisations including NASA. Students can create 2D and 2.5D video games with little or no prior programming knowledge. The genius design of Construct 3 means that it is scalable, from early years through to career-based application.

Students can mix-and-match components of block-based and text programming (Javascript) in the same project, even to the level of blending elements of each within a program segment. As they progress through primary school, they slowly transition to using less block-based and more text-based programming. This scaffolds the learning, giving students the real-world application and a fundamental understanding of computer science by the time they reach secondary school.
The ease of use of Construct 3 means that even teachers with no experience of computer science, can be perfectly comfortable teaching the classes.

Being web-based software, it takes away the complexities surrounding downloads in schools. Scirra’s tiered pricing scheme makes it accessible to schools with limited budget and gives disadvantaged students access to an industry-tier computer science education. Construct 3 is available in more than 13 languages.

Assessment, Planning & Progress Monitoring

2Simple – Evidence Me

Evidence Me is an assessment and observation app which captures children’s learning journeys. It shows the impact of children’s learning by evidencing their experiences, monitoring their development, and creating reports to share their progress.

With Evidence Me, staff can easily take a photo, video or write a note and instantly upload their observation to the app. Evidence me can be used with any combination of frameworks that you choose and our ‘Auto-suggesting of Objectives’ feature will recommend objectives and next-step objectives based on your preferred framework and teachers’ notes of the observation.

The platform also provides all the assessment tools you need to make informed planning decisions. For example, you can gain an instant overview of curriculum coverage and generate and range of reports.

All observations can be shared with parents through our dedicated parent app, allowing them to keep informed of their child’s progress. Reports can also be shared in a range of formats.
Evidence Me has strong security features including pin codes and industry-standard encryption. It is also GDPR compliant. Additionally, our innovative face-blurring functionality allows pictures to be taken of the whole class and shared with parents with other pupils’ faces blurred out.

 

 

Educake

Educake is an easy to use, brilliantly helpful homework and revision platform. At the heart of Educake is a constant focus on helping teachers teach and students learn. We are informal, caring, innovative and efficient: values reflected in the way we write questions, design the platform, and market the products, and in every interaction we have with teachers and each other.

Educake’s products enable teachers to do more teaching, making it simple for teachers to set homework, assess results and identify knowledge gaps. It’s quick to set tasks, which are all auto-marked, providing students with immediate feedback to help correct misunderstandings. At a glance, teachers see a picture of what areas haven’t been understood by the class, or by pupils, and can plan accordingly.

We are proud of how much teachers love Educake. It adds to our drive to do better for teachers and students. We are constantly improving our platform and resources: in the last few years we have added five new subjects (English, maths, history, computer science and PE) as well as introducing new features to make teaching and studying easier.

 

 

Elastik

Data has become a vital tool in the operation of a school, supporting the safety of students and staff and providing oversight of the management of schools. When used effectively, data has the power to go beyond functional operations to transform educational effectiveness and harness the potential of students, particularly in the area of assessment Yet, according to the DfE’s EdTech Survey published in May 2021, a significant number of teachers felt that the software they used for formative assessment met their needs only sometimes or rarely Elastik directly addresses this issue through a process of assessment for learning Elastik harnesses question-level data to pinpoint students’ strengths, weaknesses and progress It then accurately and quickly identifies gaps in learning and knowledge Elastik takes away the guesswork in the classroom, making teachers super effective in bridging the unidentified gaps in learning and measuring progress Arming teachers with specific topic-level knowledge gaps refocuses teachers’ time and empowers them to do what they love and what they do best – teach Elastik also supplies head teachers and MAT heads with vital progress data in achievement and attainment Most importantly, by targeting interventions, Elastik ensures no learner is left behind, and potential is indeed

 

 

Knowledge AI – KAIT

KAIT is the world’s only AI based individualized learning platform that is truly integrated with traditional classrooms. The teachers do not have to change their teaching behavior or contents. We utilize teachers’ contents while providing the best possible additional training based on AI’s calculation of student abilities.
Learning should be individualized. It can be done with AI. AI needs digital data. Our platform is web-based and data can be collected by using tablets or with a smart pen on normal paper. Using AI, we use formative assessments in mastery learning environments to make students understand. We do not use grades but show understanding level by question and by subtopic. Lastly, we empower teachers with diagnostics and analytics of students so that they are able to pay more attention to each individual student. They can act as SEL coaches and spend less time on teaching facts.

 

 

NCFE – Our Skills Assessment tools

 

Purpose of promoting and advancing learning. This purpose drives our commitment to deliver world-class educational services that enable learners to achieve their potential. Our skills assessment and diagnostic tools are one way in which we’re supporting this vision.

Our innovative set of tools assist with the everyday development of learning, teaching and assessment across the secondary, further education and skills sectors. By effectively assessing learners’ skills levels before they start a qualification or programme, and identifying their strengths and areas for improvement, these tools have a proven impact on learners’ achievement rates. Our unique diagnostics, resources and summative assessments can transform how education providers approach Functional Skills, GCSE and the employability skills development of learners, providing accurate visibility of individuals’ skills and their progress.

Our curriculum content is designed to set learners up or success, and aids teaching and learning with resources and interactive learning materials to support individualised and blended learning. We’ve worked with subject matter experts and curriculum specialists to ensure our content is engaging, relevant and meets the requirements of the government skills reforms.

 

 

SAM Learning

SAM Learning is the only online learning platform used by British schools worldwide, providing students Weekly Challenges powered by A.I. along with access to all major GCSE and KS3 subjects so students achieve two GCSE grades better with 30 minutes activity a week, which is proven by both the FFT and EEF. Our mobile-friendly platform allows student access on any device with internet access and automatically fills individual students’ learning gaps, dramatically reducing teacher workload. Along with an engaging gamified interface, there is a leaderboard to stimulate competition and added excitement with the ability for students to customise avatars and download achievement certificates. Teachers can access real time insight into whole-school, class or intervention group and individual learner achievement. Our ‘Question Level Analysis’ allows them to easily identify knowledge gaps, helping schools to drive data-driven targeted intervention and differentiated teaching. In addition to our 24/7 online support articles and CPD videos, we provide every school with their very own dedicated School Success Manager, all educational Senior Leaders, for departmental training sessions and unlimited strategic advice.

 

 

Speech Link Multimedia Ltd. – Junior Language Link

Junior Language Link offers standardised assessments, targeted interventions and resources for KS2 children in schools in the UK and internationally. Our user friendly, 1-2-1 adult led online package is used to identify and support children with mild to moderate language difficulties.

Over 53,000 children, in the UK and internationally, are screened each year using Junior Language Link. The assessments, resources and support are designed by speech and language therapists and specialist teachers. We know that the best indicator of how a child will cope with school is their understanding and use of spoken language.

The Spread the Word packs, In-packaging training and support from our experienced Speech and Language Help Desk all aid in developing a communication first whole school approach. The standardised assessment identifies pupils with difficulties understanding core language skills. Identified pupils receive a tailored programme of interventions The 1to1 interventions make the best use of TA’s time and expertise.

Retesting provides evidence of levels of improvement, essential for Ofsted and the Pupil Premium and our packages deliver evidence of narrowing the gap for disadvantaged pupils.

For more information visit our website www speechandlanguage info, email helpdesk@speechlink.co.uk or call 0333 577 0784

 

 

The Foundation Stage Forum – Tapestry Online Learning Journal

Created by educators, Tapestry is an easy-to-use, secure online learning journal helping staff and families celebrate and support their children’s learning from Reception to Year 6, in mainstream and specialist provision. Subscriptions give access to a wide variety of features designed to reduce workload and assist the overall development of each school. Tapestry offers functionality for assessment and monitoring progress within statutory frameworks, as well as the ability for a school to create and upload their own curriculum. In addition, the unique Cherry Garden framework supports child-centred assessment for children with learning differences and disabilities.

These features enable schools to collect rich information to inform them of children’s progress and to influence adjustments in their curriculum and provision. To further assist planning, Tapestry has a customisable activities area and the ability for children to log in securely to their accounts, enabling them to take responsibility for their own learning, and sharing meaningful feedback.

Used by more than 16,000 settings and schools worldwide, Tapestry has been recognised with rankings in the Edtech 50 Awards Yearbook 2021; the 2022 BusinessCloud’s EdTech 50 – UK’s most innovative education technology creators; and we have been shortlisted for the Teach Primary Awards 2022 ‘SEN’ category.

 

Technical or IT Support Service

AdEPT

It seems almost clichéd, each year to speak of how schools increasingly have to more with less budget. Unfortunately this has never been more the case, with the NAHT saying this year that schools are facing a “perfect storm” of eye-watering energy bills, spiralling costs and the additional burden of an unfunded pay increase. Resultantly many schools are now looking at falling into deficit unless they make swinging cuts.

Technology then, has a big role to play. The efficiently and cost savings gleaned from using the right technology properly, can have huge impacts. AdEPT are focused on delivering the right technology affordable for schools.

 

 

Computeam

Computeam are dedicated to delivering tangible educational benefits through the successful introduction, management and support of ICT in schools. Our mission statement is to improve education outcomes using technology.

Computeam currently deliver support to over 450 schools and MATs across England. Our commitment to offer the very best in IT Services is centred around investment in our amazing team, alongside a support methodology that harnesses innovation through strategic planning to design and implement bespoke, cloud-centred IT solutions for each school.

A support service is only as good as its staff, so we hire and develop amazing people who are passionate about making a difference in schools. Our focus on employee engagement and training has helped us become Investors in People Gold, and one of the Top 100 Small companies to work for in the UK in 2022. We are also hugely proud of the quality of our strategic planning service, which delivers significant positive outcomes for every client including improved access, enhanced security and sustainability gains in both cost and environmental impact thanks to our adoption of cloud-centred technologies.

A combination of these factors helps us to achieve significant positive outcomes and industry-leading levels of client feedback and satisfaction.

 

 

Concero Education Technology

Concero was founded in 2008 and since then has consistently delivered partnership-led, educationally focused support to schools, built on understanding their needs and providing an honest, dependable, and supportive service. A Microsoft Gold Partner with ISO 9001 and 27001 accreditations, we created an Audit and Action plan-based approach, using educationally standard benchmarks from the DFE, to collectively understand what the school needs and build an implementation programme that delivers concrete results, backed up by industry-leading support packages.

We’re immensely proud of the transformative solutions we have developed alongside our partners, such as Microsoft, Tablet Academy, and Senso Cloud, that give our schools the benefit of cloud-based, anywhere learning, that removes the dependence on local infrastructure and frees teachers to explore more inventive ways of teaching and learning using technology. Students benefit from reliable, dependable equipment without downtime or interruption and build their confidence in collaboration and digital learning skills.

As the largest provider of the Platform Provisioning Programme in the UK, we are poised to extend this experience to an even greater number of schools in 2023 and beyond.

 

 

eduthing

As an education focused IT managed support provider, our aim is to have positive impact on learners, teachers and leaders inside and outside the classroom with cloud-first and sustainable approaches. In the 4 years that we have been in business, we have grown to serve over 120 schools, 40,000 students and 8,000 staff. As a reflective company, we focus on our outcomes and partnerships that we form, using these to continually improve our delivered service. An example of this is our unique on demand and out-of-hours services, ensuring teachers get support whenever they need it and wherever they may be.

By combining technical support with teaching and learning support we ensure that each pupil receives the best possible experience when learning with technology.

Recently we have supported the redesign of the computing curriculum and associated staff training, the school commented:

“……our computing curriculum has been reinvigorated and redesigned. The impact of this on the staff’s confidence to deliver computing lessons and our children’s engagement has been outstanding.”

A parent from the school said:
“The weather report presented by the class brought the whole topic of weather to life, with both parents and children enjoying the interactive nature of the presentation.”

 

 

Joskos Solutions

Joskos is a successful solution driven provider of services to schools nationally and is focused solely on education. Joskos places paramount importance on enabling schools to enrich the classroom experience and help to improve learning outcomes and harness the potential of technology.

Joskos has fundamentally changed its structure and its approach to meeting school need through four integrated elements which have deep learning at the core of its engagement with schools: Strategic Consultancy; CPD; Managed Services; and Environment Transformation.

It is this educationally focused, support-driven culture that makes us an ideal partner to schools and led us to becoming one of the suppliers accepted on the Department for Education’s ICT Services Framework Agreement.

Whether it is technical staffing, a suite of managed services, infrastructure solutions, integrating technology into a blended curriculum model or quite simply impartial advice and guidance, we are here to help.

Customer feedback consistently demonstrates that we are committed to helping them to achieve their vision – a commitment that led to Joskos winning the 2012 BETT Award for ICT Service and Support and being short-listed or highly commended every year since.

At Joskos, we provide support for our schools today to transform their tomorrow.

 

 

LGfL – The National Grid for Learning

LGfL understands schools. The way they work. The needs of all members of the school community. And the best ways to provide effective support, not just in the provision of technology, but in its use.
Our procurement at scale means that when we say, “Schools can save more money than they spend,” we mean it. But provision of technology is only the beginning of our engagement with them. We provide quality CPD to all staff, not just those in the classroom, but those in the offices and server rooms, too. Whilst our award-winning curriculum resources empower teaching and learning, and our Digisafe services keep networks secure and safeguard learners.
Perhaps the most powerful element of what we do is to bring professionals together within our community of schools, to provide mutual advice and support from their own practice and experience. Whether that is senior leaders developing edtech strategies, classroom practitioners focusing on teaching and learning, or technicians making sure everything works, we all recognise that it is through working together that we can make the biggest difference for the children and young people we work with.

 

 

Schools ICT

Schools ICT are a team that operate across the South East. We have been delivering ICT services since 1990 and currently support 280+ schools. Operating on a not-for-profit basis, our sole purpose is to provide services that add value to schools, supporting teaching and learning, and to enable the best possible outcomes.

We provide regular reporting and service review meetings to allow schools to feed back to us and receive help in planning for the future, in a logical and structured way.

We provide tiered technical support services and managed internet connections that are fast, secure and safe by design. These include links into JAnet and the LA. We offer remote access that enables staff to work from anywhere on any device, remote backup to provide schools with reassurance that their data is safe and multi-vendor MIS Support and Training. We are also accredited partners of Arbor, Bromcom, ScholarPack, SIMS, Google and Microsoft.

Recently we released our cyber resilience programme to schools across the South East offering auditing services to bolster protection against cyber-attacks. Since the introduction of the Computing Curriculum, we have been supporting teachers on how best to teach this subject as well as Online Safety

 

 

The ONTO Group

The ONTO Group provides tailored information management support services and innovative business solutions to educational establishments globally. Offering a variety of IT-based services from its UK headquarters, the forward-thinking and highly-skilled ONTO Group team support with specialist advice, reassurance and hands-on operational support including onsite consultancy and training, timetable management, pupil analysis, exam arrangements, Power Bi and other data services.
The company offers significant benefits to schools and colleges opting to outsource their data management services, including substantial cost savings – with approximately £3,000 – £4,000 saved on salary costs alone.

Through a high-quality range of business support solutions, The ONTO Group enables schools and colleges to run with excellence and efficiency, helping them to improve their pupil and teacher outcomes. In addition to streamlining processes, supporting day-to-day operations and saving time, The ONTO Group offer an effective solution for ongoing improvements in teaching and learning – ensuring that the systems implemented are used to their maximum potential, and are tailored to the needs of the individual school or college. Through harnessing real-time data, informed decisions can be made to aid the individual progress of pupils by identifying any key interventions required.

Class Aid or Educator Support

Alef Education – The Alef Platform

 

The Alef Platform is a leading global education technology platform that is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to create personalized learning experiences that transform the way the world is educated. It has a growing presence in key
education markets worldwide, such as the United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Indonesia, and Egypt. The award-winning Alef Platform provides AI-powered learning and teaching solutions that leverage real-time data to drive improvements across the education ecosystem.

 

 

Developing Experts

Developing Experts is an Ed- tech company, providing a stimulating, interactive science curriculum and combined career’s platform for children, schools, employers, and government organisations The platform is designed to capture the imaginations of all children, from early years, regardless of background or ability to stimulate, inspire and broaden aspirations and horizons in STEM, cultivating a sustaining sense of self-belief for reaching their full potential, devoid of bias assumptions and stereotypes Teachers play a pivotal and powerful role in shaping children’s understanding, exploration and choices in STEM subjects and careers.

We enhance teachers’ knowledge and confidence by providing an interactive library of more than 1000 online prepared lessons linked with careers, lesson plans, practical science experiments, worksheets, interviews with experts, handouts, quizzes – (mapped against the national curriculum and Gatsby benchmarks) along with memorable experiences through unforgettable stories and narratives, stunning images, and videos. Innovative insights, experiences, learning, and exposure helps to ignite all children’s curiosity and perceptions about the world of STEM, exerting in built confidence to invest further.

Working together, partners can effectively create talented, resilient, and confident individuals and a diverse, inclusive, future workforce for generating greater equality of opportunity within a prosperous, fulfilling social economic environment.

 

 

Knowledge AI – KAIT

KAIT is the world’s only AI based individualized learning platform that is truly integrated with traditional classrooms. The teachers do not have to change their teaching behavior or contents. We utilize teachers’ contents while providing the best possible additional training based on AI’s calculation of student abilities.
Learning should be individualized. It can be done with AI. AI needs digital data. Our platform is web-based and data can be collected by using tablets or with a smart pen on normal paper. Using AI, we use formative assessments in mastery learning environments to make students understand. We do not use grades but show understanding level by question and by subtopic. Lastly, we empower teachers with diagnostics and analytics of students so that they are able to pay more attention to each individual student. They can act as SEL coaches and spend less time on teaching facts.

 

 

Lightspeed Systems – Lightspeed Classroom Management

Lightspeed Classroom Management gives teachers control over their digital classrooms and real-time visibility into student activity.

Teachers can monitor student screens, close distracting tabs, block up to 100 URLs, and enable screen sharing for a collaborative, interactive classroom—whether class is conducted in-person or at a distance. Thanks to integrations with Zoom and Microsoft Teams, this solution provides a full remote learning experience with video conferencing in the environment teachers already know.

With Lightspeed Classroom Management, educators can spend more time educating and less time managing.

 

 

Mussila – Mussila for School

Giving schools and teachers creative tools that spark their students’ curiosity so they are motivated to learn, is our mission at Mussila.

We offer two creative digital solutions that follow our Learn, Play and Create methodology.:
– Mussila WordPlay is an app that helps teachers to teach English reading and comprehension to children aged 6 to 12 years old. It was developed in collaboration with speech therapists, with an evidence-based practice approach.
– Mussila Music is an award-winning app that helps music teachers to teach music theory and how to play the piano to children aged 6 to 10 years old.

With Mussila for schools, teachers and school administrators will be able to create and manage groups and student profiles, and follow the progress of the latter, thanks to our teacher’s dashboard.

Both our apps are available on Android and iOS smart devices, as well as on Chromebooks, and can be used in class and as an additional learning resource at home.

 

 

WIRIS – WirisQuizzes

WirisQuizzes question types with equations, graphs, or text-based answers that adapt to students’ needs and automatically correct students’ answers. It enables infinite dynamic questions by adding random parameters, thus supporting cheating prevention and practice through trial and error. WirisQuizzes allows educators to easily build STEM quizzes by choosing from unique question types made especially for STEM: open-answer questions that use graphs and equations, multiple choice, true or false, etc. With our smart automatic evaluation software, you will save time authoring and evaluating because it understands math and provides customized feedback. Your students will learn through practice with our infinite dynamic questions. Use random variables to create unique dynamic questions and decrease cheating probability. WirisQuizzes seamlessly integrates with different LMS and educational platforms to ensure all your results are automatically recorded and shared accordingly – it integrates with Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and soon Google Classroom.

Hardware, AV, VR/AR, Robotics or Digital Device

Arduino – Arduino Make Your UNO Kit

Learn the basics of electronics by assembling your Arduino UNO.

Become familiar with soldering by mounting every single component, and then unleash your creativity with the only kit that becomes a synthesiser.

 

 

Discovery Education – Discovery Education Sandbox AR

Sandbox AR is an augmented reality ‘maker’ app that allows students and teachers to create, share, and even inhabit virtual environments. By placing a stage on a flat surface and adding models to create a sandbox, students create a virtual world they can experience and share. Whether being used as a teacher-led or pupil-led resource, users can create virtual worlds and populate them with objects from history, the built world, science and nature, and more, easily integrating with virtual and physical teaching approaches.

The app is designed to stimulate exploration and the sense of having experienced an environment in real life, providing a powerful prompt to reinforce learning or to go on and create, based on their experience of inhabiting their own created world. Using hundreds of models and virtual stages, pupils can build their own immersive world in augmented reality. These can be based on many popular themes or purely based on the pupil’s own imagination.

What makes Sandbox AR unique is the ability to scale up and inhabit life size virtual environments, so pupils can literally inhabit the world they have created.

 

 

i-Scream Media – TRUETRUE

TRUETRUE is an all-in-one coding robot that can learn the entire process from coding basics to artificial intelligence and text coding. It supports Unplugged activities based on card coding, EPL activities based on Scratch 3.0, artificial intelligence activities linked to teachable machines, and text coding activities based on JavaScript.

TRUETRUE has been exported to 23 countries around the world and has won awards from two international organizations. In 2019, it received a gold award at Edutech Asia’s Best robotic solution, and in 2021, we won GESS education award’s Innovation Product Awards – Digital / Coding / Software.

We developed TRUETRUE to help students learn to code in a fun and easy way. We will continue to work hard to achieve this goal.

 

 

Logitech Scribe

Hybrid learning is no longer a ‘nice to have’, it is a necessity, and many educational institutions are benefiting from the opportunity to work and learn from anywhere. However, without the right technology, its challenging to make hybrid lessons engaging and productive. Logitech is at the forefront of hybrid learning innovation. It’s AI-powered whiteboard camera Logitech Scribe gives everyone – whether they are present in person or remotely – a perfect view of the whiteboard. Empowering all participants to collaborate, Logitech Scribe enhances hybrid experiences in this new era of learning and working.

With AI technology, it goes beyond a traditional whiteboard camera – from “ghosting” those in front of the board so they’re still visible but don’t block the content, to identifying and enhancing sticky notes and dry erase markers. With innovation at its core, Scribe crafts quality learning experiences for students that enhance engagement and inspire the imagination.

 

 

 

PASCO scientific – STEM Sense: Sense & Control Kits

PASCO’s STEM Sense: Sense and Control Kits are uniquely designed to bring real-world, cross-curricular learning into STEM courses and after-school programs. The Sense and Control product line consists of three kits: the Greenhouse Sense & Control Kit, the PASCObot Sense & Control Kit, and the //control.Node Sense & Control Kit. Each kit comes ready-to-use and includes robust teacher support, including Get Started videos, scaffolded student activities, answer keys, and suggestions for extending students’ learning.

 

 

Photon Entertainment – Photon Robot

Photon is a universal, interdisciplinary and user-friendly robot suitable to work with students from every level of education (K-12). Teachers can use prepared lesson plans or create their own to teach any subject. Simplified operation and multiple integrations provide high accessibility. Photon is fully compatible with the most popular systems for mobile devices, computers, interactive whiteboards and interactive floors. It can be operated using our apps or third-parties software and can be successfully used for individual work (including therapy), teamwork, group project work, practical experiments, storytelling classes or gamification in STEAM and social-emotional education. It helps with teaching core competencies, basics of coding and advanced programming in a simple way.

Teachers are supported with content, lesson scenarios, youtube courses and educational portal. Logging in is not required.

Currently 55 000 robots are used by more than 1 000 000 students in Europe, Asia and the USA. Photon is CE-certified. Solutions have been appreciated by Finnish experts and Photon has been awarded with the Education Alliance Finland certificate.

Photon combines the simplicity of a smart device with huge ecosystem potential providing a meaningful learning experience.

 

 

Sphero – Sphero indi Class Pack

The Sphero indi learning robot brings abstract programming and computer science concepts to life for students as young as 4 years old while encouraging open-ended, imaginative play-based learning and computational thinking skills. Students build custom mazes and solve puzzles using eight different-coloured durable tiles that represent different commands, like “celebrate!” or “turn left.” Then, level up learning by using basic code blocks to reprogram how indi responds to each color in the prereader-friendly Sphero Edu Jr App.

Absolutely no computer science experience is necessary on the part of teacher or student —the indi Class Pack comes with everything educators need to get started on standards-aligned computer science practice with an Educator Guidebook (including free cross-curricular lessons), Challenge Cards (students solve puzzles to build computational thinking skills), an easy charging case that charges all indi robots at once, and more.

 

 

TTS – Oti-Bot

At TTS we’ve been supporting learning for more than 35 years. Alongside our sister brand, Consortium, we are the largest supplier of educational resources in the UK. We develop unique, high-quality resources that help raise achievement in schools all over the world. By collaborating with teachers and educational experts from across the globe, we have a range of resources that help to motivate and inspire children to learn.

Oti-Bot is a STEAM robot designed with the future in mind. Suitable for supporting your learners from KS1 to KS3 across all subject areas, Oti-Bot is a versatile, social and upgradable humanoid robot designed for the 21st Century classroom.

The Education Show (non-EdTech) Award for School Resources & Equipment for Teaching & Learning

CLPE – The CLPE School Membership

The CLPE School Membership supports primary schools to build a book-based English curriculum. This online resource gives whole school access to detailed literacy planning for over 230 high-quality children’s books appropriate for Early Years to Year 7, home learning teaching notes and CLPE’s curriculum maps.

School Membership provides ideas, inspiration and structure for a school’s literacy curriculum as well as proven creative teaching approaches to raise engagement and literacy standards in reading and writing.

The CLPE School Membership has had an impact in over 5000 schools, raising achievement and engagement in reading and writing, and building cohesive English curriculums in schools across the world. This affordable resource supports teachers under immense pressure and offers ideas and structure for their literacy curriculum, to raise literacy standards across the whole school.

CLPE are an established children’s literacy charity, celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2022.

 

 

Gratnells – Gratnells Learning Rooms Furniture Range

Murray Hudson, Gratnells Managing Director and co-author of the book, Planning Learning Spaces, cited the Gratnells Learning Rooms furniture range as “the most significant redesign of the British classroom in over 100 years.”

The curriculum-led design of this range was inspired by years of research and development. The innovative, purposeful, and agile furniture can be used in primary schools to provide learner-led environments and is shown to boost pupil engagement, independence, and confidence.

In-depth research studies and close collaboration with schools have driven our vision for educationally effective classroom design. Professor Peter Barrett, co-author of the renowned Clever Classrooms report, observed the effect of the Gratnells Learning Rooms furniture range with Trumpington Park Primary School (TPPS). He wrote “In almost all cases the increased flexibility and associated choice presented has been a positive opportunity that has resulted in a stronger overall class performance.” Head Teacher, Mel Shute proudly reports “We see the outcomes that the children have had from being within a space that’s designed around the things that we hold to the heart of great education, our academic outcomes are great and are rising which is really positive”.

 

 

Picture News

Picture News is a current affairs resource for children aged 3-16. Each week schools receive a resource pack containing a thought-provoking image and question alongside a range of other resources designed to generate thought, discussion and debate and expose children, their schools and communities to a variety of current affairs.
Picture News resources allow schools to create engaging and exciting lessons, allowing opportunities for children to learn about our world, develop independence, resilience, respect, make connections with our world to learn more about themselves and others and unlock their own drive and passion for learning. Teaching the news not only provides great content and stimulus and grips children’s attention, it is also something that the children can impact. It is current, happening now and so their voice is given meaning and purpose.
The nature of Picture News enables the resource to not just impact those in school, but its reach includes children’s families and the whole community. Everyone can learn more about our diverse world, be more inclusive and be inspired to act. It is our world, we all matter and we can all make a difference.

 

 

Promote Your School – Wall Art by Promote Your School

Promote Your School is an education design agency that specialises in creating bespoke Wall Art murals for schools. Our talented in-house design team is based in the UK, but we manage projects for schools around the world.

With over 20 years’ experience in education, we understand the unique challenges faced by teachers and leaders in education. So, we’re well placed to advise and guide you through the process of using Wall Art to achieve your goals and ambitions as a school.

Our directors have extensive, practical experience in education and design. Each member of the in-house team is thoroughly trained and experienced in their local education region. This makes us well placed to provide a fully consultative service to schools, colleges and universities.

Having worked with hundreds of schools throughout the years, we offer an unrivalled experience, with outstanding customer service that’s tailored to each school’s unique needs and objectives. This ensures successful outcomes every time. And it’s why so many of the schools we work with come back to us year after year.

 

 

The Literacy Company – Pathways Literacy

Pathways Literacy is a unique and innovative portfolio of programmes: Pathways to Write, Pathways to Read, Pathways to Home Learning, Pathways to Poetry, Pathways to Spell and Pathways to Progress. Each programme can be used independently but the portfolio is carefully woven together using skills from the national curriculum and the reformed EYFS framework. Each programme focuses on a finite number of skills that build progressively throughout the year, allowing pupils to develop confidence so that each skill can be mastered. This methodology sets the Pathways Literacy portfolio of programmes apart from other products available to schools.
Pathways Literacy offers high quality resources with inclusivity at its heart from clear guidance for all pupils to clear support for parents or mixed-age planning to support smaller schools. The impact of these research-based programmes is evident from school feedback and from Ofsted reports. Customer care is second to none with a dedicated business support team and consultants who care passionately about outcomes for children; all of the latter having been teachers themselves so they fully understand the needs of education and schools. Users can expect high quality customer service alongside a top-quality product.

SEND Resources, Products & Services

Auris Tech – Fonetti

Fonetti is the interactive reading platform where children read aloud, giving teaching staff real-time pupil reading data in the Fonetti School Portal.

Reading independently on the Fonetti app helps children improve their confidence, fluency and vocabulary, whatever their starting point, while promoting a love of reading.

Patented speech recognition listens as children read aloud, turning the words green when read correctly, and an audible clue if they get stuck. In-app rewards and visual feedback keeps readers engaged, along with fiction, non-fiction and curriculum-supporting content, crafted for different reading ages and abilities.

In school, the app is used alongside the Fonetti School Portal, where teachers allocate books to individuals, intervention groups or whole classes, and then track reading progress and accuracy in real-time, in order to make effective use of 1:1 time. Teachers can instantly see which readers are struggling, and who needs a new challenge.

The app supports the learning needs of children with SEND with dyslexia-friendly fonts and the ability to pause the book whenever needed – accommodating shorter attention spans. App-based reading provides an alternative format to print, and throughout there’s immediate positive reinforcement, congratulating progress to build confidence, helping remove the fear of reading aloud.

 

 

Booost Education – Booost

Booost is here to help students who learn differently to organise, optimise, and overcome their challenges. Fully utilising time in the day is a headache for anyone; it is even more of an obstacle for students struggling with concentration, processing speed, memory, and overwhelm. Booost’s software enables these students in their studies. The smart time management features help schedule their day, taking their timetable and identifying where available time is. Further than this, Booost will recommend what task to prioritise in that time based on due date, importance, and how close to completion it is. Booost also provides instant access to a library of expertly written wellbeing advice. Available anytime through any device, advice is recommended based on the type of lesson the student is in. Booost is the first piece of software to synchronise time management assistance and wellbeing support under one roof. Created by disability needs assessors it was made to fit this specific gap, where students had previously been missing out. Booost will be further expanding its product range to continue supporting these students.

 

 

Glean

Glean is an organisation that seeks to drive a big impact on how people engage with information in order to learn effectively. Launched in 2020 by the makers of Sonocent Audio Notetaker, Glean now works with over 600 colleges and universities worldwide and supports over 200,000 students. Glean was established to solve a universal learning problem: information overload. Its innovative software, and the structure that underpins it, is making 95% of its users learn more effectively from class content.

 

 

Inclusive Technology – Inclusive Stories

New from HelpKidzLearn, Inclusive Stories. Fun and engaging, animated sensory stories and resources specially designed to focus on a range of learning intentions, developmental areas, and topics relevant for learners with a wide range of educational needs.

Inclusive Stories is a creation of Pete Wells, an award-winning special educational needs teacher and senior leader. Inclusive Stories were written so that educators could provide a range of sensory experiences and motivational activities for children and adults of all ages and abilities.

Sensory experiences and play helps students to learn more about the world around them and supports language development as they learn to respond to different stimuli. Sensory play encourages learning through exploration, curiosity, problem solving and creativity.

Inclusive Stories have been specially written to address functional skills, cross-curricular personal development as well as several sensitive issues and topics such as bullying, personal hygiene, spiritual moral social and cultural development and social, emotional and mental health. Inclusive Stories cover a range of topics including literacy, numeracy, science, computing, arts, humanities, P.H.S.C.E, physical education design and technology and much more.

 

 

OrCam Technologies – OrCam Learn

An estimated 1 in 5 children in every classroom – in every school – are dyslexic.

Launched earlier this year to innovatively support students of all aptitudes – including dyslexia – as they read and study, the OrCam Learn empowers students with learning challenges to read independently and increase their confidence in and out of the classroom.

As the first-ever solution to enable instant reading of full pages of any printed text and digital screens, OrCam Learn can be integrated into day-to-day school life, freeing up teachers to spend less time assessing, and more time teaching.

The Reading Pal feature adapts to match the student’s desired reading pace. It harnesses the benefits of reading out loud in boosting literacy, engagement, and comprehension. The always-positive feedback encourages independent learning, promoting a personal and interactive experience to drive engagement with students, leading to positive outcomes.

 

 

Special iApps C.I.C. – Special Words Plus

Special iApps C.I.C. are a social enterprise that have been developing educational apps for children with Special Educational Needs since 2011. Their apps can be used in a number of languages to support children learn and develop and build their literacy, numeracy, speech & communication and working memory. Specifically designed to support children who have autism, Down syndrome, sensory loss with hearing or visual impairment, cerebral palsy, dyslexia and dyspraxia or those that just need some additional support with differentiated personalised learning materials.

Special Words Plus was released in 2021 and provides Early Years and SEND children the opportunity to improve communication, vocabulary and literacy skills, allowing them to show just how much they know by matching pictures with words and spoken words.

You can create your own resources using your own photographs or download Special iApps curriculum add-ons from within the app as well as access Numicon Shapes, Makaton Symbols and add-ons that compliment Learn and Thrive’s Teach Me Too videos.

This app replaces our older Special Words standard edition and is included in our new Special iApps membership. It’s a web-app that can be used on a variety of devices including laptops, desktops, Chromebook, tablets and phones.

 

 

Tes – Provision Map

Provision Map from Tes is a unique piece of software which enables schools to create flexible learning plans that are fully customisable in line with the SEND code of practice and follow the assess – plan – do – review approach. Provision Map makes it fast and easy to map out interventions and to keep track of who is involved in each intervention. Schools can automatically calculate cost and can view provision reviews and outcome tracking.

Provision Map is more than just provision mapping, it’s a management information system specifically designed for busy SENCOs and Pupil Premium co-ordinators to help manage SEND pupils and improve learning outcomes, while providing comprehensive evidence for inspections.

 

 

Touch-type Read and Spell – TTRS Online

Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) is a research-based typing program that has been helping students with special needs learn keyboarding for the past 25+ years. The course builds typing, spelling, and reading skills through a structured program of phonics delivered across short and manageable typing modules. The display is fully customisable to meet the needs of students with sensory issues, and there are no distracting graphics or loud games. With TTRS, learners can go at their own pace and repeat modules as necessary as they earn stars, trophies and certificates of achievement for their work. Moreover, parents and teachers can enter custom spelling lists and assign English, maths, science and general subject content aligned with the UK curriculum to create a versatile learning tool for students of all ages. Education Resource of the Year, 2017, Education Resource Awards. Bett Awards 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 Finalist. Learn more at www.readandspell.com.

Higher Education – Digital Learning Product

Anthology – Learn Ultra

Anthology’s next-generation learning management system (LMS), Blackboard Learn™ Ultra (Learn Ultra), allows educators to deliver simpler, more powerful life-changing teaching and learning experiences with unmatched pedagogical autonomy. It is the company’s flagship learning management system designed to support the student experience while enabling pedagogical best practices for faculty.
Blackboard Learn Ultra provides educators with the autonomy to utilize best-practice pedagogical approaches within the LMS so that learners can thrive in the classroom, via online learning, or through hybrid learning models.
With Learn Ultra, educators and learners can track their progress with highly visible, quickly actionable displays, keeping students on track for success. In addition, with a multitude of helpful methods of communication built-in, Learn Ultra lowers the barriers to and encourages ongoing educator-learner interaction—whether inside the classroom or through virtual learning.
With a research-informed approach that involves clients throughout the development process, Blackboard Learn Ultra users benefit from significant improvements to the learning experience aligned with the pedagogical preferences of instructors.

 

 

FeedbackFruits – FeedbackFruits Tool Suite

The transition to the “new normal” in higher education requires institutions to seek and adopt teaching technologies that are easy to use, VLE-compatible, scalable, less labour-intensive, and capable of enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
Recognising this need, the FeedbackFruits Tool Suite presents 15 pedagogic solutions that can be seamlessly integrated into different VLEs and help institutions create meaningful learning experiences in any class setting (online, hybrid, or blended).
Each of the FeedbackFruits tools accommodates a range of learning objectives and pedagogic approaches, from course delivery, and assessment, to collaboration, engagement, and interactivity.

 

 

Glean

Glean is an organisation that seeks to drive a big impact on how people engage with information in order to learn effectively. Launched in 2020 by the makers of Sonocent Audio Notetaker, Glean now works with over 600 colleges and universities worldwide and supports over 200,000 students. Glean was established to solve a universal learning problem: information overload. Its innovative software, and the structure that underpins it, is making 95% of its users learn more effectively from class content.

 

 

Mozaik Education

CadaVR is a 3-dimensional, interactive, multilingual digital anatomy atlas with VR support

The new-generation digital anatomy atlas an effective aid both for medical students to learn about anatomical disorders, various methods of surgery and practice anatomical terminology and for patients to learn about diseases.

The professional models were created using photogammetry, based on real cadavers as well as fixed wet and paraffin-embedded specimens in the dissection room and internationally renowned anatomy museum of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Szeged, Hungary.

The atlas provides spectacular visualisation of real anatomical structures and rare anatomical specimens in high quality and professional content of fine anatomical details.

The atlas contains:
– 280+ 3D models
– 10.000+ labels
– 1000+ Built-in quizzes
– 2 Whole-body CT scans

 

 

Pro-Study

Academically, university life is often very stressful and overwhelming for students. Students’ intense workload and course and study requirements can be extremely challenging.

Being in the unique position of working closely with students, we (the founders of Pro-Study) we listened to their study and writing challenges and created a product that would enable them to collect and organise their research in an accessible and easy to use format. Pro-Study and the companion app Project Assist has been helping students to reduce the stress associated with university work since 2016.

Pro-Study supports the student’s study strategies such as organisation and time management, project management, exporting research into Word, and accurately creating a bibliography taking the stress out of referencing.

Tested and proven, Pro-Study is used by over 20,000 thousand higher education students in the United Kingdom. It is an approved Assistive Technology software in the government funded Disabled Student Allowance (DSA) scheme. It has been purposely developed to help students who may face challenges with their university work and also those with additional needs.

 

 

SAGE Publishing – SAGE Catalyst

SAGE Catalyst is a new teaching and learning tool providing unlimited, university-wide access to over 700 premium social science textbooks with virtual collaboration, classroom discussion, and peer-to-peer learning. SAGE Catalyst is a result of SAGE and Talis coming together to work on a unique and valuable product offering to meet the demand for online and blended learning, amplified by the switch to remote teaching during COVID-19. Our overriding mission is to support libraries in breaking down barriers to knowledge by ensuring equitable access to learning materials, and also faculty in increasing student engagement and satisfaction. Over 25 HE institutions across the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions already subscribe to SAGE Catalyst.

The full SAGE Catalyst collection is currently not available anywhere else online. It has been carefully developed to give comprehensive coverage across the full social science curriculum. SAGE Catalyst is powered by Talis Elevate – a platform that brings discussion into course content. Faculty can embed chapters directly into their VLE and view analytics at course, resource, and student level. Faculty and students can add comments directly within the texts and interact in virtual classroom discussion. This helps to increase student engagement through collaboration.

 

 

Labster

Labster is dedicated to developing fully interactive virtual training simulations that are designed to enhance traditional learning outcomes by stimulating students’ natural curiosity and reinforcing the connection between science and the real world. The 300-plus simulations can be used in a variety of different ways, from a full lab replacement to a supplemental learning activity. Over 5 million students in high schools and universities across 70 countries have used Labster to perform realistic experiments, learn key science concepts, and practice their skills in a risk-free learning environment. Labster’s team members are passionate about improving science learning, resulting in collaborations with over 3,000 leading educational institutions. Visit www.labster.com.

 

 

ThingLink

ThingLink is a much loved online content creation tool for both educators and students, it is used by more than 4 million educators globally. Their technology is based on enriching any type of visual media (images, videos, 360 media, or 3D models) with information, further media and links. Once created it is easy to combine ThingLink media into interactive infographics, presentations, virtual tours, or branching scenarios.

In Higher Education, both educators and students are creating award winning outstanding interactive learning experiences, These have included virtual tours, virtual labs, virtual field trips and scenario-based simulations of real-life environments. ThingLink have many examples of innovative use and peer-reviewed academic papers which have led to awards and recognition for the universities.

The ThingLink team have seen incredible examples of virtual walk-throughs and tours that give students access to real-world environments and situations that would otherwise be out of their reach. Interactive 360° images and videos created with ThingLink have helped to develop contextual understanding, improve their academic vocabulary and skills in remote locations, cultures, work environments, or social situations.

Keeping fresh and current for all ThingLink creators, the team listen to feedback and keep up with emerging technologies to constantly improve their solution.