With so many teachers using Blippit Boards now, we thought it would be worth sharing our approach to the powerfully simple principle that drives the platform, from evidence capture to seeing it resurface in searches, filters, charts and reports.‍We believe in being as transparent as possible regarding why things are like they are, so, in this post, we will summarise what we do and why when it comes to tags.There are 3 main ways that we meet the tagging needs of all schools.

This term has been extraordinary for many people in schools. Emerging from a long, dark & very wet January & February it's no wonder that schools are feeling it. So what do people do? Well, we've found that collaborations with individual subject leaders can be just the tonic. At a time when it can feel like you're pushing jelly uphill, we're always on the lookout to add to our professional sounding board of subject leaders.The 'what's in it for me' factor for subject leaders is that more often

[Read in Welsh] [Darllen yn Gymraeg]Our thanks to the Headteachers from these primary schools in Wales.All Saints VA Primary School (Wrexham)Park Community Primary School Llay (Wrexham)Ysgol Bryn Gwalia County Primary (Mold)Ysgol Llandegfan County Primary (Anglesey)‍Keen-eyed users of Blippit Boards may notice the arrival of twelve new curriculum tagging categories that support schools in Wales....

*UPDATE 27/3/23*‍A recent question that came in from a school was answered by the SIAMS Lead for Blackburn Diocese. Q: The IQ7 is just for VA schools so is the advice for VA schools to select both IQ6 and IQ7 when creating RE boards? A: Yes it would be good for VA schools to select both 6 and 7 as for VA schools the evidence for 6 and 7 will be very intertwined. In January 2023, after consulting with The Board of Education for Blackburn Diocese and SLT from a Cheshire primary, we released..

Big improvements have been made to the Blippit Boards app including bug fixes. Thank you to everybody in schools for the invaluable feedback that helped contribute to version 2.1.1 which is now available in the app stores AND as a brand new laptop and Chromebook compatible version too! We're so pleased to 1. save subject leaders even more time and 2. welcome more schools to Blippit Boards where iPads are rare or in use by the children (can you imagine!?)