Our thanks to the Headteachers from these primary schools in Wales.
Some keen-eyed Blippit Boards users may have spotted twelve new curriculum tagging categories for schools in Wales. If you’ve ever wondered how features like this come about (and why working closely with schools really matters) here’s the short story.
Back in July 2023, a Primary Headteacher in Wrexham got in touch to explore Blippit Boards. They asked one great question:
"Is this something that can be tailored to Wales in terms of subject areas?"
Our honest answer was:
"We haven’t done that yet — but there’s no reason why not."
We’d already tailored Blippit for other contexts (like church school inspections and Eco-Schools), and we were working on better ways for schools to customise tagging. Wales turned out to be the perfect catalyst to move this work forward.
At that point, Blippit had been very much England-focused. With early support from that first Headteacher, we started learning more about the Curriculum for Wales.
But one school can only give so much time, so we knew we needed a wider range of voices to make sure we got it right.
By August, we were sharing early draft ideas and testing whether the curriculum could translate well into Blippit. Welsh language support wasn’t even on our radar yet — until, by chance, a Headteacher from Anglesey got in touch for a demo.
At that point, Wales seemed to be popping up everywhere (hello, Baader–Meinhof effect 👋).
By September, interest had grown to schools across Wrexham, Mold, Merthyr Tydfil and Anglesey, plus a seconded Headteacher. We shared our thinking in advance and set up a Zoom — carefully avoiding anything that could have been an email.
In October, we held a focused Zoom session to:
Follow-up emails helped clarify things further, and this is where Welsh language support became a clear priority. Thanks to one Headteacher in Anglesey and their everyday use of Welsh - we better understood how essential this was, not optional. By the end of November 2023 into December, Blippit Boards was Curriculum for Wales school-ready.
This kind of collaboration works because:
The Heads who contributed shared time, insight, and ideas - often pulling from their wider networks - and in doing so, directly shaped how Blippit now works for schools in Wales.
We hope they’ll agree the result reflects their needs more clearly and helps teachers spend less time wrestling with systems, and more time focusing on what matters.
