Thanks to a collaboration with 4 Welsh schools in 2024, Blippit's capabilities were expanded so that teachers in Wales could organise work examples (video, photos, audio, document links, text) to illustrate and evidence of, for example, the Four Purposes and Areas of Learning Experience.
If you're responsible for knowing how the new Curriculum for Wales is looking in your school or cluster, then like many other schools, you'll know that the job is a big one.
A big challenge is that in your own school or in a cluster of schools, as a leader, it's difficult to get examples of good up to date practice without feeling like you're on a major expedition. Teachers in Wales are keen to share and get concensus about what, for example, 'secure' in PS2 writing might look like, but that's easier said than done.
On top of that, we're told that the curriculum in Wales is still taking shape locally in schools but that, as difficult as it is, Headteachers are doing their very best to make the most of the opportunities that it brings.
Bespoke Curriculum Organisation in Welsh schools
There are naturally differences in how schools organise and describe their curriculum. Recently, we collaborated with one Welsh primary school to provide them with 8 tailor-made bespoke curriculum organisation categories that their teachers use to label, or 'tag' as well call it, examples of curriculum practice in school.
As standard, Blippit provides Curriculum for Wales tagging categories in Blippit Boards pre-made and schools can use what they need. Using the dashboard, schools in Wales can now run reports for any aspect of the curriculum that has been tagged and interact with it graphically as charts too.
“Blippit Boards allowed us to get everything into one place, it's really accessible, it's really quick and easy to access through things like the tags and the filters and the date range and all of those kind of things. It's also allowed us to ensure the whole teaching staff and governors are able to contribute towards their self-evaluation activities.”
Mr. R Hatwood, Headteacher. Ysgol Yr Holl Saint - All Saints' School
Top 3 uses of Blippit® for schools in Wales
Schools are all different
A big-picture view like this helps teachers and leaders find what they need quickly in the Blippit Dashboard.
Questions like these are answerable with the timely help of the Blippit Boards app and dashboard. Good practice captured in the curriculum using the app drives what the dashboard can illuminate in chart or report format.
To stay on the right side of GDPR, your school can share reports, perhaps with a cluster school or even a parent, that are cleansed of personal information because Blippit generates editable Docx reports as well as PDF.
More: Read about Blippit's collaboration with Headteachers in Wales.
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