Perspective for Primary Schools
From SEF to SIP: Planning : Doing : Reviewing
Perspective is an online system that has benefitted from the experience, wisdom, and feedback of hundreds of school leaders and educational experts since 2006.
Based on the best internet technology and using the latest (July 2009) Ofsted Framework, it helps schools to develop and maintain a self evaluation and planning cycle which contributes to the Leadership Team's ability to achieve its objectives.
A school with Perspective would have
- Key Priorities that have the greatest potential to impact on school performance
- Participative self evaluation processes that produce consistent and accurate judgements
- A source of expert advice to support and promote good self evaluation
- National, regional, and local data, about school context and performance for use as evidence to inform, and underpin, evaluation and planning
- Clear and demonstrable relationship between self evaluation and development/improvement planning
- Development/improvement plans that always provide an accurate and evolving picture of progress throughout the school.
- Action plans that ensure every individual is always clear about their role and responsibilities in team and school development plans
- Simple, quick, efficient way of distributing, collecting and analysing surveys and using them as evidence to support self evaluation
- A solution that is supported by a professional programme of consultancy and support
All of which would help to guarantee that the school meets challenging targets and maintains high levels of achievement.
What's new in Version 3 for Primary Schools
We've been working hard on the new version of Perspective for over a year and are proud to bring you the following features
Collaboration
Work together with other users in your team. Work independently through a series of Bite Size Questions and then come together to compare and contrast your responses before agreeing on the outcomes.
Improved Development Plans
Perspective now allows you to choose which Targets (or Goals) you want to include within your Development Plan. Change the order in which they appear, include an introduction, conclusion. Report formatting has been enhanced plus you now have the ability to export or summary. The reports can now also be viewed in a number of common outputs including PDF and Word formats.
Enhanced Admin Section
New icon based admin section with additional screens to manage users, teams, change the language or terminology used within parts of Perspective, so you can personalise Perspective with the terms your staff are familiar with.
Enhanced Home Page
New and enhanced 'widgets' give users a dashboard interface with instant access to commonly used areas such as your SEF, Development Plans and your personalised To-Do list.
To-Do List
A simple, personalised, day to day list of things to-do. Actions in this list simply have a title, a deadline and whether they have been completed or not. These may contribute towards targets or goals, or might simply be reminders about your day-to-day activities.
Draft and Agreed SEF Versions
Perspective now provides you with the ability to have a work in progress SEF and a final agreed SEF, providing more scope for you to edit and manage the SEF on an ongoing basis, without losing your original text.
Language Preferences
You say Tomato I say Tomato... Perspective now allows you to personalise various terms used throughout the system, on screen and in reports. If you prefer School Development Plan rather than School Improvement Plan, no problem. Simply change the default term and this will be reflected throughout Perspective.
Enhanced User and Team Management
Enhanced functionality when creating users, plus, a wholly new feature, is the ability to create teams and assign individual or multiple users to a team. Work with permissions; decide whether individual users are required to complete a thorough or 'lite' review, or whether they are the leader of their Team.
Enhanced websites tab
The much loved websites tab has had additional websites added to it to give you further relevant sources to help evidence your evaluation. You can now access DCSF Performance Tables, Neighbourhood Statistics and your latest Ofsted reports where relevant, and use the information within Perspective.
Notes
New in Perspective v3 is the ability to allow users within your team to add their comments, or notes, on your finalised text in your self review evaluation. You may want to invite a 'critical friend' to make suggestions and provide thoughts on your current text, without giving them the facility to edit your hard work!
