Observatory

Perspective Observatory

Collaborative Improvement Across Multiple Establishments

Perspective Process

Perspective promotes and maintains continuous interaction between self review and planning allowing leaders to identify issues quickly, make robust judgements, and make sure that targets are focussed on key priorities that will lead to real improvement and impact. Perspective provides not only a robust framework which ensures a consistency in approach and quality of self evaluation and planning, but directly builds in preparation for inspection, individual Performance Management, CPD needs, observations, stakeholder engagement and evidence management.

At an Academy Sponsor, Local Authority, Federation or Children’s Centre Locality level, this information is collated across all of your establishments by our overview module Perspective Observatory, providing quick and easy access to information vital to the identification of strengths, weaknesses and training needs, the provision of support, and the current status of every establishment.

Perspective Observatory can be a vital time saving tool in the monitoring of multiple establishments. By providing remote collaborative access to their processes, a simple method to ensure leaders are focussed on the right things at the right time, or as a way to disseminate data and documentation securely, Perspective Observatory can give those responsible for monitoring multiple schools, academies or Children’s Centres effective insight into their establishments.

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The Learning Schools Trust is the non-profit, charitable organisation that operates the Kunskapsskolan-sponsored academies in England. Two Learning School Trust academies opened in September 2010: Twickenham Academy and Hampton Academy. A third, Ipswich Academy, opened in March 2011. Each of these Academies now use Perspective to provide their leaders, and the Learning Schools Trust group with vital information to inform strategic decision making, and all of this is visible from the centre via the Observatory allowing the academies to work collaboratively.

‘The Learning Schools Trust chose to work with Perspective because it provides us with an integrated framework enabling us to benchmark management information across our partnership of academies. We have a rather different approach to assessing quality gathering a wide range of both hard and soft data. The Perspective team are really responsive to the needs of our academies and have worked pro-actively with us to co-design the best approach and support colleagues in the academies to implement the software and get the best possible outcome.’

John Baumber, Chief Executive & Education Director, The Learning Schools Trust

Click on any of the modules below to see more information about how Perspective handles process at an establishment level and supports leaders and managers:

What does Perspective Observatory provide for an Academy Group, Federation, LA or Children’s Centre Locality?

  • A convenient, collaborative and consistent way to evaluate performance effectively across multiple schools 
  • A method to ensure schools focus on priorities that have the greatest potential to impact improvement 
  • A way to remotely monitor improvement plans that provide an accurate, up to date, picture of progress 
  • A method of collaboratively supporting the self review process across multiple schools remotely 
  • A way of accessing the latest judgements made as part of whole school or departmental self review 
  • A simple, quick, and efficient way of distributing data, records of visits and documents across all schools 
  • A way of monitoring clusters or groups of schools and aggregating improvement plans and outcomes 
  • A simple way of gathering stakeholder views and survey reports across a cluster or whole group 
  • A method of providing pre-inspection support and interrogation of the evidence base for Ofsted remotely 
  • A way of identifying common training and CPD needs, areas for improvement or strengths across the group

‘The Perspective Observatory provides us with quick and easy access to key statistics across communities of Children’s Centres. The time saved by accessing the latest SEF, and viewing progress towards key targets is a huge benefit with the limited resources available. We are also able to analyse areas of strengths and weaknesses across our Centres helping us to target resources effectively. We have benefitted enormously from the exports which aggregate SEF responses and key priorities across all our centres, giving us thematic and cluster based plans.’

Gill Hanlan, Head of Early Years and Childcare, Wiltshire County Council

Would you like to know more?

If you would, then talk to us. We think that Perspective Observatory has a role to play for anyone monitoring multiple educational or childcare establishments, as well as supporting their internal processes, whether they be planning, monitoring or even preparation for inspection. Therefore we would like to talk to you about how we could tailor Perspective to your particular needs.

Our team of educationalists want to discuss your particular requirements, explain more about our software, share our experience of working with senior leaders up and down the country, and then demonstrate how we work in partnership with you to create an implementation and training plan that drives out the goals you want to achieve.

To arrange a phone conversation in the first instance or a 30 minute online demonstration, please contact us using the details below: