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SchoolIP have recently completed two open days in the East Midlands showcasing SchoolIP and demonstrating the benefits of using the school improvement suite.

The first event was held on Tuesday 27th April, hosted at Corby Business Academy based in Corby, Northamptonshire. The second event was held on Thursday 29th April and was kindly hosted by Landau Forte College in Derby.

We shall be announcing further regional open days here shortly. If you would like to arrange for an event to be held...

SchoolIP has organised two open days in the East Midlands to showcase SchoolIP and demonstrate the benefits of using the school improvement suite.

The first event is arranged for Tuesday 27th April, being hosted by Corby Business Academy based in Corby, Northamptonshire. The second event is being held on Thursday 29th April and is kindly being hosted by Landau Forte College in Derby.

If you would like to attend either of these events or would like to arrange for an event to be held in your...

Earlier this year Ofsted wrote to all maintained schools about changes to arrangements for Section 8 monitoring inspections of:

• satisfactory schools
• schools given a notice to improve
• schools that require special measures.

One key change is that, with the exception of the first three inspections of schools in special measures, Section 8 monitoring inspections will be conducted without prior notification, although the lead inspector will meet with a school's senior leaders to complet...

All visitors to the SchoolIP Stand No.L54 in the National Hall on the Ground Floor will be able to enter the SchoolIP Prize Draw with the chance to win a 12 month licence for a suite of web based school improvement tools for their school.

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Members of the SchoolIP team attended the 17th SSAT National Conference & Exhibition at the ICC in Birmingham from Wednesday November 25th to Thursday November 26th 2009.

There was a tremendous response from Principals,Head Teachers and SLT members that visited our stand towards the SchoolIP suite of school management software,which is a testament to its educational pedigree having been written in partnership with Sir Mark Grundy and his family of schools.
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SchoolIP were delighted to attend the recent Innovative Teachers Forum in Birmingham on 1st December 2009.The ceremony hosted by Microsoft awarded a number of teachers for introducing new and innovative teaching practices into their schools. The judging proved to be a very difficult and challenging exercise, with every one of the entries illustrating the outstanding work being undertaken in schools throughout the UK.

Congratulations to all the award winners.
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It’s that time of year again when thousands of teachers will be descending on Olympia in London for the BETT 2010 marathon from Wednesday January 13th to Saturday January 16th.

The SchoolIP team will also be lining up at the start on STAND L54 – National Hall Ground Floor exhibiting their web based suite of school management software, written by British teachers, and designed to transform and streamline the management of your school.

Covering the areas of Self Evaluation, School I...

Under the joint Headship of Mrs. Jane Burns, Albert Pritchard Infants School and Wood Green Junior School in Sandwell, have selected the SchoolIP suite of web based software to streamline their school management process.

We welcome these two new schools to the SchoolIP family, joining the fast growing list of UK schools who now see SchoolIP as The Way Forward.


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During a recent INSET day at Shireland Collegiate Academy in Sandwell, Birmingham the SchoolIP Staff Performance Monitor (SPM) module was rolled out to over 200 members of staff within the academy. The staff members included not only the senior leadership team and the teaching staff but also admin, cleaning and kitchen staff.

The software was firstly introduced to the Academy by Andy Grace (Associate Principal) and Damien Roberts (SchoolIP) during a morning assembly to all staff. Mr Grace de...

Shireland Collegiate Academy hosted an open day yesterday at their school in Sandwell. Attendees were provided with a tour of the academy and an opportunity to see how ICT has made a difference to educating at a modern academy.

The introduction was provided by their Executive Principal Sir Mark Grundy, who has worked to raise standards for both his schools (Shireland and George Salter Collegiate Academies) in Sandwell.

George Faux, a school improvement consultant and a member of Sir Mark’...

The summer holidays are over and a new school term begins seeing a huge rise in the number of schools adopting SchoolIP to manage and streamline thier school improvement. Ten new schools have become members of the SchoolIP community.

Landau Forte Academy is one of the new schools who have joined SchoolIP, looking to improve the management process of the SEF and Development Plan within their Academy.

"The SchoolIP product will streamline and integrate the development, planning and self ev...

One of the most daunting tasks when we started to use the School IP software was getting into the development planning part of the software. Moving to an entirely new way of working (previously we used word documents) for something so large seemed as if it was going to be a challenge but we have managed to make progress with it.

I thought I might share some of the tips and tricks that we looked at to get ourselves established:


First Steps

The development plan is flexible enoug...

The government is to remove the financial barrier to becoming a sponsor of an academy school in England - with the aim of attracting more backers.

Instead of investing £2m up-front, sponsors must show the "skills and leadership" to run an academy.

The bid to accelerate the number of academies comes as ministers marked the opening of the 200th such schools.

They provide "new starts for disadvantaged communities," says Children's Secretary Ed Balls.

The dropping of the £2m requirement ...

Even though most schools have been closed over the summer period, it has not stopped new customers joining the SchoolIP community. College Park School and Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee School in Westminster, London have adopted the complete SchoolIP suite of modules, to manage their school improvement process.

Norman Stromsoy, Executive Head for both the special schools, selected the software to help streamline and revolutionise the management process within his two schools. Key to his decisio...

Schools are being urged to make up to £400m a year in savings as the recession continues to bite. Government spending watchdog the Audit Commission said England's schools could save huge sums just by buying desks, equipment and services more sensibly.
It also claimed the focus on standards had led schools to neglect their duty to spend taxpayers' money efficiently. The government said record funding for schools - increased by 76% since 1997 - had shown clear benefits. Audit Commission chairman...

St John's Education Centre, based in Hackney in East London, have chosen SchoolIP to manage the self-evaluation element of their school's improvement....

Having had SchoolIP running for a couple of months I thought I'd share some of our experience in starting out with the SEF Builder and where we are going next.

We loaded in our old SEF as a reference so there was something in each section to base the new SEF on and made sure that the latest advice that we wanted to give was loaded in.

Then we sat down to decide who was going to manage each section of the SEF. We gave these people logins and responsibility to update their sections. We said ...

Christine Gilbert, the chief inspector of schools has announced that they will be reducing the amount of notice schools receive prior to an inspection, from a maximum of five days to two. Inspections of schools in special measures and about 40% of schools rated "satisfactory" will be unannounced.

The Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) Builder module, part of the SchoolIP suite of web-based school improvement tools will provide you with an effective method of managing your self evaluation process, in ...

Brownhills West Primary School in Walsall have decided to use the Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) Builder module from SchoolIP, to manage their self evaluation process....

The Petchey Academy, based in London has now decided to upgrade to the full suite of school improvement tools branded SchoolIP. They have been successfully using the Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) module and have now opted to boost their school improvement plan with the addition of a further three SchoolIP modules, namely, School Development Planner (SDP), Staff Performance Monitor (SPM) and Individual Learning Planner (ILP)....

Corby Business Academy became the latest UK academy to sign up to the SchoolIP suite of School Improvement tools. Corby has opted to use the Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) module in conjunction with the School Development Planner (SDP) to help manage their school’s improvement. Derventio Solutions would like to take this opportunity to welcome Corby to our “Family of schools”....

Primrose, a Pupil Referral Unit based in Sandwell has decided to use the Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) module from the SchoolIP suite of software to help manage their self-evaluation process. ...

We welcome Blackheath Primary School in Sandwell to the SchoolIP “Family of schools”. Blackheath have selected the Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) module from Derventio to help them with managing their self-evaluation process....

Hello and welcome to the new SchoolIP blog, the official source for information, insight, and updates about SchoolIP, the home of School Improvement.

The SchoolIP community is made up of schools, academies and other educational institutions in the UK, who are concerned with the area of school improvement and their schools’ overall performance. We thought now was the right time to open the door and start a conversation with our community about what's happening within schools in the UK with re...