What are the benefits of ReallySchool?
Key benefits
- Quick and easy to use
- Flexible tools to save you time
- Developed with teachers, for teachers
- Intuitive to use – no training required!
- Shows you where the learning gaps are
- Dedicated, helpful and friendly team
- Created by NetSupport, a trusted provider of education software for over 30 years
Key benefits
- Quick and easy to use
- Flexible tools to save you time
- Developed with teachers, for teachers
- Intuitive to use – no training required!
- Shows you where the learning gaps are
- Dedicated, helpful and friendly team
- Created by NetSupport, a trusted provider of education software for over 30 years
Benefits for teachers
Save time
ReallySchool’s main benefit for teachers is the time it saves each day by allowing you to quickly complete daily tasks on the go, such as creating observations, capturing evidence, linking learning to assessment, monitoring progress, communicating with parents – and more.
As ReallySchool is multi-functional, it can save you at least two hours each day; that’s a minimum of 10 hours each working week!
Identify learning gaps
Allowing you to see at a glance the attainment and progress of your class and students, ReallySchool helps you to quickly spot gaps in learning and plan next steps to help your pupils achieve.
You can see which learning areas may need more coverage and where you may need to provide additional support for your students.
Engage parents
We know that communicating with parents can be difficult, particularly those who are hard to reach, which is why being able to share pupils’ learning instantly with them is a great way to break down these barriers.
Parents are engaged by photos, videos and audio clips of their child learning – and you can use ReallySchool’s comment system to open a teacher-parent dialogue.
Support distance learning
It’s so important to be able to facilitate learning outside of the classroom, for any number of reasons.
With ReallySchool, you can share home learning activities with parents using videos, photos and audio clips to give guidance. Plus, you can continue to monitor progression of skills and spot learning gaps by applying assessments to these activities.
Benefits for pupils
Tailored support
ReallySchool helps you spot individuals’ attainment and progress at a glance – helping you give tailored, high-quality support to your pupils.
Additionally, the time you save when adding assessments and observations can be redirected to focus on teaching and planning.
Motivation to learn
As a student’s learning can be shared with parents, this is a great motivator for them to try their best at school – and ReallySchool can help parents celebrate their achievements with them.
Teachers have told us how much pupils enjoy looking at their observations and seeing how they have progressed in their learning.
Awards for achievement
If a pupil has done something extra special, youcan create a celebration post to share with parents including media , notes and a virtual badge showcasing what the pupil has done.
Virtual badges can also be applied to observations and journals. Parents even have a special ‘Awards’ section in their app where they can show their children the awards they have earned over time!
Opportunities for in-lesson feedback
You can use videos and audio clips to give verbal feedback to pupils and attach these to an observation – all during the lesson.
You can also play these files back to students to give them guidance on what they have done well and what they need to improve on or do next.
Benefits for leaders
Access key reports
ReallySchool uses observation data to create a variety of reports, including specific leadership reports.
Senior leaders can generate a whole school attainment report showing how many pupils are working at, above and below the expected level in each year group.
Additionally, ReallySchool’s SOAP (School on a page) report enables leaders to compare their school’s end of key stage outcomes with the national average.
Monitor whole school teaching and learning
We appreciate leaders may need to access data for multiple classes and year groups. That is why staff members can be assigned to any number of classes.
This means they have access to the observations and reports for each of those classes.
If a staff member is assigned a leadership role, they also have access to specific leadership reports.
Reduce staff workload
Teachers tell us they are saving around two hours each day using ReallySchool. They are able to complete daily activities like evidencing learning and assessments on the go, rather than having to complete these tasks after school.
Additionally, teachers can reduce time spent marking by adding audio clips or videos to observations during the lesson, rather than writing up comments later.
Streamline processes
ReallySchool has simple tools for parental engagement, evidencing learning and monitoring coverage – all in one system.
Teachers can use ReallySchool’s progress reports for their half-termly/termly data, rather than logging their judgements in another system.
Plus, they can also create assessments and reports with the statutory End of Key Stage 1 and 2 assessments.
Benefits for parents
Keep updated on your child’s learning – anywhere, anytime
Parents can download their own version of the ReallySchool for free on to their mobile device so they can access information about their child onthe go.
Additionally, in–app notifications let parents know when new home learning activities, observations, celebrations, and teacher comments have been shared.
Share home achievements
Parents can share photos, videos, audio clips, documents, links and text notes of their child’s achievements in response to home learning activities or by creating their own observations.
These are shared with the child’s class teacher and contribute to the child’s learning journal and timeline.
Access photos, videos and audio clips of your child learning
Teachers can share observations with parents so that they can see videos and photos, read text notes and listen to audio clips of their child’s learning and achievements. Parents can add comments (where these have been enabled) to give feedback to their child.
The use of video and audio clips are really helpful for communicating with all parents including those with who may have difficulty understanding written English/Welsh.
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