Pupil Progress delivers effortless live progress tracking, empowering you, your school and your students. So with that in mind, we're excited to launch our new mission on World Kindness Day to support our community of educators, students and their parents....

“No impact: No point.” was the mantra of my Head of Faculty, Ian Latta, when I began working at a Merseyside school in Special Measures. I hate to give him all the credit (because he’ll tease me), but I have lived by this with almost every decision I’ve made as a Head of Faculty and lots of the advi...

I remember my exam results’ day very vividly. A quiet car journey filled with expectation, a soulless school hall with rows of brown envelopes and then the celebrations or commiserations amongst friends....

Discover how Heads of Department can use meaningful data to boost student performance, streamline assessments, and make informed teaching decisions....

Learn how to lead your team as a Head of Department in a school. Build trust, inspire collaboration, and communicate a clear vision to drive success....

Car keys, laptop, marking, lunch, folders, wallet, handbag, glasses, phone… check, check, check… and if you’ve forgotten them then it’s often a mad, curse-filled dash to get them....

Discover 7 effective classroom behaviour management strategies for educators. With practical tips to create a positive and productive learning environment....

When facing your first couple of years as a teacher, the adjustment to managing a classroom can feel a bit overwhelming. You’ve finished your teacher training with the drive to be the greatest teacher you can be, but you know it’s going to be a huge learning curve....

Is critical thinking just another buzz phrase that really means very little? Is it yet another fad?...

The data looks good, the future doesn’t. While writing this blog for Pupil Progress on behaviour management strategies, I started to reflect on student behaviour more generally....

There’s no denying that it’s a difficult time for everyone involved in education right now, and that schools are under extreme pressure to produce results. We all know this, we all feel it. Our teachers and school leaders are living and breathing this pressure every day....

One of the drivers that led me to leave the teaching profession and start Pupil Progress was that I could see the impact an effective tracking and monitoring system would have on my students’ outcomes and my ability to support teachers in my team and do my job as a Head of Faculty....

How good is your department or school? To support schools with the analysis of their exam results this month, former headteacher and senior leader Michael Harpham and Barnaby Grimble take senior leaders and governors through the data analysis process and help them secure a clearer picture......

Information about the methodology for awarding grades for students is gradually being released before the official guidance comes out from exam boards....

Ofqual has stated that, once you have decided on the recommended grades for students, centres will need to recommend “the rank order of students within each grade....

Michael Harpham is an ex-headteacher, author and education consultant. Having worked in some of the most challenging circumstances with students, he shares his thoughts about resilience here....

The big countdown has begun. Mock data is in and results have been given back to students. So your thoughts will now be back to how you can make the biggest difference to your students’ grades between now and the final exams....

At last, your marking has been done! You may have used up valuable time in the holiday or weekend to break the back of it or had some early morning rises, but it’s done. The last thing you are likely to want to do now is to pass it to another teacher to get their critique of your marking....

The new Ofsted framework has again sparked debate and heated discussion, but on the whole teachers are considering it to be a step in the right direction. It focuses on delivering a meaningful curriculum and encourages the use of meaningful data when tracking and monitoring progress....

Teachers, how do you track data effectively? Find out more about the benefits of using a tracker to manage your school data in this blog post....