Customer Success Stories
BlueSky is used by Primary schools across the UK to simplify, streamline and enhance professional learning, appraisal and quality assurance processes. Read our customer success stories to hear how BlueSky supports Primary schools to integrate professional development into day to day activities and lift the burden of planning and evaluating the process.
A flexible online platform helps turnaround staff retention and supports a thriving workforce
St George’s Primary School, Merseyside
“It’s really helped us to achieve our ambitions for a thriving workforce.”
Read how BlueSky has helped this large primary school implement a systematic approach to staff development that ensured the staff felt valued, understood and supported.
Moving to an online platform streamlines the workload of CPD
Beechwood Primary School, Crewe
“We document professional development conversations in BlueSky. Using the online platform ensures that the practice is consistent, it is an ongoing dialogue and that it is protected time for professional development, not just in terms of improving practice, but also celebrating.”
Updating the model for whole school teaching and learning
Barnby Road Academy, Nottinghamshire
“Staff have really bought into BlueSky and are now using it to log their own development.
“Ensuring that staff would use the new system was essential and thanks to the strength of the support we received from BlueSky, including training and unlimited use of the BlueSky helpline, this need has definitely been met”.
Rethinking data for Ofsted leads to switch from paper to BlueSky
St Stephen’s C of E Primary School, Bradford
The capacity to combine performance data, professional development and whole school targets made BlueSky the ideal digital solution
“It allows staff to feel they are part of the process and they can see themselves as part of the bigger picture. Staff don’t usually see how their development is connected to other people’s, but with BlueSky, they see at a glance how their appraisal links to the school’s improvement goals and the work that others are doing.”
A 2-19 academy has transformed its approach to performance management
Beaumont Hill Academy, Darlington
“Now that everything is on BlueSky, we have hard data to demonstrate how training is addressing skills and development needs directly and the impact it is having on the academy not just immediately but in the longer term.”
