Customer Success Stories
BlueSky is used by Secondary 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 Secondary schools to integrate professional development into day to day activities and lift the burden of planning and evaluating the process.
BlueSky helps a fast-growing new school streamline CPD and appraisal workload
Saracens High School, Barnet, North West London
“We wanted a system that allowed us to manage all of our CPD processes as well as triangulating this with objectives and quality assurance. We looked at other solutions and concluded that BlueSky Education was the only platform that could do this effectively.”
Saracens High School joined BlueSky Education in 2022, and uses the platform to support teachers and operations staff with appraisal, CPD and evaluation.
BlueSky supports custom approach to appraisal designed to enhance staff development
Watford Grammar School for Girls
“I found the whole implementation process very supportive. Although BlueSky Education could be used off-the-shelf, it can be customised, and I think I’ve asked for everything to be customised!”
Watford Grammar School for Girls (WGGS) introduced BlueSky Education in early 2022, with the aim of streamlining their appraisal processes – moving away from a paper-based system that often caused delays and made it difficult to track progress.
Streamlined and strengthened approaches to CPD, performance management and self-evaluation
Congleton High School, Cheshire
Intelligence for Ofsted is easy to access, helping the school to tell its improvement story in a simple but powerful way
“The ease of pulling off reports is key. If someone asks me how something has improved, I can very quickly say, well this was the picture in 2018 but this is the picture now.”
A streamlined approach to appraisal and induction
Sancton Wood School, Cambridgeshire
“We wanted a one-stop shop where people knew when, where and how they were dealing with appraisal, and they could find everything that they needed.”
BlueSky has helped replace the leading independent school’s fragmented approach to appraisal with a customized system that made it easier for staff to engage with the process.
BlueSky supports enhanced professional development practice for large secondary school
Welshpool High School, Powys
Move from paper to online system delivers a more consistent approach to appraisal and engages staff in professional learning, while holistic intelligence allows senior leadership team to identify development needs and evaluate impact of improvement actions.
BlueSky helps state Secondary school build culture where professional development is seen as a career-long process.
Thomas Telford School, Shropshire
“The project facility on BlueSky can be used by people to collate evidence of professional learning, demonstrating that they are research-based in terms of their thinking, that they’re trying out new ideas to develop their pedagogy and that they’re working across departments”
A school with 16th century history and 21st century management.
Sherborne School, Dorset
Sherborne School’s new paperless process links the development of staff with its professional standards and school improvement.
“It is reassuring to know that we have a system to help us operate our CPL more effectively and productively. We are now a more effective organisation.”
Online system combines efficiency with power to drive improvement
William de Ferrers Secondary School, Essex
BlueSky helps the all-through school guard against a ‘tick-box’ culture for performance management and puts staff in control of their development.
“BlueSky allows me and the leadership team to reflect on things that are important for us, providing a rich source of evidence that we can triangulate with pupil outcomes and the impact of training on wider school outcomes.”
Evaluate the effectiveness of professional development and learning provision
Lampton School, Hounslow
“Transparency is key to holding people to account and staff have warmed to BlueSky as it enables them to highlight their successes. They view it as progressive and particularly like it when it supports them to progress up the pay scale!”
BlueSky helps to reinvigorate its approach to professional learning
BlueSky helps to reinvigorate its approach to professional learning
Olchfa School, Swansea
BlueSky provides leaders at the school with an evidence-based analysis of performance and a deep understanding of the impact of CPD.
“With BlueSky, it is now a quicker, more responsive approach to observations, which is important in a large school and appreciated by staff.”
