BlueSky Education is the only Platinum Partner endorsed by the Confederation of School Trusts for Appraisal, Professional Learning and Quality Assurance.
Developed by experienced educationalists, the flexible platform supports school and Trusts with evidence-based global reporting, uniformity and quality assurance. Schools can maintain autonomy while standardising processes for performance reviews, quality assurance and collaborating across a group to share best practice, research and professional development.
At BlueSky, we continually innovate and improve our products to meet the evolving needs of schools and Trusts. Our platform can adapt to align with your organisation’s culture, and flexes as your Trust grows. Our solution can be tailored to your school or Trust’s specific practice: customise the terminology and methods to your unique practices.
Our dedicated Client Success team provide strategic online planning, training and unlimited access to technical support to ensure your team are set up and get the most out of BlueSky. Everyone in your organisation has a portfolio, including ECT, teachers, support staff, non-academic staff, Senior Leadership Team and CEO.
"BlueSky is the best system of its type I've come across in a 30+ year career in education. The support is excellent too. It facilitates strategic improvement planning and makes the whole appraisal process very straightforward and easy to manage.” - Mike Butler, CEO, Education Village Academy Trust
We support thousands of organisations across the globe. We are a top rated EdTech solution on EdTech Impact, and 88% of reviewers say BlueSky improves school processes. As an experienced, trusted supplier, many of our clients have used BlueSky over many years – demonstrating how our platform adapts as organisations grow.
BlueSky has helped to transform the processes of many schools and Trusts with our award-winning Appraisal, Professional Learning and Quality Assurance platform. We are a team that is passionate about education and will continue to work tirelessly to bring the very best sector specific solution to our clients.
The most effective way to evaluate BlueSky is to book a free, no-obligation online demo today. Our team can tailor this to align with your organisation’s priorities – book online today!
BlueSky supports thousands of schools and Trusts with Appraisal, Professional Learning, Quality Assurance and School Evaluation. Our mission is to provide a solution that streamlines these processes through a robust, easy to use platform. Our market-leading software provides intelligence and insights to school leaders that supports strategy and decision making, while also putting staff at the centre of discussions around school improvement.
BlueSky is used by many Trusts across the UK to simplify cross-school working. Our dedicated features help Trusts implement consistent processes and aggregate information across schools to track performance, identify best practice and share expertise.
BlueSky can easily be adapted to meet changing objectives and processes as your Trust grows, supporting the Trust’s People strategy, and aligning all of the schools in the group within BlueSky’s Trusts feature. BlueSky provides instant, global cross-school intelligence, allowing for holistic analysis and highlighting trends and opportunities for collaboration within a Trust.
It allows Trust Executives and school leaders to organise, manage and evaluate staff proficiency and school quality assurance across a family of schools, produce reports using aggregated evidence-based intelligence to review the impact of strategic decision-making at the touch of a button. This enables schools to maintain their autonomy whilst ensuring accountability and supportive structures are visible. Individual staff can maintain their BlueSky portfolio if they move to another school within the Trust.
We always ensure a cost-saving for Trust purchasing for a group of schools. The Trust feature is free of charge when more than one school in a group has a membership.
"BlueSky makes it so simple and easy to make a note and add evidence to the timeline so that it links back to their PMR objectives, and it demonstrates the best performance and practice that is being carried out in each of our schools. Now they know that I am presenting the evidence in BlueSky to our trustees every half term, they make sure that it is done and we know that it represents the best version of us.” - Deb Poole, Director of Staff Development, City Learning Trust
"Staff become so enthusiastic about using BlueSky and it makes them engage with and value the performance management process all the more. The support at every stage from BlueSky is also comprehensive." - Claire Savory, Director of Academies
The Gloucestershire Learning Alliance (GLA) comprises six schools. Working across multiple sites presents technical, logistical and administrative challenges. For the Alliance, a key issue was devising a system of assessing and evaluating teacher performance that was consistent across all six but also meaningful in each setting.
"A multi-academy trust like ours has to align systems and practice so that the trustees and everyone else can feel confident that we are comparing like with like," says Claire Savory, Director of Academies. "If you are talking about teacher performance in two schools, the language you use about both needs to be the same.
BlueSky hosts all of the trust's performance management tools and information including its bespoke standards devised by the trust team, alongside details of training requirements, opportunities for staff, and the trust-wide performance management cycle. Support staff use it in the same way and have access to their own key standards, deadlines and training provision. Staff training is coordinated on the platform so staff can see what training is available to help them fill a skills gap or development need identified in their appraisals. Centralised training for appraisers is also managed on the platform.
The streamlined nature of BlueSky and the level of control and ownership it affords staff is also a powerful motivator.
"We want the teachers to own it," Claire says. "When we do a performance management review, they sit in the driving seat at the computer, log on and showcase their objectives with all of the associated documents. Staff talk through what they have done and the impact they feel it has had, and they have all of the evidence there, whether it's lesson observations, pictures of classroom activity or training evidence. It's really powerful because it's all compiled and owned by them."
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