An Outstanding secondary academy and Teaching School
Johnnie Pavey"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!"
Assistant Head and Teaching School Specialist Leader of Education.
The Goals
Lampton faced five key challenges, to:
The senior leadership team was seeking a holistic approach to assessing each member of the staff. They needed to gauge the value-added measure achieved; record internal and external lesson observations; and receive their line managers' appraisal of how staff perform against the school's, and national teachers', standards.
BlueSky's Role
Lampton uses a range of BlueSky features:
The Impact
Both the staff and the school have benefited from BlueSky.
- Staff members now have a platform where they can document their successes, and set down meaningful evidence before discussions on performance-related pay. (The dreaded value-added progression spreadsheets are, thankfully, history.)
- The school has a diagnostic tool that reveals, simply and clearly, how staff are performing: the successes, the challenges, and any issues to be addressed before external reviews. From the SLT team, it sends out a clear message: "We are here"
The school continues to value the contribution it gains with BlueSky, tracking standards, celebrating successes, and gaining all-important evidence for pay discussions.
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