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Senior leaders know how important it is for Governors to be able to answer the question: How do you know? Having sat through training for governors preparing for OFSTED ourselves, we wanted to help schools everywhere to support governors, as they carry out their monitoring role, in a very simple and accessible way. So, we chose to enhance Blippit Boards by creating a free upgrade, specifically to support School Governors who can now log in to the app (once invited by the school) and ...

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If you've been following the development of the Blippit Boards app (& dashboard) you'll know that one of its main reasons for being is to help schools, subject leaders in particular, to monitor and gather evidence across subjects. But, since collaborating with the Blackburn Diocese Board of Education we've also been able to share our passion for making a contribution to self-evaluation and SIAMS.To help spread the word with schools in York, Chester, Liverpool & Blackburn we put together this sh

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We are very pleased that Blippit Boards has been shortlisted for the Teach Primary Awards 2021 in the apps category. The other products in this category are impressive and the education chops of all the other companies are great, but we'll do our best and enjoy being in there for the competition! Let's see what the judges think! Spoiler alert! We didn't win but it did spur us on to innovate and work with many more schools to build their ideas into Blippit Boards. Most recently..

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During Governor SIAMS training on Zoom this summer, Blippit's founder, who is also a primary school governor, learned just how closely linked a school's vision, values, mission and curriculum are. The training was peppered with photographs showing how schools manifest their vision, values and learning. He felt strongly that Blippit Boards had a potential role to play in helping church schools be able to see even more clearly how the SIAMS strands are represented around the school.