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Transforming behaviour with data

Transforming behaviour with data Treorchy Comprehensive School in Wales has completely overhauled its approach to behaviour and wellbeing with the help of EduKey’s Class Charts software, as Rhiannon Davies, Assistant Headteacher, explains. Last year Treorchy...

The key to good behaviour

The key to good behaviourWhen Ysgol Cwm Brombil needed easy-to-use software to support behaviour management, it turned to EduKey for the solution. Deputy head Eurig Thomas explains why.Like every school, Ysgol Cwm Brombil needed a proactive and constructive way to...

Class Charts Feature Upgrades

We have added a setting to allow clashing of detentions from intelligence events and detentions We have added a setting to block points from SIMS appearing on pupil/parent app If a dark desk colour is used, the icons on desk ie. Rotate button are now a lighter colour...

Edukey are 2019 BETT Company of the Year Winners!

Edukey are 2019 BETT Award Winners - Company of the Year! We are so proud to have achieved Bett Award Company of the Year. Our success is down to our great team who go the extra mile every day for the schools who use our software. Thanks to all who have helped us...

Class Charts Release : Intelligence Events and Detentions.

Class Charts Release : Intelligence Events and Detentions Hi everyone, We have a very exciting release coming up for Class Charts and it is a rather big one with regards to intelligence events and detentions. Please find below the changes that are coming and how they...

Improved behaviour management at Torquay Academy

CASE STUDY Torquay Academy Evan Pugh, Vice Principal Evan Pugh is the Vice Principal at Torquay Academy in the South West of England. He recently got in touch with us to discuss how Class Charts has improved behaviour management at his school. Here are his takes on...

Edukey are 2017 BETT Award Winners!

Edukey are 2017 BETT Award Winners! We are so proud to have been awarded a prestigious Bett Award in the ‘ICT Leadership and Management solutions’ category. The award was won for our Class Charts product which provides teachers with data rich seating charts and...

Behaviour Management at Acklam Grange School

CASE STUDY Acklam Grange School Jon Tait, Deputy Headteacher This is his take on Class Charts and how the behaviour management software has helped Acklam Grange reduce fixed term exclusions from 4 per week to 2 in the whole of 6 months. “We’ve been using Class Charts...

War Boards

War Boards Class Charts are pleased to announce the arrival of our newest feature, War Boards. A War Board is a "Work, action, result" board which displays which of your students are currently below, behind or on track for their targets. It can also be used to display...

Connecting Parents with Schools

Connecting Parents with Schools Class Charts has introduced a range of new features which are all about connecting parents with schools. Staff in schools can now :- Share detentions with parents Share intelligence events with parents Share notes with parents It is...

Delayed Intelligence Events

Delayed intelligence events Class Charts introduces a new addition to intelligence events which automatically performs chosen actions when certain conditions have been met by students after a certain fixed time period. These are called delayed intelligence events and...

Pupil Note Categories

Pupil Note Categories Class Charts has introduced pupil note categories to make it easy to differentiate between notes issued for different reasons. With massive amounts of information having to be recorded and remembered about students it is easy for notes to get...

Data Traffic Lights

Data Traffic Lights One of Class Charts' newest features is the introduction of a data traffic lights system. This new feature gives a visual representation of target data which is easy to create, intuitive and a great way of highlighting the progress made by your...

Printable Detention Slips

Printable Detention Slips Another Reason Students Shouldn't Miss Detentions Everybody forgets about things they need to attend and students are no different. In Class Charts we now offer the option of using printable detention slips which can be handed out to...

Behaviour Follow-Up Comments

Behaviour Follow-Up Comments Here at Class Charts we think it is vital that there is a system to track behaviour follow-up outcomes to ensure your school is keeping a check of its students behaviour and staff are aware if outcomes they put in place are followed up by...

Class Charts will make waves in American Class Room Management

Class Charts will make waves in American Class Room Management Our American friends may be aware of the US Department of Education's Office for Special Education Programs. Conveniently known as OSEP, it has been created to 'define, develop, implement, and evaluate a...

Class Charts Seating Plan & Behavior Management App Coming Soon!

Class Charts Seating Plan & Behavior Management App Coming Soon! Our Award Winning Seating Plan & Behavior Management Platform is rolling out to our Ipad and Android Savy Teachers in Autumn 2015! Teachers are spending less and less time sat behind their desks...

Student rewards store

Student rewards store We all respond to incentives. From tax breaks to lower insurance quotes, we know how to behave in order to reap rewards. Pupils are no different and with the help of our Student Rewards Store, pupils can become immediately aware of the benefits...

Case study – Behaviour management software at Hurworth School

CASE STUDY Behaviour management software at Hurworth School Nicholas Lindsay, Assistant Head teacher (Pastoral Care) Hurworth School is an Outstanding School and they use Class Charts as seating plan and behaviour management software. We asked them for a short case...

Seating Plans for SIMS

Seating Plans for SIMS SIMS seating plans for SIMS are easy with Class Charts and we also connect up with Integris, CMIS, Progresso and Powerschool. By connecting with Capita SIMS or any other school management system it means that everything is automatically updated...

Seating plans for Ofsted

Seating plans for Ofsted Ofsted love seating plans! Seating plans, in particular ones that display key data about pupils are something that will help every teacher get through an Ofsted observation. They help the teacher identify which pupils need support and those...

Case Study – Seating plans at Bedminster Down School

CASE STUDY Seating plans at Bedminster Down School Pete Hallam, Deputy Headteacher and Jason Worlock, Network Manager Bedminster Down School were looking for a quick and easy way to create seating plans that show the important information that staff need to know. We...

Improving behaviour in schools

Improving behaviour is a big issue for schools – if students do not behave in the classrooms then teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn. Class Charts is seating planner & behaviour management software that teachers use on a daily basis for seating charts...

Case Study – Seating Plan Software at St James C of E School

CASE STUDY Seating Plan Software at St James C of E School Roy Coulson, Deputy Headteacher St James C of E School is judged “Outstanding” by Ofsted. They came on board with Class Charts because they needed seating plan software that is linked with SIMS. They were...

Printable School Seating Plans

Printable School Seating plans are now available with a wide range of options such as fit to page, hide data or behaviour scores. If you print the seating plan and choose to include pupil data then you will get a legend at the bottom of the printout. This print option...

Cover Classroom Seating Plans

Your staff can now cover classes and access other teacher's classroom seating plans. After logging in, simply click the 'Cover Class' button found at the top left of the page. You will then be prompted with which class you would like to cover. This features provides...

Creating Groups from Class Seating Plans

Groupwork is a great teaching technique and having pupils discuss and work on topics together helps reinforce learning. In Class Charts, groups can now be created from the class seating plans and sliders can be used to group the pupils according to the data that is...

Behaviour Management Software Activity Feed

The new activity feed will make behaviour management across your school even easier, allowing you to track and monitor behaviour points across your entire school - all from one page. the Activity Feed can be accessed after logging in and clicking the 'Activity' button...

Improving behaviour with a class seating planner

I was teaching for 16 years. By the end of my teaching career I was a skilled classroom manager with minimal student behaviour issue, allowing me to focus on teaching rather than crowd control, an important tool in my teacher armoury was a class seating planner. When...