Here’s a quick summary of what’s new this month. Please share your feedback on this update.
New SEMH Assessment Framework:
supporting mental health, behaviour, and attendance
The impact of Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs in schools is huge – and it’s growing every year! We’ve developed a brand new SEMH assessment framework to help identify and support students struggling with behaviour, attendance, and emotional wellbeing.
Covering birth to age 15, it gives you a clear profile of SEMH needs and can be used alongside your existing frameworks to identify a student’s specific strengths and needs, plan targeted support, and track meaningful steps of progress.
Currently being trialled by 100 schools, we’ll be working over the Summer to make any adjustments based on their feedback.
The framework is available to preorder now ready for the new school year.
What’s new this month?
- Bulk delete achievements for all students in a Group – Delete achievements for all students on the Group Assessment Screen in one simple step – how to guide
- Save time with default views – Set your preferred view on the Individual Assessment screen and report screens with alternative views, so it loads automatically each time you return – how to guide
- Spot our new AI brain icon to speed up report writing and lesson planning – Registered users can click to generate lesson plans and report summaries based on pupils’ assessments and even translate them into 40 different languages! Using AI to save time for teachers is just £1 per pupil per year – find out more
Not using Connecting Steps? Book a FREE online demo to find out how to make assessment easier in your school.
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What’s new this month? (new features released on the web)
- Gain deeper insights with Evisense reports in Analytics – Understand how parents are engaging with Evisense to help strengthen home-school communication. Analyse Subject, Profile, and Tag data from your posts to spot evidence gaps and ensure the software is being used consistently and effectively (for users with Analytics access) – how to video
- Save time bulk printing reports for individual students – This new addition to our bulk printing means you can now create separate pdfs in one go when multi-selecting your students – how to guide
- Faster printing with saved settings – Evisense now remembers your last print filter settings in the session, making it easier to create similar reports for different students.
- See achievement levels at a glance – Achievement levels (engaged/mastered etc) now show on the linked assessments on posts tagged to a single student – how to guide
Not using our communication hub Evisense? Sign up for a FREE 3-month trial for your school to see how quick and easy it is to securely share evidence of progress and simplify your communication with parents.
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B Squared customers can get a 1-year subscription for your whole school to access 150+ expert-led training videos for just £100+VAT!
The Effective Teaching Assistant by Abigail Gray – new online course just £25!
Support your TAs with expert-led training that has real classroom impact – designed to enhance the skills of TAs supporting pupils with SEND across Key Stages 1–5.
Abigail brings over 30 years of SEN experience to this course, offering actionable strategies to improve classroom support. It’s just £25 for your entire school staff to gain unlimited access to this comprehensive, self-paced training.
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Coming up in June
Look out for some great new episodes coming out in June. Topics include supporting parents of SEN children more effectively, emotional based school avoidance, and stories we tell about autism.
Here’s a reminder of our May episodes
- Why does the Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycle matter? – Sara Alston
- Supporting Neurodiverse Students: Insights from Awesome Archie – Rebecca Clapcott
- Hearing the Patterns: Phonological Awareness in Literacy Development – Dr Sarah Moseley & Ginny Bootman
- How does dyslexia impact in the classroom? – Jane Craig and Samantha Buttle
- Digital Dilemmas – Helen Bray
MORE NEWS
Welcome to our latest B Squared Gold Partner – Parkview Academy
Empowering success through individualised learning
“Progress can be quickly tracked and staff can target specific skills within lessons for each student. For example, within an English lesson where the class is learning to write letters, some students may also be working towards using capital letters for proper nouns, or basic punctuation. This enables appropriate differentiation across our school’s bespoke curriculum.” Jonty Emmerson / Parkview Academy
Come and see us at the Autism & ADHD Show
The SENDcast is exhibiting at all three venues across June and July. Dale, our host of the podcast and B Squared’s MD, will be there. Please pop by and say hi! He’s also giving an exhibitor talk ‘How autism profiling can help teachers’ – places are first come first served, so arrive early to avoid disappointment.
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Remember, if you have any questions, our support team are happy to help. Book a FREE 15-minute online meeting, and they’ll guide you through anything you need.
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