WHAT IS EARWIG?
A software package designed by clever teachers to turn the whole business of providing teaching evidence, making assessments, tracking progress and reporting into a pleasure rather than a chore.
It is one integrated system but comes in three flavours...
EARWIG EVIDENCE for schools that want to capture magic moments engage parents and stay organised.
EARWIG ASSESSMENT for schools that want a simple tool to speed up assessment, tracking and reporting.
EARWIG LITE for SENCOs and small special schools.
‘I am just loving using Earwig!’
Ruth Simcock, Early Years Coordinator,Star Academy, Stoke
Earwig Evidence
Records evidence easily, organises it quickly and presents it vividly. Celebrates pupil achievement in a structured way and ensures that you are always 'Ofsted ready'.
Deals with your documents, images, videos and is synchronised with your school database, so you can produce vivid timelines for any class, subject, cohort or individual pupil.
‘Earwig is very clear and very clever’
Ofsted
Earwig Assessment
Takes any assessment regime and makes it quick and easy to use. Automatically tracks and illustrates progress against subject, subject area or statement through the year and across years.
One package does the whole job elegantly and easily, right through the school, from early years to university. So only one package to buy and only one system for teachers to learn. Training and individual support included.
‘Earwig is completely revolutionary and has transformed the way we work.‘
Giles Storch, Headteacher Euxton Primary, Lancashire. Rated ‘Outstanding’ 2014
EARWIG THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR SEND EVIDENCE AND ASSESSMENT
Teaching evidence, pupil assessment and moderation are time consuming in any school. But the problem is even more acute in special needs.
Just deciding which of 100+ possible curricula and assessment schemes to use is difficult enough – and then the DfE changing their ‘guidance’ every couple of years doesn’t help.
‘I SAY THIS FROM THE HEART EARWIG IS REALLY GOOD FOR SPECIAL NEEDS .‘
Bill Webster, Deputy Head, Ickburgh School, London
Engage with parents
Each Earwig parent gets a secure login and a wonderful, free, ever-growing record of their child’s school life.
After-school conversations become much more interesting and productive. Parents are delighted to be so informed and are consequently more supportive of the school in other ways.
‘Research has shown that childrens’ grades improve by an average of 15% when parents are engaged.‘
Parental Engagement
HOW POPULAR IS EARWIG?
The basic package is perfect for mainstream schools and the additional features which Earwig offers for special schools have meant that this is the fastest growing software for SEN in the UK.
See what other schools running Earwig you can find in your area.
‘THEY HAVE BEEN BRILLIANT IN TAILORING IT TO DO WHAT WE NEED IT TO. IT REALLY DOES MEET OUR NEEDS.‘
TERRY STEVENS, ASST. HEAD TREEHOUSE SCHOOL
WHAT’S HOT IN EDUCATION
PRIMARY ASSESSMENT
Have you decided what assessment framework you’re going to measure pupil performance with in the next few years?
If you have then what you need is a neat software package and app that allows your staff to do the whole evidence management, assessment, tracking and reporting job in one go, using the same login and process right through from early years to secondary.
Our schools say that this suite saves their teachers as much as 50% of the time they were previously spending on assessment, evidence management and producing reports – and, of course, everything is presented elegantly and with that little bit of class.
It’s got to be worth a look.
ASSESSMENT FOR SEND
Special needs assessment has taken on a new dimension with the publication of the Rochford Review. Instead using the ‘one size fits all’ P-Scales to measure the progress of children with SEND, particularly those with multiple difficulties, schools will be required to draw up a set of training and objectives particular to each child and make assessments against these. The starting point for this exercise will usually be the pupil’s Education Health and Care Plan.
Earwig have been working with several leading special schools and with members of the Rochford panel to produce a simple software package which enables teachers to create the these individualised teaching plans easily and quickly, make assessments as they go along and then produce meaningful progress reports and charts with a couple of clicks.
As a result, we have accumulated a library of more than 400 SEN pupil assessment frameworks. If you’d like a peek, click below.
OFSTED INSPECTIONS
Several Earwig schools have had no-notice Ofsted inspections recently. Each of them has commented on how much more relaxed staff are, knowing that they can show the performance, over time, of each class, subject, project or child, at the click of a mouse. Each inspector has commented favourably about the Earwig presentation and, while we can’t prove the connection, we have even had a couple of Earwig schools upgraded after inspection.
WHAT DO THE TEACHERS WHO USE EARWIG THINK OF IT?
Earwig is one of the first education technology companies to receive a 'RECOMMENDED' award from the new teacher review site called Edtech Impact.
To achieve this, you need to achieve more than four stars from bona fide teacher reviews. We are pleased to report a score of 4.75 out of 5.
Read what they say.