Inspections

A huge challenge is to collate good information about pupils new to school, the UK and new to English. Although translators can help, if a class has many different languages this can be difficult to co-ordinate and expensive with variable translation quality. A number of bilingual webapps can help you obtain deep information and aggregate analysis: • all questions are spoken in the home language, and all answers are automatically transcribed to English. How can I obtain good information about a new pupil new to English? Bilingual Pupil’s Admission app in English with 26 languages. A dual language questionnaire, where the questions are as text with audio in the home language. As the parent listens in their home language and answers a question, their answers are mirrored in English. After completing the questionnaire, a dual language report can be printed out or emailed. Pupil Voices Questionnaire app in English with 20 languages. Developed for Rochdale Borough Council Topics: Food, Friendship, Lessons, Extra Curricular, Things that Help Me to Learn via 42 questions Transition from Year 6 to 7 app in English with 20 languages Developed for Rochdale Borough Council Explore pupils’ views about their strengths, worries, likes, aspirations, attitude to Secondary school… Pupil Admissions & their views “ “

£45 Annual school subscription for all languages for whole school

Results from the sample target group are aggregated for each question and presented visually - choice of graphics. Great for demonstrating sophisticated understanding of your school’s pupils en masse, and evidence-based decision making. If you wished to add more languages or more questions, the system is designed to make this possible.