Welcome to the October edition of the Alps Newsletter! This month, we are thrilled to share exciting updates, the latest blogs from our Education Team, details of our upcoming Champions webinars and much more! |
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ALPS BENCHMARKS 2023-24: Summary | We have now concluded our Alps Provider benchmarking from the Summer 2024 results based on the data submitted to Alps. Each successive qualification benchmark has been released into Connect and Summit in line with our published timeline. We are delighted that so many colleagues have let us know how powerful these have been for analysis of outcomes from the 2024 examinations, given that the value-added picture is again unique, particularly for A levels.
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Latest Blogs from the Alps Education Team 🌟 |
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Tracking Progress and Evaluating Impact - Y10 & Y11 by Alps Director of Training, Jevon Hirst |
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Earlier this year the DfE announced that, in the absence of KS2 prior attainment data for the current Year 10 and Year 11 students, there would be “no replacement to Progress 8 for 2024/25 and 2025/26.”
In this blog, Dr. Jevon Hirst runs through the analysis that Alps recommend that you could and should be considering for your Y10 and Y11 students over the next couple of years. |
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Top tips for effectively tracking student progress, identifying priorities and driving improvement by Alps Education Consultant, John Roe |
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Effective tracking and monitoring of student progress is key to raising student achievement. It enables leaders and teachers to evaluate the quality of teaching and learning, identify any gaps in student understanding and plan intervention strategies to address underachievement.
In this blog, Dr John Roe shares practical tips based on his own experience running a top sixth form for over 10 years, to highlight the importance of your analysis and how this informs key intervention strategies that you may put in place. |
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| November Champions Webinars - Reserve Your Space | Using Alps Connect to successfully monitor student progress at KS4 and KS5, with practical tips on the simple systems that make a difference. |
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Monitoring Student Progress at KS5 |
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Monitoring Student Progress at KS4 |
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Training and Data Fluency by Alps Director of Training, Jevon Hirst |
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School and college leaders want their students to achieve great outcomes. One key element to achieving top results is the ability to understand current performance position, to be able identify both the areas of success, for celebration, or weakness on which to focus.
Central to improving performance is the effective use of data, where a whole organisation ensures that their relevant data is Accurate, Accessible and when using the data, colleagues are able to take effective Action.
Click the button to read more of Dr Jevon Hirst's latest Blog. |
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| Bespoke Training from Alps - Time for a refresh? |
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Led by former senior teachers or leaders from high performing schools and colleges, our bespoke training options are powerful sessions to provide a comprehensive overview of Alps, and discuss strategies for driving student achievement. The sessions are tailored to your need and are less expensive than you might expect, and we are good at this - receiving outstanding ratings that are consistently 4.8/5! |
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| Our Training is Top Class! |
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In 2023-24 we delivered hundreds of training sessions with outstanding customer feedback 🏅 | Here is just a selection of the fantastic feedback received from recent training sessions delivered by our experts! |
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"Content was fantastic, trainer was brilliant and we all came away very happy and buzzing about using Alps." |
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"Flexible session that was very informative and tailored to my needs. |
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"Clarity of explanations and our trainers' experience of using Alps from our perspective was invaluable." |
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Louise Umbers, Analytics Lead Valley Park School |
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Robert Davies, Deputy Head Lanham School |
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Adebimpe Sogbesan, The School of Research Science, Dubai |
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Alps is a "game-changer" - Watch our newest testimonial to find out why... | Llantwit Major School - Director of Sixth Form |  | | "I've personally noticed it being an absolute game changer. It's allowed for students to be able to be a lot more in control of their own development because they're a lot more aware and it's allowed staff to be aware of progress throughout the academic year as well..."
- Rob Jones, Director of Sixth Form
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| Events in November | We are looking forward to attending these great events in November. If you are planning to attend, please come and find our stand, we'd love to have a chat with you.
👉 Conference Top Tip: At the HMC Conference, you can see our very own Education Consultant, Dr. John Roe, host a breakout session on Intelligent use of data: Supporting Heads of Departments to drive improvement. |  | To keep up to date on our conference news follow us on: Instagram, Linkedin and X. | |
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Reminder: Alps Census | If you have Connect Admin rights you will see our new Census pop up when you log into Connect during November. Please don't forget to complete our new Annual Alps Census. By updating your key contact information, we can ensure that you don't miss important Alps news and updates and communications are delivered to the correct contacts throughout the year. |
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Reminder: Alps Address | If you want to send us any mail via post, please update the Alps office address on your database to:
S56, The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1RL |
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Teachers Love Alps! | We are proud to have been awarded the October EdTech Impact Teacher Choice Award. We are thrilled that teachers and leaders continue to be positively impacted by our Connect and Summit platforms. |
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If you refer a school and they buy Alps from your referral we will give you a discount on your next renewal price.
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 | Treat yourself to more. Book a Demo today!
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