Nottingham Schools Trust

Trust-Wide Insight. School-Level Impact.

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“What I value most about DAISI Analysis is that it helps our schools make sense of what can often feel like an overwhelming amount of assessment data.“

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DAISI Education is a Traded Service working out of Nottingham City Council.

Since 2011, we’ve worked alongside teachers, leaders, and governors to help schools make confident, informed decisions that improve outcomes for every pupil across our city.

Through our partnership with Nottingham Schools Trust, we provide a comprehensive suite of analysis services, including Data Packs, Question Level Analysis (QLA), Analyse School Performance and Maths Baseline Analysis.

Together, these reports help Trust leaders, Headteachers and subject leaders gain a deeper understanding of pupil performance, identify priorities for improvement and make evidence-informed decisions across their schools.

Driving Improvement Across Every Level

The impact of our analysis extends beyond senior leadership. By breaking data down into meaningful and accessible insights, schools can empower teachers, subject leaders, governors and Trust leaders to evaluate performance and plan effectively.

“What I value most about DAISI Analysis is that it helps our schools make sense of what can often feel like an overwhelming amount of assessment data. Every school in our city is different. They all serve different communities, face different challenges and have their own priorities. Yet the one thing they all have in common is a commitment to giving children the very best opportunities to succeed.

DAISI helps us turn data into something meaningful. Rather than spending hours trying to identify patterns in spreadsheets, our teachers, subject leaders, senior leaders and governors can quickly see where pupils are excelling, where support is needed and what actions are likely to have the greatest impact. The analysis provides both challenge and reassurance, helping us ask the right questions and make informed decisions with confidence.

What makes these tools so valuable is that they help people at every level of the school ask the right questions. Whether you’re a class teacher, subject leader, senior leader or someone working as part of the trust/local authority, the analysis provides the insight needed to evaluate performance honestly, celebrate strengths and identify the areas that need further attention.”

Over time, it has become an invaluable part of our school improvement process. It supports strategic planning, strengthens accountability and, most importantly, keeps our focus where it belongs, on improving outcomes for children. That’s why schools across our partnership continue to rely on DAISI Analysis year after year.”

Nottingham Schools Trust

Rather than spending valuable time interrogating spreadsheets, leaders receive clear, actionable insight that supports curriculum development, school improvement planning, professional development and strategic decision-making. The result is a shared evidence base that strengthens collaboration, improves consistency and helps ensure resources are targeted where they will have the greatest impact.

The analysis has helped school leaders:

  • Reduce hours of manual data interrogation and report writing.
  • Establish Trust-wide improvement priorities based on a shared evidence base.
  • Target CPD where it will have the greatest impact on teaching and learning.
  • Identify gaps in knowledge earlier and implement timely interventions.
  • Strengthen curriculum planning through deeper understanding of performance trends.
  • Equip Governors, Senior Leaders and Subject Leaders with accessible insight to support strategic decision-making.
  • Monitor the progress of key groups, including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND.
  • Create greater consistency in school improvement planning across the Trust.

Saving Time, Strengthening Decision-Making

While Nottingham Schools Trust benefits from a consistent Trust-wide view of performance, the real impact is felt within each individual school.

A consistent theme of our feedback is the significant time-saving benefit of our reports, allowing leaders to focus on improvement rather than analysis.

“Thank you for the QLA Reports – You have just saved me 15 hours of work.”

“Much appreciated. Will save huge amounts of time and support Governor and SLT knowledge. So glad I purchased the whole package!”

“Thank you so much for these reports – they have been really useful and saved us a mountain of work”

“A mock SATs report that tells you what to teach next. The time invested in delivering the mock papers was more than repaid by the quality of the analysis – far more than just a set of scores. The reports highlighted strengths, gaps and priorities, making the whole process much more valuable.”

Turning Insight into Action

Through our detailed analysis, leaders gain detailed insight into their own pupils, cohorts and curriculum areas, enabling them to identify strengths, address learning gaps and target improvement activity with confidence.

“As a busy school, finding time for meaningful assessment analysis can be a challenge. The reports were clear, easy to use and packed with useful insights, helping us quickly identify priorities for teaching without adding to staff workload.”

“The data packs are so comprehensive – just what we need. The detail and narrative were really helpful. I don’t know what I would do with my DAISI!!”

“We use the Question Level Analysis service that DAISI provide and get a lot of essential information from the reports. This saves us a lot of time. We use the reports to target CPD and review our provision. We are also planning to use the service for mock papers in September with the new Y6s to help identify gaps in learning.”

“In regards to the QLA as we have such a large cohort, it is good to look for areas/types of questions where children have struggled and we need to focus on further in the future. The QLA for each individual child is useful when looking at specific children within groups SEN, FSM and PP, particularly at their progress in each subject.”

“I have just downloaded the Haydn Mock SATs QLA stuff. It’s BRILLIANT!!!! Really helpful!”

“In my role as deputy headteacher of a big school as well as assessment coordinator, there is no way I would have the time or capacity to complete QLA to the level and in the detail that the DAISI team do. They save me days of work and the information this gives me allows us to develop whole school targets that we can show improve the attainment of our pupils.”

Proven Impact over Many Years

By providing actionable and uniform insight at pupil, cohort and whole-school level, DAISI helps individual schools make better-informed decisions.

Partnership working has helped create consistency across schools while still recognising the unique context of each setting. School leaders benefit from high-quality analysis and benchmarking, while strategic leaders gain the wider perspective needed to identify trends, coordinate improvement activity and celebrate success across the whole organisation.

Most importantly, Partnership working creates opportunities for schools to learn from one another. When data highlights where strong outcomes are being achieved, those successes can be shared. When common challenges emerge, support can be coordinated.

The result is a collaborative approach to school improvement that benefits leaders, staff and, ultimately, children and young people.

How can we help you?

Our LA partnership model has already enabled other Local Authorities to deliver an efficient high quality service.

Are you looking for a deep dive into a certain subject, a forensic overview of selected schools or a full education data analysis suite of reports? We are able to support you and provide valuable insights at both school and Local Authority Level that focus on what matters most – supporting every pupil to realise their potential.

We invite you to work with us through a Bespoke Group Order, our Partnership Scheme or maybe even both.

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