Perspective Lite – Your School Intelligence Platform

Only available to schools signing up to the Annual Data Analysis Package.

Perspective Lite, powered by NCER, gives schools instant access to high-quality data and insights to support leadership and improvement.

Key features include:

  • INSIGHT – Interactive Dashboards showing your Results, Census, Pupil Groups and Weekly Attendance.
  • NOVA – Pre-created reports enabling you to create your own bespoke analysis in forensic detail .
  • Real Time Data Trends – NCER National figures, delivered many weeks ahead of official DfE Figures.
  • Census Infographics – Easy to use and create, your census broken down into FSM, EAL, Ethnicity and more.
  • Watchsted – Stay informed with the latest Ofsted inspection updates.

Online training is included to help headteachers and data leads make the most of these tools.

INSIGHT

INSIGHT is designed to easily summarise, visualise and contextualise your school data, reducing the need to spend lots of time looking at tables of numbers and potentially overlooking key information. It analyses school performance data, presenting it visually and in clear language to highlight strengths, challenges, and trends, reducing the need for extensive data analysis.

It allows staff to understand the strengths, challenges, trends, and comparisons associated with their school in a matter of minutes.

  • Interactive dashboards: Users can manipulate data, change filters like the academic year or comparator, and view data in different formats, such as a single-page report combining assessment and absence data.
  • Benchmarking: You can compare your school’s performance against national or local authority data.
  • Real-time data: Insight can provide up-to-date information, sometimes offering early insights into current year results before official national data is released.
  • Comprehensive data: It can display a wide range of data, including attainment, absence, and pupil-level information, depending on the subscription and local authority settings.

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NOVA

As a companion, the NOVA suite of interactive performance data reports complete with filtering. Choose from a long list of pre-created reports enabling you to interrogate your data in forensic detail to create your own bespoke analysis. Powered by the NCER’s Nova module.

  • Early access: Schools get early access to performance data, allowing them to check their results and share them with leadership and governors ahead of time.
  • Benchmarking: The reports enable schools to compare their results against national averages, with emerging comparisons often available in the summer term.
  • Interactive analysis: They offer interactive reports that allow schools to query and analyse their performance data, including breakdowns by pupil characteristics like gender, ethnicity, and SEND.
  • Multiple key stages: The reports cover various key stages, from early years to Key Stage 5, providing a comprehensive overview of performance.

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Real Time Data Trends

NCER provides High-level performance data at school level alongside local authority and NCER National figures, delivered many weeks ahead of official DfE Figures.

Census Infographic

This shows your census broken down into Free School Meals, EAL, Ethnicity and more –  ideal evidence for an Ofsted inspection or Governors’ meeting and really easy to create and save!

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WATCHSTED

Watchsted is a free factual tool that shows the most recent inspection grades and reports from Ofsted in a way that’s quick and easy to view.

It’s updated daily, meaning you’ve always got access to the most up-to-date picture of what is happening across Inspections in England. You can see and filter grades/data via our inspections map – showing you what grades schools are receiving up and down the country at the click of a button. The data and content presented is all in the public domain.

  • Inspector Profiles – Take a sneaky look at the inspector coming to visit your schools, you’ll be able to see their previous inspection details, summaries of their main findings and their recommendations for improvement
  • Inspection Map – An interactive map showing recent inspection grades across the country.
  • Keyword Search – Allows users to search inspection reports for specific terms or themes.
  • Word Clouds – Visually highlights the most frequently used words in recent inspection reports.

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Ordering

All these services within Perspective Lite are only available to schools signing up to the Annual Data Analysis Package.

All services offered by the DAISI Service including year-round packages, bespoke reports, Data Checking, UPN-ULN searches and more are invoiced through Education Services Nottingham.

For information on pricing, please click here

Contact Us

For more information, email Mark.Attwood@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

or ring the DAISI Service on 0115 87 62460