Developing Your Use of Insight for Senior Leaders - Cohort 1 - Session 5 - 3 June 2025

A series of webinars designed to upskill participants in the use of Insight. The course consists of six one-hour core sessions, plus one optional debrief session.

The content of the course will be targeted at senior school leadership and those with a whole school raising attainment role. Local Authority attainment leads would also be welcome to attend

Each of the core webinars will be delivered twice in one week, attendees need only attend one per week. To get the most out of the course, attendees are strongly encouraged to attend all six core sessions.

Note: Attendees will be encouraged to use their own Insight login details and school data during the sessions.

See below dates of each of the available sessions:

Session 1 - 6 May 14:30-15:30 & 7 May 10:00-11:00 - Beginners guide and National Headline statistics

• Outline of each of the dashboard measures
• Overview of Help & Support
• Tariff points and the Virtual Comparator
• National statistics relevant to school benchmarking

Session 2 - 12 May 14:30-15:30 & 13 May 14:30-15:30 - Whole school attainment (1)

• Use of Breadth and Depth and Attainment for All
• Focus initially on S4, and then progression into S5 and S6
• Local and National data considered

Session 3 - 19 May 14:30-15:30 & 20 May 14:30-15:30 - Whole school attainment (2)

• Attainment vs Deprivation and Literacy & Numeracy
• What successes contribute towards Literacy &Numeracy measure
• Patterns, identifying attainment gaps

Session 4 - 27 May 14:30-15:30 & 28 May 10:00-11:00 - Subject analysis

• Whole School Summary, presentation rates and quality of pass
• Surfacing Awards of different types
• Subject progression through Senior Phase

Session 5 - 2 June 14:30-15:30 & 3 June 14:30-15:30 - Destinations & Leavers attainment

• Going beyond “top-level” destinations percentage
• What destinations are our leavers going on to?
• How well does our curriculum prepare learners for these destinations?

Session 6 - 9 June 14:30-15:30 & 10 June 14:30-15:30 - Analytical Dataset

• Understanding and using the dataset to “get under” the Insight data

Session 7 - 11 June 10:00-11:00 (optional) - Q&A / Debrief / Myth-busting

• An opportunity to ask and answer questions.