61. How can schools find digital solutions which precisely match their needs? Special Series with Matt Stringer Founder of The Education Showroom - Part 1

I mean, what are school leaders looking for currently, Matt, from digital resources in their classrooms and across their schools?

Great question.

At different times of the year, Ian, provokes different types of need and different types of quantity of need.

So depending on the time of the year, for example, right now, it's the post-sats time that drives from primary school.

certain types of inquiries on the back of what they believe the SAT results will show or what the SAT results actually show once the results come out.

Another example, this time for secondary schools, of course, would be on the back of GCSEs.

For EYFS nursery, it could be changes to Ofsted, it could be DFE, it could be funding.

So please take what I'm about to say with a little bit of salt, meaning different times of the academic year facilitates and drives different types of needs and requirements from schools and maths as they evolve.

learn, identify what could be done differently or better, or if they had their time again, what that would look like.

So I just want to kind of throw that in there.

In terms of this time of year, I've put together a little bit of a list really to share with you today.

And this is not necessarily order of priority, but I think this is quite interesting.

So again, it does differ by type of school, but these are the solutions I would say across the board regardless of school types, that are most requested right now.

All types of SEND resources, products, tools, and obviously SEND is a very, very wide term.

So I'm talking specifically helping children that perhaps have ADHD, dyslexia, both.

It could be children that are unfortunately experiencing or have hearing or sight difficulties.

um that type of send requirement is very very high in demand this time of year as the school of multi-academy trust leaders prepare for september they identify what they need and that is one of the most popular demand areas at this moment in time numeracy and literacy intervention solutions without any shadow of a doubt.

But a little bit of detail here to kind of touch on with literacy and numeracy.

It's not necessarily whole school in literacy and numeracy.

It's again this identification of what a school or MAP may require ahead of September so that they can identify what they need, procure it and be ready for September.

And this may be a numeracy solution for five children or five young adults, not necessarily whole school.

It could be that they've identified five learners, 10 learners that require a different type of numeracy product, something that is incredibly exciting to use, encourages a child first and foremost to want to use it.

So rather than it being all focused on progress and attainment, this time of year, again, this is for literacy also, but there's a huge requirement on, I would say, products and services, not for all students, but identifying specific students of low numbers or medium numbers that require something, quote unquote, a little different, which is engagement focused first, which will then obviously correlate to progress and attainment.

Numerously and literally very much around that kind of premise.

English as an additional language solutions.