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School oversight. Done right.

Track visits, actions, inspection & MIS data (Ofsted, CSI and SIAMS), KPIs and more across every school in your MAT or Diocese. Spot issues early, step in fast, and cut the admin that slows you down.

We also offer Observatory Essentials for free. Book a demo today and get access to your free Essentials account.

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Mission Control Dashboards

Here you’ll find everything you need; key statistics, contacts, actions and insights for each school. From Ofsted inspections to KPIs, effortlessly manage all your schools in one place.

You can also upload any relevant files, notes, or evidence quickly and securely – so the rest of your team can access them without trawling through emails and google documents. Hurrah!

Intelligence

Nobody knows your schools like you do. We’re here to keep you informed on the positive developments across your Trust or Diocese and to let you know about any areas that might benefit from additional attention.

With customisable KPIs and analysis tools that include snapshots, trends and historic viewpoints, you can confidently monitor your impact over time. Spot schools that are struggling, due to be inspected, or heading for a potential budget deficit — and create actions to step in where needed.

Analysis as easy as 123

Are you still using Excel or Word documents to gather the data you need?

Observatory does all the admin for you, automatically fetching the data from across your schools, and displaying it on our analytics dashboard. Now you can spend the time you have saved on informed intervention and record the improvements you are making along the way.

Complete Visit-bility.

We know the struggle of managing multiple visits across all of your schools, especially the amount of paperwork that is attached. Observatory Premium provides complete “visit-bility” — a smarter way to manage your visits, with powerful search tools and project management built in. It’s the power to swiftly make Trust-wide changes without chasing and emailing versions around… and that’s why we call it “visit-bility.”

We can:

  • Ensure that you have access to the latest visit data, flag overdue visits, and tell you whether the reports are in progress or complete.
  • Track specific details of your visits including visit length and administrative time.
  • Show any recurring themes such as school visits with incomplete actions, or schools that haven’t had a visit.

Pssst… That’s not all! Our visits work hand in hand with our actions module, so you can pair the reviewing with the do-ing.

Bring Actions to life!

Are your actions still scattered across multiple Word documents?

Working hand-in-hand with visits, our actions module is your new virtual to-do list…

We can…

  • Track actions individually on our centralised dashboard, or include them within your visit reports.
  • Keep focused on all your essential activity with key, incomplete, or overdue actions.
  • Find the actions you need using our flexible search tool and powerful filters.

Streamlined MIS data at your fingertips

Wouldn’t it be good if you could spend more time doing meaningful actions knowing your MIS data collection is securely automated?

And that’s not all…

  • We include benchmark data for both MAT and national averages where relevant.
  • Our unique algorithms check the quality, and help clean your data so you can be confident in the accuracy of your analysis.
  • Intelligence is updated daily so you can make informed decisions in a timely manner.
  • Explore your data with our date range selection and filterable categories.
  • Our handy export function means you can share PDFs or download raw data to use them as prep for meetings with the wider team.

Find Your Perfect Match With MATchmaker

MATchmaker is our smart-search growth tool for MAT leaders, designed to help you find the right schools to approach outside your current organisation, quickly, confidently and strategically.

Instead of juggling spreadsheets, outdated lists or multiple websites, MATchmaker brings everything into one place so you can discover schools that may be a strong cultural, operational and long-term fit.

  • Map with storytelling school icons giving context at a glance, including:
    • NOR, Ofsted leadership rating, Phase and Budget
  • School Search
    • Filter by location, phase, type, Ofsted rating, size and financial picture
    • Filter by MIS provider — ideal if you’re standardising systems across the trust
  • Pupil, Financial, Workforce & Ofsted Insights
  • Built for Trust Leaders, by Educational Experts

MAPS

Keep track of all the schools within your MAT or Diocese with our handy and easy-to-read map.

STAY NOTIFIED

Never miss a beat with a live alert ticker that displays all the relevant updates and changes that you or a member of your team has made across any of your schools. Whether someone’s added notes, or recorded a new grade – you’ll know about it.

AN EYE ON PARENT VIEW

No more wasted time checking for Parent View activity across all of your schools (especially when there have been no changes!) Stay consistently up-to-date with recent activity and get alerted when a new response has been added against any of your schools. Phew!

INSPECT YOUR INSPECTOR

Always feel prepared when you get that call with the latest intel available on the lead Ofsted inspectors visiting your schools at your fingertips.

Inspector Profiles summarises every inspection your lead inspector has done, showing you their main findings, recommendations, recurring themes – and even shows you other establishments they’ve recently inspected on a map. Use the keyword search to save time investigating things like curriculum, pupil premium, and governance so you get as much time as possible to prepare.

Plus, you can keep an eye on how inspections are going across the country with Watchsted, meaning you’ve always got a view of the bigger picture.

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Options to fit any organisation

The good news is that Observatory Essentials is and always will be free! What’s the catch? There isn’t one!

But there are some extra modules we know you’ll find invaluable as part of our Premium package.

Working hand-in-hand with Perspective Lite

Observatory seamlessly integrates with another handy free tool for your schools that we made called Perspective Lite.

Using Perspective Lite and Observatory together makes your life easier by giving your schools the same free access to our Watchsted module and other time-saving tools like our infographic census data tool.

Used in over 20,000 schools, you may find that some of your schools are already using it. Contact us today to find out more.

Ready to get a clearer view of things?

We can’t show you just how much this tool is going to help you on a web page, so we’d love to show you how Observatory helps MATs & Dioceses with a free demo.

It’s super quick and easy. Just hit the button below and we’ll be with you in a jiffy.

Made by Angels.

Angel Solutions is a Liverpool based software agency, established in 1999, that creates innovative products for the education sector.

Pssst. Here’s what else we’ve made:

Perspective

Management and improvement toolkit for schools and academies.

Perspective Lite

A suite of free time-saving tools, resources, and reports for schools & teachers.