Soft Skills

Schools can create their own approach to soft skills, with areas such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. The framework can be adapted to reflect the school’s educational approach and the needs of different age groups.

Each area can include clearly defined criteria, descriptions and guidance, helping staff use the same standards and approach when evaluating student development.

All soft skills areas and criteria are kept in one table, making them easy to review, edit and use in everyday teaching. Access to the module can also be limited to form tutors if required.

Teachers can assess soft skills directly in the digital gradebook. They can sel ect the relevant criteria, record the student’s level of development and add comments based on lessons, activities or projects.

Teachers, form tutors and pastoral staff can add observations alongside each assessment, providing useful context and giving a clearer picture of how each student is developing.

Soft skills assessments are automatically included in analytics, giving schools different ways to explore the data by year group, student, class and individual criterion. This makes it easier to follow progress, compare results and identify patterns over time.

Year groups
See when assessments were recorded and by whom, together with the relevant criteria, classes and dates.

Students
Follow each student’s development across different soft skills areas and criteria using a clear heatmap.

Classes
Compare average results across classes to see where particular skills are developing strongly and where students may need more support.

Criteria
See how individual soft skills criteria are developing across different classes and year groups.

Track how each student develops over time. In the Students section, staff can select a class, open an individual profile and review progress across soft skills areas and criteria fr om year to year. This provides a clearer view of each student’s development and how their strengths change over time.