Date: Friday 27th February 2026
Time: 08:30 to 15:00
Location: Ashover Parish Hall
Tickets: £50 via Eventbrite (includes a light lunch and refreshments)
A practical day for senior leaders navigating assessment and data.
Schools collect a huge amount of data, but how confident are you that it is genuinely supporting pupils and informing practice? With the new Ofsted toolkit and revised IDSR placing a stronger emphasis on inclusion, particularly for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, this workshop provides space to step back and ensure your approach to assessment is purposeful, proportionate and fit for purpose.
This practical one-day workshop helps senior leaders cut through the noise around data and assessment, focusing on systems that support teachers, strengthen provision and improve outcomes, rather than adding to workload for little gain.
The day will help you to:
• Review and refine your approach to assessment and data
• Understand what data matters, what does not, and what is statutory
• Use data effectively to support all pupils, including those with SEND
• Develop or sharpen an assessment policy and data strategy that works in practice
If you are looking to bring greater clarity and confidence to assessment and data in your school or trust, this day offers practical support and time to reflect.
Event details
This workshop is split into two broad themes: a morning on external data and accountability, and an afternoon on internal assessment practices and tracking pupil progress. The day comprises four sessions as follows:
Session 1: State of the nation: the new Ofsted toolkit and DfE performance measures
Session 2: Navigating the new IDSR: understanding all the latest changes to this important document
Session 3: Effective use of school assessment data: Practical solutions for recording and analysing your assessment data to make best use of your tracking system, focusing on teacher assessment, test scores, progress measures, and best practice for monitoring the achievement of pupils with SEND
Session 4: Developing an assessment policy and data strategy: how to ‘dataproof’ your school
Presenters
James Pembroke
Director of Strategy
Insight
James Pembroke is the Director of Strategy at Insight Tracking. He is the co-author of Dataproof Your School and has been tweeting, blogging and speaking about education data for 20 years.
Richard Selfridge
Education Data Consultant
Insight
Richard Selfridge is an Education Data Consultant who works with Insight Tracking to help schools develop their use of student data. Richard is the author of Databusting for Schools, The Little Guide to Student Data, and is co-author of Dataproof Your School.
