For secondary and all-age schools
Decide where to act, each half-term
Pupil Outlook turns your half-termly figures, your school's published context and the pressures in your community into one page for your senior team, with the decisions you agree recorded as you go.
The decisions it helps you make
Pupil Outlook doesn't make decisions for you. It puts the evidence for each one on a single page, so your senior team can decide with confidence and explain why.
What's emerging, and how to respond
Early warnings from your figures and from outside school, such as longer CAMHS waits or a bus route being cut. Scenarios show the estimated effect on attendance, behaviour and wellbeing, with suggested responses that fit your staff time.
Which priorities come first
Gaps that have widened two half-terms running are flagged and ranked by size, so you can see what needs attention now.
Where to put staff time
Each action shows the staff time it takes, so you can weigh it against the time your team actually has.
How to use your Pupil Development Grant
Actions are rated for strength of evidence and cost, using the Education Endowment Foundation and Youth Endowment Fund toolkits.
Whether to keep going
Lock in a forecast. Next half-term's figures show whether results landed in range, better or worse, before you commit more time.
What goes in the school development plan
Agreed actions and targets carry into draft priorities for your plan.
What your next Year 7 will need
Year 6 returns from your cluster primaries show the needs of your intake before September, while there's still time to plan.
What it does
It supports self-evaluation and improvement planning, rather than adding another dashboard. It works out what matters for your cohort and says how sure it is about each point.
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What to expect
Spots emerging priorities while they're still small. It flags any gap between groups, such as eFSM pupils, pupils with ALN, and boys and girls, that has widened two half-terms running, and ranks them by size.
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What to do
Matches each priority to the best-evidenced response, rated with the Education Endowment Foundation and Youth Endowment Fund toolkits, with the staff time and cost of each. That helps when you're deciding how to use your Pupil Development Grant.
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What to track
Checks itself against your own results. Lock in a forecast and, when next half-term's figures arrive, see whether attendance and reading landed in the expected range. That gives you evidence of impact for self-evaluation.
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Your next Year 7
Your cluster primaries send a Year 6 return of group totals, with small numbers hidden. You see attendance, reading, eFSM share and ALN across the whole intake before September.
Also included
- Findings mapped to Estyn's inspection areas
- Draft priorities for your school development plan, with a logic model for each
- Decisions logged with their implementation stage and review date
- A plain-language report for governors, with questions they may want to ask
- A whole-school view of Year 7 to 11 side by side, showing which year group needs attention most
- Numeracy alongside reading, attendance and behaviour
- A weekly attendance check between half-terms
- Word reports: a Pupil Development Grant plan, an end-of-year impact report and an Estyn self-evaluation summary
- A cluster view for cluster and local authority leads to compare schools
- Guidance for senior leaders, middle leaders and teachers
- A map of the pressures in your school's community
- 35 Welsh services, grants and practice changes that don't need extra spend
- Every section labelled: data, research or estimate
See what a recommendation could mean in your school
Percentages are hard to weigh up in a meeting. Pupil Outlook turns each option into numbers your senior team can picture, and labels how sure it is.
Days, pupils and hours
Each percentage point of attendance is about 1.9 days per pupil over a 190-day year. Tell Pupil Outlook how many pupils are in the year group and it shows pupil-days gained, who a plan reaches, and the staff hours it takes.
Three futures
Nothing changes, implemented well, or implemented poorly. The gap between the last two shows why careful implementation matters, as the EEF's implementation guidance stresses.
What has worked elsewhere
Each recommended support comes with worked examples from EEF trials, the Youth Endowment Fund and Welsh Government guidance, translated into your year group's numbers.
It already knows your school's context
Pick your school and its published context loads, so your self-evaluation starts from facts, not guesses.
secondary and all-age schools, with their latest Estyn figures for free school meals, additional learning needs and home language
local authorities covered, with cluster primaries listed for most secondaries
pupil names stored. Group totals only, and any group under 5 pupils is hidden.
Pilot places are open for 2026–27
Free for Welsh secondary and all-age schools this year.