This week, we are- rather predictably for The Exam Man- digging into exams- but this week, with a particular focus on assessment for students with SEND. John and Sophie dig into why access arrangements and extra time have recently made the headlines.
With insights from Vicki Clayson, a former SENCO and Deputy Headteacher and an Education Consultant for iTrack Education about the importance of tracking incremental progress in pupils’ learning and recognising every small step in pupil development.
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[00:00:11] Right, so this week we're going to talk about special educational needs, disabilities and assessment and exams. Because it's been in the news a little bit recently. It was before Christmas and it has been again. So we thought we'd dig into it a little bit. Yeah, it's about access arrangements isn't it? Extra time? It is, yeah. So access arrangements and in particular extra time.
[00:00:34] So JCQ every year look at what's been going on in schools in terms of the number of applications that are processed for access arrangements. So just for anyone who's not listened to us on this subject before, access arrangements are the additional bits of support that students get to help them take exams. If they have a learning disability or some other issue which makes taking exams a bit more difficult for them.
[00:01:03] So JCQ looks into the, it does a sort of state of the nation every year of what's going on with access arrangements. And it's been increasing, the number of students receiving applications has been increasing now for quite a long time. And it jumped up by 12, about 12 and a half percent last year. It's quite a lot isn't it? It's quite a jump. Yeah, there is quite a big increase going on. In particular, there is a big increase in extra time.
[00:01:30] Extra time makes up about two thirds of all the access arrangements given. So it's the big one, basically, extra time. It's the one that most students are given. And a bit on extra time, what's the kind of percentage extra time? Yeah, so good question. Depends. Depends. Yeah, it does depend a bit. But there's sort of a standard amount, which is 25%, which you might get because, yeah, because you have some sort of learning or processing difficulty.
[00:01:58] It might be because you have English as an additional language. Or it might be some other physical or mental health condition, which means that you're awarded that. And do parents apply for it? A bit like special consideration? No, no, it's not applied. Sometimes some evidence might be required, particularly sort of in a, we sometimes have to process emergency ones.
[00:02:23] So if a student's done themselves an injury or something like that, and we need evidence. But on the whole, the evidence should come through both the school and other professionals that work with the student. One route to extra time is through an EHCP. So if you have an EHCP, you don't have to do the sort of standardised testing to see whether you need extra time.
[00:02:52] You just have to be able to demonstrate that the student's needs means that they need the extra time. But if you don't have an EHCP, then you have to do some tests, some sort of standardised test to determine whether you need it. I did not know that. I've looked at that this evening. Well, I wasn't expecting to go into that level of detail, actually. No, it was good. But yeah, so that sort of explains how you get it. And anyway, there's been an increase in the number of students getting extra time.
[00:03:19] And now a third of all students get extra time in exams, which is obviously, to a lot of people, would seem like quite a high percentage. And there's also something else going on here, which is that when you look at state schools versus private schools, it's 27% in state schools and it's 42% in private schools. And that has raised some eyebrows.
[00:03:45] So the government have asked Ofqual, the qualifications regulator, to have a look into this and to see what is going on. I think both from the perspective of working out what this disparity between state and private is all about. And also, you know, just more generally about the picture around extra time and the way that it's increasing.
[00:04:13] I should say at this point that you probably might make some assumptions about that gap between state and private. And I think the assumption most people would probably make is that the private schools are gaming the system. But I think it's important to remember that there are a lot of private schools that are, for example, special schools, specialist schools. And so we're probably like 100% of the students need to have extra time.
[00:04:41] So there might be more line behind that disparity than first appears. I'm sure there is because of the number of schools. But at the same time, I think it's right that Ofqual is looking into it as well. So, yeah, I mean, you know, obviously a lot has happened over the last few years.
[00:05:01] We had COVID and there's, you know, an increase in diagnosis of kids with things like autism, ADHD. This might be contributing to the increase in extra time. But I do think obviously we've got to a level where if that figure ticks much higher, you're starting to think about. It continues at that rate. Yeah, you're starting to think about the validity of the system as a whole. Yeah.
[00:05:29] And obviously the purpose of extra time is to kind of try and level the playing field. There's a sort of there's a saying in web design, which is quite useful here, which I think is like if the whole website is bold, nothing is bold. And similarly, if everyone gets extra time, then nobody gets extra time. And so obviously the purpose of the system is for it to be very targeted. Yeah.
[00:05:59] And so I think there may be some concern that it's got away from that targeting and it needs to be reined back in, if you like. So it'll be interesting to see what happens when this gets looked at. Thanks, John. That's OK. Very informative today.
[00:06:16] So we wanted to continue this theme of assessing students with special educational needs and how you adapt systems to try and capture everybody's abilities and to make the right adjustments for students depending on their needs. So this week we interviewed Vicky Clayson, who is an ex-deputy headteacher at SEND Co. Yeah.
[00:06:41] And she's currently an educational consultant working for a firm called ITRAC, who do a lot in this assessment of students area, looking in particular at SEND. So we spoke to her about all these issues around assessing students with special needs. I hope you enjoy the episode. Firstly, it'd be great just to hear a little bit about you and your background and how you ended up working in this area. That'd be great.
[00:07:12] That's a long story. Long story. We like long stories. Bumpy story. Yeah. So I went to uni, trained to be a primary school teacher. All I'd ever wanted to do. Worked in the primary sector for eight years, eight and a half years. Had a baby. Went back to teaching part-time. Didn't feel the same. Didn't want to kind of do the juggle of being mum and being teacher.
[00:07:38] So left teaching, did some supply teaching, which was great. And then I just kind of stumbled into this job, to be perfectly honest. And my role in the company has changed over time. So initially, I kind of joined just as someone supporting clients and, you know, a bit of sales, but, you know, mainly supporting current clients. But then because of my inclusion background, I've kind of developed and now I'm the product champion for ISN.
[00:08:07] And so, you know, I'm specifically working on that product and with schools around, you know, tracking those small steps of progress for pupils with SEND. Because you were a SEND co. Is that right, Vicky? When you were teaching great. So I was a deputy head and inclusion lead. So I worked in quite a large school in Dartford. Very challenging school. Very, very high level SEND.
[00:08:34] Very complicated SEND history as well. A very complex and diverse range of families, range of children. And a very bumpy school in terms of leadership, in terms of teacher retention. And you'd got TAs that had been there 20, 30 years. But by the time I left, I was the longest reigning teacher at five years.
[00:09:00] In fact, I was the longest reigning non-TA member of staff. Wow. So because I'd been there for so long. So I joined there as an NQT, even in my NQT year, took on responsibilities just because someone had to. Yeah. Just because of kind of the dynamics of things. And I'd done a module or a special issue within my degree in inclusion in SEND.
[00:09:26] So kind of naturally, in a turbulent school like that, they were the children I was kind of drawn towards. And as kind of new people came in, new leaders came in. I progressed quite quickly because the opportunity was there within the school. And then it kind of got to the point where it was me that the parents knew. It was me that the children knew.
[00:09:49] And, you know, those children that need that extra support are going to kind of veer towards the familiar adult. So, yeah, it just kind of became a bit of a natural journey. And I was assessment lead for a little while. And then I went into kind of behaviour. And then the deputy for inclusion went on maternity leave. So I was asked to kind of step into that position. Yeah.
[00:10:17] So I guess that really is, you know, particularly being the assessment lead there as well. And having that focus on inclusion must have really helped you kind of form your thoughts around assessment for everyone as well. Not just the kind of people who do very well with summative exams. Is that right? Has that made influence? Yeah, absolutely. And I joined teaching when we just lost levels. So, you know, we'd got the new national curriculum.
[00:10:44] We'd lost what everybody had always known as assessment. And then we were in this world where, you know, it's the expected, it's the working towards. No one really knew what that meant. I still don't think they 100% know what those things mean. You know, we work with some schools that use like an on-track method. Some schools that still use like an end of key stage method. So, you know, even now, what are we like 10 years on from that new curriculum?
[00:11:11] We still have schools that are looking at it in very different ways. But what I really saw was that for those pupils with SEN, they were and very much still are completely lost in that world of assessment with these really big, vague assessment bans. And they, potentially, there's some children that will be working towards year one for their entire primary school career.
[00:11:41] But actually, in those five, six, seven years, they've made huge amounts of progress. But actually, when you look at it in black and white on a piece of paper, they've made nothing. And the conversations that you have to have with parents around that and the self-esteem with children is really difficult. And how you frame it, isn't it, in those conversations to make sure that what they have achieved is captured, isn't it, as well? Yeah.
[00:12:06] And then from a school point of view to, you know, I've sat in Ofsted conversations where, you know, you're kind of saying, you know, these kids have made progress, but you show them the data and they haven't. Yeah. But you put a class teacher in front of them and that class teacher talks about the child and everything they know about the child. And that's where the rich kind of, you know, data and progress for those pupils are. But in the current academic system, you know, they are completely lost.
[00:12:34] Can I ask you a question here, Vicky, about whether or not the issue, as you see it, would be that the assessment, obviously, like you've identified there's some flaws in the assessment system. It can't capture a certain group of kids. But is there something about inclusion as well? So, like, if you've got a kid who's, like you say, working towards a year one level throughout their whole, does that suggest that the setting might not be right for them?
[00:13:02] Do we need to be, do we need to think more about, like, creating better, more bespoke settings, if you like, for different groups of kids? I think that's a really interesting question. And currently, under the new kind of government and things as well, it's a very interesting question, isn't it? Because, you know, if you listen to what has been said, you know, as recently as last week, that is the focus going forward.
[00:13:29] However, it's where that setting is, is that setting within their mainstream provision? And actually, that's where they should be, but with the right level of support? Or is that in, you know, a specialist setting as in like a special school? I am very much a big advocate for pupils staying within mainstream.
[00:13:54] But the difficulty that you have there then is the subject knowledge of teachers, the budgets, the, you know, the provision. But yeah, I think you're right. I think a huge part of why those pupils don't make progress is the time, energy and expertise that they require and deserve, but don't always get. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:14:18] So if you could devise a system for like how you might assess students with SEND that would look a bit different, how would that look? I would totally scrap what currently exists in terms of this kind of working towards expected. In the terms of, you know, within the kind of like the year group brackets and things, you know, to me it is what can they do? Where do they need to go next?
[00:14:47] And are they doing that? So, you know, the national curriculum exists. It is very vague in places or, you know, very large chunks in places. But to me it's about where are they? What is realistic for them? So not, you know, where do they, where should they be at the end of key stage, you know, et cetera. But, you know, what is a realistic expectation for these people? And then what are the steps between where they are now and where we want to get them?
[00:15:18] Yeah, so it is very much, you know, what is that next little step they need to achieve rather than here's a whole national curriculum or, you know, even here's a whole year groups curriculum. Because even that is, you know, for some pupils is too much. It's too large.
[00:15:32] Would you apply that system to all students or would you say that, you know, keep something that resembles the current system for some students and then apply that kind of system to a group of students who have been identified as having needs and what have you? I think for the majority of pupils, the current system works.
[00:15:56] I think it's this group of pupils that, you know, by the time you're getting to kind of year one, year two and you're still looking at reception curriculum or you're still looking at the very early starts of year one curriculum, when that gap is starting to kind of evidence itself, you know, for me that's where something different then needs to be put in place. Yeah, yeah. So could you tell us a little bit about your work, Vicky, and what you're doing to kind of work in this area and support schools with students?
[00:16:26] Yeah, so iTrack Education is, we work in assessment tracking. We had a previous company, LCP, we rebranded recently to really kind of focus on the assessment tracking because that's where the majority of people want us these days. So we have a mainstream product which works, has worked. But around kind of the time that I was entering teaching really and this whole conversation around curriculum was developing,
[00:16:55] we were approached by a lady called Dr Sue Fisher, who did a whole doctorate around assessing pupils with SEN. And our special needs product developed from there really. All of her kind of expertise and knowledge of the curriculum has developed into a system that allows you to create a starting point for a pupil,
[00:17:21] wherever that may be, whether it's two years, three years, four years, five years, you know, it's very bespoke to that individual pupil and also captures the kind of what we refer to as the depth of learning, because that's something else that I don't feel the current system does well enough for all pupils, let alone send pupils. That actually, the current system very much works on, you've taught a kid something, they've learnt it.
[00:17:51] And anyone that's worked in education in any way, shape or form knows that that is not the case whatsoever. You can teach them on a Monday and they can remember on a Tuesday, but by Friday they've had breakfast and they've forgotten. But even more so for pupils with SEN, they need to see it in different settings. They need to see it with a different person. They need to see it in, you know, in a different day of the week and a different time of the day.
[00:18:18] And that's one thing that, you know, we're quite passionate about capturing that new learning and that, you know, moving on and creating that next step in the learning journey, but also how embedded, how kind of internalised is the, you know, the learning that they've already been through, as well as kind of looking at that next step. I think that's really interesting. It's really interesting. Sorry, around, just making me think of our eldest son who's in a special school,
[00:18:45] he goes to a special school and he has pretty profound needs. And one of his targets at his school is around using a spoon. And it has been the same target for a couple of years, hasn't it? It's been one of his targets because he loves food. So it's kind of critical because it really helps with, you know, not looking like a horror movie after he's had bolognese. Not having to have a shower every time. Literally, every time he has a roast, he has a shower.
[00:19:15] So it's been a really important target. And at school, he's met it and it's literally the most magical thing. The video of him using a spoon is just the most exciting thing ever. At home, not a chance. And I've literally had this, we were talking about this, about the breadth. Like he will have that skill mastered when he's doing it at home as well. So actually, rather than moving on to the next target, it's about, okay, it's about consolidating it in different contexts. Absolutely.
[00:19:45] And I find that really fascinating in special education, how they do that, because it's also about, yeah, really being able to focus on the depth and breadth of a skill. However, obviously, he's got five children in his class and four adults. So I kind of my question around that is, do you have any ideas about, and through your work, how to make that sort of approach better for kind of the masses? Because we're looking at numbers of children we're sending in mainstream schools at the moment.
[00:20:15] It's, you know, it's increasing. It's high. And, yeah, do you have any ideas around that? Because it's almost like the ideal, isn't it? How do we do that for more children? Absolutely. And from a personal point of view and from personal experience, I think a huge amount of it is around continual professional development, is that actually so many of our primary school teachers are brilliant teachers. They're great.
[00:20:45] They know the curriculum. You know, they can teach the majority, but actually the understanding of certain diagnosis or, you know, certain needs isn't necessarily as strong or, dare I say, necessarily seen as important for some staff. Because, you know, that might be for them two, three pupils, and they've got 27 others that, you know, they need to get to expected, you know.
[00:21:15] And, you know, financially, like you said, your son's school's got four adults. That teacher potentially could be in the classroom all by themselves, let alone having, you know, one TA. When I was at school, every, you know, every classroom had a TA and a teacher. So, I do think it starts with informing and developing our teachers. And I think some of that potentially starts right back at training.
[00:21:42] I could sit and talk two hours about training because that's so diverse now. When I trained, everyone went to university. You did a degree or you did a PGCE, and that's how you entered teaching. Now, you've got unqualified teachers, you've got Teach First, you've got Schools Direct. You know, there are all these other pathways that don't necessarily give the time and energy to this area that potentially, you know, I got when I was at uni because I was there for three years.
[00:22:10] So, you know, I was able to kind of do that specialism. So, I do think some of it starts, you know, right back at, you know, unpicking how are people getting into this profession and what actual training and support. I love the fact that they've extended the NQT year. So, you know, that's not a year now, it's two. And actually, newly qualified teachers are getting far more support than they were.
[00:22:35] But, yeah, I think it starts right back at teacher level because everything in the classroom comes from that teacher. You know, if you're constantly saying, you know, if you do happen to have a TA, if you're constantly asking that TA, you know, you work with that pupil, you work with that pupil. And, you know, that TA, then that child becomes that TA's responsibility.
[00:22:58] And I think from my experience, far too often that's the case when actually no credit, no discredit or disservice to TA's, but actually the expertise in the room is the teacher. You know, those pupils with that high level of need deserve that expertise just as much as anybody else. So, personally, for me, it starts right back in the foundations of, you know, what are we expecting from our teachers?
[00:23:25] And what do we, you know, what priority is placed on these pupils in terms of when we're training? Because, you know, we spend a lot of time learning the curriculum and, you know, learning next steps and, you know, all of that, those types of things. But actually, there are more and more pupils presenting with these needs. So, in my opinion, it should be a fundamental part.
[00:23:54] Kind of when I was leading inclusion, my kind of view was that if you cater your classroom to those pupils, the majority are going to benefit from it anyway. So, even things like as basic as, you know, not having a white background on your whiteboard, but having a pale yellow or a pale green or something for you to be dyslexic friendly. But actually, that glare is horrible for everybody, let alone pupils that are just going to find it difficult anyway. You know, and things like, you know, having your text images.
[00:24:24] I can't think of what the, yeah, not clicker. Like your visual timetable, but I can't think of what it's called now. But, you know, that's just as beneficial for the majority.
[00:24:41] Absolutely. And I do genuinely think that if you took a SEM classroom and built all primary school classrooms with that view to, you know, how other people are going to access this classroom, I think all pupils would benefit from them, you know, from that.
[00:25:02] And a lot of the tools, you know, some are expensive, some are very inexpensive, but actually, you know, you provide some of those skills to your more able pupils. Well, hang on, they can get on by themselves and that gives me some time to go and support those pupils. So I think it is a shift, isn't it, of not seeing these pupils as an add-on, but actually seeing them as the way forward and the solution, actually.
[00:25:27] And, you know, if we're supporting them right, then we're going to be supporting everybody better. Yeah. As you say that those things that really support sound often really helpful for all students, aren't they? Yeah. Or even if their impact is neutral, do you know what I mean? Yeah. So that it... Yeah. It's not going to be detrimental. Exactly. Detrimental. Yeah. Yeah. Can I ask you about SATS for a second? Yeah.
[00:25:53] We did an episode on SATS recently with a primary school deputy headteacher. What's been your... I guess less about whether or not like SATS are a good thing or a bad thing, but less about your experience of how schools deal with SATS and the preparation for it and what works and what doesn't and that sort of thing. What have you seen?
[00:26:19] I would say from my experience, if a school consistently does well in SATS, SATS are just part of the school year. Yeah. And they're just kind of seen as another thing. And it's just something that happens. You know, we do them, we change the tables, we sit and we do them. When you then come to kind of the two kind of polar ends of the schools that have consistently done very, very well
[00:26:47] and therefore need to continue to do very, very well, or the schools that have done quite poorly and therefore must do better, whoever tells us we must do better, I see a very stark difference between how those schools see SATS because for them SATS is then high stakes for the school,
[00:27:13] therefore high stakes for the teachers, therefore that pressure is passed on. And it's wrong in my opinion, but if I think if a school has consistently done well, then SATS, like I say, it's just part of it. It's one thing we do, you know, we teach the national curriculum, you have a go at this exam, we know that you're going to do all right. So therefore, you know. Yeah, that's interesting. Happy days.
[00:27:37] Yeah, so like a school that's kind of like doing everything right anyway, it probably isn't going to struggle to incorporate and absorb SATS within that. But a school that's feeling the pressure, maybe, that pressure will kind of mushroom. That's where you then see constant practice papers, where you see, you know, early morning work isn't come in and draw a picture or whatever.
[00:28:03] It's, you know, do these five SATS questions or, you know, it's conversation isn't, oh, you know, how was your weekend? It was, oh, how much revision did you do? Or, you know, booster groups and all of this sort of stuff. Because the school feels the pressure. And unfortunately, it's the pupils that have to perform for the school to get what they need from it. But in terms of your pupil level, as soon as you've hit secondary school, your SATS don't matter anymore. For the kids, it means nothing.
[00:28:33] No, yeah. I mean, that's always one of the curious things. Particularly, I mean, when we talked to Daniel about this, he was saying that often he has to have this conversation with parents, whereby the parents are very stressed about it. Because they've developed some view somehow, and I'm not quite sure where it comes from, but of like that this is really, really important for their child. And actually, like the effects for the child are really minimal.
[00:28:57] I mean, it's, you know, it's mainly about assessing school performance and then also about baselining, I guess, students for their time at their start at secondary school. Actually, nothing. None of that has really anything. And in the last few weeks, that baseline is redone anyway. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, they can move up and down and things, you know, any way from that. Yeah. Yeah. To me, SATS are a measure of the school.
[00:29:22] And therefore, because at the end of the day, the SATS are a way of testing the key stage two subject knowledge. So if you are teaching that well, there should be nothing to worry about. Yeah, yeah. If you're not teaching that well, well, then you've got a problem. And unfortunately, it's all seen as a year six problem and it's the year six children. Right.
[00:29:47] Actually, if you've got good teachers doing the right thing in years three and years four and year five leading up to year six, then you're much better. And, you know, it's a conversation that I have actually with some of the primary schools that we work with. Because a lot of what I would deem are like year six data. So like the idea of looking at combined and things like that. Our mainstream system, you can look at all of those figures for all year groups. Right.
[00:30:14] So when I do like school training, I'll say to them, you know, year three teachers, you can look at combined too. So actually, if we've got a child that's okay in reading and writing, but maths is a weakness, you can pick that up in year three. Because, you know, that's good quality teaching. Yeah, yeah. We don't have to just think that actually a well-rounded pupil is formed in year six. Yeah. There's a few years before that. Because also that's better. That's obviously better for the students, isn't it?
[00:30:40] But it's much better for the teachers because it just reduces that pressure overall on a school, doesn't it? One of the things I've seen, Vicky, like I think is quite a good signal of like when a secondary school is struggling or where they're not like they're not doing the right things is when they're pumping loads of resources into year 11. So it's just like, yeah, we got to get the year 11. We got to do everything we can to get the year 11. Whereas a school that's been really well run is pumping the resources into year seven.
[00:31:07] Because it's like we know that like this pays off over time. Not like it's not like a sudden rush to get everyone through. Obviously, there are certain things you want to do in year 11 to try and maximise gains or whatever. But like, yeah, it's one of those mistakes, isn't it? That when someone's struggling that they'll do try and fix the problem at the end rather than at the beginning. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:31:31] And I've had that conversation sitting in, you know, May, June time looking at staff planning. And, you know, these are the teachers we've got. Where are we going to put them? And so often it was, OK, we've got an NQT or, you know, we've got a new teacher to the school. We'll put them in year three or we'll put them in year four. We need so-and-so that's been at the school, really good teacher. We need them in year six. And, you know, and I'm sat there saying, yeah, OK, but if we want year six to be OK,
[00:32:01] how about we share some of that good teaching down in year three and year four? So that actually by the time that they get to that NQT in year six, we're in a much better place to start off with. And, yeah, it's very interesting conversations I've had personally around that. Yeah, it's one of those things as well that's so it's like it's so obvious. But I do feel for people in positions of like the people have to make those decisions because they are actually quite difficult decisions to make, aren't they?
[00:32:30] To say, right, like, OK, we're going to take our strongest teacher and we're not going to put them in the examined year groups. We're going to put them, you know, down in year, well, in the secondary case, in year seven, year eight. That's a tough call to make at any point in time. But actually, if you do want your school to be like good over a long period of time, then that's the really hard decision you have to take at some point, isn't it? Yeah, it's interesting.
[00:32:57] Do you work with secondary as well, Vicki, or is it just fully primary? Yeah, we do. No, so our mainstream system goes right from nursery three to key stage five. And so the key stage, the kind of the secondary college side of it is newer. So, you know, we're kind of still building kind of experience and clients in that area. And the special needs tracking currently goes right from the engagement model.
[00:33:24] So those, you know, using a spoon, grasping objects, all of those kind of really fundamental skills currently goes right through to key stage three. But we are in the thick at the moment of developing that into key stage four as well. You know, kind of exploring what that looks like in that, you know, are we going to go down the road of entry levels or, you know. Yeah. And we have a lot of settings that kind of use both.
[00:33:49] So, you know, they put mainstreams on iTrack, you know, the peoples that need the specifics are on iSend. Or equally, we have some kind of special settings that will use iSend. And then when they get to the point of GCSEs, they'll then use secondary because then they can build the GCSEs on secondary. So, yeah, we kind of cover everything, really. Oh, wow. That's amazing.
[00:34:12] Do you have one kind of tip that you could give teachers or schools in terms of tracking assessment that they could just do quite quickly? Oh, good question. Oh, that's a very good question. Sorry, we can edit out the space. Yeah, edit the five minutes of me. I would always say know your pupils.
[00:34:40] If you know your pupils, you can assess them easily and accurately. I'm a big advocate for teacher relationships. If you know your kids, you know where they're at. You know where they need to go next. You know, kind of the curriculum and the subject knowledge and all of that, you know, that's what you go to uni for. That's what you do whatever qualification in to learn. But if you want to assess accurately and you want to assess well
[00:35:07] and you want pupils to make good progress, know your kids. Spend that time to build the relationships with them. Vicky, can you tell us where people can find out more about what you do and hear from you? So we have a website, iTrackEducation.com. You can find out about both systems on there, book demos, get in touch. Yeah. Thank you so much for listening to the Exam Man podcast.
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