Alps Champions

The Champions Programme is designed for those of you who are driving the Alps culture in your schools and colleges. The practical resources on this page have been put together to be used to support you and your staff to get the most from your Alps analysis.

Resources

Section 1

Becoming an Alps Champion

Use the Alps Champions Handbook as your guide to ensure that Alps will have an impact in your school/college.

There are some Staff Checklists to support you in getting your staff to ask the right sorts of questions at the right time.

The Alps Cycle gives you an overview of the resources that Alps will offer across the Academic Year.

Alps Champions Handbook

This is a guide to becoming Alps Champions in your school or college. The Alps Champions programme will highlight the different aspects of Alps that you should know about if you are to successfully embed an Alps culture across your school/college.

Staff Checklists

Handy checklists for staff at different levels. These are designed to be used practically across the academic year to support staff in getting the most from their analysis.

Alps Cycle

A smart outline of when and how to use Alps at key times the school and college year.

Embedding Alps into your culture

Ensure you’re getting the most out of Alps by using the Alps ethos as a key driver of improvement and student attainment.  Our presentation provides an overview of the Alps philosophy and culture, and how Alps analysis and Connect Interactive might fit into your Quality Assurance Cycle.

Section 2

Connect

Getting started in Connect.

The resources in this section give you an overview of how to get the most from the tools in Connect. The series of short videos will act as a guide to understanding the features built into the platform.  

The longer videos go into more detail on using Connect for monitoring purposes.

Connect Interactive Workbook for Subject Teachers

Make sure you’re getting the most out of Connect Interactive with our step by step workbook on using our system.

Connect Interactive Guide for Subject Teachers – Wales KS4

Make sure you’re getting the most out of Connect Interactive with our step by step workbook on using our system.

Webinar

Alps Methodology and Target Setting

This webinar will help you to understand Alps Methodology and grading used throughout Alps reports and in Connect, the Alps concept of Minimum Expected Grades and how your subject staff use Minimum Expected Grades to set subject targets.

Section 3

Understand the Alps Methodology and target setting

The resources in this section will help you to understand the Alp target setting principles. It is important as the Alps Champion to understand the methodology so that you can guide teaching staff appropriately.

Download and amend the PowerPoints to use in staff training sessions or show the videos.

Methodology and target setting

This Alps PowerPoint resource is designed to support staff in their understanding of the Alps methodology and provides an overview of grading used throughout Alps reports and in Connect Interactive.

Methodology and target setting

– Wales

This Alps PowerPoint resource is designed to support staff in their understanding of the Alps methodology and provides an overview of grading used throughout Alps reports and in Connect Interactive.

Aspirational Target Setting

At Alps, we encourage staff to be aspirational in their target setting to allow students to maximise their potential. This guide looks at MEGs (Minimum Expected Grades) and Personalised Targets and how staff can actively track students against these aspirational targets.