Observations
A consistent picture of every school day.
Learning support, connected
Small moments.
A bigger picture.
Alongside helps parents, carers and professionals bring a child's story together — so they can feel understood, supported and reach their potential.
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Built around the people who know your child best.
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More than a moment
See the real
picture.
School days are full of details that rarely make it home. Alongside keeps those observations together, building a fuller understanding over time.
For the moments that matter.
The daily report
Five minutes a day.
A picture that builds.
A simple, structured way for support teams to capture what mattered — without turning the day into paperwork.
Observations become useful when they're clear, consistent and connected to context.
Guided levels help different adults record the child's experience in a shared language.
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Step 2 of 8Daily overview
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Emotional regulation
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Classroom participation
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Following instructions
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Social interaction
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Transitions
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Independence
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Level 4 — Mostly independent. Participated consistently with occasional prompts or reassurance.
LessonsRegulationExercisesToiletingSocialSummary
One continuous story
Children aren't
one-dimensional.
Neither is their progress.
A single place for the moments, insights and people that matter.
Progress
Notice change.
Keep the context.
Alongside brings daily observations together across weeks, terms and school years — without diagnoses or claims about why change happened.
Progress
School yearIndependence
3.8 / 5
2.8Sep
3.1Oct
3.5Nov
3.8Dec
Participation
4.0
Transitions
3.6
Regulation
3.9
Progress, not perfection.
Independence
Participation
Regulation
Transitions
Communication
What works
Good strategies
should travel.
Capture what appears to help. Build a practical, child-specific playbook that stays useful when an LSA, teacher or school changes.
Before difficult transitions
5-minute advance warning
Helpful on14 of 17 occasions
During noisy activities
Quiet regulation break
Helpful on11 of 13 occasions
Joining group activities
Start alongside a familiar peer
Helpful on9 of 12 occasions
Following instructions
Break instructions into individual steps
Helpful on18 of 21 occasions
Growing confidence
Support the
next step.
Understand where confidence and independence are growing — and where support is still useful.
Insights today. More possibilities tomorrow.
Everything connected
One child.
Many dimensions.
Alongside holds the practical parts of a support journey together without reducing a child to scores or labels.
Progress
Notice how observations change across weeks and terms.
Wellbeing
Hold the everyday details that help adults understand.
Communication
Keep perspectives connected around the child.
Transitions
Carry useful knowledge through changes in people and places.
Collaboration
Invite the trusted adults who form their support circle.
Goals
Keep support focused on meaningful next steps.
Regulation
Notice patterns and preserve strategies that appear helpful.
Timeline
Year 2Sep
Joined morning group independently
Milestone recorded by the support team
Oct
Used visual schedule across a full day
Milestone recorded by the support team
Nov
Asked for a regulation break
Milestone recorded by the support team
Dec
Took part in the class assembly
Milestone recorded by the support team
Support plan
CurrentPriority goal
Build confidence during classroom transitions
Approach
Use a clear visual cue and five-minute warning
Success looks like
Moves to the next activity with one prompt
Review
End of Autumn term
Meeting reports
Walk in with months
of observations —
not memories.
Turn everyday observations into a clear starting point for conversations with teachers, SENCOs and other professionals.
Term progress summary
62 school daysClassroom participation
3.1 → 4.0
Independence
2.8 → 3.7
Strategies most often recorded as helpful
- Advance transition warning
- Visual instructions
- Quiet regulation break
Areas continuing to require support
- Group activities
- Unstructured periods
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Review recorded changes, commonly helpful strategies and areas that continue to need support.
Reports summarise observations; they are not clinical evidence or medical assessments.
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Different perspectives.
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Parents & carers
02
LSAs
03
Teachers
04
Therapists & specialists
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Trusted adults
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Their story belongs
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support journey.
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- What Works
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- Timetable
- Timeline
- Meeting reports
- Support circle
- Parent summaries
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