Welcome to iAbacus for Wales
Welcome to iAbacus for Wales
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For schools across Wales, iAbacus provides a clear, collaborative framework that is fully aligned with the national vision for education. Whether you are a primary school embedding the Curriculum for Wales or a secondary school preparing for an Estyn inspection, our platform helps you to evaluate your provision, drive meaningful improvement, and support every learner's journey.
For schools across Wales, iAbacus provides a clear, collaborative framework that is fully aligned with the national vision for education. Whether you are a primary school embedding the Curriculum for Wales or a secondary school preparing for an Estyn inspection, our platform helps you to evaluate your provision, drive meaningful improvement, and support every learner's journey.
Align your self-evaluation with the National Resource (NR:EI).
Embed the Four Purposes of the Curriculum for Wales across your school.
Coordinate and track support for learners with ALN.
Support staff development against the Professional Standards.
Demonstrate the impact of your strategies with clear, visual reporting.
Empower your whole team with a shared tool for collaborative planning.
How it's used in Welsh schools
How it's used in Welsh schools
iAbacus brings clarity and consistency to all your improvement work, from strategic self-evaluation against Estyn's framework and the NR:EI to tracking individual ALN plans.
iAbacus brings clarity and consistency to all your improvement work, from strategic self-evaluation against Estyn's framework and the NR:EI to tracking individual ALN plans.
Create a collaborative, live self-evaluation using our template aligned with the National Resource for Evaluation and Improvement (NR:EI). Bring your whole team together to build a shared understanding of your school's strengths and priorities, and turn your evaluation into a meaningful, actionable school development plan.
Support every member of your team with a simple, structured tool for appraisal and professional development. Staff can evaluate their practice against the Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership, evidence their impact, and create targeted goals for their professional learning journey.
Empower curriculum leaders to evaluate their Areas of Learning and Experience (AoLEs) against the Four Purposes of the Curriculum for Wales. Drive a whole-school priority, such as developing positive behaviour or strengthening wellbeing, ensuring a consistent approach across the school.
Create a holistic view of a pupil's journey. Use individual abacuses to track academic progress, monitor wellbeing, or coordinate support for pupils with Additional Learning Needs (ALN) through Individual Development Plans (IDPs), ensuring every child's needs are met.
A flexible tool for every purpose and role
A flexible tool for every purpose and role
Every purpose
Every purpose
From whole-school self-evaluation against the NR:EI and reviews of AoLEs, to tracking individual progress and managing ALN provision, iAbacus supports every aspect of your school's improvement journey.
Every role
Every role
In a Welsh school, collaboration is key. iAbacus empowers your entire team—from the headteacher and curriculum leaders to class teachers and teaching assistants—to collaborate on shared goals and contribute to a unified vision.
Headteachers
Headteachers
Lead collaborative self-evaluation and improvement plans, support your middle leaders, and report to governors with confidence and evidence at your fingertips.
Middle Leaders
Middle Leaders
Drive improvement for your AoLE or subject with a clear, evidence-based process that develops your leadership and strategic thinking.
Teachers / TAs
Teachers / TAs
Own your professional growth with a simple, structured tool for reflection, appraisal, and evidencing your impact over time.
NR:EI: Leading improvement with confidence
NR:EI: Leading improvement with confidence
Our whole-school template, aligned with the NR:EI, gives Headteachers a single, collaborative hub for their development plan, turning evaluation into confident, strategic action.
Our whole-school template, aligned with the NR:EI, gives Headteachers a single, collaborative hub for their development plan, turning evaluation into confident, strategic action.
Smart features that save time
Smart features that save time
Everything you need to embed a sustainable culture of self-evaluation and improvement.
Everything you need to embed a sustainable culture of self-evaluation and improvement.
Ready-made templates for Wales
Ready-made templates for Wales
Start straight away with templates for schools in Wales — or let us design one tailored to your needs.
Collaborative planning
Collaborative planning
Co-create plans with colleagues and build a shared culture of ownership across your school.
Instant one-click reports
Instant one-click reports
Export polished PDFs in a single click — ready to share with colleagues, governors or inspectors.
Track progress visually
Track progress visually
See progress over time with a visual record that shows not just where you are — but how far you’ve come.
Templates for schools in Wales
Templates for schools in Wales
iAbacus includes a library of ready-made templates tailored specifically to the Welsh context, ensuring you can align your self-evaluation with national priorities from day one.
iAbacus includes a library of ready-made templates tailored specifically to the Welsh context, ensuring you can align your self-evaluation with national priorities from day one.
This template provides a clear, comprehensive framework for Headteachers to ensure self-evaluation is rigorous, effective, and fully aligned with the National Resource for Evaluation and Improvement (NR:EI). It creates a single, living hub for your School Development Plan (SDP), consolidating all judgements, evidence, and actions in one accessible place. The evaluation is structured around the four key themes.
Empower your Subject and AoLE Leaders with a consistent process to evaluate curriculum performance and create focused improvement plans. This template helps ensure your curriculum is aligned with the four purposes, guiding leaders through a deep analysis that builds their strategic thinking and connects departmental evaluation directly to actionable, evidence-based improvement.
This template empowers all teachers to own their professional growth. It provides a clear framework for self-evaluation against the five core professional standards: Pedagogy, Collaboration, Professional Learning, Innovation, and Leadership. The process helps teachers prepare for appraisal by organising reflections and evidence, leading to a meaningful and actionable plan for their continuing professional development (CPD).
Designed for Behaviour Leads and SLT, this template provides a structured process to diagnose barriers to positive behaviour, based on Estyn's 'Promoting Positive Behaviour' toolkit. It helps you to evaluate your provision in line with inspectorate expectations and develop a strategic, evidence-informed action plan to improve the school's culture and support all learners.
This template is designed for Headteachers and Attendance Leads to diagnose attendance barriers and develop a strategic improvement plan aligned with the All Wales Attendance Framework. It helps embed a whole-school approach where attendance is a shared responsibility, drives early intervention, and strengthens partnerships with pupils, parents, and other agencies.
This template provides a whole-school framework to audit your provision for mental health and wellbeing. Aligned with the principles outlined by Public Health Wales, it helps leadership teams to systematically review their approach, foster a culture of belonging, and create a clear improvement plan that cares for the mental and emotional health of both pupils and staff.
A Teacher-Centric Approach to Appraisal
A Teacher-Centric Approach to Appraisal
Support staff growth with a unique, teacher-centric approach. iAbacus transforms appraisal into a meaningful, developmental dialogue, empowering teachers to own their professional learning journey against the Professional Standards.
Support staff growth with a unique, teacher-centric approach. iAbacus transforms appraisal into a meaningful, developmental dialogue, empowering teachers to own their professional learning journey against the Professional Standards.
Not just evaluation
Not just evaluation
Too many tools stop at judgement. iAbacus moves you forward.
Too many tools stop at judgement. iAbacus moves you forward.
Unlike audit and compliance systems that simply show where you are, iAbacus connects evaluation to action. It leads you through analysis, planning and collaboration — ensuring insight becomes strategy and drives real improvement.
Supporting every learner's journey
Supporting every learner's journey
Create a holistic, 360-degree view of a pupil's progress. Use our learner-focused templates to coordinate support, track wellbeing, and ensure every child—especially those with ALN—has a clear and personalised path to success.
Create a holistic, 360-degree view of a pupil's progress. Use our learner-focused templates to coordinate support, track wellbeing, and ensure every child—especially those with ALN—has a clear and personalised path to success.
Instant Insights
Instant Insights
From multiple perspectives to one clear picture
From multiple perspectives to one clear picture
The true power of iAbacus emerges when evaluations and action plans are shared. Our unique "Overlay" features let you combine input from different teams, subjects or schools — instantly. This creates a panoramic view that reveals patterns, highlights good practice and supports more informed, strategic decisions.
What your colleagues are saying...
What your colleagues are saying...
"The most straightforward and simple improvement tool I have come across in the last 10 years."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"Because it’s not complicated everybody gets it! Not having to explain it makes it easy to share."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"At strategic board level we use it to look at strengths and weaknesses across all the schools."
-- GROUP CEO --
"It was a revelation! Lo and behold, I only had to look at it to know what it is all about."
-- IT JOURNALIST --
"It's intuitive and reflects very simply the journey we want teachers to plan for themselves."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"The most powerful tool for providing concrete evidence towards appraisals."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"I like how it helps you reflect as a practitioner. The visual idea of an abacus makes it easy to use."
-- TEACHER --
"It’s simple and easy to use even for a computer-phobe like me. Thank you for all your help."
-- TEACHER --
"The idea is good, the display is good – the final report function is very good."
-- TEACHER --
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Try iAbacus for FREE
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Unlock the full platform with your team and experience the clarity and confidence iAbacus brings.
Book a demo and get a free 30 day trial
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Align with Welsh priorities using templates for the NR:EI and Curriculum for Wales.
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A single source of truth for your school's entire improvement journey.
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Empower every role with intuitive tools that foster shared ownership.
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Drive continuous improvement with a living, evidence-based process.
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