Built for schools

A clearer view of
quality of education,
student insight
and leadership decisions.

Oswald brings together the systems schools rely on into one platform, reducing workload while strengthening clarity, consistency and impact.

Instead of switching between disconnected tools, leaders can access the core functions that drive improvement in one place.

Built by a serving headteacher. Designed around real school leadership.

Platform preview

Whole-school clarity at a glance.

Real-time view of teaching quality, coverage and priority signals.

What Oswald brings together

Designed to help leaders see what matters quickly.

Whole-school clarity

Bring together headline patterns, strengths, concerns and live teaching signals in one view.

Coverage and confidence

Understand where sampling is strong, where gaps remain and how secure your conclusions really are.

Priority signals

Surface the areas that need attention most so leaders can act with precision rather than guesswork.

Apps built for school leadership

One platform, bringing together the tools schools rely on.

Oswald is designed to reduce fragmentation and save time, giving leaders a coherent set of tools to support quality of education, inclusion and school improvement.

Quality of Education Dashboard

See the quality of education clearly, in one place.

Brings together lesson visits, book scrutiny and departmental evaluation into a single live view. Leaders can identify patterns, compare across departments and act with confidence. The dashboard also generates clear, evidence-informed summaries to support faculty and whole-school review.

Department Review Builder

Run rigorous, consistent reviews without adding workload.

Creates structured review frameworks, gathers evidence and produces a clear written evaluation aligned to school priorities. Ensures every department review is thorough, comparable and rooted in classroom practice, while reducing the burden on leaders.

Appraisal & Professional Growth

Support meaningful development, not just accountability.

Enables staff to build evidence over time and supports line managers in structuring observations, feedback and appraisal discussions. Anchored in a shared framework, it keeps professional growth focused, consistent and sustained.

Get to Know Your Students

Give every teacher a clear understanding of the learners in front of them.

Provides instant access to student passports by class, alongside a concise summary of needs, strategies and key information. Highlights patterns across groups and simplifies what teachers need to know and do, supporting more precise and inclusive teaching.

EHCP Manager

Bring clarity and consistency to statutory SEND processes.

Supports SEND teams in drafting, reviewing and managing EHCP documentation. Ensures high-quality, consistent outputs while reducing administrative workload and keeping the focus on the needs of the child.

Focus File

Keep priorities visible, aligned and moving forward.

A shared workspace where leaders track actions, manage priorities and maintain oversight. Supports line management, strengthens accountability and ensures school improvement work remains focused and coherent across teams.

SEF Builder

Build a clear, evidence-informed view of your school.

Supports leaders in constructing a structured self-evaluation, drawing on live data and wider school intelligence. Keeps evaluation grounded in reality, aligned to inspection expectations and focused on what matters most.

Oswald Core

One platform. One login. Complete clarity.

Connects all tools within a secure, role-based system. Provides a consistent user experience, shared data structure and a foundation that can scale with your school over time.

Why Oswald?

Built around coherence, not clutter.

Oswald takes its name from the Northumbrian king who helped unite divided kingdoms into something stronger. That same idea sits at the heart of the platform today.

In many schools, vital information is spread across systems, teams and documents, making it harder to work with clarity and confidence. Oswald is designed to bring those parts together into one connected platform, creating a clearer and more reliable source of truth for leaders and staff.

Brand story

Uniting what has become fragmented.

A visual reference to Northumbria, where Oswald’s story begins.

Historic map of Northumbria

Built for real school systems

Designed to reduce friction and strengthen decision-making.

Built by a serving headteacher, Oswald is shaped by the realities of school leadership and designed to bring clarity, save time and reduce friction across the systems schools use every day.