Effective Behaviour Management
What is effective behaviour management and what impact can it have in your school? Join Ben Dunford as he discusses some strategies you can use to improve behaviour in your classroom.
Recent updates - November 2023
This month we launched our new student details page and completed our AWS migration. Read about these and several other updates in this month's updates blog.
Recent updates - October 2023
Read about the latest updates to the epraise platform, including big changes to our supporting technologies, our planned migration to AWS and several smaller incremental improvements.
Taking your house point system to the next level
Most schools have some sort of House System or its equivalent in place, but is your house system working as well as it could? Join Rob Eastment as he explores some great ideas to take your house system to the next level.
Recent updates - July 2023
Read about the latest updates to the epraise platform, including updates to Single Sign On, internationalisation improvements and new connections to Veracross.
Firefly Learning joins Veracross
We are delighted to announce that Firefly Learning has joined the Veracross family. Veracross is a leading provider of cloud-based School Information Systems (SIS/ MIS) designed to meet the unique needs of independent schools.
The rise of parental engagement
When I first started teaching, parental engagement consisted of yearly reports, yearly parents' evenings and a phone call home to the same few parents every other week. Parents had no access to live student data and had no way to communicate directly with teachers other than picking up the phone...
Introducing Firefly on Teams - A new generation of tools for Microsoft schools
With many schools using Microsoft Teams with their students, we are delighted to announce the release of Firefly on Teams, our first joint venture since joining forces with the Firefly Learning team...
Epraise joins Firefly Learning
We are delighted to announce the exciting news that Firefly and Epraise are now part of the same family. By working together, we believe that our shared desire to improve the education experience for students, teachers and parents can be accelerated...
Return to school: How epraise can help part 2
Over the last year schools around the world have had to adapt quickly to the ever-changing situation presented by the spread of coronavirus. They have had to rapidly adopt systems to help support their school communities under unprecedented circumstances...
Return to school: How epraise can help part 1
After many months of working and learning from home, schools in the UK will be returning for all students from the 8th March. There will be all kinds of emotions felt around this time, excitement to catchup with friends again, anxiety about missed...
Remote parents' evenings
Parent's evenings are an important part of the school calendar; one of the few chances a parent and a teacher have to sit down and discuss how things are going. But what do you do during the global Covid-19 pandemic, when parents aren't allowed into a school? We have a few ideas...
Rewards systems: Running a shop
Students work exceptionally hard, they hand in their homework on time, they're well-mannered, timely to class, and in turn (in most cases) receive recognition whether that's through acknowledgement by a statement of praise or through a system of rewarding like points or stars added to a chart...