Taith360: Planning & Assessment for Welsh Schools

When the Curriculum for Wales launched in 2022, it signalled a bold shift in education - focusing on personalised learning, cross-curricular connections, and holistic pupil development. But for schools across Wales, this also created a pressing challenge: how do you plan, track, and report on pupil progress in a completely new way, without adding to teachers’ workload?

Developed through a close partnership between Blueberry, Assessment360, and Welsh educators, the answer was Taith360 - a powerful web-based tool designed specifically to support Welsh schools in delivering the new curriculum. It brings curriculum planning, pupil tracking, and reporting together in one intuitive platform - built with teachers, for teachers.

The Curriculum for Wales introduced a radical new approach: six broad Areas of Learning and Experience (Areas), progression steps that span multiple school years, and a strong focus on pupil wellbeing, attitudes, and real-world skills.

But schools didn’t have the digital tools to support this new vision. Teachers needed:

• Flexible planning tools across all six Areas
• A way to track pupil progress across long-term progression steps
• Support for the literacy, numeracy, and digital competence frameworks
• Tools to assess the whole child—including wellbeing and social development
• Seamless integration with existing school MIS systems
• Customisable reports that reflect each learner’s unique journey

The mission was clear: create a platform that could meet these complex needs—but keep it simple, scalable, and practical for everyday classroom use.

Working together with Assessment360, Blueberry designed and built Taith360—a robust, future-ready platform tailored to the specific demands of the Welsh education system.

Built using Blueberry’s powerful BBWT web template framework, Taith360 was engineered to handle the scale and complexity of curriculum data, while remaining intuitive and teacher friendly.

Curriculum Planning Made Easy
Teachers can build, customise, and share learning plans aligned to all Areas and statements of What Matters. The platform allows for detailed lesson-level planning, including cross-curricular links, notes, and targeted outcomes. Plans are easily shared across teams and mapped to progression steps.

Smart, Flexible Progress Tracking
With simple assessment categories - emerging, developing, secure, and embedded - teachers can track progress across individuals, classes, year groups, or the entire school. Built-in filters and overviews help teachers navigate complex content quickly and effectively.

Effortless Reporting
Taith360 includes a customisable reporting engine that turns teacher input into clear, pupil-friendly language using natural language processing. It automates much of the reporting process - saving time while keeping the personal touch.

Seamless MIS Integration
By connecting with platforms like SIMS and Bromcom via Wonde’s API, Taith360 ensures real-time syncing of pupil, staff, class, and attendance data - cutting down on admin and eliminating data duplication.

Whole-Child Focus
Beyond academic progress, Taith360 captures emotional wellbeing and general attitude data - helping schools support learners in line with the curriculum’s four purposes: to nurture ambitious, enterprising, creative, ethical, and healthy individuals.

Today, Taith360 is being used by schools across Wales - especially in the primary sector - to successfully implement the new Curriculum for Wales. The feedback speaks for itself:

• Less Admin, More Teaching: Teachers are saving valuable time thanks to automated reports and streamlined planning tools.
• Better Insight, Better Outcomes: Schools gain a richer, data-driven understanding of each pupil’s development—enabling more targeted support.
• Curriculum Confidence: Taith360 makes the complex curriculum practical, helping educators teach with confidence.
• Built to Grow: Blueberry continues to evolve the platform alongside Assessment360, responding to school feedback and emerging needs.

“There’s a lot of data to capture, from pupil progress to attendance and well being, and Taith360 makes it manageable. The tracking, planning, and reporting are all linked in one place, and that’s made a huge difference for our schools.”
— Harry Dunbar, Assessment360