Reducing wait times to assess & support SEND students
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Pebble is a digital assessment and intervention platform that gives schools immediate insight into how students learn, with strategies teachers can use now to meet students' needs.
Pebble Mind Skills Check is now available for beta testing, providing schools opportunity to get involved in coproduction and providing free trials for the intervention platform.
Pebble helps secondary schools aged 11–18 understand how students learn by measuring focus, thinking, and memory.
It assesses 12 thinking skill domains across these areas, producing an overall cognition score that can help indicate SEND related difficulties.
More importantly, Pebble identifies the specific skills each student struggles with and provides clear, student friendly reports with evidence based strategies.
This matters because students struggle for different reasons, and effective support must be tailored to the individual rather than applied universally.
What does Pebble assess and why?
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Focus is about how easily a student can concentrate on what they need to do. When students struggle to focus, this is usually due to difficulties with either attention or executive control.
Attention is the most basic form of focus. It refers to how quickly and accurately a student can notice information through seeing or hearing and respond to it.
Executive control is about managing attention. This includes resisting distractions, stopping impulsive responses, and shifting focus between tasks when needed.
Knowing which area a student finds more difficult helps guide support. If attention is the main difficulty, slowing the pace of learning and presenting information more clearly can help. If executive control is the main difficulty, reducing distractions, limiting task switching, and seating the student closer to the front of the class are often more effective.
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Thinking refers to how well students can work with information in their head and solve problems.
Working memory is the amount of information a student can hold in mind at one time. It affects learning across all subjects, particularly maths and science. When working memory is weaker, tasks should be broken into smaller steps before starting.
Planning is about how well a student thinks ahead before beginning a task. Difficulties here can lead to impulsive work, missed steps, or confusion about timelines.
Reasoning refers to how well a student can solve problems logically. When reasoning is weaker, students often benefit from being taught clear problem solving strategies rather than being expected to work them out independently.
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Memory refers to how quickly students can learn new information and how well they can remember it later. Memory is often divided into verbal and visual memory.
Verbal memory is about how easily a student learns and recalls information presented in words, such as spoken explanations or written text.
Visual memory is about how easily a student learns and remembers what they see, including what something looks like and where it is located.
Most students are stronger in one type than the other. This can influence how they revise most effectively, for example using mind maps and diagrams for stronger visual memory, or repetition and verbal rehearsal for stronger verbal memory.
Beta testing schools are very valuable to us, as we really care about coproduction. We care especially about ensuring that schools engage with varying levels of diversity, allowing for us to become as fair across the UK as we can possibly be. We therefore want to give initial schools a lot of free benefits that can help.
What do beta testing schools get?
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Receive specific insights for your school regarding needs across year groups and your school, to inform your 2026-2027 SEND strategy.
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Students will receive immediate feedback on their scores, with advice on how they can improve in their overall thinking skills.
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Beta testing schools will receive free access for 6 weeks of our cognitive intervention package for school-wide support.
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Why should we care about SEND?
31%
74%
of SEND students are chronically unemployed after finishing school
of teachers report not knowing how to cater to SEND needs
>20%
>2