Sonar Multi-School

Find your way around Sonar Multi-School

ReferenceFor trust leaders and trust data and assessment leadsSonar Multi-School

Sonar Multi-School has the same layout as other Juniper Education products: a top bar, a main menu and the page itself. Most pages share the same controls for choosing an assessment point, grouping pupils and filtering them.

Select an item to open it. Expand Summative Dashboard to see its sub-pages.

Menu item	What it opens
Summative Dashboard	The page Multi-School opens on, with six widgets summarising teachers’ judgements. Its sub-pages are Primary Subjects, Early Years Subjects, Progress Over Time, Diminishing the Difference (Gender) and Diminishing the Difference (Disadvantaged).
Primary Attainment Overview	Pupils below, at and above age-related expectations (ARE) in years 1 to 6
Early Years Attainment Overview	Pupils below, at and above ARE in the EYFS
Pupil Overview	Pupil numbers by characteristic, with attendance
Statutory Dashboard	Statutory results for an academic year, with national comparisons
Admin	Data completion reports and the Pupil Data Export
User Management	Trusts on the older set-up only: see Trusts not yet on Juniper Portal

The Progress from Statutory Assessment page is not in the menu. It opens from the tiles on the Summative Dashboard.

Statutory Dashboard appears only if your role includes statutory reports. Admin shows only the pages your role allows.

Top bar

The top bar is the same as in Sonar Tracker. The parts trust users need most are:

Part	What it does
Inbox (envelope icon)	Holds messages with links to the files you export
Products (grid icon)	Switches to another Juniper product, such as Sonar Tracker or Portal. The product opens in a new window.
Your initials	Opens your account menu. Switch between your trust and school accounts under Other accounts, or sign out with Logout.

Find your way around describes the rest of the top bar.

Page controls

Most pages share these controls:

Control	What it does
Assessment Period	Chooses the assessment point the page shows. Pages open on the current one.
Filters	Narrows the pupils counted: see Filters
View options	Change how pupils are grouped: see View options
View Report	On a dashboard widget, opens the page behind it
Last updated	The date the figures were last refreshed
Breadcrumbs	Links back to the pages you came through

View options

View options set how a chart or table groups pupils, for example by school or by special educational needs (SEN). Most pages open By School, and every view includes All Pupils, the whole trust. Only pupils with assessment data appear.

View option	Groups shown
By School	Each school in the trust
By Year Group	Each year group, as set up in Sonar Tracker
By Gender	Male and Female
By Disadvantaged	Disadvantaged and Not Disadvantaged
By SEN	SEN and Not SEN
By Ethnicity	Each ethnic group with pupils in the trust
By Subject	Each subject (Progress Over Time only)

A pupil counts as disadvantaged if any of these apply:

they have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years
they have been looked after by a local authority for at least one day in the last year
they left care through adoption or another formal route

SEN covers pupils on SEN support and pupils with an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

Not every page offers every option:

Page	School	Year group	Gender	Disadvantaged	SEN	Ethnicity
Primary and Early Years Subjects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Primary and Early Years Attainment Overview	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Progress Over Time (also By Subject)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Progress from Statutory Assessment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Pupil Overview	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

The Diminishing the Difference pages use subject options instead. The Statutory Dashboard has its own groupings: see Reports and national figures.

Filters

Filters work as they do on the newer Sonar Tracker screens: see Filter pupils. Select Filters to open the panel, choose your filters, then select Save. The page updates straight away.

In the filter lists, EAL means English as an additional language and FSM means free school meals. FSM6 means eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years.

Filter	What you choose
Year Groups	One or more year groups
Ethnicity	One or more ethnic groups. All are included until you choose.
Gender	Male or Female
Attendance	A range of attendance, from 0 to 100%
Focus	Leavers, EAL, In Care, Ever In Care, Pupil Premium, FSM, FSM6, Service Child and SEN
SEN	A type of SEN provision, such as SEN support or an EHC plan
SEN Needs	A type of need, such as autistic spectrum disorder (ASD)

Focus, SEN and SEN Needs sit under Characteristics.

Each Focus option has three states: not filtered (grey), only (green) and excluded (red). Leavers starts as excluded, so leavers are not counted unless you change it. Focus options explains the states.

Filters combine. For example, choosing Male under Gender and setting Pupil Premium to only shows boys eligible for the pupil premium. To remove filters, use the Applied tab: see Remove filters.

Print and export

Printed pages include the page title, the assessment point and the date the figures were updated.

To get	Do this
A printout of the Statutory Dashboard or a data completion report	Select Print
A PDF	Print, and choose Save as PDF as the printer
A table as a spreadsheet	Select Export as CSV on Primary Attainment Overview, Early Years Attainment Overview or Pupil Overview
Pupil-level data for several schools	Use the Pupil Data Export in Admin

Wide tables print better at a smaller scale. In your browser’s print window, open More settings and reduce Scale.

Export as CSV saves only the table you are looking at, to your browser’s downloads folder.