Managing the new TY programme in your school just got a whole lot easier
An easy to use platform to coordinate and manage every aspect of the new TY programme for students, teachers even parents.
One dedicated place for TY students to easily record, document & reflect on all the important parts of their busy year
Covering every aspect of TY, students can now easily capture every aspect of their TY experience including;
- Digital portfolio showcase
- Career readiness
- Personal Growth
- Being a learner
- Work experience / placement
- Civic and community engagement
- Reflections
FormiTY makes it easy for students to document and reflect on their TY year, reducing stress, creating a hugely valuable portfolio that is easily exported at the end of the year
The new TY programme is different to what went before it
The new Transition Year (TY) programme takes quite a different approach to the older programme.
TY Coordinator
For the coordinator, the programme now demands detailed planning and implementation of a structured curriculum, continuous reflection, and renewal, as well as managing a comprehensive assessment framework. The role now involves coordinating a TY Core Team, building community partnerships, and ensuring professional development.
TY students
For TY students there is an increased emphasis on diverse and structured learning experiences, including maintaining portfolios, participating in a variety of projects, and undergoing regular assessments that encompass personal, social, and academic development. The overall shift from flexibility to a more documented and evidence-based approach means that both coordinators and students face a more demanding and structured TY programme.
How FormiTY makes it easy to manage the new TY programme in your school
The new Transition Year (TY) programme takes quite a different approach to the older programme.
Time saving integration & set up
FormiTY is designed specifically for the TY programme, offering a complete “done for you” solution that is fully aligned with the new requirements. This seamless integration saves teachers hours of preparation and organization, allowing them to implement the programme easily and efficiently at the start of the school year without the hassle of setting up complex systems themselves
Enhanced Student Portfolios
FormiTY enables students to create and maintain comprehensive digital portfolios with minimal instruction. Students can easily add content, reflect on their learning, and showcase their best work. At the end of the year, these portfolios can be exported with one click, providing a professional and polished record of their achievements and growth throughout the TY programme.
Efficient Tracking and Reporting
FormiTY offers an intuitive interface that allows teachers to track student progress in real-time. Teachers can see at a glance how students are performing across various dimensions of the TY programme, such as personal growth, academic achievements, and community engagement.
Parental Involvement and Support
FormiTY makes it easy for parents to stay informed about their child’s progress throughout the TY year. Parents can track their child’s achievements and engagement in the programme, fostering greater involvement and support. This transparency enhances communication between the school and home, ensuring that parents are actively engaged in their child’s educational journey
Easy for parents to track how their child is doing
FormiTY makes it easy for parents to check in to see how their child is doing throughout TY. With access to every aspect of the digital portfolio journey, parents get to see their child developing and growing into adulthood, equipped with life long skills
Academic Achievements
Civic & Community engagement
Portfolio showcase
Personal Projects
Being a Learner
Career readiness
Personal Growth
Goals & future Aspirations
Why FormiTY is good news for TY teachers in your school
FormiTY is not designed to replace your current learning platform. It does however create a link with your learning platform, giving teachers a standalone TY dashboard that helps to distinguish the work that occurs during TY.
We’re here to help you
Everyone who signs up to FormiTY gets FREE access to our training and support team. When you need our help, we’re available.
On demand video support calls
Email support
Remote staff training
Advice /Troubleshooting
Frequently asked questions
Could I not just use my learning platform to do this?
You could, but the new TY programme requires specific features for recording information, reflecting, and linking to key learning and developmental indicators. Setting this up on your existing platform is time-consuming and complex. FormiTY is designed specifically for the TY programme, offering a turnkey solution that saves time and ensures comprehensive coverage of all elements, making it easier for students to reflect and for coordinators to manage and track progress efficiently.
I’m interested but I might need help to get going - do you provide support?
Yes. We have a support team available who will either support you over email or can arrange an online meeting with you to walk you through the platform if you need it. We know that this is a new platform so we want to ensure that it remains valuable for you.
What about GDPR - is this compliant?
Yes, We have a privacy policy and have done all necessary due diligence on this. Servers are based in europe and we comply with the standard GDPR recommendations. Any requests of this nature can be sent to info@joinformity.com where we will ask out GDPR team to consider.
How do I add new students to the platform?
You can either input manually or import directly / automatically populate from your learning platform.
What can I track using Formity?
Students can track their academic achievements, personal growth, extracurricular activities, career readiness, and civic and community engagement. The platform allows students to document their journey, set goals, and reflect on their experiences.
How do students update their portfolio on Formity?
For students to update their portfolio, they log in to their account, navigate to ‘My Portfolio’, and select the section they want to update. They can add new entries, edit existing ones, and upload supporting documents or media.
Do I do all my assessments now on FormiTY (and will this just double up on my workload?)
No. FormiTY is not a replacement of the standard day to day work that you do with your students around assessment (summative or formative). This work likely occurs on your learning platform (O365 / Google typically). FormiTY does link with your learning platform to automatically transfer across key results so that these are also recorded here as part of student portfolios. There is no extra work on teachers/students to achieve this, its done automatically. (see following question around ‘showcase’ for more clarity here.
I know the showcase part is important - how does FormiTY make this easy?
The showcase is to be considered as a place where student’s best academic work is recorded. Let’s consider English as an example. A student may have completed 10 academic pieces of work in English during their TY. The English section in the showcase is where that student would showcase their ‘best work’. Students may find that only 6 pieces of work actually make it on to the showcase. To determine which pieces should appear on the showcase section of FormiTY is a decision for the teacher and often is decided by pre-determined success criteria. The benefit of recording this in FormiTY is that it naturally becomes part of the portfolio which is exported at the end of the year as a complete portfolio which includes academic and non-academic work.