End-of-term reviews, with the reading already done
AI reads a child's whole term of observations, suggests where they are in each area and what comes next, and drafts the family's summary. Your key people check it, decide, and share it.
- The AI does the reading
- A few minutes per child
- Set, evidenced, achieved
- Next steps, tracked
- Nothing shared unchecked
- Your team decides
The AI does the reading
Set, evidenced, achieved
Nothing shared unchecked
From a Term of Observations to What Comes Next
Your team has spent the term recording what each child does. A termly review turns that into three decisions: how they're getting on, what happened to the things you were working on, and what you'll work on next. Then the family hears about it.
Prepare with AI
One click reads the child's observations for the term and lays out what they show, area by area.
Decide Each Area
The suggested level is already selected. Keep it, change it, or raise a concern.
Close and Set Next Steps
Mark last term's next steps achieved, and accept two to four new ones written for this child.
Share the Term Summary
A family-friendly summary is drafted from the review, then approved and published as usual.
AI That Does the Reading, Not the Deciding
A term can mean seventy observations for one child. The AI reads every one and shows its working, so your team spends its time on judgement, not searching.
What the AI suggests
Last term's next step
“Blanca to join in with repeated words in familiar stories”
Looks achieved — joined in with the refrain of a familiar story and turned the pages at the right moments.
Story time favourite · 6 May, 20 May, 3 Jun
A new next step
“Blanca to count everyday objects and explain what changes, using words like ‘one less’.”
At home: count spoons together, take one away, and ask what's changed.
Builds on: Counting the snack cups · 15 May, 29 May
Every suggestion cites the observations it comes from. Click one to read it beside the review.
Every Suggestion Shows Its Evidence
Levels, outcomes and next steps all cite real observations. If it can't point to one, it doesn't suggest it.
Never Guesses
Where an area has little or no evidence, the AI says so and suggests no level — a prompt to look out for it next term.
Written for This Child
Next steps build on what this child actually did and enjoys, so two children in the same room get different ones. No generic "provide a range of resources".
Pre-selected, Never Imposed
Suggested levels are already ticked so agreeing takes no clicks, but preparing again never changes a level your team chose.
Photos Never Sent
The AI reads the text of published observations only. Your data is never used to train models.
Optional, Per Setting
Switch it off and your team completes reviews and writes summaries themselves. Everything else works the same.
Next Steps That Actually Get Closed
Next steps usually live on individual observations and are never looked at again. In Pigeonhole each child has a handful they're working on, and the end-of-term review is where they're closed off.
- Two to four per child, written about the child, never the room
- Shown on the child's profile, so everyone knows what they're working on
- Closed at the next review with the observations that show it
- Flagged if one has had no evidence for twelve weeks
- An idea for home with each one, for the family's summary
A Term Summary Families Want to Read
The review is for your team. Families get a warm, plain-English summary written from it: what their child has enjoyed and achieved, the next steps they've achieved since last term, what you're working on together next, and simple ideas to try at home.
- Drafted from the review, ready to check and publish
- Levels left out unless you choose to share them
- Your writing rules applied, approval before sharing
- In the parent app next to the two-year check
Built Around How You Already Work
Ready the day you switch it on, and as light or as thorough as your setting wants.
Fits Your Assessment
Your wording, your frameworks, no setup.
- Support-based wording by default, or your own
- Choose which frameworks are assessed
- Prime areas only for under-threes, if you like
- Fixed autumn, spring and summer terms — nothing to configure
Spot Who Needs Support
Prompts for the conversations that matter, for staff only.
- A prime area needing support two reviews running
- Concerns raised by the key person
- Next steps with no progress in twelve weeks
- Never shown to families
Approval and Accountability
The same trusted workflow as observations.
- Draft, pending approval, published
- Every AI suggestion kept next to the final judgement
- Reopen a review, with an audit trail
- See every child's progress through the term at a glance
Light by Design
Built on Development Matters' advice, not a tick list.
- No statement checklists or age-band tracking
- A handful of next steps, not one per area
- A child without a review is fine — nothing is forced
- No data produced just for Ofsted
The progress check at age two, built in too
Alongside termly reviews, Pigeonhole covers the statutory progress check at age two: who's due and who's overdue, a check structured around the prime areas, an optional AI first draft from the child's observations, and parents reading and signing it online. Checks already done on paper can be uploaded, so your records stay in one place.
Questions About Termly Reviews
Observations
The learning journal every termly review reads from.
AI Writing Assistant
Rough notes to observations, and writing rules in your house style.
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