At St Mary’s, we use the Boxall Profile Tool to assess all children to identify any social, emotional and wellbeing issues that could impact their learning and daily experiences in school.

Children are assessed annually by an adult who knows them really well. These assessments help the teacher, class team and pastoral team to put  appropriate strategies in place to support the needs of individual children, and the needs of the class as a whole. 

What is the Boxall Profile?

The Boxall Profile is a psycho-social assessment tool that is used to determine children and young people’s social and emotional functioning and wellbeing.

The assessment provides an insight into a child’s world, allowing them to think about what might lie behind challenging behaviour and what their needs might be.

The Boxall Profile has two sections:

Developmental Stands measure aspects of a child’s cognitive, social and emotional development that influence how well a child is able to learn and function in the classroom.

The Diagnostic Profile measures the child’s challenging behaviours that prevent successful social and academic performance. These behaviours are (directly or indirectly) the outcomes of impaired development in the early years and can be resolved once the necessary social and emotional skills are acquired.

For more information about the Boxall Profile, please click here.