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A complete School MIS - bilingual, cloud-native, ready to replace SIMS.

School Dashboard MIS carries the entire management-information workload for every phase of school - nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU. Attendance, timetabling, assessment, exams, ALN/IDPs, safeguarding, inclusion, communications, meals and payments, statutory returns and a cross-school local-authority tier - one platform, fully bilingual Welsh and English, with every module toggleable per school.

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  • Bilingual Welsh / English
  • Cloud-native, no on-premises
  • Microsoft Entra ID SSO
  • Wonde / SIMS migration
Inclusion dashboard - vulnerable-cohort outcomes against the whole-school baseline
Every phasenursery · primary · secondary · special · PRU
Bilingual by designfull Welsh / English across the whole UI
One platformcross-school LA tier and data warehouse
What's built

The full MIS scope, in one platform.

Every module below is built and running. Each one can be switched on or off per school, so a nursery, a PRU and a large secondary each see only what they use.

Pupil & people records

Pupil profiles & demographics

A full learner record - year group, registration group, SEND, EAL, FSM, LAC and more.

Family, contacts & relationships

Parents/carers, legal guardianship, sibling links, emergency contacts and households.

Address management

Gazetteer / LLPG lookup, UPRN, geolocation and tagged addresses with date history.

Staff records

Staff details, contracts and absences feeding the school workforce census.

User-defined fields

Per-school custom fields and managed lookup values.

CSV bulk import / export

Pupils, teachers, rooms and subjects in and out by spreadsheet.

Teaching & learning

Timetabling

Wizard-led build, conflict detection, resource management and scenario planning on a non-live copy.

Options

Subject pathways, an online choices portal and oversubscription analysis.

Cover

Planned and unplanned reallocation of staff and rooms, including agency supply.

Assessment & tracking

Curriculum for Wales marksheets, colour-banded grades and formula fields.

Exams

Entries, JCQ via integrated A2C, scheduling, results processing and analysis with role-gated embargo.

Homework & seating plans

Homework tracking with portal visibility, plus drag-and-drop seating with inclusion flags.

Attendance

Statutory & lesson registration

AM/PM and lesson-level registers, Welsh Government codes, trends and irregular-pattern alerts.

Fire & mobile registers

Roll-call fire registers and off-site mobile registers for trips and activities.

Dual-registration sharing

Attendance shared across cluster / collaborative sixth-form schools.

Behaviour, inclusion & wellbeing

Classroom & behaviour management

Positive/negative incidents, bullying logging, sanctions and rewards, threshold automation.

Detentions & sanctions

Departmental and after-school detentions, HMDs, suspensions and a warning-rule engine.

Exclusions

Welsh-Government-compliant exclusion records, appeals and analytics.

Safeguarding

Confidential concern reporting, chronology, instant alerts and secure CP-record transfer.

ALN / IDPs & interventions

Individual Development Plans, provisions, reviews and access arrangements - ALNET (Wales) aligned.

Inclusion dashboard

Vulnerable-cohort outcomes against the whole-school baseline with an inspector-ready PDF.

Communications & engagement

Communications suite

Two-way Email / SMS / Push, fully integrated.

Parent & student portals

Timetables, homework, progress, attendance, messaging and parental data self-update.

Staff messaging

Direct, group/department and emergency-broadcast messaging.

Parents' evenings

Slot generation and online parent self-booking.

Reports to parents

Narrative reports from MIS data, with portal and email delivery.

Surveys

Staff, parent and pupil perception surveys with PDF reporting.

Wraparound, meals & payments

Meals & trips

Prepay pupil wallet, daily meal charging, trips with consent and instalment plans, FSM.

Wraparound care & clubs

Breakfast, after-school and enrichment sessions with online booking and registers.

Data, reporting & statutory

Dashboards & custom reports

Predefined and custom reports, shareable templates, with a data dictionary / ER model.

AI analytics

Natural-language queries rendered as charts over your own data.

Data warehouse export

Automatic extraction to a central authority warehouse for BI and data science.

Statutory returns

Welsh Government returns, Common Transfer File (CTF) and ATF pre-admission import, with validation.

Integrations & local-authority tier

Microsoft Entra ID

Teacher sync and single sign-on with Microsoft Active Directory.

Wonde MIS sync

Pupils, demographics, form groups, teachers, attendance and photos from SIMS / Arbor / Bromcom.

Hwb integration

Account-provisioning extract and Hwb single sign-on.

Public REST API & webhooks

Token-secured extract and import - e.g. to an education-data platform or cashless catering.

Cross-school LA dashboard

Pupils, staff, attendance and behaviour KPIs across all, groups of, or individual schools.

Centralised config & support access

Authority-wide config templates and scoped school-role support access.

Attendance

Statutory registration with Welsh Government codes.

Take the AM/PM session register or a lesson-level register straight from the registration group. Codes follow the Welsh Government vocabulary; lateness is tracked in minutes; and the same data drives attendance trends, absence queries and the fire register.

  • AM/PM and lesson-level registration
  • Statutory codes, configurable per school
  • Fire registers and off-site mobile registers
  • Dual-registration sharing across cluster schools
Attendance register for a registration group showing pupils, the last five sessions and statutory mark codes
Session register - statutory codes, minutes-late and per-session history.
Inclusion

Vulnerable-cohort outcomes, the way inspectors ask.

The Inclusion dashboard sets every vulnerable cohort - Pupil Premium, SEN Support, EHCP, LAC, FSM6, EAL, CIN, service children - against the whole-school baseline, and flags disproportionality in detentions, sanctions, behaviour points and merits. One click produces an inspector-ready PDF evidence pack.

  • Standard vulnerable-cohort framework
  • Ratio vs whole-school baseline per cohort
  • Disproportionality charts across four event types
  • Download-PDF evidence pack
Inclusion dashboard showing cohort sizes, outcomes versus the whole-school baseline and disproportionality charts
Inclusion - cohort outcomes, ratios and disproportionality at a glance.
Safeguarding

Concerns, chronologies and secure transfer.

Confidential concern reporting with a full chronology. Access is restricted to the DSL, every view is audit-logged, and child-protection records transfer securely between schools.

  • Confidential concern reporting and chronology
  • Risk-levelled, open-concerns-first triage
  • Every view logged for audit
  • Secure CP-record transfer between schools
Safeguarding concerns list showing category, risk level, who raised it and status
Safeguarding - DSL-only, audit-logged concern management.
Behaviour & classroom

The seating plan is the behaviour interface.

Behaviour points back-of-class view with year and subject selectors and recent activity
Behaviour points - one-tap awards, live warning previews.
Seating plan grid with auto-fill, SEND and Pupil Premium flags and an unseated-pupils panel
Seating plans - drag to seat, SEND / PP flags at a glance.

Behaviour management

Positive and negative incidents on one screen, timestamped to teacher and lesson, with warning rules that escalate to the right pastoral lead automatically.

Seating plans

Drag-and-drop layouts per class with auto-fill, inclusion flags built in, and a tap on any seat to award a point - the same roster a cover teacher sees.

Teaching & learning

Timetabling, teaching classes and cover.

Timetables list showing a live timetable with days per cycle and lesson count
Timetables - build, manage scenarios and publish the live timetable.
Teaching classes list with class name, subject, lead teacher, year and pupil count
Teaching classes - placed on the timetable and used for lesson registers.

Timetabling

Wizard-led creation with conflict detection and scenario planning on a non-live copy, then publish to drive registers and cover.

Cover & resources

Generate and assign cover for absent staff from the live timetable, with bookable shared resources checked against the same plan.

Assessment & exams

Curriculum for Wales tracking through to results day.

Marksheets list using a Curriculum for Wales framework for a registration group
Marksheets - Curriculum for Wales progression, colour-banded columns.
Exam series showing the board and year, with A2C exchange and results embargo
Exams - seasons, components, A2C exchange and results embargo.

Assessment & tracking

Formative and summative marksheets with formula fields and colour-banded grades, built around the Curriculum for Wales.

Exams

Entries and results exchanged with JCQ boards via integrated A2C, plus scheduling, invigilation and role-gated results analysis.

Meals, trips & payments

Wallets, meals, trips and clubs in one place.

A prepay pupil wallet drives daily meal charging, trips and visits with parental consent and instalments, and wraparound clubs with online booking. Free School Meals are handled inline, and outstanding balances surface for the office.

  • Prepay wallet with daily meal charging
  • Trips and visits with consent and instalment plans
  • Breakfast, after-school and enrichment clubs
  • FSM handled inline; payment activity logged
Payments page showing daily meal charging, outstanding purchases and recent payment activity
Payments - meal charging, balances and recent activity.
Communications & engagement

Parents and carers, kept in the loop.

Parent portal showing a parent's children across schools, with option choices and a request-a-change action
Parent portal - children across schools, messaging and data self-update.
Parents' evenings admin page listing an evening with date and open status
Parents' evenings - generate slots and open for self-booking.

Parent & student portals

Timetables, homework, progress, attendance and behaviour, with in-app messaging and parent-initiated data-change requests.

Two-way communications

Integrated Email / SMS / Push for absence notifications, announcements and emergency broadcasts to staff.

Data, reporting & statutory

Statutory returns and a documented data model.

Statutory returns page with CTF and SWAC exports, ATF import and return validation
Statutory returns - CTF / SWAC export, ATF import and validation.
Data dictionary listing entities, fields, columns and types available for extraction and reporting
Data dictionary - the entity-relationship model for extraction.

Statutory compliance

Welsh Government returns, Common Transfer File and ATF pre-admission import, with validation before submission.

Reporting & warehouse

Custom reports and a published data dictionary, with automatic extraction to a central data warehouse for BI.

Local-authority tier

Every school in the authority, on one screen.

Local-authority officers get a cross-school dashboard of pupils, staff, attendance, behaviour and detentions for all schools, groups of schools, or one school - with a one-click hop into any school and a warehouse export. Central configuration templates keep settings consistent across the estate.

  • KPIs across all, groups of, or individual schools
  • Scoped "enter school" support access
  • Authority-wide configuration templates
  • Export to the central data warehouse
Local Authority dashboard listing every school with phase, pupils, teachers, attendance, behaviour events and detentions
Local Authority dashboard - the whole estate's key indicators.
Configuration

Configured per school, branded per school.

Setup hub grouping school, detentions, people, modules, system and content configuration
Setup - one hub for school, people, modules, system and content.
School Settings with branding, Microsoft Entra ID, detention email and module tabs
School Settings - branding, Entra ID SSO, emails and module flags.

Module gating

Every MIS module is enabled or disabled per school - a nursery, a PRU and a large secondary each see only what they use.

Per-school branding

Header banners, email templates and identity are set per school, so parent communications go out under the school's name.

Built for Wales

Welsh-medium and Welsh policy, first-class.

Welsh capability is built in, not bolted on - every screen, every parent communication and every statutory process works in Welsh and English.

Fully bilingual UI & output

The entire interface and all public-facing output run in Welsh and English, with no machine translation - users switch language at any time.

Wales safeguarding alignment

Aligned to the Wales Safeguarding Procedures and Welsh Government Keeping Learners Safe guidance, with DSL-only, audit-logged access.

Curriculum for Wales

Assessment and tracking built around the Curriculum for Wales progression steps, with colour-banded marksheets.

Welsh Government statutory returns

Welsh Government data returns, Common Transfer File and ATF pre-admission import, with validation before submission.

ALNET (Wales) IDPs

Individual Development Plans, provisions and reviews aligned to the ALN and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act.

Hwb integration

Account-provisioning extract and Hwb single sign-on for Welsh schools.

Platform, security & governance

Built for a compliance team.

Multi-tenancy

Strict per-school data isolation; every query is school-scoped and tested for cross-school leakage.

MFA & network trust

MFA enforced on untrusted networks, trusted-network allow-listing and 4G-capable mobile access.

Bilingual Welsh / English

Full i18n across the UI and public-facing output - no machine translation.

Audit trail

Logins, sensitive reads, modifications and deletions all recorded with user and school.

GDPR & data lifecycle

Retention policies, automated secure deletion, archiving and SAR / rectification / erasure.

Data validation

Format, range, mandatory, uniqueness, lookup and logical checks at entry and on import.

Microsoft Entra SSO

Staff sign in with their existing school Microsoft accounts.

Test / training environments

Replica environments, overnight-resettable, for training and safe trials.

Online help

In-product, self-serve help and documentation for staff.

On the roadmap

The modules above are built and demonstrable today. A small number of items are in progress and listed here so the built / not-built line stays honest.

  • WCAG accessibility - conformance work in progress across the UI
  • Scale hardening - background-job processing for first-time bulk MIS sync of the largest schools

See it on a full local authority.

We can show you the whole platform - nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU, bilingual throughout - and walk your team through every module.

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