Registers and attendance
A register gets taken in the first two minutes of a lesson, standing up, often on a phone, by somebody who would rather be teaching. Everything here follows from that.
Two taps per child: present, absent, or late with the minutes. A full class is marked in under a minute. It runs in the phone browser, so there is nothing to install and no separate teacher app whose password nobody remembers. Last week's register is already saved when you arrive this week.
Allergy and medical flags sit on the register itself, next to the child's name, at the moment the register is taken. Not in a folder in the office, and not on a page a teacher has to remember to go and look at — because a warning nobody sees is not a warning.
Absences come in from parents rather than by phone call. A parent says which child, whether they are away or arriving late, and which day or run of days. It goes to the office first, and only once the office approves does the register show it — a parent never writes a register row themselves. The reason the family gave stays with the office unless the Maktab chooses to share it with teachers.
Across a year, the useful question is not the attendance percentage but who is drifting. A child moving from occasional absence towards habitual absence is a visible pattern here long before it becomes a difficult conversation.
What that gives you
The two-tap register
Present, absent, minutes late: the whole class marked in under a minute.
Two taps per child: present, absent, or late with the minutes. A full class is marked in under a minute, in the phone browser, with nothing to install and no separate teacher app to remember the password for. Last week's register is already saved when you arrive this week. Allergy and medical flags sit on the register itself, so the information is in front of the person who needs it at the moment they need it.
Medical flags in class
The allergy warning sits on your register, not in a folder in the office.
The allergy warning is on your register, next to the child's name, at the moment you take it. Additional needs and conditions the Maktab has recorded are visible for the children in your own classes and no others. It is deliberately not something you have to remember to go and look up.
Telling them your child is away
Say it in the app instead of ringing round: which child, which days, away or arriving late.
Tell the Maktab your child will be away without ringing round: which child, away or arriving late, which day or run of days. Two taps for the usual case. It goes to the office first, and only once they approve does the register show it — a parent never marks a register themselves. The reason you give stays with the office unless the Maktab chooses to show it to teachers.
Attendance across the year
Every class, every week, and who is drifting towards absence before it becomes a habit.
Attendance for every class across the whole year, and — more usefully — who is drifting. A child moving from occasional absence towards habitual absence is visible as a pattern long before it becomes a conversation nobody wants to have. You can look at one class, one child, or the whole Maktab, and the underlying registers are one click away.
Health and welfare flags
Allergies, conditions, emergency contacts: surfaced to the right person at the right moment.
Allergies, medical conditions, additional needs such as an EHCP, and emergency contacts, held once and surfaced where they matter. The allergy warning appears on the teacher's register, not in a folder in the office, because a warning nobody sees is not a warning. Consent for emergency treatment and for paracetamol is recorded explicitly rather than assumed. Who can see this is controlled by the Maktab's own roles.
Whole-school dashboard
Live attendance, money in and out, overdue level tests, and who is waiting to enrol: on one screen.
The first screen a leader sees each morning. Today's attendance as it comes in, money received and money outstanding, level tests that have gone past their due date, and the families waiting to be enrolled. Each figure is a link into the thing it counts, so noticing a problem and acting on it are the same gesture rather than two. It is built for the question a head teacher actually asks — is anything wrong today — rather than as a wall of charts to be admired and then ignored.
Students on a map
Where your families travel from, handy when planning classes, pickups and a second site.
Where your families actually travel from, plotted from their postcodes. It answers practical questions: whether a second site would help, where a pickup route makes sense, which streets are already well served. Only postcodes are used to place the pins, and the map is available to leaders rather than to staff generally.
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Where should we point you?
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