Today
What needs doing first, for each child. When there is nothing due it says so, which is what makes parents keep checking it.
Product
Everything Pupil Gate does today.
This is the shipped list, not a roadmap. Cases, gate capture and the AI features are behind later gates and are marked as such. Payments run on the school’s own collector, and the safety features are in every paid tier.
For parents
One screen with everything about their child.
Parents open the app and see what needs reading, signing, booking, packing or paying for. Two children in different year groups, or at two schools in the same trust, sit behind the same login.
Letters and notices
Read and acknowledge in the app, with an email copy and a push alert when the school marks something urgent.
Consent and forms
Trip consent, media permission, a quick yes or no. Each child is answered separately and a parent can withdraw their own answer.
Trips
Destination, times, itinerary, cost and the consent form in one place, instead of a letter that refers to another letter.
Parents’ evenings
Parents pick their own slot. A booking belongs to the adult who made it and is not visible to the other household.
Report an absence
Child, first day off, morning or all day, and the reason. It arrives in the office queue rather than a voicemail nobody plays back.
What is left to pay
Trips, clubs, meals and shop items in one running list, with the school’s own payment method attached to each charge.
School life
Clubs, fixtures, dinner balance, homework, who is approved to collect, and the attendance the school has chosen to share.
The school’s other apps
Tiles for Satchel, the caterer, the music service, whatever you run, with website and store links. No more digging through old emails for the address.
For the office
The side parents never see.
Sending is the easy part. The work is knowing who received it, who has not replied and who was left out on purpose.
Compose and send
Pick the class of message, preview exactly who will and will not receive it, then send to the app, email and print in one go.
One office queue
Absence reports, payment questions and general enquiries arrive as threads with an owner, a due date and a status.
Forms and returns
Build a consent or acknowledgement request, watch the grid fill in, and chase only the families who have not answered.
Contact restrictions
Block a named adult in half a minute with the staff reason recorded. Releasing a block is the safeguarding lead’s decision.
Import from your MIS
CSV import with a dry run, a quarantine for mass changes, and a list of pupils whose contact restriction data is missing.
Invites
Invite parents in waves. A link is redeemed once, after sign-in, so a mail scanner opening it cannot activate an account.
Payments admin
Raise a charge against a named adult, confirm bank transfers, set instalments, apply a bursary and list shop items.
Print packs
Families without email get the same letter on paper, packed from the same send and flagged when it goes out of date.
Analytics and audit
Delivery, suppression, open threads, form returns and logins, with an audit entry behind every staff action.
Three ways in
Parents, the office and the safeguarding lead each get their own view.
They share a school and a set of permissions. They do not share inboxes, bookings or staff notes.
The parent app
Today, letters, forms, trips, evenings, absence, school life and the school’s other apps. Students get their own smaller version with homework and a timetable.
Used by · parents · carers · approved collectors
The office
Compose with an audience preview, work the queue, run the import, manage invites, charges, print packs and parents’ evening slots.
Used by · office staff · administrators
Safeguarding lead
Raise a halt and office copies disappear from ordinary staff. Releasing a restriction on a contact is a DSL decision. This is not a replacement for CPOMS and does not pretend to be.
Used by · DSL · deputy
Give parents one place to look.
Open the demo as a parent, then as the office, and see the same letter from both ends. It is a fictional trust with the real product behind it.
Today at Riverside
Letter sent to4 adults
Left out on purpose1
Forms still open3