Everything SEN School Manager does

Features

Everything a special needs school needs — pupils, attendance, safeguarding, parent messaging and the staff app — in one place. Fill this page with your own screenshots, or leave the built-in feature list below.

📋 Pupils & records

  • A profile for every pupil — UPN, SEN status (EHCP / SEN support) and key details
  • Guardians and family links, with contact preferences
  • Classes and intervention groups
  • Import pupils and guardians from CSV or Excel

📅 Attendance

  • Take registers using the DfE-standard codes
  • Mark from the office or on the staff app
  • Reports and per-user RAG dashboard thresholds
  • Shared write logic, so the app and admin never diverge

🛡️ Safeguarding & events

  • Log incidents and events with categories and follow-ups
  • Safeguarding entries visible only to your DSLs
  • A pupil timeline that pulls it together
  • An audit trail for accountability

💬 Parent messaging

  • Message guardians by SMS or WhatsApp
  • Twilio, a custom webhook, or a free Android-phone gateway
  • Per-guardian channel preferences
  • A guided comms setup wizard

📱 Offline staff app

  • Add-to-home-screen app — no app store needed
  • Log attendance and events even with no signal
  • Syncs automatically when back online
  • Scan or paste a sign-in code; optional PIN lock

🧩 Skills & cover

  • A skills library with multi-level groups
  • A skills matrix to assign staff in one screen
  • Timetabled and recurring weekly sessions
  • A cover wizard with knock-on chains, then notify staff

🧰 Setup & data

  • Import pupils, guardians and staff from a spreadsheet
  • Create WordPress accounts for imported staff, deduped by email
  • Built-in demo data with optional 2-hourly auto-reset
  • Contextual help on every screen

🎫 Support & peace of mind

  • Log bugs, enhancements and questions inside the plugin
  • Track each ticket Open → In progress → Resolved
  • Roles and capabilities, DSL-gated safeguarding
  • Self-hosted — your data stays on your own site

Try all of it in the live demo

A full sample school, ready to click around. No sign-up.