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.