School management system

The whole school, run from one place

Perch brings the office, the classroom and families onto one record per child, with the admin a school needs underneath: staff, permissions, data protection and statutory returns.

Roles and permissions in Perch, module by module

Staff and the single central record

Every member of staff, supply teacher, volunteer and governor, with their checks, training and gaps flagged before an inspector finds them. Pay stays with HR and the bursar only.

  • KCSIE checks per category
  • Training expiry reminders
  • Appraisals and staff absence with cover

Your roles, your rules

Build your own roles module by module, and staff only see the children they need to: the classes they teach, the clubs they run, the teams they coach.

  • Need-to-know access built in
  • Microsoft 365 and Google sign-in for staff
  • Every change logged

Data protection and statutory returns

Subject access requests, erasure and retention rules built in, census returns worked out from your own data, and pupils, families and the timetable brought in from your MIS through Wonde.

  • UK GDPR request log, export and erasure
  • School Census, Early Years Census and SLASC
  • Common transfer files in and out

Questions

Does Perch replace our MIS?

It can work alongside your MIS, bringing data in through Wonde, and covers much of what an MIS does, including census returns and transfer files.

Where is our data kept?

In the UK and EU. Each school's data is kept apart inside the database itself, and the school stays the data controller.

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