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The hassle-free way to get work done Your guide to Arbor MIS for primary, secondary and special schools

1 in 3schools who switch MIS choose Arbor

“We genuinely love the Arbor system and the team behind it who seem to just want the whole system to succeed at the Lakes. There’s always a bit of heart in the mouth when you instigate such change in a school and I would just like to say a huge thank you to your team, who really have looked after us and who have wholeheartedly helped us confirm that the decision to change to Arbor was the right one.”

Andy CunninghamHeadteacher at The Lakes Secondary School

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to build smarter, hassle-free tools that teachers across the country love to use.

Arbor MIS (Management Information System), our core system, makes life easier for schools of all sizes.

Whether you’re a primary, secondary or special school, working in Arbor means essential daily admin is quicker, your data is more powerful, and day-to-day school management is less stressful for everyone involved.

Schools work betterwhen they work in Arbor

1 in 3 schools who switch MIS choose Arbor

More than 800 schools and 70 MATs have made the switch to our smarter cloud-based MIS, making us the fastest growing provider in England.

Keeping on top of things is a struggle when everything’s in different systems and spreadsheets. Important things get lost.

Work with apps you like,replace the ones you don’t

Arbor can integrate with apps you already love, or you can use our own. We’re the only MIS that lets you do both.

See what’s going on, in real-time, at a glance

Out-of-the-box, easy to use dashboards allow you to instantly see important metrics for your school. Less time on workarounds means more time focusing on what matters.

Work anywhere

Arbor is 100% cloud-based, so your teams can access what they need anywhere they have an internet connection.

Arbor brings all your student and staff information together so you can easily spot patterns and make sure nothing slips through the cracks.

Schools save

30% on average

One place, not all over the place

on the cost of their systems by using Arbor

“I love Arbor - it is making my life so much easier andis saving me so much time! Assessments are so mucheasier and are so clear!”

Zoe Richards Headteacher at Wollaston Primary School

We’re as committed as you are to reducing the overhead of admin in schools.

With Arbor, daily jobs like chasing absent students and following up on incidents are simple and painless - and take far less time.

Log both positive and negative behavior and instantly see patterns.

Arbor automatically captures things like timestamps, helping you to better understand spikes for different children. For example, do they get agitated around lunchtime, or just before going home?

Say hello to lightning fast digital registers, one of our most popular features. You can capture attendance from lessons, clubs, trips and detentions, student by student or in bulk.

Recording BehaviourTaking attendance

Schools change forthe better when they work in Arbor

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Communicate with parents and staff quickly and easily from one place. Use SMS, email or send a letter. Because it’s all in Arbor, information is always up-to-date.

To save time, you can also tell Arbor to trigger communications automatically. For example, sending an automatic follow up email to parents if a child is absent.

Communication

Take the stress out of daily admin

4 out of 5 Arbor users say we help improve school performance

3 out of 4 Arbor users say we save them time performance

Putting it all together

Bring your school’s data together instantly in easy visual dashboards everyone can understand, from senior leadersand office managers, to teachers and parents.

Create reports painlessly

Build custom reports in minutes. Share them automatically on a schedule. Give stakeholders what they need without them having to ask!

Arbor Insight included as standard

Arbor Insight is our industry-leading benchmarking tool for every school and MAT in the country.

Quickly see your school’s performance on all your key measures from the DfE - including comparisons with similar, national, local and top quintile schools - in easy to read reports you can share with the whole team.

See where to focus

Arbor has automatic benchmarking built-in, so you can see areas that need more help, or successes you should celebrate!

Understand what’smaking a difference

Drill down on any measure - including Key Stage, year, class and demographic measures - to understand what’s driving performance overall.

Give everyone the data they need to make great decisions

We’ve been working with schools across the country to fix your biggest pain pointswith legacy systems, while building new features to make life easier.

Fully compliant exam managementManage timetabling, seating and results collection in one place

Interventions TrackingGet instant insight into the effectiveness of your interventions over time

Consistent Behaviour ManagementSet up your behaviour policy in Arbor and manage escalations automatically, so it’s consistent across your school

TimetablingFully functional TimeTabler add-on

Staff CoverAutomatic messaging, scheduling and management

Flexible Assessments Create assessment frameworks that fit your students’ unique needs

SafeguardingSecurely permissioned access to child protection data

Student ProfileSee holistic information about a child all in one place, including notes, behaviour and comms

Personalised behaviour recordingand escalationRecord, reward and report on behaviour in a way that suits your students

Intuitive DashboardsGet simple, at-a-glance overviews of key performance measures

Lightning-fast digital registers No more paper!

Report BuilderBuild reports using any data point in Arbor. Schedule them to run daily, weekly, or termly

Easy AssessmentsTrack your pupils’ formative progress through school

Secondary schools love

Special schools lovePrimary schools love

Features to make life easier

The first word that comes to mind is ‘simplicity’. It’s easy to grasp, and new users can quickly work their way around the system’s functions – you don’t feel like you need hours of training, as you do with other systems.

Having parents being able to see things - report cards, timetables, interventions - makes my job that much easier in terms of raising standards. Now they can be involved as stakeholders in getting their kids to work harder.

Julie Smith PA to Headteacher atParkroyal Community School

Suzanne PikeVice Principal at Sir Robert Woodard Academy

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AttendanceLightning-fast digital registers – no more paper!

Admin AutomationAutomatic escalation of tasks and chasing via email and SMS

Arbor AppCommunicate with parentson the go

BehaviourRecord, reward and reporton behaviour

CalendarSchool, staff and student calendars, linked to your mobile

Census made simpleComplete your census quickly and easily without repeated resubmissions

Clubs and TripsEasily schedule activities and link to consents and payments

CommunicationsSend and receive SMS, email and in-app messages

Live link to ExcelLink all your data to Excel via live feed for seamless custom reporting

MealsChoose and manage meals across the school

Parent and Student PortalsLog in to see updates andmake payments

PaymentsOnline and offline paymentsfor meals, clubs and trips

ProgressTrack summative progress

SafeguardingSecurely permissioned accessto child protection data

Staff & HR Keep track of staff absences, appraisals and objectives

SENAssign and report on SEN

TimetablingFully functional TimeTabler add-on

“The biggest win for us is having family information, attendance, behaviour logs, assessment data and interventions all in one place so that we can track an individual or group or cohort easily and produce reports quickly.

Arbor has transformed the way we operate because we now work in real time and update information constantly - the data and information we hold is easy to access and dynamic, allowing teachers and support staff to use the system from anywhere at a time that suits them.”

Tony Berwick Headteacher at Jubilee Wood Primary School

Arbor MIS on-a-page

CoverAutomatic messaging, scheduling and management

Curriculum TrackingTrack your pupils’ formative progress through school

Custom Report BuilderBuild reports using any Arbor data point. Schedule them to run daily, weekly, or termly

DashboardsGet simple, at-a-glance overviews of keyperformance measures

ExamsManage school examsend-to-end

Group/LA Data ReturnsAuto-submit central returns

IntegrationsConnect third-party systems to Arbor

InterventionsAdd interventions and monitor for effectiveness

At Arbor, we’re a diverse and experienced team of ex-teachers, edtech engineers and education specialists passionate about making a difference in the sector.

Our support team is known and loved by schools across the country - often on a first name basis! We’ll work closely with you to make sure Arbor is a huge success at your school.

Measuring our impact

Arbor was set up as a social impact company. This means we monitor our impact to make sure switching to us is worth it, and ultimately leads to improved outcomes for schools.

We’ll make sure Arbor works for you

We’ve helped hundreds of schools make an easy switch

We’re extremely experienced at helping schools migrate at all levels. You give us your old MIS backup file, and we translate that data into Arbor. We’re with you to help throughout.

Expert support from day one

Every Arbor school gets a dedicated contact who’ll get to know you really well. Our specialist teams can advise on all areas of the system, including reporting, data, change management and more.

Comprehensive tools and training

In-person training sessions

Free open webinars

Pre-recorded training videos

Written guides, available in our Help Centre

Everyone learns in different ways, and at Arbor we offer:

We’re proud to meet and exceed all recommended government guidelines on security standards to protect your school

Industry leading data protection and GDPR compliance

Serious about safety

Data encryption using bank-grade 256-bit SSL

We’re ISO 27001 accredited

UK Government G-Cloud list of approved cloud suppliers

Bespoke, role-based access control (RBAC)

Secure logins including two-factor authentication

Full Subject Access Request support

Data retention dashboard to help delete unnecessary data

Automatic flagging of records that have passed the retention period

Group MIS by Arbor brings all your schools together so you can really understand how everyone’s getting on.

Track performance from a distance, communicate with everyone from one central system and give all your schools the tools they need to do their best work.

Chat to us to see how Arbor can transform the way you work with your schools.

See the big picturewith Arbor for MATs

Book a free demo or get in touch to find out more

tellmemore@arbor-education.com

0208 050 1028www.arbor-education.com