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Education & training · Private schools & nurseries

Bell, register, bursar — same record.

UK private schools and nurseries — iSAMS, Engage, Bromcom — admissions, timetable, billing, safeguarding, ISI and Ofsted-ready, on one stack.

100-2000 pupils · prep · senior
ISA · ISC member schools
Registrar admin / week
Bell to bursar, joined
Private schools 100-2000 pupils · prep · seniorDay & boarding ISA · ISC member schools−10 hrs Registrar admin / week1 record Bell to bursar, joined
The private schools & nurseries stack

Six instruments, calibrated.

Admissions, timetable, billing, safeguarding for UK private schools and nurseries — iSAMS, Engage, Bromcom — ISI/Ofsted-ready by design.

01 · Admissions intake

Enquiry to acceptance, one surface.

Online enquiry, document upload, deposit, offer letter, parent acknowledgement — written back to iSAMS so the registrar stops re-keying between a website form, a spreadsheet, and the MIS.

  • Branded enquiry & application
  • Document upload (passport, reports)
  • Deposit via Stripe / GoCardless
  • Custom + iSAMS write-back
02 · Timetable + register

The roll that updates itself.

Live class roll across rooms and sites, parent notifications on absence, late-mark and unauthorised-absence triggers — pulling from iSAMS and pushing to ParentMail in one motion.

  • Live roll across rooms
  • Parent-app absence alerts
  • Late-mark + unauthorised flags
  • iSAMS API + ParentMail
03 · Termly invoicing & bursaries

The fee run that does not break.

Termly invoicing, sibling discounts, bursary adjustments, scholarship handling, direct-debit runs — handled in the same place the register lives, exported clean to the bursar's ledger.

  • Termly invoice runs
  • Sibling + bursary adjustments
  • GoCardless / Stripe DD
  • Bursar export (Xero, Sage)
04 · Reports & assessment

Term reports the night before, not the week before.

Teacher comments collected in-line, formatted, signed off by the head, released to the parent portal on schedule. Year-on-year trend reports for SLT, not after a frantic Easter weekend.

  • Teacher-comment workflow
  • Assessment tracker
  • Parent-portal release + read receipts
  • SLT trend dashboards
05 · ISI/Ofsted compliance

Single Central Record, always current.

DBS records, right-to-work, qualification checks, policy review-dates — the SCR maintained continuously, evidence indexed against ISI and Ofsted frameworks. The folder the inspector asks for, ready.

  • Single Central Record automation
  • Policy review-cycle tracking
  • GDPR DSAR workflow
  • ISI / Ofsted evidence library
06 · BrainBase

School handbook, SOPs, parent comms — searchable.

Staff handbook, supplier directory, tone-of-voice templates, parent-comms patterns — indexed, searchable, exportable, owned by the school. The folder of PDFs nobody opened, replaced.

  • Staff handbook + SOPs
  • Supplier & contractor directory
  • Parent-comms templates
  • Searchable + exportable
Sample engagement

The 240-pupil prep school that cut admissions admin from 14 to 4 hours a week.

240 pupils. iSAMS for records, ParentMail for comms, Excel for admissions, Word for offer letters.

A 240-pupil prep school ran admissions across an enquiry form on the website, an Excel pipeline updated by hand, offer letters in Word, and deposits chased by phone. The registrar spent 14 hours a week on intake. Three-week build: a single admissions surface that wrote back to iSAMS, captured deposits via Stripe, generated offer letters from a template, and posted parent comms through ParentMail. Six months in: admissions admin dropped from 14 to 4 weekly hours, offer-to-acceptance time shortened by nine days, and the registrar started taking lunch.

How we measure: Registrar time logged in a shared diary across weeks 1, 4, 12, 24; offer-to-acceptance interval drawn from the iSAMS application timestamp vs deposit-cleared timestamp (n = 86 applications); cohort matched against the prior year's intake window.

14 → 4weekly admin hours
−9 daysoffer-to-acceptance
1 stackiSAMS + ParentMail integrated
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Map the term.

Bring the term plan, the parent list, the supplier file, last term's invoice run. We come prepared.