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The form that never comes back in the bag.

In-year admissions, residential trips, medical updates, staff files. Each is a list that goes to a named person and comes back with a date on it. Parents finish on a phone, and the office sees who has not.

Register · staff and admissions
  • MHMiss H Oakleystaff, starts 2 January2 awaiting
  • YFYusuf familyadmission, Year 31 overdue
  • MDMr D Ashworthstaff, in postEverything in
The list

What the office chases every term

The School admission (in-year) template is built in. A residential trip and a staff file are two more you build once from the same kinds of question. Start any of them for one person or for a whole year group.

Ava ThompsonYear 68 of 10 back
  • Admission
  • UploadProof of addressNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 3 daysComplete
  • UploadProof of agebirth certificateNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 5 daysComplete
  • QuestionPrevious schooland records heldNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 7 daysReady to check
  • FormMedical needsand care plansNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 9 daysComplete
  • QuestionHome languagesand any EAL supportNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 11 daysAwaiting reply
  • Consents and the trip
  • FormPhoto consentsand onlineNTNia ThompsonMrs HarttomorrowComplete
  • FormTrip consentNormandyNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 3 daysReady to check
  • UploadPassportand its expiryNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 5 days1 file sent
  • QuestionContact abroadwhile awayNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 7 daysReminder sent
  • FormDiet and allergiesfor the tripNTNia ThompsonMrs Hartin 9 daysComplete

An illustration. The names are made up.

The book bag

A slip in a bag cannot chase itself

It goes home on Monday and comes back when it comes back, if it does. Nobody knows which eleven are missing until someone counts the tray.

The book bag wayA typical reply slip, not a Docsroom screen.
The Docsroom wayOne link per parent, finished on a phone.

An illustration. The names are made up.

How it works

What happens to a form

Medical answers reach the right staff

Conditions, medication and care plans are there in full for the staff who need them. Give each colleague every family, the families you choose, or only the requests allocated to them.

A whole year group at once

Pick the template and tick the pupils. Up to two hundred packs are drafted in one action, one per child, and you name the parent on each before it goes.

You can see who has not

The board shows outstanding by pupil. The reminder goes only to the parents still owing something, and stops for each one as they finish.

The pictures are illustrations. The names are made up.

Consent that can be withdrawn

A parent can go back and change a consent while the request is open, and the change is dated. Once the office has checked it off, the parent asks and you reopen it. That is a better record than a signature on a form in a filing cabinet, and it is what a parent will ask you for.

  • Every answer carries who and when
  • Changeable while it is open
  • Changes dated, answers as CSV
Consents for Amira · as the office sees them
  • DecisionPhotos on the websiteyes, now noChanged
  • DecisionLocal trips on footyesGiven
  • DecisionParacetamolnoRefused

The staff side, in the same place

A staff file is the same idea pointed inwards: DBS number and date, right to work, qualifications, references, safeguarding training. One list per member of staff, with what is missing visible.

HOMiss H Oakley · starts 2 January2 of 5 back3 of 5 back
  • UploadDBS certificatenumber recordedComplete
  • UploadSecond referenceBramcote AcademyReminder sent
  • FormFitness to teacha declarationReady to check

What this is not

Docsroom is not a management information system. It does not hold attendance, assessment or timetabling, and it does not replace your SIMS, Arbor or Bromcom. It sits in front of them: it is how the information gets out of parents and staff and into a form you can export, rather than a stack of paper on the office counter.

Send the next trip consent as a list.

Free for 14 days, no card.