Arbor Parent & Guardian Portal

Arbor Education

About this app

Say goodbye to paper slips and emails. Arbor lets you book parent/guardian consultation slots, register your child for a club or trip, and manage payments all from one place. You can also use it to check in on your child's attendance, behavior & academic progress.

Arbor is only for parents at schools using Arbor Management Information System (MIS). If you're not sure whether this applies to you, we recommend contacting your school office.

Use Arbor to:
- Take a look at your child's key attendance information, including their average attendance for the year so far
- Edit contact details for your child such as your home address or phone number
- Register your child for an after-school club
- Register your child for an upcoming school trip
- Take a look at your child's behavior information, including positive & negative behavior points awarded this year
- Manage your child's payment accounts and pay for meals or trips directly
- Track your child's academic progress, including the targets they're working towards this year
- Download report cards
- Book slots at parent/guardian consultations
- See your child's timetable
- Add new medical information about your child
- Check upcoming homework assignments

Having trouble? Please reach out directly to your school office for help.

Ratings and reviews

Both my son's schools have converted to this and it's awful. I'm pretty tech- savvy but tracking homework, behaviour or ordering meals is quite frankly not fit for purpose. It's a huge step back from the previous (different) platforms both schools used. The layout feels like it's something from 10 years ago and it's the least intuitive app I think I've ever used; particularly when its' purpose is so important / essential.

Pretty awful app. Our kids' high school used it to replace several other tools. The worst experience has been booking parents evening appointments, where only a single teacher's appointments are visible at once and it's impossible to edit an appointment once booked due to a conflict between the original and the updated appointments. My wife has had the same problem of being constantly logged out as many others have reported, but that's not happened to me so far, maybe due to biometric login.

App is ok-ish when it works, if a little hard to navigate. I don't know how to switch between students, and because the help page just has a partial screenshot of the student switcher, I can't tell whether I just can't find where that is in the app or it's not there because my second child hasn't been added to my account. And I can't ask or give feedback because they actively tell parents to go away and talk to the school. And they make you change your password literally every time you log in.

What’s new

We’ve done some important behind-the-scenes updates to keep the app running smoothly.