Ideas

In addition to the categories, being able to assign a year group(s) to an event would be great. Parents could then filter the calendar on the Cloud Parent Portal to events that their child(ren) are in. We wouldn't want to do this via categories, l...

Since the introduction of FSMT (targeted) and FSME (expanded) from 1/9/26 it is necessary to be able to distinguish between the two groups. At present they are pulled into School Spider as one large FSM group combining FSMT and FSME together. Scho...

At the moment we add trips as a product but there is no option to add a question i.e what lunch would your child like, how will they be collected at the end of the day? I am having to add a product for the payment and then a survey to gather furth...

Required a report for school dinners to show pupils attended on a specific date and the class they are in and if they are paid dinners or free school meals. We require this information for our catering company.

We use SOCS for music classes and sporting fixtures. It would be great to add a calendar or timetable for viewing only that is synced from SOCS data

It would be good to have a feature in spider where you can record accidents and then send the accident note directly to parents via the app

It would be useful if parents only saw the calendar events that are relevant to their child(ren), and not events at the whole school. We are an Early Years through Sixth Form school and most events are not relevant to everyone. Thanks

We would love to have the old option of uploading an image and then connecting a link from that image. We made most of our website in this style (creating image buttons) and then the new page system arrived and this element was lost. It seems clun...

Is there a way that new parents can have access to School Spider before September so that they can book Wraparound care before their child starts in September? Our After School Club gets full weeks in advance so new parents cannot get onto wraparo...

It would be useful for all tax free childcare money to be uploaded into a single pot so that parents would not end up with small bits of money that they couldn't use. They could then also select all the different types of clubs and book them with ...