Parent Apps
St Bart’s regularly uses a number of applications to facilitate administration for parents & carers.
We recommend that where possible all parents & carers download and sign in to these applications – either via your phone or home computer. If you have any concerns about doing so, or are unable to access these for any reason please do contact your student’s House office.
ParentPay
ParentPay is the method of making payments to school and a convenient way for parents/carers to top-up catering balances and /or pay for trips and activities using a credit/debit card online.
To access ParentPay, please log in to ParentPay (log in and passwords supplied by the school). If you have not received, or have lost your ParentPay school Introductory letter, including details of how to set-up your account, please contact the school’s Finance Office.
You can also use this guide to set up ParentPay Alerts (link to document)
To purchase items from the School Shop (revision guides, art supplies, calculators etc) or for Exams: Access to Scripts and Exams: Review of Marking, please visit the ParentPay Shop.
For adhoc payments (e.g. external exam candidates, lost library books, printed resources material, and letting deposits); please visit ParentPay adhoc payments page. Please only use this link if you have been instructed to do so by the relevant department.
Arbor Parent Portal
Arbor is our school’s Data Management System, it allows us to work more efficiently in many different areas of school life, as well as monitor behaviour and attendance, and log those all-important house points! Arbor also allows parents (Primary Guardians) direct access to their students’ records via the Parent Portal.
Who has access to the Arbor Parent Portal?
Access to the Parent Portal is only possible for Primary Guardians of a student, i.e. for those with parental responsibility who have provided an email address, who have not previously opted out of all school communications and where no court orders restrict a parent’s involvement with a student.
How do I log into the Arbor Parent Portal?
- Go to https://st-bartholomews-school.uk.arbor.sc/
- Click on First time logging in
- Enter the email address that you normally receive school correspondence on.
- You will receive an email asking you to set a password. Your password must be at least 8 characters, and include uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers.
- Once you have set your password, the system will log you in.
- You will be prompted to accept Arbor’s MIS Terms of Use. If you do not agree, you will not be able to use the Parent Portal.
- You will then be prompted to enter the date of birth of one of your children; this is in the format dd/mm/yyyy. This can be any student currently at St Bart’s if you have more than one child here.
- When you first log in you will land on a Homepage for the child whose Date of Birth you entered.
- To navigate to your other children at the school, there is a drop down menu at the top left of the screen, below Quick Actions. You can select another child from this drop down menu. You will be prompted to enter their Date of Birth as a security measure the first time you access them.
What information can I view in the Arbor Parent Portal?
The Home Page contains basic summary information, including:
Attendance: this shows a student’s attendance in previous academic years, the Year to Date, and past 4 weeks.
House Points: this includes the number of House Points awarded from Spring Term 2025 and going forward.
Negative Behaviour Incidents: this includes the date on which the incident took place and the category of behaviour it was recorded under.
Activities: this includes information and key communications on any School Trips that your child is currently enrolled for. Please note currently consent for trips and payments for trips are still managed via ParentPay, therefore on the Parent Portal the price of trips will show as free as any payments should be made through ParentPay.
Student Profile: this shows the information we hold on file about your child, including contact information, key demographic information, dietary requirements, previous schools, medical information, and consents. You may submit corrections to any of this data, which will be checked by the school before it is reflected on the Parent Portal.
Please note:
- You cannot view any information about other guardians/contacts or amend your child’s legal name or date of birth, if you need to submit corrections or updates to these records please contact your student’s House Office/Sixth Form Office.
- You should only record dietary requirements for medical or religious reasons.
Calendar: this shows your child’s timetable for that day. If you click on tCalendar, you will be shown your child’s timetable for the week. The default view shows our internal class code information, however if you hover over a lesson it will show the name of the subject and teacher. The Calendar will also show trip information or detentions if applicable.
Examinations: this includes information about student Examinations, including internal exams, Statements of Entry and Exam Timetables.
Report Cards: this will show your child’s academic reports which the school publishes at intervals during the year. Please note that only reports published since the introduction of Arbor in Spring 2025 will be visible.
Please note that the school does not currently use the following functions on the Arbor Parent Portal:
- Guardian Consultations (instead we use Parent Evening System)
- School Shop (instead we use ParentPay)
Is there an Arbor Parent Portal App?
The Parent Portal App provides access to the information via a Smartphone. Further information about this is available at the Arbor Help Centre.
Where can I find help with the Arbor Parent Portal?
Other useful help articles can be found on the Arbor Help Centre: Students and Guardians.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need any assistance, after following the guidance, please contact the school.
Satchel:One
All students are required to do homework and this will be set by teachers using the Satchel:One software. Parents will receive log-ins to allow them to see the full details of the work set for their own child and whether it is still due or completed. Students have their own individual log-ins.
Parents’ Evening
Our Parents’ Evening system is an easy to use online appointment booking system that allows our parents and carers to book their own appointments with teachers. We will inform parents and carers when appointments for Parents’ Evening open for booking. Appointments will be limited and assigned on a first come, first served basis.
A user account is automatically created for parents & carers with priority 1 on our system, however both parents are able to attend appointments. Priority 1 parents can log in using their full name and email address as well as their child’s full name and date of birth.
