Today, we’re proud to announce that Cardiff, the largest Local Authority in Wales, has chosen Arbor MIS and Arbor Finance for all 128 of its schools. Cardiff’s primary, secondary and special schools will join our community of 9,500 schools and 40 Local Authority Partners.
This follows our announcement earlier this year that the Vale of Glamorgan chose Arbor MIS to support all of its 53 schools. We are delighted to be partnering with Welsh Local Authorities to transform the way their schools work for the better, and couldn’t be more excited to be working with Cardiff.
Here’s what Mel Godfrey, Director of Education and Lifelong Learning at Cardiff Council had to say about why they chose Arbor:
“Partnering with Arbor allows us to bring a modern, flexible and scalable platform to schools of all sizes across Cardiff. Our teachers and school staff do an amazing job, and it’s our responsibility to provide them with the tools they need to make their lives easier and allow them to focus on supporting our children and young people. Working with Arbor will give Cardiff schools the technology, time, and real-time insight they need to free up valuable resources and invest them back into the classroom. It’s a significant step forward in building a modern education system for our capital city.”
Find out more about how Arbor is transforming the way schools work in Wales.
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How Arbor MIS is designed to support schools in Wales
Arbor is consistently rated the best MIS in the UK for its functionality, integrations and intuitiveness – more than 2 in 3 schools who switch choose Arbor. On top of the features that schools in England already know and love, our Welsh MIS includes features specifically tailored for Welsh schools, including:
- Welsh language in the MIS
Schools can communicate with parents in both English and Welsh and coming soon users benefit from a fully translated MIS, Parent portal and Student portal - CTF imports and exports
Giving schools the tools to manage pupils moving between schools with ease - Recording ALN information
Comprehensive reporting and management of pupils with ALN needs - Qualifications in Wales
So schools can coordinate and run all their examinations and results in Arbor - Support for all statutory returns
Enabling users to complete the required Welsh statutory returns in just a few clicks, including Pupil Level Annual School Census, School Workforce Annual Census, Attendance Returns, Post-16 Return - Seamless integration with Hwb
Arbor student and staff accounts are synced automatically with Hwb, so schools can seamlessly access online assessments, their trusted third party tools, and log in to Arbor with Hwb.
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What’s next?
We are thrilled that Cardiff LA has joined our growing community and are looking forward to working with their central team and schools to make a real difference!
