Tag: Arbor Community
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Four ways to meet us at BETT
We’re excited to invite you to join us at BETT 2026. Taking place from the 21st – 23rd January at the ExCel Centre, we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on at Arbor. Plus, we’re delighted to be sharing our stand (Stand SJ31) with SAMpeople, TimeTabler, and Arbor Finance, so you can…
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What you missed at ArborFest 2025
Last week, over 1,000 schools joined us in Birmingham and online for our biggest ArborFest to date! The day was packed with talks from Arbor users and sector leaders, roundtables, interactive sessions and networking opportunities – all exploring the theme, “The future of work in schools.” Couldn’t make the event and want to know what…
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Ten things I would do if I were Education Secretary
1. Abolish Ofsted Ofsted drives perverse negative outputs at all levels throughout education and acts as a brake on innovation everywhere. That we’ve still got failing schools thirty-three years after it was formed proves precisely what an expensive, reactive and downstream institution it is. Get rid of it. That won’t happen, of course, because middle class parents…
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What schools and trusts say about Arbor
We’re proud that Arbor is the UK’s most-loved MIS, according to a recent survey by The Key. But why not hear it directly from a handful of the 8,000 schools and trusts using Arbor? This Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing some of the lovely things that members of the Arbor Community think about Arbor. If you’re…
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The Vale of Glamorgan chooses Arbor MIS for their schools
We’re proud to announce today that Vale of Glamorgan has chosen Arbor MIS for its 53 schools! As England’s most popular cloud MIS, we are now ready to implement across all Welsh LAs and are delighted to be supporting schools in the Vale of Glamorgan, our very first Welsh Local Authority. The Vale’s primaries, secondaries…
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New to Arbor MIS? Here’s four top tips to get you started
Whether your school is just about to start using Arbor for the first time, or you’ve been using Arbor for years but need a refresh, here are four key things to remember as we get ready for the next year. – The Arbor Help Centre Arbor is consistently rated as one of the most intuitive…
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Three leaders share how their trusts are saving money during the cost-of-living crisis
The cost-of-living crisis has had a huge impact on schools and trusts. It’s left budgets squeezed and puts even more pressure on schools to divert their resources to where it matters most. While the government gave an additional 2.3 billion to schools in England for each of the next two years (in Dec 2022), the…
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The ArborFest Roundup 2023
Exciting news – we’ve just published our first ever ArborFest round-up! The new ebook is designed to showcase everything that went on at our biggest customer conference to date. Explore the Roundup for free here. But what exactly is ArborFest and why do we have it? At Arbor, we believe that your school Management Information…
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What does a school Attendance Officer do?
Today’s guest blog is from Chelsea Hopkins, Arbor’s Digital Customer Operations Analyst and former Attendance Officer, sharing her experience of working in schools. Everybody who has worked in a school knows that no two days are the same. However, my experience of being an Attendance Officer is that we will tend to have a routine/structure…
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The ArborFest 2023 round-up
We were delighted to recently welcome hundreds of school leaders to King’s Place and via livestream to our biggest in-person customer conference to date! ArborFest 2023 was a day packed with inspiring talks and workshops – all exploring the theme “Transforming the way schools work.” With schools and trusts facing squeezed budgets, the challenge of…
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National Customer Service Week: Hear from our team
We’re proud to take part in National Customer Service Week (NCSW), run by the Institute of Customer Service. NCSW is a week-long celebration of all the great things that teams across the country do in order to make the customer experience as positive as possible. At Arbor, we are committed to making sure schools thrive,…
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“Why my school switched”
We know that deciding to change MIS isn’t just about budget, which is why the Pay-for-One Promise isn’t the only commitment we’ll make to your school. We believe passionately that a good MIS is one which is also committed to transforming the way schools work for the better. So, we asked our schools to tell…
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Creating a joined-up secondary school – our brand new ebook!
Introducing Creating a Joined-Up School, our brand new ebook for secondary school staff. Collaboration is often talked about as one of the key elements of a successful secondary school. But legacy IT systems and processes can make it hard for teams to work together seamlessly. Accessing data is difficult, reporting is complex and over-customisable, and…
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Options for your upcoming 3 year SIMS renewal
I’ve never written a blog about a competitor before – I’m of the belief that you should just let your good work speak for itself. However, last week we became aware through public forums that ESS SIMS and ParentPay have written to schools and will be changing their contracts from an annual renewal to a…
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Back On Track – Fewer Things, Greater Depth with Mary Myatt
We were honoured to welcome education advisor, writer and speaker, Mary Myatt, to give the keynote speech at this term’s ArborFest – our two-day virtual festival exploring innovative ways of working with Arbor MIS. Mary gave a brilliant talk about how schools can carve out time for satisfying work on the curriculum by focusing on…
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Why we’ve partnered with Local Authorities to give schools like you more choice
Local Authority IT teams have been working with schools in new ways over the last few years. Joining forces with cloud-based MIS suppliers, many are now able to give their schools more choice of systems, whilst still providing the local support and advice that schools value. At Arbor, we work with a wide range of…
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The future of Arbor and the MIS market
I feel like we’ve turned a corner in good news after what has been a fairly glum year, and I wanted to share ours to add to it! I’m delighted to announce that we’ve joined forces with The Key Group to help propel Arbor to the next level on our mission to transform the way…