For Australian primary principals and assistant principals running the operational week
Plan part-timers, APT, meetings, cover, yard duty and wet-day for your primary school in one workspace. Set up in 30 minutes. Re-solve in under two.
Teacher view
Mrs Bennett · 3B · Term 2 · Week 4
School approval
Bell Path is intentionally narrow: solve the operational planning problems it owns, keep unnecessary data out, and give primary schools printable review material before live data goes in.
Bell Path sits beside Department-provided tools as a timetable, APT, cover, duty, and operational-planning workspace. It is not trying to replace Compass, CASES21, eduPay, email, or learning platforms.
The school approval pack summarises data categories, subprocessors, ST4S readiness posture, public-link limits, support pathways, and residual risks for local review.
Core timetabling does not need student names. Where Education Support uses named records, initials mode and privacy prompts help reduce what is visible on screen or printouts.
Why schools switch
Bell Path is not chasing clever. It is trying to help your school publish something solid, fair, and calm enough that timetable season stops following the leadership team home — and the rest of the year settles down with it.
Capture your school's hidden agreements, staff patterns, and rules up front, so the work shifts from firefighting to refinement.
Bell Path validates the output so you can walk into staff conversations with something you can explain clearly, not explain away.
Timetable generation, daily cover, yard duty, and wet day planning stay connected, instead of living across PDFs, side notes, and memory.
Your first setup
Once your staff, classes, rooms, meetings, and hidden agreements are in, Bell Path carries that structure forward. Later changes are small two-minute tweaks, not a fresh timetable rebuild.
Add your classroom teachers, specialist teachers, classes, rooms, meetings, and the hidden agreements that make the week work. Bell Path keeps that structure for every timetable after this.
| Bennett | CT 3B | Mon–Fri |
| Chen | LOTE | Tue · Thu |
| Patel | Music | Wed · Fri |
Under two minutes to solve. Then review the teacher, class, and room views with validation and conflict visibility — the hidden clashes surface here, not after publish.
Change a staff member, room, meeting, or constraint and regenerate from what Bell Path already knows about your school. No daily rejigging.
Patel moved to Thursdays
Affected: 8 sessions · 4 classes
De-identified school outcomes
Three de-identified Bell Path planning stories based on workflow patterns school leaders actually chase: fewer revision loops, clearer staff confidence, a calmer operational week.
~450 students · outer-suburban Victorian primary
Planner takeawayFor the first time, I wasn’t stitching four drafts together to feel safe. There was one version, and I could actually explain it.
~380 students · growing outer-suburban primary
Planner takeawayI walked into the first staff meeting of term feeling prepared, not bracing for questions. That hasn’t happened in years.
~520 students · primary school running cover + duty + timetable
Planner takeawayDaily cover used to mean three tabs and a guess before 8am. Now it’s one screen and a sheet I can print.
Bell Path platform
Timetable generation is the spine. The rest of Bell Path — daily cover, yard duty, the operations calendar, event timetables, education support, and the staff portal — keeps the operational week from collapsing back into side spreadsheets, favours, and version emails.
Handle classroom teachers, specialist teachers, part-timers, job-shares, APT, meetings, room rules, and publish-ready teacher and class views from one source of truth.
Track fairness across the year and keep duty planning tied to the same staff context as the timetable.
Turn a same-morning absence into a calmer cover plan without reopening the whole week in spreadsheets.
Move from outdoor duty to indoor supervision quickly with linked room assignments and handovers staff can follow.
Operational layer
Everything below shares the same staff list, classes, and validation as the weekly timetable — so the operational week talks to itself.
Dashboard · operating rhythm
Bell Path's dashboard shows current timetable status, the next recommended step, today's cover and yard duty state, the staff review status, and the fallback-pack proof summary — all in one place, with quick links into every module.
Dashboard
Term 2 · Week 6 · Tuesday
Athletics days, learning festivals, science nights, swimming carnivals. Lay out 4–8 station rotations for any group of classes — using the same staff and class context as your weekly timetable — with warnings when a station collides with a specialist or breaks classroom-teacher availability.
Athletics morning
Year 3/4 · Term 2 · Week 6
| Group | 9:00 | 9:15 | 9:30 | 9:45 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3A | Tag relay | Long jump | Sprint | Dance |
| 3B | Long jump | Sprint | Dance | Tag relay |
| 4A | Sprint | Dance | Tag relay | Long jump |
| 4B | Dance | Tag relay | Long jump | Sprint |
Built from school-leader feedback
Bell Path is not a principal tool bolted onto an assistant principal tool. It is one workspace where the operational week and the strategic calls live side by side — costing the staffing model, accounting for funded support, crediting the staff who give up lunches, and onboarding the next leader without waiting on the founder.
Add staff salaries behind a Principal-only tab and run "what-if" staffing models — an extra APT for your Learning Specialist, a CT2 hire, a job-share split — and see the SRP shape of each scenario before you offer the role.
Funded minutes per student, ES staff blocks, and named-student records sit in their own privacy-controlled workspace — so funded supervision is auditable beside the rest of the operational week.
Garden club, interschool sport, and lunchtime clubs now count as duty-equivalent activities — the staff giving up a lunch get credited beside the staff covering a yard area, in the same load history.
A walkthrough video for every module — school setup, staff, subjects, generation, cover, duty, costs, and ES — plus a read-only Staff Portal so each teacher sees only their own published views.
These four additions came from a former primary-school assistant principal who ran daily organisation for a 650-student school, then went back to working principals to be sanity-checked — not from a feature backlog.
Pricing
The first 20 schools join a controlled rollout with closer support, direct feedback loops, and a clear role in shaping the product before standard pricing scales by verified school size.
Founding school access · first 20 schools
AUD · GST at checkout
After the founder cohort, standard pricing scales with verified school size — from $679 to $12,599 per year. See every tier.
School stories
De-identified Bell Path planning work. Names and identifying details are kept private; the pressures and trade-offs are real.
Three job-share pairs, one dual-role specialist, and a timetable the team could finally publish with confidence.
A Victorian primary school moved from spreadsheet coordination and hidden staffing risk to one shared version the team could review and publish with far more confidence.
Read storyThe planner did not need another hero effort. She needed a timetable process she could defend before term started.
An assistant principal moved from repeated evening rebuilds and Sunday-night second-guessing to a calmer timetable process she could defend before term started.
Read storyThe real win was not just the timetable. It was keeping daily cover, yard duty, and wet day response in the same workspace.
A primary school kept timetable generation, daily cover, yard duty, and wet day response in one workspace so the morning scramble became less fragmented and easier to run.
Read storyReady when you are
Bell Path helps assistant principals and principals move from spreadsheet stress to a calmer, fairer, more explainable planning workflow.
