Education support software
Turn support minutes into a weekly Education Support timetable.
Bell Path builds the Education Support timetable next to your class timetable, so each student’s support minutes, each aide’s hours and the classes they work in line up every week without typing anything twice.
You set the school timetable up first, because ES staff, classes and support minutes all connect to it.
Priya
Aide · 0.8
Jack
Aide · full time
Bonnie
Aide · 0.6
Sample roster · Bonnie is part time and finishes at 1:00
Target minutes and scheduled minutes.
Each student has a weekly target. Bell Path shows how many of those minutes are scheduled with a staff member in a real session, and flags any shortfall before you publish.
- Target and scheduled
- Side by side
- Student names
- Initials by default
- Plan to publish
- One page
- Handover
Support minutes this week
Sample students · for illustration
- A.H.
Literacy · 1:1
Year 1
10 hr−20 min97% scheduled
- M.K.
Numeracy · small group
Year 3
7h 30m–100% scheduled
- J.O.
Speech · in-class
Prep
12h 30m−1 hr92% scheduled
- R.D.
Regulation · check-in
Year 5
5 hr–100% scheduled
- T.B.
Reading · paired
Year 2
8h 20m−40 min92% scheduled
You have a folder of funding letters, a class timetable that keeps changing, and a plan due on Monday.
Education Support planning starts with funding letters, then has to fit around staff timetables and the needs of individual students. The minutes are promised early in the year, but the weekly plan usually gets built late, on a printed grid or in a spreadsheet only the Learning Support Coordinator fully understands.
Bell Path keeps the Education Support timetable next to the class timetable and the hours each aide works. Support minutes turn into a weekly plan faster, nothing is typed twice, and the handover is clear.
Where a spreadsheet plan goes wrong.
When the Education Support week lives in a spreadsheet, the same information has to be typed into one document after another.
One week's support plan is spread across four documents.
Funding letter
Kept in a different file
ES timetable
Built in a spreadsheet
Printed handover
Full names on paper
Same-morning cover
Everything is opened again
Bell Path keeps all four in one place, so one edit updates the plan, the handover and the cover sheet at the same time.
Problems with the spreadsheet plan.
Support minutes sit in one document and the ES timetable is built in another, so a student who is short on minutes, or an aide who is double-booked, is only noticed late.
Student support details are sensitive, but the working copy is often a print-out passed between adults with full names on it.
When an aide is away, the planner reopens the whole spreadsheet to work out who can cover which student, in which session, in which room.
What Bell Path does for Education Support.
What it does
- A support minutes target for each student, compared with what is scheduled that week
- A weekly grid of ES staff, linked to the class timetable
- A first draft built from the support minutes, which the coordinator then adjusts
- An initials mode that hides student names on the grid and on printed handovers
- Checks on each aide’s hours and availability before you publish, then a PDF handover
- Each aide’s own day on their phone from a link, with no login needed
- An existing ES roster brought in from the document you already have, then checked before it is used
Why schools choose Bell Path
- Students, classes and staff are already in Bell Path from the timetable, so the ES plan starts from real data instead of a blank grid
- Target minutes and scheduled minutes sit side by side, so a shortfall is obvious
- Initials mode and the sharing check are part of the page, so nobody has to remember them at print time
- Daily cover sees the same plan, so an absent aide does not quietly break the rest of the week
Show student initials or full names.
Try the switch. Initials mode is the version staff carry between rooms. Named mode asks you to confirm who will see it first. The switch sits on the page itself.
- Default
Initials mode is on for the grid, the summaries and every export.
- Audience
Before anything prints, Bell Path asks who it is for, and full names need an extra tick while handover checks are still open.
- Print
PDFs print in whichever mode is on. A handover never switches back to full names on its own.
Who will see this
- 01
A.H.
Year 1 · literacy 1:1 · 2h × 5 days
- 02
M.K.
Year 3 · numeracy small group · 1h 30m × 3 days
- 03
J.O.
Prep · speech in class · 2h 30m × 5 days
FAQ
Questions schools ask before they start.
Does Bell Path track support minutes per student?
Yes. Each student has a target of support minutes per week. The Education Support timetable shows how many minutes are scheduled against that target, so a shortfall or an overrun is visible before you publish.
Are student names protected?
Yes. Initials mode shows students as initials on the grid, in summaries and on printed handovers. Before you print or share anything with full names, Bell Path asks you to confirm who it is for.
Can Bell Path generate a draft Education Support plan from support minutes?
Yes. Bell Path turns the support minute targets into a first weekly draft. The Learning Support Coordinator adjusts it before publishing.
How does Education Support connect to the rest of the school week?
Education Support sits beside the class timetable and daily cover. Aide hours, class lists and same-morning changes stay in one place instead of being typed again somewhere else.
Publish a timetable you can trust.
Setting up your school and previewing part of its timetable is free. A subscription unlocks the full week, sharing and downloads.
You set the school timetable up first, because ES staff, classes and support minutes all connect to it.