Press and media
Bell Path press kit
Boilerplate, founder story, fast facts, and logos for anyone writing about Bell Path.
- Operator
- Dimitrios James Gregory Hooke ABN 59 429 101 462 trading as Bell Path Timetabling
- Effective date
- 6 May 2026
Boilerplate
Bell Path is timetabling and school-operations software built specifically for Australian primary schools. It plans the master timetable — including part-time teachers, job-shares, specialist rotations, and allocated planning time — then runs the school week from the same workspace: daily cover, yard duty rosters, wet-day plans, event timetables, and a staff portal. Bell Path is founder-led, built in Melbourne, and is being shaped with Victorian pilot schools.
Bell Path complements — it does not replace — school administration systems such as Compass, Sentral, and CASES21.
The founder story
Bell Path was started by James Hooke after watching Australian primary-school leadership teams spend school holidays hand-building timetables in spreadsheets — and then rebuilding them every time a part-timer changed days, a specialist moved, or planning-time entitlements shifted. Secondary-school timetabling tools never fitted the primary problem: planning time released by specialist lessons, job-share pairs, yard duty fairness, and the daily scramble of cover.
The product is deliberately primary-only. That focus — one school type, done properly — is the bet: the operational week of an Australian primary school deserves purpose-built software, not a secondary-school tool with the hard parts turned off.
Fast facts
- Built in Melbourne, Australia; founder-led.
- Focus: Australian primary schools only — not secondary timetabling.
- Covers: master timetable generation, allocated planning time (APT/RFF/NCT/DOTT/NIT), daily cover, yard duty, wet-day plans, event timetables, education support planning, and a staff portal.
- Pilot schools: Victorian primary schools shaping the product today.
- Pricing is published openly, including founding-school pricing.
- Operator: Bell Path Timetabling (ABN 59 429 101 462).
Story angles we can speak to
- Why primary-school timetabling is a different (and harder) problem than secondary.
- The hidden cost of spreadsheet timetabling: leadership weekends, planning-time disputes, and unfair yard duty.
- Constraint-solver technology applied to the school week — what "the timetable is infeasible" really means.
- Building software with pilot schools instead of selling first and building later.
Logos and assets
The logos below are the production Bell Path brand set and may be used in editorial coverage of Bell Path without further permission. Please do not stretch, recolour, or place the colour lockups on low-contrast backgrounds.
Horizontal logo (colour, transparent)The default lockup for light backgrounds.
Horizontal logo (white, transparent)For dark backgrounds.
Stacked logo (colour, transparent)Square-ish placements.
Bell mark (colour, transparent)Icon-only placements.
Social avatar (1024×1024)Profile images and app directories.Media contact
For interviews, screenshots of the product with sample-school data, background on the pilot program, or anything else: hello@bellpath.com.au. We reply within one working day.
Please do not publish the names of pilot schools without their written permission arranged through us.