Press and media
Bell Path press kit
A standard description of Bell Path, the founder story, fast facts and logos for anyone writing about us.
- Media contact
- hello@bellpath.com.au. We reply within one working day.
- Last updated
- 22 July 2026
Boilerplate
Bell Path is timetabling and school-operations software built 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 in the same place: 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 works alongside school administration systems such as Compass, Sentral and CASES21. It does not replace them.
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.
Bell Path is deliberately built for primary schools only. The week of an Australian primary school is different enough to deserve its own software, rather than a secondary-school tool with the hard parts turned off.
Fast facts
- Built in Melbourne, Australia; founder-led.
- Founder: James Hooke (legal name Dimitrios James Gregory Hooke).
- 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.
- What it means when a school timetable is impossible rather than hard, and how software can prove it.
- Building software with pilot schools instead of selling first and building later.
Logos and assets
The logos below are the current Bell Path brand set, supplied as transparent PNG, 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.Download the logo pack (.zip)All five logos plus a usage README, in one file.Brand colours
Product screenshots with sample-school data and a founder photo are available on request: email us and we will send them the same working day where we can.
Media contact
For interviews, product screenshots with sample-school data, background on the pilot program, or anything else: hello@bellpath.com.au. You will hear back from James Hooke, the founder, within one working day.
Please do not publish the names of pilot schools without their written permission arranged through us.