Descriptive assessment by area
Language, motor skills, independence, social skills: each child is followed in the areas the school defines, with a descriptive assessment and no numerical marks.
Academic
In preschool there are no marks, there is development
Preschool teachers no longer write a report by hand for every child. Escola360 organises the observation of each child's development by area, following the school's own plans, and turns it into a clear, professional descriptive assessment that families understand and receive in the app, with alerts by SMS and WhatsApp. Enrolment, fees, attendance and health sit in the same system.
Descriptive assessment, no marks
Individual PDF report
Families on app, SMS and WhatsApp
Nursery, preschool and primary
Children22
Reports approved18
To complete4
- NNádia MacuácuaLanguage and communicationApproved
- TTiago MuiangaFine motor skillsTo review
- SSheila CossaIndependence and social skillsApproved
- IIvan SitoeObservation in progressRecording
Reports that teachers do not have to write by hand
In most nurseries and small preschools, the end of term means evenings spent filling in reports on paper or in Word, each in a different format, and families asking how their child is getting on.
Without a system
- A handwritten report for every child, every term.
- Each teacher uses their own words and their own format.
- Management systems built around marks, which do not work for preschool.
- The coordinators only see the reports once they have already gone to families.
- Paper notes in the school bag, which do not always make it home.
- Enrolment, monthly fees and health records in separate notebooks.
With Escola360
- Observations recorded class by class, quickly, throughout the term.
- The same development plans for every room, set by the school.
- Assessment by area of development, with no numerical marks.
- Every report goes through the coordinators before it reaches the family.
- Notices and messages to families through the app, by SMS and by WhatsApp.
- The child's enrolment, fees, attendance and health in the same system.
Built for how preschool really works
The school's own plans
The school defines its development plans and observation questions, and every room works from the same framework.
Quick recording by class
The teacher records observations for the whole room on one screen, instead of opening one child at a time.
Individual child report
Each child has their own term report, in clear language and with the same professional look in every room.
Coordinator approval
The academic coordinators review and approve each report before it goes to the family.
Reports and class sheets in PDF
Individual report and class sheet in PDF, ready to print or hand to parents.
Families always informed
Reports, messages and notices reach parents through the app, by SMS and by WhatsApp. Families know what is happening in the room without waiting for the parents' meeting.
Room attendance
Teachers take attendance every day and school leadership knows who was absent. Parents see the absences in the app and can explain them.
Health and sick bay
The child's health record and visits to the sick bay are logged, and parents can view them in the app.
Enrolment and fees
Online pre-registration, monthly fees and receipts handled in the same system as the rest of the school.
Continuity into primary
When the child moves up to Grade 1, the record, the guardians and the history go with them.
From nursery to Grade 12, in one system
Escola360 tracks development in preschool with its own reports and handles the marks, mark sheets and report cards of primary and secondary in the same system.
Nurseriesrooms by age and development reports
Preschool and pre-primaryintroductory classes before Grade 1
Schools with primarypreschool to Grade 6
All-through schoolsnursery to Grade 12
Community and faith schoolsintroductory rooms with the same care
International schoolsCambridge and IB alongside the national SNE curriculum
School groupseach school with its own rules
A term in the 4-year-olds' room, with Escola360
Throughout the term, Cláudia, the teacher, records what she observes in the room: who already holds a pencil well, who has started telling stories, who still finds it hard to share toys. It takes a few minutes, class by class, and she needs no separate notebooks.
In the final weeks, instead of spending her weekends writing twenty-two reports, she reviews her children's reports, already organised by area of development, and sends them to the coordinators.
The academic coordinator reviews them, asks for a change to one and approves the rest. As soon as it is published, Tiago's mother gets the alert on WhatsApp, opens the report in the app and understands exactly which areas her son has progressed in and where she can help at home. At the parents' meeting, the conversation starts from there.
Everyone handles their own part
Preschool teacherRecords observations and attendance for the room and prepares the reports for their children.
Academic coordinatorsDefine the development plans and review and approve each report.
Head teacher and school ownerMakes sure every room delivers reports of the same quality and keeps track of enrolment and fees.
Parent or guardianReceives the term report and messages from the room in the app, by SMS or WhatsApp, and keeps track of absences, fees and visits to the sick bay.
Frequently asked questions
Does Escola360 work for nurseries and small preschools?
Yes. Escola360 has a dedicated approach for preschool, with development reports by area instead of marks, and handles enrolment, fees and health in the same system.
How do you assess a preschool child without marks?
The school defines its development plans by area, such as language, motor skills or independence, and the teacher records observations of each child throughout the term.
Do reports go through the coordinators before they reach parents?
Yes. Each report is reviewed and approved by the academic coordinators before it goes to the family.
How do parents receive the development report?
Once approved, the report is available in the Escola360 app for parents and the family is notified by SMS or WhatsApp. It also comes out as a PDF, ready to print. In the same app, parents keep track of absences, fees, receipts and visits to the sick bay.
Can a school with preschool and primary use a single system?
Yes. Preschool has development reports and primary has marks, mark sheets and report cards, with the same enrolment, fees and student records for the whole school.
Want development reports without evenings of writing?
In the demo, we build a development plan for one of your rooms and show a child's report coming out of the system.