GatePass tells you when your child arrives at school and when they go home, shows you their fees and their trips, and brings the school’s notices to your phone. It is free for parents — your child’s school pays for it.
You can only use GatePass if your child’s school runs it. If yours does not yet, the last section of this page is for you.
No WhatsApp group at 10pm, no letter that never made it out of the bag, and no phoning the office to ask whether they got in.
Instantly, as their card is scanned at the school gate. Not an hour later, and not a message someone remembered to send.
Open the app at any point in the morning and you can see whether your child has been scanned in yet — without ringing the office to ask.
Scanned out, with the time. If your child boards, you also see who collected them.
Your child’s fees balance, what has been paid, and what each charge was for. The same figures the school’s bursar sees.
Where the class is going, when the bus leaves, when it is back, and your own child ticked onto it.
Visiting day, exams, the start of term. Where the school asks for an answer, you answer in the app.
On your phone rather than in a book bag that never gets opened.
Request a visit, and arrive with a pass already on your phone instead of explaining yourself at the gate.
This is not a setting you have to find and switch on. It is how the system is built, and it is enforced on the school’s server on every single request.
Your own children — when they arrived, whether they are still at school, when they went home, their fees, their trips, and notices from the school.
Any other family’s child. Any other family’s balance. Anything about the school’s staff. And no other parent can see anything about yours.
Notices are one-way. If you need to reach the school, phone or visit exactly as you always have — the app does not become another inbox nobody is watching.
There is nothing to set up and no account to create. Your children are already on the school’s roll — the app just has to recognise you.
Read the full guideYour child is not showing? The school almost certainly has a different phone number for you. Ask the office to check it — more here.
Schools decide this, not parents — so the most useful thing you can do is put it in front of your headteacher. Any school can try GatePass free for a full term, with no card and no automatic charge.