For UK schools and multi-academy trusts
School leadership, simplified.
Turnstone brings your self-evaluation, development plan, line management, assessment, inclusion, attendance and finance planning into one place, so leaders spend less time assembling evidence and more time acting on it.
Everything a leadership team works on, joined up
Each module works on its own. Together they share one picture of your school, so evidence gathered in one place is ready wherever you need it next.
Self-evaluation and planning
Grade and evidence your school against the Ofsted toolkit, and turn it into a costed, reviewed development plan.
Insight
Targets, Attainment 8 and Progress 8, transition matrices and subject analysis, built on your own assessment data.
Attendance
See which pupils need what to reach their goal, and keep a clear record of the support and statutory steps behind it.
Inclusion and provision
Your statutory Inclusion Strategy, a name-free SEND overview, and a record of every intervention and whether it works.
Line management
Structured meetings and agreed actions that carry forward automatically until they are done.
Curriculum and finance
Model your curriculum and staffing, compare scenarios, and see the cost of every decision before you make it.
Built for trusts as well as schools
Trust leaders see every school in the trust side by side. Governors get a read-only view of their own school. Neither sees a pupil's name.
- A trust dashboard across your schools: finance, self-evaluation, SEND and attainment.
- A governor view of published figures, and a headteacher's report to governors written in Turnstone.
- Connects to Arbor and Go4Schools, or works from a spreadsheet upload.
Our commitments
Your data stays yours
Your school decides what goes into Turnstone. When you leave, you can have a copy, and everything is then deleted.
Only what each module needs
A school that uses none of the pupil modules holds no pupil information in Turnstone at all.
Never sold, never mined
We never sell information, use it for advertising or use it to train artificial intelligence.
Open about how it works
Our privacy notice, data processing agreement and list of service providers are public.
Data protection, built in
Turnstone holds information about pupils and staff on your school's behalf. Here is how we look after it.
Held in the UK
Your database, files and backups are held in London. The only copy kept outside the UK is a short-lived, encrypted cache in the EU, cleared within an hour.
Encrypted throughout
Information is encrypted in transit and at rest. Pupil numbers and the keys to your school systems are encrypted again with keys only we hold.
Each school kept apart
The database itself separates every school's records, and staff see only what their role allows. Governors and trust leaders never see a pupil's name.
Every change recorded
An audit trail records who changed what, and when. Administrators sign in with two-step verification, and so will everyone who can see pupil information.
Our data processing agreement and data protection impact assessment are ready for your data protection officer. If something ever went wrong, we would tell your school without undue delay and within 72 hours.