Assemblies, field day and the school play

It collects nothing, about anybody

Put this first because in a school it is a procurement question before it is a feature. The application makes no network calls at all — no account, no sign-in, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no update check, no analytics. There is nothing to add to a data protection register, no processor to add to a records-of-processing entry, no sub-processor, and no pupil data to be transferred anywhere because none is ever touched. Audio files, playlists and settings stay in the user folder on that machine. The honest version of "GDPR compliant" is usually a page of assurances; here it is that the software cannot send anything, so there is nothing to assure.

A different job every day, on the same machine

Monday is a hymn and two readings. Wednesday is a rehearsal with forty cues. Friday is a field with a PA and a race every four minutes. Each is its own saved file, starred so it is one click from the Open menu, and the hall machine can be set to open on whichever is most common so it is loaded before anyone arrives. Nothing has to be imported into a library, so a file on a memory stick works the same as one on the drive.

The person running it may be covering

Print the running order — every item, its length, the total, and a table of the pad wall — and leave it by the machine. A colleague covering at short notice reads the sheet and presses one key per item; the names on screen are whatever you typed, so HYMN 2 is what it says rather than the filename. Nothing auto-advances, so a pause for a child who is not ready costs nothing.

Field day is a field with no wifi

Outdoors, on a borrowed laptop, on battery, with the guest network out of range. Everything works identically — there is no license check to fail and nothing to load. Bind the pad wall to the number row and each race’s music is a single key press; the start pistol, the fanfare and the finish sting sit on three pads and duck the music underneath rather than stopping it.

And it is bought once

A perpetual license rather than a subscription renewing out of a budget line every year. A Site license covers every machine in the school. Education and charity discounts exist and are asked for on a short form.

Does it collect anything about pupils or staff?

No. It makes no network connections of any kind, so nothing can be collected or sent. There is no account and no sign-in.

Can a teacher covering an assembly run it without training?

They read the printed order and press one key per item. Nothing advances on its own and nothing on screen can be pressed by accident into a different show.

Is there an education discount?

Yes. Ask on the discounts page and say what the school is; a person reads it and replies with a code.