Kestrel

Guide

Bus supervisor

Version 1.1 ·Updated 2026-10-25

Next reviewed by 2027-04-25.

Written for each member of a school's staff, from the registrar to IT, and the families using the portal.

For the supervisor or driver on a school bus, who may work for the operator rather than the school.

All guides, including the first steps each member of staff takes. The training for this role takes these tasks in sessions.

Take today’s bus roll

Transport, Bus rolls

Needs transport.roll.write.

  1. Open Transport, choose Bus rolls and open today’s service. Read the alerts beside each child.
  2. Mark each child Travelled or Didn’t travel. For Handed over, choose the authorised adult under Handed to.
  3. Press Save the bus roll. If any children are unticked, check the warning before confirming: saving records them as not having travelled. The saved bus roll shows who saved it and when.

Record a child not met at the stop

Transport, a bus roll

Needs transport.roll.write.

  1. Press Not met as soon as the adult who was to meet the child is absent. This saves immediately and raises the line beside the child’s name.
  2. When an authorised adult arrives, choose them under Handed to and press Hand over. This clears the Not met line.
  3. If no authorised adult is listed, ring the office. There is no override that permits handing the child to someone else.