Staffroom Relief
Four minutes, and a room you’ve never taught in.
Relief is the cover teacher’s side of Staffroom. The school fills in the brief, and the reliever opens it on their phone on the way to the room.
What a reliever gets
The brief, before they open the door
- Every period they are covering, and which room is next.
- The lesson, in the order the class is doing it.
- Where the books live, and the rule for leaving the room.
- The fire route out of that room, and who to call.
- It works with no signal. School wifi rarely lets guests on.
Depends who’s reading
Three people, one tool
For your classroom
You teach this class every day
You know them. You just want the timer up and the instructions somewhere other than your own voice for once.
For relief teachers
You’ve never met this class
You got the room number this morning. Relief hands you the lesson and the seating before you open the door — the school sets it up, not you.
For schools
You’re the one booking the cover
Give every reliever the same brief, instead of a photocopied sheet and a hopeful conversation in the corridor.
Data
Insight, not access
Relief does not need to be plugged into your student information system to be useful. It works from what a teacher types in for one period, and it summarises and suggests without reaching into school records.
Students never log in. There is no student app and no student account. Seating charts hold names a teacher entered for one lesson, which we do not store, and a reliever can switch the chart to initials or seat numbers. A handover note is one line, up to 140 characters — a message between colleagues, not a record.
Schools buy Relief for their staff, so there is nothing for a reliever to pay for. If you cover classes and want this, this page is the one to forward.
Relief is being built with a handful of schools first
Tell us who you are and we will be in touch when there is something worth your time.