For teachers & activity coordinators

Describe it. Orca builds it.

Planning an excursion used to mean starting from a blank form, working out what was required, and chasing approvals by email, every single time. Tell Orca what you're running in plain language and built-in AI takes care of the structure, the risk assessment, and the approvals. You focus on the activity.

What changes for teachers

Less overhead.
More time for the students you're taking.

Every part of Orca is designed to reduce the distance between a teacher's intent and a properly governed, approved activity.

Plain language, not forms

Tell Orca what you're planning, the year group, the destination, the date. It draws on your school's data to fill in what it already knows. No blank form every time.

Risk assessments that generate themselves

Orca's AI reviews your activity and generates a risk assessment based on your school's templates, activity type, venue data, and past incidents. You review, not build from scratch.

Approvals that move without chasing

Workflows trigger automatically at submission. Approvers are notified, status is visible, and Orca flags anything missing before it reaches sign-off. No chasing required.

Everything in one place

Tasks, permission forms, participant lists, risk documents, and planning conversations, all inside the activity record. Nothing scattered across email threads and shared drives.

Planning assistance

Your school's context,
already in the room.

Orca already knows your school's campuses, cohorts, transport options, staff roles, and past activities. When you describe an activity, it draws on all of that to fill in what it can, and asks only what it genuinely doesn't know.

Planning assistant: live example
"Year 9 excursion to the Museum of Victoria, Thursday 12 June"
Got it. I've set up the activity for Year 9 (186 students, Senior Campus). Based on past excursions to this venue, I'd suggest Coach A and Coach B. I've applied the Excursion, External Venue risk template. One question: will all Year 9 staff attend, or a subset?
Cohort
Year 9, 186 students
Campus
Senior Campus
Transport
Coach A + Coach B (suggested)
Risk template
Excursion, External Venue
Compliance review
Pending staffing confirmation
Status
Draft, 1 question remaining
From description to approved

Three steps from your description
to a fully compliant, approved activity.

No blank forms. No email chains. No chasing sign-offs.

1

Describe your activity

Tell Orca what you're running. It draws on your school's data to build the structure around it, reading your cohort, transport options, staffing, and risk templates, and asks only what it genuinely doesn't know.

2

Orca reviews for compliance

Before submission, Orca checks against your school's policies, staff ratios, venue data, and past incidents. Risk assessment generated. Gaps flagged and resolved. What goes to approval is already complete.

3

Approval without the chase

Approvers are notified automatically. Status is visible at every step. You know exactly where the activity sits, and can see who approved and what's outstanding, without sending a single follow-up email.

Get Started

Less form-filling.
More doing.

See how Orca's planning assistance works with your school's data and workflows. 30 minutes, no commitment.

What you get with Orca

Plain-language planning assistance
Auto-generated risk assessment PDFs
Configurable approval workflows
Permission forms and parent messaging
Task management and collaboration
Student alerts and roll marking
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