CRAYON

About this app

9-page OS for nurseries, kindergartens and early years settings, in a sugar-paper identity: soft paper grey, rounded Quicksand headings, and a room colour that is DATA rather than decoration — it comes off the room record and follows the child on every screen, so changing a room's colour in Settings changes the whole app. Three things a nursery is judged on, and two of them are built as refusals. FIRST: A CHILD LEAVES WITH A NAMED PERSON ON HIS LIST OR WITH NOBODY. Signing out is not a button — it is a list of faces, and you pick the person standing in front of you. There is no name field, no 'other', and no manager override, because a building where somebody can override it is a building where somebody eventually will. A one-off is granted by the guardian on record, carries a code given at the door, and expires that night. And the list belongs to the parent: staff read it and use it, only a guardian adds to it, from his own page with his own code. SECOND: AN ALLERGY CANNOT BE HIDDEN. Never a field somebody might not scroll to, never collapsed into a count, never a '+2 more'. It is on the child's card, on the kitchen list for every meal, on the day sheet the room works from, and on the fire register that goes out of the door — in a red nothing else in this app is allowed to wear. THIRD: RATIO, counted live on the children actually in the building rather than the ones booked in, with each child taking his share of an adult by HIS age rather than by his room, and with an adult counting only if her paediatric first aid is in date — an apprentice does not count until she is qualified. The rooms sit in the top bar of every screen with their ratio on them, so the one question a manager has all day is answered without a click. Plus the kitchen list built from who is in today and signed per meal by the person who cooked it, the fire register on one printable page with allergies in full, the day sheet that becomes the parent's evening note, sessions and funded hours rather than monthly fees, and a parents' page opened by a code from the enrolment letter rather than a password nobody remembers. The age bands ship as the England numbers and Settings says out loud that they are almost certainly wrong for you: the arithmetic is ours, the numbers are yours, and it is your registration that depends on them. No stock photography anywhere. Multi-user accounts with secure login; every copy runs on its own Cloudflare Worker with a private D1 database.

What it does

• A child leaves with a named person on his list or with nobody — no override, no 'other', no name field
• A one-off is granted by the guardian, carries a code for the door, and expires that night
• The collection list belongs to the parent: staff use it, only a guardian adds to it
• An allergy is never hidden, never counted, never collapsed — and wears a red nothing else may wear
• Ratio counted live on who is actually in the building, by each child's own age
• An adult counts only if her paediatric first aid is in date; an apprentice does not count at all
• The rooms sit in the bar of every screen with their ratio on them
• A kitchen list built from who is in today, and signed per meal by whoever cooked it
• A fire register on one printable page, with allergies in full
• The day sheet becomes the parent's evening note, written as it happens
• Sessions and funded hours, because a nursery sells mornings and not months
• A parents' page opened by a code from the enrolment letter, not a password
• The room's colour is data — change it in Settings and the whole app changes