My Child At School (MCAS) App & Web-based platform

 My Child at School (MCAS), has been in use at BHCS since the 2025/26 academic year a new platform that has become our central hub for communication and information specific to your child. This transition marked an exciting step forward in streamlining how we connect with you and manage school services. 

MCAS serves as the main method for: 

• Updating your child’s details and permissions including contact details and medical records – (MCAS navigation Prompt: ‘Data Collection Form’).
• Receiving school communications and notifications to one central point relevant to your child(ren) – (MCAS navigation prompt: ‘Messages’ an envelope icon ).
• Seeing your child’s timetable including their teachers for each subject – (MCAS navigation prompt ‘Timetable’).
• Reporting your child as absent from, or late to school – (MCAS navigation prompt ‘Attendance’).
• Seeing what enrichment (extra-curricular) clubs are available for your child and receiving bespoke communication about them – (MCAS navigation prompt ‘Clubs’).
• Review the school’s academic calendar, showing term times and INSET days – (MCAS navigation prompt ‘Academic Calendar’).
• Seeing your children behaviour record (behaviour module)
• Seeing some of your child's set home learning (Home Learning Module)

Please be aware ‘Parent Pay’ remains our payment platform for parents. 

Getting Started 

All current parents and guardians will have received an email invitation with a link to activate your MCAS account, it will have the title ‘Create Password for your new MCAS account’ or ‘MCAS Password Recovery’.

This will allow you to set a password and log in via the MCAS website or mobile app (available on iOS and Android). Each parent/carer will receive their own login credentials.

We have also produced a stepwise guide if you would like more detailed support available at the end of this page that you can download. 

Once logged in, you will be able to view your child’s profile, and key information. If you have more than one child at BHCS, you will be able to switch between profiles easily. 

We strongly encourage you to enable push notifications on the app to ensure you never miss an important update specific to your child. 

Guidance specific to the ‘Clubs’ feature 

When clicking on the ‘clubs’ icon, you will be able to see all extra-curricular clubs (taking place during lunch time or after school) that are ‘available’ for your child.  Often, these clubs are specific to certain year groups; as such one club might be available to one child, but not another. You will also be able to see any clubs that your child is ‘enroled’ in.  Your child will be enroled in a club if they have previously attended that club at any point this academic year or if they signed up at the enrichment fayre in September.  There will be no clubs appearing in your child's ‘waiting list’; we will not be using the waiting list function at this time and therefore, it has been disabled for all users. 

From this point on, only parents of children ‘enroled’ in a club will be notified if the club is cancelled.  As such, we strongly recommend that you enrol your child in any clubs that you think he/she/they might attend in future – if you want to know when a club is cancelled, enrol your child.  You can do this by clicking on the available club (listed in alphabetical order) and then click ‘enrol now’ at the bottom of the page.

Looking Ahead 

This academic year (2026/27) we are excited to be launching the behaviour and home leering modules and expect this roll out to be as smooth as the initial launch. We appreciate your support and patience as we make this transition and look forward to seeing the benefits it brings to our school community. 

Bromcom BHCS Student Portal

The first day of term this year (2026/27) has also seen the launch of the student equivalent of MCAS, the Bromcom BHCS Student Portal. 

To support the successful rollout of features including timetables, teachers, subjects, attendance, behaviour, home learning and clubs, it is important that all students are actively using the Bromcom BHCS Student Portal, either through the web version or mobile app. Students had the assembly below delivered to them on Day 1 of the new academic year and can revisit it anytime via their Learning Zone. Students will also receive email reminders to their school email account about how to access the portal as well as having access to tutorials also via their Learning Zone.

Students in years 8, 9, 10 & 11 will be able to access the system from today (Tuesday 2nd September 2026) and students in year 7 will be able to access the system from next week as we introduce them more broadly to our computer and associated systems.

The Student Portal enables students to access key information relating to their learning and school life, including home learning, behaviour and other important information. We encourage you to support your child in accessing either of the available platform options.