This guide outlines prompts you can use to generate structured, comprehensive data summaries perfect for sharing with stakeholders across the entirety of your school. These are the types of prompts you can find when you click the Report tile to start a new chat.
Top tip: Ask Arbor to output its findings as a PDF to convert them to a downloadable and shareable document.
The series
This guide is a part of our Ask Arbor Prompt Library series. The example prompts in this series show you the types of questions and requests you can make directly to Ask Arbor to save time, reduce admin, and get the insights you need - fast.
The guides in this series are:
What are prompts?
Prompts are your instructions for Ask Arbor. Your prompts shape how Ask Arbor responds and acts. A good prompt tends to lead to a good output. If your prompt is vague or ambiguous, Ask Arbor will often ask you follow-up questions to help narrow down exactly what you are looking for.
To use a prompt, click the Ask Arbor button in the top-right corner of your MIS to open Ask Arbor and start a conversation by typing to try out the prompts in this guide.
Find more tips on getting started with Ask Arbor here: How do I open and use Ask Arbor?
Want to write your own prompts? Read our advice here: Prompt Like a Pro - Ask Arbor and Arbor AI
Governors
Generate high-level, narrative-driven summaries of termly attendance and behaviour data designed specifically for leadership review and governor meetings.
"Summarise attendance and behaviour this term for a governors' report - written narrative, no raw data lists"
"Generate a report of all students in Year 10 with attendance below 90% for this academic year."
"What is the year-to-date attendance for all year groups? Show me as a chart.
Ofsted & Self-Evaluation
Instantly compile critical statutory data—including persistent absence trends and behaviour trajectories—to support your school's self-evaluation forms or inspection prep.
"Summarise persistent absence trends"
"Give me a school self-evaluation summary - highlight attendance and behaviour strengths and areas of concern"
"Is our behaviour trend improving or worsening this academic year? Summarise this for me"
Top Tip: Need an even deeper dive into your school's data in preparation for an Ofsted Inspection? Why not try the Ofsted Inspection Companion Smart Report? This report gathers most (if not everything) you need to prepare for an inspection within minutes and is more AI-credit efficient than collating a similarly comprehensive report through Ask Arbor.
Parents & Pastoral
Create comprehensive summaries of a student's attendance, behaviour, and incidents ahead of parent-teacher meetings, EHCP reviews, or staff briefings.
- "Generate a pastoral report for a parent meeting - include attendance, behaviour, and incidents as a PDF"
- "Produce a year group summary for a staff meeting - include attendance and behaviour stats"
- "Produce a one-page summary of [Student]'s academic and pastoral progress this year for an upcoming EHCP review."
- "Generate a report comparing the attendance and attainment of Pupil Premium students against no pupil premium"
- "Create a mailing list of parents for students who have attendance below 90%"
Tips for using Ask Arbor
- Be specific — the more detail you include (year group, subject, date range), the more accurate the response.
- Use natural language — just type as you’d ask a colleague.
- Try follow-up questions — Ask Arbor remembers your context within a single chat.
- You can export, save, or share many Ask Arbor results depending on your role permissions in Arbor.
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