Time savings calculator
How much time could Spiro
save your school?
Use our calculator to estimate how much time your SENCO, class teachers and teaching assistants could save every term.
About your school
Results update immediately.
Include everyone receiving SEN support, plus pupils with an EHCP.
Education, Health and Care Plans currently in place.
EHC needs assessment requests you expect to submit.
Based on measurements recorded in a school using Spiro.
Your estimated saving
55 hours a term
across your school — about 8.5 school days every term, or 165 hours a year.
SENCO
31 hrs / term
About 2.4 hours a week
Class teachers and TAs
24 hrs / term
Total savings across all staff
Admin time cut by
51%
108 hrs today → 53 hrs with Spiro
Where the time comes from
Each square is one hour of admin time a term, coloured by task.
55 hours given back to your team
Finding & reviewing pupil information
51.2 hrs today → 25.6 hrs · save 25.6 hrs
Pupil records live in one place, enriched from your MIS. No more searching and referencing across shared drives, spreadsheets, and outdated support plans.
Termly support plan reviews
29.2 hrs today → 14.0 hrs · save 15.2 hrs
Teachers are prompted when termly reviews are due; Spiro drafts each review from the term’s observations and progress, and suggests tailored updates to the plan.
EHCP annual reviews & provision mapping
22.5 hrs today → 11.3 hrs · save 11.3 hrs
Spiro drafts the annual review from the year’s journal, observations, targets and interventions, and maps each pupil’s provision and costs automatically. You refine it before it goes to parents.
Specialist support referrals
2.4 hrs today → 1.0 hrs · save 1.5 hrs
Spiro drafts the referral form and sends it to parents for review and digital signature — no separate sign-off meeting.
Needs assessment requests
2.3 hrs today → 0.7 hrs · save 1.6 hrs
Spiro drafts the request in your local authority’s format from the evidence you already hold, ready for you to review and submit.
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