The short version
Smoothwall Pulse offers weekly 60-second check-ins, giving school leaders visibility across schools, year groups and classes.
What Smoothwall Pulse does
Smoothwall Pulse delivers a quick weekly check-in with leadership-level visibility across schools, year groups and classes — useful for trusts and MATs.
Side-by-side
Where MindSprout is different
Daily, not weekly
A weekly check-in misses up to four days of a child's emotional life. MindSprout's daily rhythm catches shifts as they happen — not a week later.
Notifications, not just leadership dashboards
Smoothwall Pulse is strong for trust-level visibility. MindSprout adds same-day alerts to the form tutor or pastoral lead — so insight moves from boardroom to classroom.
Designed around teacher workload
Nothing for staff to launch. No survey to schedule. MindSprout runs quietly in the background and only surfaces a child when something has shifted. Teachers stay focused on teaching; pastoral leads see what matters.
Real-time notifications to the right adult
When a child's check-in changes meaningfully, the right pastoral lead is notified the same day. Insight that lives only inside a dashboard is insight that often arrives too late.
Whole-school view with hierarchy drill-down
Headteachers see the school. Heads of year see their year group. Form tutors see their class. Pastoral leads see individual children. One source of truth — appropriate depth for every role.
In one paragraph
Smoothwall Pulse suits trust- and MAT-level leadership wanting a weekly cross-school view. MindSprout suits schools wanting both that leadership view and daily action at the form-tutor level.
See MindSprout in your school
A daily signal, real-time pastoral alerts and whole-school insight — built for UK and US schools.