What did you learn today?
Which subject?
How did it feel?
Something to remember
Quick guide
✏️ Write: pick a subject, tap a face for how it felt, save. That's the whole habit.
📔 Wellbeing marker: the last 14 days at a glance, at the top of the app.
✨ Insights: a fortnight report with conversation starters. Share it as a picture or print it.
⭐ Remember: spellings and facts to keep, plus the 🔔 reminders list for gym kits and permission slips.
🕰️ Back in Time: older entries, tidied away by month.
⬇️ Save a copy: the whole journal, one subject's page, or the insights, ready to print or share.
⚙️ This page: back up to a new phone, add a PIN lock, or start fresh.
Backup Data
Back up saves everything in this journal to one small file. Send that file to the new phone however you like, for example by emailing it to yourself. On the new phone, open this app and restore that file. Restoring only adds things that are missing, so it never deletes anything.
PIN lock
Ask for a PIN whenever the app opens, so only your child can read the journal. Pick 4 to 8 numbers, and choose ones you’ll both remember: if the PIN is forgotten, the only way back in is to erase the journal and start again.
Choose a PIN
Type it again
The lock is on. To turn it off, or before choosing a new PIN, type the current PIN here.
Start fresh
This erases everything: all learning entries, things to remember, and any subjects you added. It puts the app back to how it started. This cannot be undone.
Type DELETE to confirm
All cleared. The app is back to default.
Clear saved app files
This makes the app fetch a fresh copy next time it opens. It does not touch your journal entries or things to remember. Use this if the app looks out of date.
A kinder way to understand your child's week.
My School Buddy is a simple app that helps you understand how your child is doing at school, both what they are learning and how they feel about it. Children often answer "how was school" with a shrug. This gives you a clearer, kinder way in.
The idea is simple: catch things early. A wobble noticed now is easy to help with. Left alone, it can grow into something much harder to manage. That is why it is made for the primary years, roughly ages 7 to 11, when those wobbles first appear.
Your child writes a quick note about the subject they attended each day and taps a face to show how it felt. Over time those notes build into a real picture of their week, and the app turns that into something you can read at a glance.
Open it and the wellbeing marker at the top tells you straight away how your child is feeling about what they are working on at school. Look down and every subject shows an average feeling, so you can see that Maths has been tricky while English has been great. In seconds you can see where your child is thriving, where they are struggling, and exactly where to step in with help, encouragement, or a conversation. You are not guessing anymore.
This week's entries are sorted by subject, so you can look back at one subject on its own and spot a pattern before it becomes a problem, and Back in Time keeps older entries tidied away by month so the journal stays easy to browse however long you use it. There is also a place for things your child wants to remember, like a spelling or a fact, and a reminders list for the small stuff like bringing a gym kit.
When you want more than a glance, tap Insights. It compares the last fortnight with the one before, celebrates the bright spots, flags anything worth a look, and suggests a few gentle conversation starters for the dinner table. You can share it as a picture or print it for a parents' evening, and you can still save or print a full copy of the journal, or a single subject’s page, to share with a teacher at a parents’ evening.
It works best used together. The honest picture comes when your child feels good about writing in it, so it is something to look at side by side, a shared moment rather than a report card. That is also what keeps it accurate. The wellbeing marker and the subject feelings are there to help you notice, ask, and help, so a hard week never slips by unseen, and if the writing slows down, the app will quietly let you know it might be time for a nudge.
It is also private by design. Everything stays on this phone unless you choose to share it. You can add a PIN so only your child can open the journal, and a one-tap backup keeps everything safe or moves it to a new phone.
It is free, works on a phone like a normal app, and once it is on your home screen it works even without an internet connection. One simple idea sits behind it: give your child an easy place to notice their own week, and give you a clear, caring way to understand how they really are.