REACH Boarding System for Students

The REACH Boarding System is a student management system that is designed specifically for boarding schools. It helps your school to manage a whole range of residential activities including leave, rollcalls, student records and staff reports.

As a student, you will use the REACH system to request leave and to record where you are going when you leave the boarding house. This includes various on campus and off campus locations that your school has created as locations in your REACH System.

REACH is a cloud based product and you can access your school's REACH portal from any device that has a browser with internet connection. As a student you can also access REACH using the REACH Student and Parent mobile app which is available for Apple and Android smartphones.

Via your web browser go to
https://columba.reachboarding.com.au/

To download the mobile app for your smartphone search for REACH Student and Parent App in the Apple or Google app stores.

How to create Leave Requests

Creating a leave request is simply a matter of opening the Create Leave Request form in your REACH login and completing the form. Most of the fields are drop down selection and they will guide you towards your appropriate selections.

Two fields will require your text input and these are your Destination and also any Notes that you want to or are required to place in the leave request form.

Once you have submitted your leave request REACH will then automatically contact your parents and any hosts that are involved for approval. When your parents and any host that are involved have approved the leave request, REACH will then contact the boarding staff for final approval of your leave request.

You will receive an email from REACH when your leave request is approved by staff.

About your Leave Request Form

The leave types that you are able to request are set by your school
The transport types that you can request are set by your school
The Hosts that you are approved to go on leave with are set by your parents
If your request is for a regular recurring event then you can set a recurring pattern for the use the leave request
The Destination field is a required field
In some instances the Notes field may also be compulsory when set by your school to be so
You will be able to see the current status of any leave request in your login profile.

How to Sign in and out of the Boarding House

Signing in and out of the boarding house is done by using the Kiosk screen that is located in the reception of your boarding house. Once you have been identified on the Kiosk, your profile will appear with the locations that you are permitted to go to.

If you have an approved leave request in the system this will appear in your profile for you to sign out to.

If set by your school you will also be able to sign in and out to on campus locations using your mobile phone or your browser login to REACH via the SISO widget (SISO stands for Sign-in Sign-out).

About your SISO movements

Only locations that you are permitted to go to will display in your Kiosk or SISO view
SISO to Off Campus locations will require staff approval in REACH so you must see a staff member to exit to an off campus location
Some local leave locations will not require a formal leave request and can be accessed by seeing a staff member and signing out at the Student Kiosk in your reception area.

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