For school IT teams

Simple access. Clear allow-listing.

Pastoral Hub is a secure web application for authorised school staff and transition partners. This page provides the information a school IT provider may need when a web filter treats the domain as new, unrated or unknown.

Recommended allow-list: where a school web filter blocks Pastoral Hub, allow the root domain and its school workspaces over HTTPS.
Allow-list

Domains

The preferred allow-list entries are:

pastoralhub.co.nz *.pastoralhub.co.nz

For the current Waitaki Girls' High School workspace, the specific hostname is:

wghs.pastoralhub.co.nz

TCP port 443 / HTTPS should be permitted. There is no need to expose student information to the firewall provider when requesting access.

Purpose

What the service is

Pastoral Hub brings school pastoral, attendance, academic, behaviour, learning-support and transition information into protected role-aware workspaces for authorised staff.

Hosting

Web application delivery

The service is delivered over HTTPS using Vercel's web application infrastructure. Protected data services are accessed by the application through controlled server routes wherever practical, so partner-school browsers can stay focused on the Pastoral Hub hostname.

Authentication

Access controls

School workspaces require approved authentication or a deliberately issued secure transition-workspace link. Knowing a general Pastoral Hub URL does not grant access to protected student records.

Privacy

Public site separation

The public site at pastoralhub.co.nz contains product, privacy, security and IT information only. Student records are not published on the public site.

New domains

If your filter still blocks the site

Some school security products temporarily restrict newly registered, newly observed or unrated domains. If the HTTPS site is reachable outside the school network but blocked inside it, please allow the domains above or request that your filtering provider categorise Pastoral Hub as a legitimate education / school web application.

Please record the filtering vendor, block category and exact blocked hostname. That information makes vendor recategorisation much faster.

Useful verification links

https://pastoralhub.co.nz/ https://pastoralhub.co.nz/privacy https://pastoralhub.co.nz/security https://pastoralhub.co.nz/.well-known/security.txt