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Choosing a Tutor in Preparation for Exams

Exam time can be a stressful period for everyone involved. If your child needs extra help in a particular subject, of course, you may be thinking of hiring a tutor to get them through or improve their grades. This is a good idea but choosing the right person can also...

Top Tips on Helping Your Child With Their Homework

Once children start school, parents have to consider the prospect of homework. While this can be an exciting time as your child begins to learn new things, it can also be pretty challenging. Children can be enthusiastic or resistant to homework depending on their...

School Communication Barriers

As a company that helps schools communicate better in this brilliant technological age, working to bring down barriers is one thing that we’re particularly focused on at Parentapps. Most teachers and heads of school understand that good communication and involvement...

Parent’s Evening: Questions to Ask Teachers

One of the most important times that mums and dads get to meet teachers is during a parent’s evening. While these can be useful to understand how your child is doing in specific subjects and whether there are any problems, they can be quite hectic. Going in prepared...

Help with Pupil Premium

Since the launch of the Universal Infant Free School Meal Policy, schools have struggled to get parents to register for Pupil Premium because there is no longer the same incentive for parents to do so. Whilst the increase in children receiving school meals is fantastic…

How Surveys Can Help Improve Parental Engagement

The Surveys feature of Parentapps Connect, provides schools and nurseries with an easy way to find out what is and isn’t working when it comes to parental engagement. And, because you can choose whether to send them to the whole school, particular year groups, or…

How your school’s app can help with phonics

Now that Spring has begun, it will soon be time to start preparing your pupils for the Phonics Key Stage 1 Screening Check. Many children could benefit from having extra phonics help at home. And, many parents would be more than happy to work with their children in…

How an app can help improve safeguarding

Safeguarding is one of the biggest areas of concern for any nursery or school today. And, as parental engagement specialists, it is something that we take into great consideration when building our communication apps. A secure parental communication app can help put…

The Benefits of Having a Nursery App

If you want to build better engagement and keep your current parents up to date with the latest developments, you should consider a dedicated communication app for your nursery.
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Why Should Your School Have a Dedicated App?

Apps are everywhere. Collectively we download billions of them to our mobile phones and tablets each year. We do our weekly food shops, book flights and bank all from apps on our mobile devices.
But is a dedicated app suitable for your school? Can it deliver better…

Our lives are busy. It seems there’s always something to do and somewhere to be. Parents often need to contend with looking after the children while they are both working full-time jobs and life seems to be a constant juggling act between one thing and another.

Coping with everything the world throws at us, however, has been made easier in recent times with the development of some great digital technology. For schools, teacher and parent communication apps are proving very useful – not only are they easy to use but they can give parents access to all the information they need.

Developing Your Communication App

Thanks to Parent Apps it’s never been simpler to develop a dedicated school app that puts everyone in the communication loop. Most parents, pupils and teachers nowadays have some form of portable smart device, whether that’s a mobile phone or a tablet. Apps have become common for everything from social media engagement and shopping to keeping track of the news, to name just a few.

You don’t need to spend a large amount of your school budget developing a teacher and parent communication app either. Our team can offer your school a tailored solution for less than you might think, without spending too much time at the development stage.

All you need to do is decide what you want your school app to do and how you want to improve teacher and parent communication. At Parent Apps, this involves working with our specialist team to uncover all the possibilities and how we can help you get exactly the solution you need.

  • Do you want an app that helps you send notifications to parents almost instantaneously?
  • Do you want to be able to provide resources to your parents and teachers that they can access wherever they are in the world?
  • Would you like to send out reminders for school events without having to use the full resources of your admin department to send out messages?
  • Do you want to give your parents easy access to your website and school contact details and policies?

With a dedicated app, you can pick and choose how teachers and parents engage. If you provide school meals and want parents to know what’s on the menu each week, you can. If you want to integrate your school app with social media to create better engagement, you can do that too.

Introducing an effective teacher and parent communication app not only increases the level of engagement but also saves money. You are no longer using admin staff to send out messages and reach out to parents, it’s much simpler to do with a dedicated and responsive app. It also allows you to develop a more effective and efficient communication strategy that takes over from mail, email, texting and phoning.

Creating a school app is also a greener way of operating. You are using less energy and less in the way of resources, all of which will save you money which can be better used elsewhere. It’s no surprise that many schools are now changing the way they talk to parents and opting for a dedicated teacher and parent communication app. Contact us today to find out more.