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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.
Increasingly, organisations are choosing to create their own apps to complement their…

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…

 

The Benefits of a Great School Website

At Parent Apps, we’re always looking at new ways to improve the service we offer to schools. Most head teachers want to create an eye-catching website that really gives their staff, pupils and parents everything they need. The trouble is finding the people who can put some time into its design and maintenance.

Parent Apps can now deliver top quality websites that really hit the mark and are tailored exactly to your needs. Just like our apps, we’ll be able to produce a bespoke solution that allows you to keep everyone up to date and fits your school brand like a glove.

If you want your school to stand out from the rest, getting your website right is one of the first places you should consider changing. School sites can often stagnate and many haven’t been updated in line with the latest technology.

A new website can:

  • Be easier to navigate and have value added extras that not only promote your school but gives everyone better accessibility.
  • Be used to deliver important information and guidance for staff, pupils and parents alike.
  • Have dedicated areas that can be accessed by certain individuals with the right log in facilities.
  • Create more engagement with parents and can also be linked into your school app.
  • Promote you school and help it stand out from the crowd.

Better communication is high up the agenda for education nowadays and any way that you can improve on how you stay in contact with parents is an advantage. There have been a lot of changes in web design over the last few years.

For instance, can your site be viewed and used just as well on a mobile device such as a smart phone as it can on a traditional PC? More and more of us nowadays access the web on our phones or tablets and web design needs to be responsive to this.

A dynamic website has also become part of building credibility for many organisations such as schools. You can include all the information that parents need but you can also have great added extras such as a regularly updated blog, interactive services and video and images that promote you school to a wider audience.

The good news is that web design is now highly affordable. Web design is not just about an attractive appearance. It’s about good usability and having all the right components in the right place so that your viewers can easily access what they need. At Parent Apps we are able to provide the right service at the right cost.

If it’s been a while since your existing website has had an update, perhaps now is the time to see what the team at Parent Apps can do to deliver a modern and attractive new site that works on all devices and delivers better engagement with parents, staff and pupils alike.