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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…

Most modern day parents live a fast paced and hectic lifestyle trying to juggle multiple tasks at once can sometimes lead to disorganised chaos. That’s why it’s important for schools to think of innovative ways to keep parents in the loop so they can keep track of important dates and juggle their schedules accordingly.

You may believe you’re already doing this effectively by using a text messaging service or newsletter but these techniques are flawed and your money is wasted if you don’t have the latest contact details for parents. So what’s the solution? Well nowadays many people are running their lives through their smartphone and tablet devices and we can utilise this trend to your advantage.

If you want to improve how you communicate the dates of upcoming events to parents so they never feel like they are the last to know or even worse forget about them entirely our apps would be ideal for you. Designed for schools and nurseries our mobile apps feature an in-built calendar that highlights important dates such as school plays, parent’s evenings, term-times and other events.

Even better you can send parents notifications instantly to get their attention and remind them of important upcoming dates. Additionally if parents wish to do so they can also sync those important dates with the calendar in their device.

Better still you can even upload videos and pictures so even if parents can’t attend school events such as plays or sports days they don’t feel as though they are missing out.

So if you’d like to find out more about how to help parents keep track of key dates using a mobile app then click ">here to get in touch today – we can help you upgrade your communications systems so your parents are always kept in the loop!