Spring 2014 New features School Gateway & Online Reporting

Spring 2014

New features

School Gateway

& Online Reporting

…is a website for parents, designed to inform and engage them in their child’s education…

Parents can… Just a click away from your school website, parents can keep up-to-date…

Monitor attendance

View 2-week timetables

Make online payments

Review behaviour

Celebrate achievements

Check and update school

View medical conditions

Check Pupil Premium eligibility

Grow your parental engagement at a pace to suit your school.

School Gateway only shows what you want it to show.

Going cashless?... just show Payments

New timetabling?... just show timetables

Want to encourage Pupil Premium applications before the Jan deadline?...

…1 additional application could cover your licence cost and help drive improved parental engagement school-wide.

Use Schoolcomms to control what your parents see in School Gateway…

‘Automatic notification’ sends to parents phone or app.

How it works

Schoolcomms extracts the data seamlessly from SIMS…

Behaviour Management:

Incident type

Points

Action

Comments

Schoolcomms enables you to schedule SIMS data exports at a time and frequency to suit you…

…you retain control over what you share and when you share it.

Simply turn information on and off in an instant – just tick-and-save the relevant boxes in Schoolcomms.

And then there’s the smartphone app to keep parents informed on the move…

…free to download for parents, students & staff

School Gateway is free for staff, students and parents and comes as part of your Schoolcomms licence.

Choose

what you use

Schoolcomms offer

Messaging

Payments

Online Reporting (NEW!)

Choose one or more of the above. Introduce them at a time to suit your school. All are available to trial… for free, for 30 days.

Here are a few of the highlights…

MESSAGING

SIMS integrated

Just Text, Standard or Premium licence options

Free or half price app messaging – save money on texting

Single or multi user options

Bulk email exam and curriculum timetables from SIMS

Bulk email Profile and Assessment Manager reports from SIMS

Manage attendance

Optional write back to SIMS communication log

Monitor messaging send and delivery

PAYMENTS

Collect parent payments by card, cash or cheques

Parents can pay via School Gateway web or app

Integrates with SIMS Dinner Money & cashless caterers

Full range of management reporting options

Flexible payment options including one-offs and instalments

Gain parental consent at the time of payment

Integrates with financial management systems

ONLINE REPORTING

Publish student timetables

Display parent and student contact details – request updates

Provide daily behaviour and achievement reports online

Auto send a text or instant message when new info is published

Actively drive Pupil Premium applications

Show attendance information and unexplained absences

Help parents engage in their child’s time at school

Seamless SIMS integration

A key reason why we’re the first choice for a growing number of SIMS schools.

Our approach to

Service and value?

Free training

Free ongoing support

Constantly evolving

2,000 happy schools

Innovative technology

Cost efficiency

Why Schoolcomms?

Installation fees

Complicated paper/online parent registration

Data transfer/update challenges

And no…

Schoolcomms is priced based on your number on roll

We take a transparent approach to licences, there are no hidden costs and we publish our rates online

As part of your free trial we’ll include free text credits – our free trials truly are free

We offer an attractive transition package for schools who are tied into a contract with an existing supplier

Online Reporting starts at just £249

Costs?

For more information or to find out the cost for your school call our advisors or visit us online

0844 445 7147

www.schoolcomms.com