Schoolcomms case study
Phase: Secondary
Local Authority: Cornwall
Unique challenge: Having the resources to encourage parents to use School Gateway
What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school?
- To improve communication with parents and carers.
- To reduce the amount of paper-based communications to parents, carers and students.
- To implement an interactive and user-friendly system for staff, parents and carers.
Were there any advantages to using Schoolcomms
that you hadn’t considered when originally looking?
The ability to do so much more than just send/receive messages – parents and carers can view timetables, attendance, reports and more.
We also knew there was the potential for a cashless system in the future for payments and school lunches – which we have now introduced since our initial launch of School Gateway.
What has parent and staff reaction been to School Gateway?
Very positive and a big initial uptake from parents and carers. We now have 82% of parents and carers registered on School Gateway and 59% using the app. These numbers are increasing all the time.
What has been the impact of adopting Schoolcomms?
- Improvement in communication and in a much more timely manner, especially for emergency closures, cancellation of clubs/fixtures, etc.
- Huge reduction in printing and postage costs.
- We are now a cashless college.
- Staff are more regularly engaging with parents and carers.
