I can’t tell you how long I have been waiting for this sort of thing to be implemented.
FINALLY.
It makes SO much sense:
St. Michael’s School, an independent school in Otford, Kent, is engaging parents and safeguarding pupils with Call Parents, an automatic parent notification system from Truancy Call Ltd. The service enables staff at the school to send messages on school closures, upcoming events and school trips to parents via text message. (The system can also send messages via e-mail and automated phone calls).
It’s about time. I’m delighted to read news of this being implemented.
Kudos to everyone at Truancy Call Ltd. The sort of service should be in every school.
Kudos to Chris Young, Bursar at St. Michael’s School, who, I assume, played a key part in getting the system installed. He comments:
Chris Young, Bursar at St. Michael’s School, comments: ‘Installing Call Parents has allowed us to send quick text messages to parents at the click of a mouse. We wanted a method of getting in contact with parents effectively and Call Parents has gone beyond our expectations.â€Â
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
More of the same, please!
If you’re a British school Governor, please make sure someone in the school implements a text update system.
St Michael’s is an independant school, but automated systems are rolled out within the state sector already – my son’s secondary school has electronic registration and if they aren’t in the system by 9.30am, you receive an automated call to contact the school.
We have spoken to all the schools my kids have attended about rolling out text based systems like this, not only for use in truancy cases but notifying parents of school closures, even events like fetes or concerts, but alas, as in all schools, the state/county budgets just aren’t allowing for them.
Which is daft, when they send out second class letters about trip meetings and funky postcards to say the kids have done well in science this term …sigh …