The parents area in School Spider has lots of tools to communicate quickly and effectively with your parents. Not only are the tools useful, but they’re completely free! If you’re already using School Spider, everything in the parents area is all inclusive of your website package. One tool is your parents’ evening booking system, if you’re not already using this you are missing out! Drop those paper forms, full
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4 Reason’s Why An App Could Benefit Your School!
More schools are choosing to ditch the paper and use a school app for their parental engagement and more. There is so much technology around and seemingly more is finding its way into the classroom, mobile devices being one of them. Considering nowadays 4/5 adults own a smartphone in the UK, there’s no surprise more schools are going paperless! With statistics suggesting that on average schools use up to
5 Ways To Inspire Children to Read for Fun!
The challenge may not be to encourage children to read in school, but how you can inspire a love of reading outside the classroom? Research shows that motivation to read decreases with age, especially when pupils’ attitude to reading becomes less positive. Home is also said to be a massive influence but if parents aren’t reading around their children, how can teachers encourage children to pick up a book
Free Ofsted Checklist – Is your school website compliant?
Don’t get marked down on your school website! Ofsted inspections can happen at any time so ensure you’re not making simple mistakes that could prevent the ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good’ that your school is aiming for. Using an Ofsted Checklist is great place to start and find out what is required of your school. Your website is one of, if not the first place Ofsted will look. In fact they will
