Case Studies
They’re the dream team of parental engagement. And they’re here to share a little of their communication mojo – you’ll find feedback about what we do, valuable insights and advice, tips on using Schoolcomms and much more.
Video Case Studies
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Lodge Primary – Headteacher
Lodge Primary – Admin
Lodge Primary – Staff
Lodge Primary – Parent
Lodge Primary – Local Authority
Primary Schools
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Robert Shaw Primary School, Nottingham“The feedback from parents has been very positive. They like the efficiency of the system and the fact that we’re using up-to-date technology. We’re really pleased with Schoolcomms; glad we’ve signed up and would highly recommend to others.” |
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Lodge Primary School, Sandwell“Praise is extended to home and parents feel that school is a place for them too. This is a huge step for our parents many of whom would have been intimidated by school.” |
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Pencoed Primary School, Bridgend“The Head Teacher is well impressed with Schoolcomms and the parents and School office team love it! It saves time and is so easy to use and it saves us money on our printing and paper costs.” |
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Hiltingbury Junior School, Hampshire“In just a few months the school has benefited from a more streamlined system and easy, quick communication with parents – who already really like the system. The school uses text and email to communicate with parents in an emergency, check attendance, send instant messages when clubs are cancelled and reminders about upcoming events.” |
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St John’s Catholic Primary School, Horsham“We love eCards it is a brilliant idea and incredibly user friendly! Sending birthday cards using eCards has been ever so successful and our parents and children have loved receiving them.” |
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Fox Primary School, Kensington“We use Schoolcomms for just about all our communications – advising parents and staff in an emergency, emailing newsletters, reporting good progress, and chasing up absent students to combat truancy. The increased contact we now have has been extremely well received by all concerned!” |
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Alresford Primary School, Colchester“Schoolcomms is great, it’s so easy to use and it saves time and money. Last year we had a real problem contacting parents for a school closure but now we can text everyone very quickly. It is useful for all our after school activities too, letting parents know when we have weather cancellations or other changes.” |
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Portland Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham“As well as improved Attendance, Schoolcomms has now become part of the school’s initiative in the involvement of parents/carers within the school and the local community.” |
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Bleasby Primary School, Nottingham“The service has been outstanding, you can’t fault it; nothing is too much trouble. Schoolcomms is very easy and simple and that’s the beauty of it!” |
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Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul CE Primary“We absolutely love the payments system and the support from Schoolcomms is fantastic. I know that whenever I contact support someone is there to help me.” |
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English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Rugby“I have saved so much time since using Schoolcomms. As the only person in the office, I used to spend so much time trying to contact and follow up with parents; now I can do that at the click of a button.” |
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High Street Primary School, BarryIntroducing Schoolcomms has had a direct impact on reducing our unauthorised absences and has also developed positive communication links with our parents and pupils. The Senior Education Officer for our local authority has highlighted our school’s use of the messaging system as “best practice”. We love the ease of use of the system and the bright eCards for special occasions. Increasing our text credits couldn’t be made easier, and with the dynamic link to SIMS, our data is kept up to date. Looking forward to the new parent’s app being deployed, which will make even more savings on our budget. |
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Ely St John’s Community Primary School, Cambridgeshire“The setting up of our Schoolcomms online payments system was quick and easy both for us and for parents. The system imports data directly from SIMS.Net and SIMS Dinner Money so there is no re-inputting of data and parents can see their up-to-date balances at any time. With minimal training needed to operate the system and the fact that in our first week we collected well over £1,000, we have been extremely happy with our decision to move to Schoolcomms.” |
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Legh Vale, Haydock“We recently purchased Schoolcomms at Legh Vale Primary School. With almost 600 children on roll, communications with parents are really important and not always easy, especially when you want to contact everyone at the same time or in an emergency! Schoolcomms was really easy to install. It is so simple to use and the support we received by phone was excellent. We were up and running the same day that we raised the Purchase Order! Initially we were interested in whole school communications e.g. school closures in bad weather, but since installing the system we have found it really useful for contacting groups of parents, individuals and school staff. I am quite sure that as it becomes embedded in our everyday communication options, we will wonder what we ever did without it!” |
Secondary Schools
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The Downs School, Berkshire“Our parents have given us very positive feedback. They know that they will receive our messages promptly, and that they won’t miss things that have got lost.” |
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Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Rossendale“From our very first investigations into the various messaging systems available, I have been impressed by the friendliness and efficiency of Schoolcomms and the ease with which it was installed on our system.” |
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Sackville School, West Sussex“We used to email more than we sent texts, but during a time where we saw more snow in one year than the last seven put together, we really utilised this invaluable tool! It’s a great, instant way of letting parents and staff know if things change at short notice.” |
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John O’Gaunt School, Hungerford“It is hard to quantify exactly how much Schoolcomms has saved us – I suppose it depends on the value you place on good communication with parents. Effective communication with parents and students is vital in creating a learning partnership between home and school. Would I recommend Schoolcomms? I am completely sold on it!” |
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Saint Catherine’s College, Armagh“Saint Catherine’s College, Armagh has been using Schoolcomms since November 2011 and since that time we have found the service has benefited our school greatly in how we communicate with students, parents and staff.” |
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The Trinity Catholic School, Nottingham“I deal with many software houses and developers in my role and without exception Schoolcomms are the best in offering support and technical advice.” |
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The Thomas Alleyne School, Stevenage“The help desk is very helpful and I have learnt a lot through coming through you. I think the system is brilliant and definitely the right way forward. I believe the system is very user friendly and if I do have a problem, the help desk is excellent in answering the calls instantly.” |
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Burscough Priory Science College, Ormskirk“Schoolcomms has helped Burscough Priory Science College on many occasions over the last few years. When we had the recent snowfall we were able to instantly send a text out to all parents informing them school was closed. We’ve also used it when students are on foreign exchanges/trips. The teacher can send a daily message back to all parents direct from her iPhone. Last year we even woke up a student via text to inform them they were late for a GCSE exam! Parents are also very impressed with the whole system and love the easy two way instant communication!” |
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Holy Trinity, Barnsley“It was a long time before our school purchased a package (such as Schoolcomms) to contact parents so we were able to look at a few options and talk to other schools about what was good about their chosen system. As a result we chose Schoolcomms and have been very happy with it ever since. From initially being used in response to bad weather we now use it for a variety of reasons including alerting parents to news items which we can more fully cover on our website. One of the features I like is the ability to set a time for the message to be sent – so we tend to contact parents with news or non urgent items by Schoolcomms at 6.30pm as the dinner table is being cleared! We have purchased an unlimited text package which makes us more able to send a message to say that School is open – despite the light dusting of snow – and prevent parents clogging up the phone system with 1100 parents all asking the same question! Communication is often mentioned in Ofsted questionnaires to parents and we feel Schoolcomms gives us the right balance without bombarding parents with paper which may never make it home. The larger the school the greater the savings in staff time and resources.” |
Independent / International Schools
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The Lady Eleanor Holles School“We now send out messages to parents once week, rather than on an ad-hoc basis, which has helped with our Eco for Schools requirements. We can keep parents up to date in ‘real time’ – for example, if we cancel a sporting fixture, because of the speed of communication we now have.” |
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The British International School, Jeddah“When it comes to contacting parents, Schoolcomms is our main method of communications. We rely on Schoolcomms for sending all kinds of information. For example, we send emails notifying parents to the fact the newsletter is available on the website, as well as reminding them about upcoming events such as parents evenings and school shows.” |
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St Swithun’s School, Winchester“Some of our parents live overseas which causes delays when sending whole school communications. Like all schools we like to keep channels of communication open with parents and using Schoolcomms means there are no delays in them receiving messages. The system is really flexible and we can either email, text or for those who prefer a hard copy, the system will print letters.” |
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Northwood Preparatory School, Hertfordshire“The new Gateway system has been a great step forward for us to begin to become a cashless school. |
