Schoolcomms insights

Lincewood Primary School

Lincewood Primary was searching for a reliable cashless and messaging system. Learn why this Essex school chose Schoolcomms as their engagement system.

Brentry Primary School

Brentry Primary wanted to restructure the school payment system to save time and money. They were looking for an intuitive, easy-to-use system and a company with efficient and comprehensive training and free refresher sessions. Discover how Brentry Primary was able to get 90% of their parents to use the app by the new school year and was able to streamline the majority of their payments to come through the app.

Kiwi Primary School

Kiwi Primary School wanted to implement a single system for parents to book school meals, trips, and more. They were looking for the best engagement app in the industry that was easy to use and was a good value-for-money solution. Learn why Kiwi Primary felt that Schoolcomms was the best fit for their goals.

Leverstock Green CofE Primary School

With three main goals in mind while adopting a new system, Leverstock Green explored how Schoolcomms was the best solution for them.

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Woodland Grange Primary School

Woodland Grange were looking for a system that reduced the amount of cash coming into school and was a quick and easy way of messaging parents. The school looked at several different companies offering similar systems, but Schoolcomms seemed to be the most user-friendly to them.

Keresforth Primary School

The school started with just the goal of giving parents the choice of being able to pay online or by card for convenience and attain the facility of sending text messages. However, further down the line, the school decided to become a cashless school and even start using a club management solution. The school considered a couple of systems, but Schoolcomms was recommended by the SIMS team who supported the school when they went live. Keresforth Primary looked at different providers but decided that Schoolcomms offered excellent value for money and parents would not need to get used to a new/second system.

Callington Community College

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? We were desperately trying to find a more effective way of reaching parents with various forms of exam information. We found sending things home with students meant that more than 50% of parents would not be receiving important documents, which was very frustrating. We especially wanted to increase the parental engagement in our school.

Bodnant Community School video success story

Watch how Bodnant Community School found success with Schoolcomms. We sat down with Sian Canty, Admin Support, to discuss how Schoolcomms has helped streamline her school's processes to achieve more.

John Rankin Junior School video success story

Watch how John Rankin Junior School found success with Schoolcomms. Amy Futcher, Admin Officer, tells us how Schoolcomms has impacted her school to improve parental engagement and admin processes.

Marlborough Primary School video success story

Watch how Marlborough Primary School found success with Schoolcomms. We spoke to Dean Laybourne, School Business Manager, to hear how Schoolcomms has helped his school to achieve more.

Front Lawn Primary Academy

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? Our aims were to reduce our carbon footprint by minimising the use of paper, to simplify home-school communications, and to reduce the workload of the admin team whilst giving parents more control.

Todmorden Church of England Primary School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? To consolidate everything into one place. We also wanted to be able to monitor debts more easily, and become as cashless as possible, cutting down on paper. What made you decide to use Schoolcomms to reach these goals? Schoolcomms was recommended by another local primary school, I believe one of the first to start using it.

Westbury Park Primary School

We know that budgets are always tight for schools. What savings (both in time and money) do you feel have made investing in Schoolcomms worthwhile? The cost of Schoolcomms (which is by no means excessive) is vastly outweighed by the saving in time and resources and also, where payments are concerned, the risk of human error.

Ponteland Community High School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? Our primary aim was to streamline our parent payment options. However, we quickly realised the benefits of being able to send regular pupil progress updates through a single system linked to our MIS.

Crown Hills Community College

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? We were desperately trying to find a more effective way of reaching parents with various forms of exam information. We found sending things home with students meant that more than 50% of parents would not be receiving important documents, which was very frustrating. We especially wanted to increase the parental engagement in our school.

Oathall Community College

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? Our online payments system was continually causing the school and parents issues so we decided to take the plunge and move to a new payments system. Why did Oathall Community College decide to use Schoolcomms to reach these goals? We had to find a system which would work well with our cashless catering system. We were advised by our till system provider (Sharps) that Schoolcomms was compatible with their system. Having looked at the systems available to us we felt that Schoolcomms would be the best solution.

Brookside Primary School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? We wanted to: reduce the amount of cash and cheques in school; improve admin processes; give parents and carers the opportunity to pay for trips, dinner money, and after-school clubs whenever they like from wherever they are; prevent cash being lost in school; enable online permissions for trips; and establish an efficient way of managing our pre/aftercare clubs.

Down High School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? We were hoping to be able to: link up to SIMS – so the integration wasn’t cumbersome; streamline communication with parents; find an online payment method for parents; and find a way of communicating urgent news – e.g. school closures.

Whetstone Field Primary School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? We wanted to find an easy-to-use system for both parents and the school office staff. We also wanted to make the school cashless, meaning easier tracking of funds received and less time spent counting and banking money.

Marlborough Primary School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you started looking for a parent app? Initially we were interested in several areas when we first started looking at a parent app in the hope it would improve the service we could offer our parents and carers. These included: increasing safeguarding with a booking system for our breakfast and after-school clubs; reducing the amount of cash administration in the school; and a messaging system to improve communication.

Launde Primary School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? We are a large primary school that takes a large amount of cash each week. so we were hoping to reduce the need for continuous banking. We also hoped to reduce the amount of time spent on administrative tasks to free up staff for other duties. For our busy parents and carers, we were looking for a system which would improve efficiency and the service we offer them.

The John of Gaunt School

What goals were you hoping to achieve when you decided that an engagement system would be a good fit for your school? We wanted to find an interactive communication system, so that parents felt involved and included in their child’s education. The hope was that this would increase parental engagement. It was essential that we had the ability to send both types of reports (Assessment Manager Individual Reports and Profile Reports) electronically from SIMS.