Parental engagement

By September 2012 you should be providing parents with information on their child, online

The issues

Today’s primary school needs engaged parents helping to motivate their children. It’s an issue that’s inexorably rising up both political and parental agendas.

It’s an issue that will be satisfied in only one of two ways; with time you haven’t got or with technology.

The challenges and opportunities

It’s not about getting new information, it’s about being smart with sharing the information you already gather.

Most of the information parents need is already being collected in your school. Sometimes electronically, sometimes manually.

The challenge is how to simplify both collecting and communicating it… online and in a format that parents can understand and use.

Get it right and you’ll enjoy fewer interruptions, an empowered parental ‘support team’ and a means of getting all the good news about your school (news which is all too often missed by parents and the local press), into the right hands at the right time.

 The right technology will also make valuable data available to you and your teams wherever there is an internet connection – flexible working suddenly becomes an option.

Get it wrong, however, and the result is more time spent for teachers, administrators and the SLT trying to satisfy the needs of a new generation of engaged parents.

The SIMS answer

Clarity, security, accessibility

SIMS Learning Gateway allows teachers, pupils and parents to access the information already held in SIMS via the internet:

• Engagement that fits modern lifestyles
  Parents enjoy online access 24-7 to the attendance, behaviour and assessment records of their children.
• Fewer 'routine' calls and visits
  Provide parents and pupils with immediate access to general information and FAQs
  

SIMS Learning Gateway helps you enhance the dialogue between school and parent and helps you initiate and control the parental engagement agenda and put hundreds of parents on your side (not on your telephone line).

SIMS is helping schools achieve the Becta online reporting agenda deadline of 2012. SIMS not only delivers online reporting to parents but it also provides the information parents need in real time.

Online demonstration See how SIMS Learning Gateway can provide parents with online access to their child's information, online.  Click here to see the demonstration.