Parental Engagement

Most children have two main educators: their parents and their teachers. Both have crucial roles to play and it's vital that the role of 'parent educator' doesn't fade when their child is at school.

Parental Engagement in Schools

Increasing parental engagement in schools is one of the key benefits to using our parental engagement tools, helping you to keep parents informed, updated and included in the school community and in their child’s progress.

What's the benefit?

 

Engaged parents are more informed, involved and active parents. Armed with a stake in their child’s education, they’re more likely to develop a rewarding dialogue with you, and ensure that their child makes the most of their time at school.

 

Inclusion

BOOST INCLUSION

Improve Communication

IMPROVE COMMUNICATION

Paperwork

REDUCE PAPERWORK

Save Admin Time

SAVE ADMIN TIME

Reduce Unauthorised Absences

REDUCE UNAUTHORISED ABSENCES

Communicate with non English speaking families

COMMUNICATE WITH NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING FAMILIES

Cut Your Phone Bills

CUT YOUR PHONE AND TEXT BILLS

Improve safety and security

IMPROVE SAFETY AND SECURITY

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60%
of parents want to be more involved in their child's education

66%
of parents say work hours make it difficult to engage with the school

16%
of parents don't feel welcome at school

12%
perceive not having translation services at events as an obstacle to parental engagement

Encourage two way communication


School-home communication is a two-way street – and Groupcall technology enables a new and rewarding level of dialogue. Now, with Messenger you can create and send (or post) a huge variety of private and public communications to and from parents, from group texts and emails to letters, tweets and more... and you can do it all in over 100 different languages.

 

SMS & Text

SMS (TEXT)

Email

EMAIL

Push messages

PUSH MESSAGES

Voice messaging

VOICE MESSAGING

Multi-Linguage

MULTI-LINGUAL

E-Letters and Letters

E-LETTERS/LETTERS

eCards

E-CARDS

Ability to Tweet

TWEET

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Provide parents with the information they need

 

Imagine you could give your entire parent community access to the information they needed about their children’s progress, round the clock, wherever they are. The Groupcall Xpressions app for smartphone and tablet does just that. No wonder it’s the ultimate home-school communications tool.


parental engagement

  • School alerts, attendance, teacher comments and even exam timetables, all delivered in a clear format. 

  • Send push notifications instead of texts – saving you money.

  • Enable parents to stay abreast of homework assignments and key dates in the school calendar.

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Perfect your parents evenings

 

The process of booking appointments at Parents' Evenings is often complex and burdensome. Now, with the help of Groupcall Messenger, parents can make their own appointments at a time to suit them – with no need for students to do the legwork on their behalf, and no old-fashioned paperwork.

 

parental engagement - organise parents' evenings with ease

  • Set-up new parents' evening events in minutes.
  • Enables parents to log in and book their own appointments, quickly and simply.
  • Ensures parents can get access to the teachers they want to see.
  • Relieves students of the responsibility to make appointments.
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Making forms easy

 

Say goodbye to the hassle of form admin and ‘pupil post’. With Groupcall Messenger, you can build and customise your own forms to send to parents in minutes. The system even includes automatic reminders to prompt parents to return forms on time. 

 

Prepare, personalise and send in minutes

PREPARE, PERSONALISE AND SEND IN MINUTES

No more lists or forgotten forms

NO MORE LISTS OR FORGOTTEN FORMS

Safe and secure

SAFE, SECURE AND FULLY LEGIBLE

Environmentally friendly

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, LESS WASTE

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Developing your parental engagement strategy

Many studies have identified a link between parental engagement and academic success, in addition to a greater achievement of the child’s potential.

To help you create a committed parental engagement strategy for your school, we've created a parental engagement eBook:

  • A detailed 10 step guide on how you can effectively implement a parental engagement strategy within your school.
  • A summary of academic research and findings on the benefits of parental engagement.
  • Best practice examples of parental engagement.
  • A breakdown of the best engagement technology solutions for school.
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Parental Engagement eBook

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Get in touch today to find out how Groupcall can help boost your parental engagement.