Parental engagement

Engaged parents help motivate their children in school

Parental engagement is rising on the political and parental agendas. Most of the information parents need is already being collected in your school – sometimes electronically, sometimes manually. The challenge is to simplify collecting and communicating it to parents online in a format they can understand and use, without increasing teachers' workloads.

Whatever the current level of parental engagement in your school, SIMS provides solutions that will help you initiate and control the parental engagement agenda – and keep parents on your side, not on your back.

Engagement that fits with modern lifestyles

SIMS allows you to provide parents online 24-7 access to the attendance, behaviour and assessment records of their children. It helps parents provide the right learning support for their child at home by giving real-time information that is relevant to them – from any PC with an internet connection at their home or work.

• Share information with parents with SIMS Learning Gateway for primary schools, secondary schools and academies

Keep parents updated – wherever they are

Keep parents fully up-to-date with everything relating to their child’s school life – or provide answers to routine questions using SMS or email. SIMS lets you send messages relating to a pupil’s behaviour, awards for achievement, special education needs, unexpected school closures, parents' evening reminders, unexplained absences, late school trip returns – the list is endless.

• Keep parents in the loop in an instant with SIMS InTouch for primary schools, secondary schools and academies

More motivated pupils

You can also give pupils access to their current and historical achievement data to let them see how they are progressing towards their learning targets. Through SIMS you can encourage them to collaborate, discuss, resolve problems with homework and learn together through online forums.

• Help pupils drive their own achievement with SIMS Learning Gateway for primary schools, secondary schools and academies

Downloads

• Click here to download the Parental Engagement pack