SIMS InTouch

Using a combination of email, text messages and instant alerts, you can send information to parents, students and staff at the click of a button. Whether you need to send out achievement, behaviour, exam results or general school information, with SIMS school messaging system it’s quick and easy to keep everyone up-to-date. You can choose between unlimited and pay-as-you-go tariff options, ensuring the flexibility to meet your needs and budget.

Schools send hundreds of communications every week. With SIMS InTouch you can streamline your communications, meaning less phone calls to make and fewer printed letters being sent home to parents. All of this can save you time and money. Because SIMS InTouch is fully embedded within SIMS you don’t need to leave the system, so sending messages is quick and easy. The single mailbox feature makes managing messages easy and the option to flag messages helps save time.

With SIMS InTouch it’s easy to handle absenteeism straight away, helping to strengthen your schools safeguarding arrangements. Unauthorised absences are recorded, parents are contacted via text or email and their responses are captured. Response are automatically written back into the pupil’s attendance record in SIMS.

Achievement and behaviour can be instantly communicated and interventions made early on. A complete record of pupil’s details and messages are stored in SIMS and available to staff or Ofsted during inspections.

School staff have to juggle numerous tasks throughout the school day. Use SIMS InTouch to send cover alerts to staff, incomplete marksheet alerts or late notifications to inform teachers when a pupil is late to class.

Teachers have the information they need and can respond to communications, administration staff spend less time chasing and senior leaders have access to the information they need to lead and manage the school.