How to empower parents to help reduce truancy in New Zealand
Is Early Notification absent at your school? Increase parent awareness of truancy by keeping them informed with easy communication apps. A recent Ministry of Education report showed that student...
View ArticleHow parent engagement can help with attendance management
The recent Ministry of Education report on student attendance rates, also highlighted that Maori and Pasifika students had the lowest attendance rates, with only just over 50 per cent, of these...
View ArticleHow to use the School-links Emergency Alerts App – Android
The School-links Emergency Alerts App allows schools to quickly and easily contact parents, caregivers, students and staff in an emergency. This video shows you how to use the App. How to use the...
View ArticleThe calm during the storm: how communication tools can minimise disruption to...
Most of New Zealand has been battered by storms over the last few weeks, from ice and snow closing roads to rain causing flooding, slips and states of emergency being declared across multiple cities...
View ArticleSupport local businesses and raise funds for your next school project
You can now feature business ads in your school newsletters. It’s simple. You offer businesses the opportunity to promote themselves in the school newsletter. School-links manages the advertising...
View Article[VIDEO] School-links Emergency Alerts App
As School Principal or Office Manager, how do you notify parents, students and staff in the event of an emergency? Imagine there has been an earthquake, a fire alarm, or a bomb scare and you have had...
View ArticleReduce truancy rates by connecting with parents
The issue of truancy for New Zealand schools reared its head again at the end of 2017, with attendance rates falling even further than previous years. The Ministry of Education reported the number of...
View ArticleHow an attendance management system can help reduce truancy rates
Following on from our last article on how parent engagement can help with reducing truancy rates at your school, having a Ministry of Education approved attendance management or early notification...
View ArticleIs your school emergency messaging strategy prehistoric?
The Jurassic Park movie would have ended a lot differently if the park coordinators had come up with a more robust emergency plan in the event of the power going out. Although school emergency...
View ArticleEasy communication between school and home that doesn’t involve social media
Communication between school and home should be effortless. At secondary level, many students are glued to their smartphone, relying on instant messaging, social media and text to communicate, with...
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