caffrey Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 How does your school do it ? Social media ? Local news ? Internal messaging system ? Word of mouth ? If it's an internal messaging system how do you use it if the staff who have the knowledge to use it can't get into school ?
elsiegee40 Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) Kent operates a school closures notification service which independent and state schools both use. Parents can elect to be notified by email and/or text. Local radio uses this for its announcements. http://www.kentclosures.co.uk We also put it on the school website, the school twitter feed and send out a parentmail. Edited March 2, 2018 by elsiegee40 1
Andycat Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 Schoolcomms to staff and parents, School website, Facebook, Twitter, Firefly message, all staff email and local radio.
ShellfishClive Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 We are in today but generally they update their Twitter and Website then wait for the flood of calls from all the parents.
Steven_Cleaver Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 Website, Twitter\Facebook, all staff email and text to Parents using PAR's hopefully can't miss any with all those mediums. 1
6Foot2 Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 Staff <-> Staff notifications: Head to all staff by E-Mail, backed up by phone tree starting with the Head to senior staff, senior staff to others, then cascaded onward. Staff -> Parents/Students: Parent mail, and website notification.
ShellfishClive Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 hopefully can't miss any with all those mediums. There is always one that doesn't have any technology and expects a pigeon carrier with the info though. 2
AJWhite1970 Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 Website, Twitter and the local radio stations online service. We had a WhatsApp group chat at 6am to decide if the school would open on Thursday, Friday was a no brainier and I had the authorising email from the HM by 4pm Thursday to update all the channels.
caffrey Posted March 2, 2018 Author Posted March 2, 2018 Thanks all, do you all have an adverse weather policy ?
6Foot2 Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 Thanks all, do you all have an adverse weather policy ? Whatever the Head decides on the day?
ShellfishClive Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 Whatever the Head decides on the day? Pretty much the same for most of the schools we support too. Head says not enough staff can make it then closes the school.
MrCoffee Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 We email all parents, update website and our Twitter feed.
FN-GM Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Could you also put a message on your phones? So when a parent calls to check they hear the message and hangup (or thats the theory).
synaesthesia Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Every means possible. Primary is schoolcomms/myed app, with announcements on Facebook (which is probably the most effective method), our website and our county council operate a closure service website too which is also relayed to local radio.
DrCheese Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Yeah we go to town with it Schoolcomms - Text messages to all parents and staff (Watch you have enough credits in the bank for this) Email - All students/Staff Website - Front page alert Facebook/twitter/Instagram - It's rather telling how social media has changed over the years, i.e last time we had a snow day (8+ years) The students mostly found out via twitter & all retweeted it. Now they barely use twitter, Facebook was mostly parents & the kids mainly found out via Instagram. We've had three days off this week so I've got pretty efficient at doing it
jmak Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Schoolcomms message to all parents plus website here too. Reason for post is to mention that it's worth checking default settings: we usually set SMS or App, so if the parents do have the App it saves us text credits. I checked the delivery status of the messages and found that a good percentage of the messages sent to the App had been delivered but not read. We now send urgent messages via SMS only.
sparkeh Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Yeah we go to town too: MyEd App/SMS to all parents and staff, email, website, twitter and every social media thing we use, phone message, local radio etc... However, on Friday we still had a few staff and pupils turn up! 1
Edu-IT Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 It isn't just when you're closed now is it though, you have to tell people you're open too... 1
KK20 Posted April 23, 2018 Posted April 23, 2018 Website (which also updates a mobile app with alert and emails staff) Text Facebook & Twitter
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