Case studies | Piota Apps

Digital Transformation at St Elizabeth’s
In mid-2018 Piota met with St Elizabeth’s, Hertfordshire, a charity that manages residential care homes with nursing for people with epilepsy and other complex needs as well as a special needs school and college. Read more...
An app for every campus
The Braeburn Group of International Schools is a group of co-educational international schools offering British/International curricula in Kenya and Tanzania; educating over 3,600 pupils. Read more...
Getting an app up and running in just 3 days
Jewellery Quarter Academy first contacted Piota on March 10th and moved fast, launching their customised app to parents in just 3 days. Jamie Barton, Deputy Headteacher, told us how they were getting on with their app. Read more...
NHS staff stay updated with their app
We caught up with Sharon Callaghan, Project Manager for TEC Digital Services about their team's experience of using their app to communicate. Within the NHS Ayrshire and Arran ‘container app’ there are dedicated apps for specific services like key information, emergency procedures and contact details. Read more...
Marymount Paris makes the most of its app
We recently caught up with Kate des Places, Director of External Relations at Marymount Paris to see how they were getting on with their app. Marymount Paris decided to revisit their communications strategy. Read more...
New Primary’s app works wonders
We caught up with the Headteacher of New End Primary School in Camden, about their school app usage during the coronavirus crisis. Over time, the app had made communicating with parents much easier and the usage of the app has increased as the crisis escalated. Read more...
School comms transformed at Pick Me Academy
After a period of fast growth, Pick Me Academy in Bucharest, Romania, needed to adapt their school-to-parent communications. Pick Me Academy was founded in 2014 as a kindergarten teaching the British curriculum in an English speaking environment in Bucharest, Romania. Read more...
A nursery app to keep parents in the loop
The Barn Nursery School explains their decision to invest in a nursery app and their experience of having a go-to resource for parents. We build the apps in a way which makes them accessible to all users. Read more...
Transforming communication with a football club app
In summer 2018, Piota welcomed new customer Bristol City Academy football club. We developed a football club app, available on Apple and Android, with the aim of reducing staff time spent on admin whilst also improving parent experience. Read more...
International School app for King’s Oak School
King's Oak School in Romania improved their parental engagement through a Piota international school app and now it set's them apart from local competitors. Demonstration to launch took just 3 days and the positive impact on the school community was immediate. Read more...
Becoming a paperless school within REAch2 Academy Trust
Heath Hayes Academy was the first REAch2 school to launch its Piota school app. Since becoming a paperless school and switching to the app for all their parent communication, download numbers have peaked at over 800. Read more...
A customised app within a day
Hollygirt School is an independent school in Nottingham founded in 1877 with 200+ boys and girls aged between 3 and 16. It provides an outstanding education in a nurturing and inspirational environment and has won very high ratings from parents and ISI alike. Read more...
An innovative approach to parental communication
Oasis Academy Warndon is an inclusive academy for children aged between 2 and 11 located on the periphery of Worcester City. Aspiring to provide a truly holistic education and to build an interconnected community led the school adopt a customised school app. Read more...
How our tailored school app improved parental engagement
Hargrave Park Primary School in Archway, north London has 340 pupils from Nursery to Year 6. The children’s progress is well above the national average and the school was graded Good with outstanding features in its last Ofsted. Read more...
The two sides to primary parental engagement
Chris Burton, assistant headteacher and ICT development teacher at St John’s Church of England primary school in Bradford explains how they have improved their primary parental engagement. Read more...
Improving parental engagement with a school app
Kingsdown is a Community Special School in Southend for children aged 3-14 who have severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties, physical disabilities and associated learning difficulties. Read more...
Improving parental engagement at St John Evangelist RC Primary School
St John Evangelist is an Islington primary school with 301 pupils from Nursery to Year 6. The school was rated "Good" in all categories by Ofsted in October 2014 with comments praising its strong leadership, effective promotion of British values and good pupil behaviour. Read more...
An app for Treetops school
With fast and effective communication being a major priority for the school, Treetops was keen to find new ways to engage and enhance the way it messaged and shared content with parents. In Treetops decided to invest in a custom school app. Read more...