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How could you save money with a custom built school app?
Here’s a tough question for you. How financially efficient is your school? Put another way, what proportion of your school’s spend per...
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How to successfully launch a customised school app
There are so many benefits to having a customised app for your school. The ability to instantly share information with parents means that...
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Keeping parental engagement easy
Parental engagement, and making parents feel included in their child’s development, is an important part of school life – headteacher...
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How a MAT app could help you to raise standards and improve efficiency
With recent budget cuts and the continuing recruitment crisis, school leaders are increasingly under pressure to achieve more with less....
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How a multi-academy trust app could help bring your schools closer
Harnessing community spirit is a challenge in any school, but for a MAT it can be even harder. Each school is unique, and a school’s...
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Saving time with school apps
Whatever your role is, there are never enough hours in the day when you work in a school. Recent budget cuts and staff shortages have led...
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Three ways to involve parents in the summer term
As we enter the final term, many teachers will already be thinking ahead to next academic year. As the pressure of SATs and GCSEs...
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Parents’ Evening Tips: Pitfalls to avoid
Ask any teacher about parents’ evening and they’ll have a few tales to tell. When you’re busy teaching a full timetable, parents’ evening...
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How to improve parents’ evenings
Parents’ evening is an opportunity to get your pupils on track, celebrate their achievements and get their parents on-side. Sometimes,...
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Getting parental support for exam revision
The daffodils are out, which can only mean one thing… exam season is almost upon us. This can be an incredibly stressful time of year for...
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Improving parents’ evening attendance
Parents’ evenings are a golden opportunity to engage parents and improve outcomes for pupils. A good parents’ evening can lead to...
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Best practice for engaging parents in the spring term
Now that the spring term is well underway, there are many important dates coming up. Engaging parents now will make it much easier to...
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Teacher Toolkit: Custom school apps are “the perfect solution”
Ross Morrison McGill, better known as Teacher Toolkit, is the most followed teacher on Twitter and writes the most influential UK blog on...
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Building positive relationships with parents
At Piota, we believe that building positive relationships with parents is the key to pupil success. Getting parents on-side and helping...
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How to keep parents engaged during school holidays
School holidays are a crucial time for staff, pupils and parents to unwind and refresh. But that first day back after a break can feel...
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What parents want from your personalised school app
Your school’s leadership team is planning the content for your new personalised school app. The whiteboard is full of ideas for content...
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Making the most of your dedicated school app
At Piota, we believe that parental engagement is the key to school improvement. So, what’s the key to achieving that parental engagement?...
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Poor parental engagement and how to fix it
What are the common pitfalls that lead to poor parental engagement, and make it just that little bit harder to build a thriving school...
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What are the benefits of engaging with parents with a school app?
How many of your pupils’ parents do you see on a regular basis? Beyond parents’ evening, when do you have the opportunity to genuinely...
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