Source 2020 Education report - the educator Australia
Parents are frustrated too with the labour intensive, manual process of managing school communications and they frequently miss events or details.
This creates significant 'parent noise' impacting teacher and office staff admin workload.
School Admin Burden is Reduced
Our service creates all the calendar entries automatically. This removes the administrative & data entry burden for school staff. In fact, school admin is reduce further with our automatic reminders, online forms and reduced 'parental noise' from better organised parents.
Parents are Better Organised
Our school calendar is the first school parent app where both school events and parent tasks are added to parent's calendar with the level of detail they need. Parents are more organised, more in control and more involved.
It is Free & Easy to Implement
There is no cost to both the school or the parents improving school inequality in access to resources. With no tech integration required onboarding for schools and parents is quick and easy.
They are now more organised
They are less frustrated and more in control
They have more peace of mind
They are now more productive at work
We are proud to do our part in reducing resource inequality between schools. The School Calendar Assistant is funded by those parents who choose to subscribe to the Family Calendar Assistant app.
We aggregate the multiple channels of school communication for parents by adding into the calendar information from emails, portals, websites and apps. Calendar entries include newsletters to read, forms to completed, school events to attend and events to RSVP. We add what to do, where to go and importantly link the original information so parents have all the detail they need in one place.
Gone are the days of constantly reminding parents. myWhānau enables online forms and automatically creates deadlines and reminders along with push notifications into the calendar. Parents are notified in the evening what they or their child needs to do tomorrow. Task entries like “complete form” and “register to a particular school event”, can be marked by parents as done when actioned. This tick is private to them and stored only on their device.
Calendar entries are targeted by year or groups. So class specific entries like PE days, swimming days, class events, library day for example can be added to the calendar. Teachers can be more confident children will arrive to class with what they need to bring.
Within the app, parents can access a links page bespoke to each school needs. For example they can click through to payment page, registration, absence, the portal or the website.
Getting started is painless. We just need visibility to group emails and access to the portal, if applicable.
Users are verified by schools and App is password protected.
We're committed to protecting personal information through our strict myWhānau Privacy Policy here
Entries are read-only with a quality assurance process, requiring review of all entries made in the App. Teachers and Admin staff have access to the app and visibility of all entries as required.
Our data is encrypted in a server that meets Australian Government’s highest data security certification. We use SSL encryption and two step verification.