Grange Academy

Dear Parents/Carers of S3 Pupils

S3 PARENTS EVENING – APPOINTMENTS

You will receive an email tomorrow (1st December) from our Parents Evening Booking platform, Parents Booking, to the email address we hold on file.  Please check your junk/spam folders.

Once registered, you will be able to book appointments with staff for our upcoming S3 Parents Evening on Wednesday 8th December (4:30pm – 6:30pm).

Please note:

1. You must register with the name and email address that is listed as the main contact with the school office.  This will be the email address that receives the sign up email.
2. The platform is very sensitive and will only accept if the information provided is an exact match to the information we hold on file.  For example – if entering Miss Jones with no success, please try Ms Jones.  The school office will be able to confirm what we have on file.
3. When making appointments, the platform will try to find a best fit of appointments for you but you are able to select other times.
4. Please note that each appointment window is 5 minutes long and therefore teachers, particularly in smaller departments, may teach more pupils that they have appointment slots.  Please book early to avoid disappointment.
5. There will also be an opportunity to make an appointment with either Rebecca (Douglas and Hamilton Houses) or Scott (Bruce and Graham Houses), our Skills Development Scotland Careers Advisors.  The platform may try to automatically select a time for them – you will need to deselect this if you do not wish an SDS appointment.
6. Appointments can be made until 2pm on the date of the Parents Evening.

For pupils in Miss Kane’s English class – unfortunately Miss Kane is not able to hold appointments on the evening of Wednesday 8th December.  She is, however, able to host appointments on Tuesday 7th December from 4pm until 6pm.  Pupils in Miss Kane’s English class will see two different events when they log in to the system – one for English and one for all other subjects.  We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

We have used this software for our S1 and S5/6 Parents Evening and the feedback from staff and parents has been generally positive.   As with any IT system there can be technical issues.  If we can help with digital access/provision in any way please contact our school office and we will do our best to help.

Should you have any difficulty, please contact the school office on 01563 549988 and we will do our best to help you.  An information help sheet is also attached to this message.

Kind regards

Stephen Cowan
Depute Head Teacher

Click to access Video-Call-Information-for-Parents.pdf