Enabling & creating digital relationships between parents/carers, pupils and schools
The traditional school bag run has been used to facilitate communication between parents and schools for generations. Permission slips, school lunch payments, reports; until recently, they were all dealt with via paper forms, which were easily lost or forgotten about in the bottom of school bags.
However, there is now a digital solution to this issue, making it easier for parents and carers to manage paperwork connected with school activities, and to obtain information about their child’s educational progress at a time that suits them.
South Ayrshire Council is one of a number of local authorities in Scotland to sign up to a digital platform called parentsportal.scot, allowing parents to view information about their child’s education, pay for school meals, update their own data and even to apply for the Young Person’s Free Bus Travel Scheme in just a few clicks.
parentsportal.scot was jointly developed by the Improvement Service (IS) and SEEMiS, the education information management provider. You log in to the service using the myaccount system which links each parent or carer to their child and education while also keeping data private and secure.
Parents/carers can keep up to date with developments at their child’s school, arrange parents’ evening appointments, check attendance, and even read reports online – all at a time that suits. Please see the link below to register.
