With several weather warnings in place over the coming days, please see below guides that you may find useful in the event of an unexpected school closure.
How to Use Bulk Attendance Updates – You can use this guide to help you update the Attendance for the whole school or large groups of Students. If the closure is for 1 day only, select the Start Date and End Date to be the day of the closure, and ensure all periods are selected.
How to Send an SMS or Email to Students – You can use this guide to help you communicate the closure with Parents via SMS or Email. Note: You can also communicate with Staff in a similar manner, by instead going to the Staff list page (by selecting Staff from the left hand menu) then selecting any Staff you would like to send a message to, then select Actions > Send SMS/Email.
How to Configure and Add Announcements for MyChildAtSchool – You can use this guide if you have already set up MyChildAtSchool to send an announcement to all Parents using the app. Once you’ve created the Announcement ensure that you click the paper airplane icon to send a Push Notification to all Parents using the app who have notifications enabled.
How to Create School Announcements – You can use this guide to help you communicate the closure with Staff. Staff will be able to view the Announcement through the Teacher App if they have it installed or within Bromcom.
Additionally, for guidance from the DfE please see the Working Together to Improve School Attendance page of their website.