Ideas

On the old system, we could send from a list wizard, where we could choose a year group or multiple groups, and sort it by name or reg etc, we could then view all members and tick only those we wanted to send messages to. This was a very valuable ...

Parents are unable to send general messages. This is causing a lot of problems with communications. Parents should be able to message in about things other than absences.

We need the ability to send messages to only males or females, depending on the message. This was available previously and was very useful.

When the Year 11s come off roll we still have reasons to contact them, ie collect art work, collect certificates, post-secondary education, etc. We used to be able to make a report from SIMS and export to Iris Reach and use this to send messages. ...

We have a parents consultation meetings which can be held on the same day. One in the morning and then meetings in the evening. At the moment to set this up you have to set up two separate parents evening sessions. It would be beneficial to be abl...

When an absence comes through, with being a larger school, it is adding time to check which class they are in. Also, we have a few pupils with the same name in different year groups so having their class/year show when sending messages home would ...

Before the upgrade we would send out lots of forms to staff in the September via ParentMail, such as Declaration of Business Interests, Safeguarding declarations. Our templates are still there but we are unable to send them to staff as that featur...

The Survey's and Forms are headed Answers from .....(parent name). It would be better for filing against the child's record if the Survey or Form was headed Answers for and child's name. The children do not always have the same surname as the pare...

Please reinstate the option to have two separate bookings per parent who need it rather than everyone

When you download the form completion as a PDF, they question is in large bold text but the answers are in small very pale grey. This is making it difficult for staff to read the correct information quickly. Would like the responses to be clearer ...