We developed SchoolTray with the help of teachers, administrators, parents and students to ensure that we deliver just what your school or nursery needs. SchoolTray is a fully flexible website.
Simply select the features and apps you want to build your perfect school website.
SchoolTrayTM has 6 major functional areas:
WEBSITE - Showcase your school work
- Create content rich pages with text, images, slide shows, audio and video. SchoolTray comes with easy to use, wysiwyg webpage editor.
- Share your school or class diaries, calendars, latest news or latest tweets with school community
- Create a mini-website for each class to showcase class work
- Allow visitors or logged-in-users to leave comments on selected pages or articles
- Create public pages for all to see or private pages for teachers, staff, governors, parents' association and other authorised users and user groups.
- Let parents sell their products or services to school community in the Parents' Marketplace
COMMUNICATION - Connect with parents, students and staff.
- Send messages to parents, students, teachers or any other user group using email, SMS, smart-phone instant messaging (IM), Twitter or Facebook
- Select receivers of these messages individually or by year-group, class, user type or any other criteria
- Post regular electronic newsletters or website pages & articles to subscribed users
- Create and send immediate emergency messages
ON-LINE PAYMENTS & SCHOOL SHOP
- Take payments for school dinners, field trips, school fees or accept donations
- Create School Shop pages to sell products, services or downloadable items.
ADMINISTRATION - Give your staff extra pair of hands and parents and students ease of access
- Absence-reporting & management
- Parents-evening slot booking & management
- School trip organisation & management
- Parents' tasks management and in-your-school-bag apps for approvals, registrations and forms
- 'Booking App' to manage room or any other resorce booking
- 'Voting App' for electing governors or any other thing that requires voting
EDUCATION
- Create a mini-website for each class to showcase your work
- Record evidence of learning
- Create homework and assign to a student or group of students. Students can upload/submit their homework online
- Use our popular student awarding system to recognise and publicise good work
- Let students practice their ICT skills by creating web pages of their own, by blogging and creating mini-programs, animations, games, apps and by plugging them in
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- Create, store and manage educational resources, such as lesson plans, presentations, audio and video
- Share selected resources with teachers in your or other specified schools
- Access them anywhere/anytime online
- Allow your colleagues to comment on or edit selected resources
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SchoolTrayTM comes with iPhone & Android Apps
In order to provide instant parent-school-student connectivity we developed iPhone and Android Apps.
Use these for instant messaging, user-specific task asignment and news posting.
Parents can download these apps for free and sign up using the same user id / password they used for the main school website.
SchoolTrayTM is multilingual / multinational
You can create pages in different languages and group them under main-menus and tabs with our standard mono-lingual package.
Multilingual/multinational package goes one step further and lets you create a completely separate website for each language and country under a single-domain/single-setup.
The users will be able to switch languages by clciking on language selection icons or buttons.
Next time when they access the website they will automatically be presented with their choice of language.
SchoolTrayTM is secure
You have total control over the level of security. You can create pages for the general public or only certain users or user-groups. This means teachers, classes, pupils, parents and outside visitors to your site will only be able to see what you want them to see, maintaining your privacy and integrity throughout.
SchoolTrayTM is powerful
SchoolTray has been built to serve any size of organisation, from the smallest nursery to the largest educational institution. Its superior software allows the website to expand with your growing needs. The structure of the website can be modified and features can be added or removed at any time. The website is search engine optimised (SEO) so people can find you, and has been fine-tuned for optimum performance to make it quicker to use.
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10 reasons why parents love SchoolTray
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- They stay informed.
Parents get electronic newsletters, notices of school events, urgent updates and reminders instantly - no more notes lost in the bottom of school bags.
- Stay in contact by text, email or instant app messages
Parents can choose how they want the school to contact them - by email, SMS text, instant app messages or all of these at the same time.
- They can be sure they're on time!
Parents can view school calendars and tasks that have been privately assigned to them (trip approvals, forms, etc.) and receive auto-reminders for important deadlines.
- They see what their kids are achieving.
Parents can follow class activities, homework, assignments and the curriculum online as SchoolTray provides a mini-website for each class which are populated directly by the class teacher and can allow - praise and encouragement - comments from parents.
- Report absences online,
If a child is ill or off school for any reason, parents can report absence or request a leave-of-absence online with no need to phone the school.
- Book parent's evenings online.
Parents can book a parents' evening slot online and change the booking if necessary. If they can't attend for any reason, the meeting can be held online as a last resort.
- No more permission slips.
Parents can approve school-trips, use of computers, use of photos or anything else that needs permission all with a few clicks of a mouse.
- Pay online - no more searching for change.
SchoolTray enables payment for school dinners or items such as uniforms from the school shop online.
- They're part of the school community.
SchoolTray offers a mini-website for Parents Associations to promote their activities. Parents can also volunteer help through the website or app.
- Sell their products or services to other parents.
If parents have a product or service they want to offer to the school community, they can advertise it and sell it through the Parents' Marketplace.
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10 reasons why teachers love SchoolTray
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- They can showcase class work they're proud of.
With SchoolTray, each class has its own mini-website that teachers and students can update quickly and easily with text, images, video and audio.
- Preparation is so much easier.
Teachers can save time with the SchoolTray educational resource management system. Store, share and access resources such as lesson plans and flipcharts from anywhere.
- Keep parents informed.
It's crucial for a school to show evidence of learning, and teachers can do this on secure pages shared with parents to keep them informed of a child's progress.
- Contact with parents is easy and instant.
Contact parents individually, as a class or a customised group using the SchoolTray messaging system. No more lost letters or permission slips.
- Ditch the paperwork.
SchoolTray minimises paper administration because documents can be stored and dealt with online. Teachers can invite and notify parents with a click of a button.
- No more fiddly cash-handling.
SchoolTray allows managing cash directly. Parents can pay online for school dinners, trips, uniform, special events or donations.
- Makes parents' evening a doddle.
Minimise parents' evening administration by allowing online slot booking whilst retaining full control over the timetable.
- Reward great work.
Use SchoolTray to reward and track your students' best work and publicise it to parents using the Student Awarding app.
- Keep homework under control.
Manage homework online, assigning it to pupils and alerting parents so they can support their children and keep track of their work.
- Get parents directly involved.
Create educational activity pages that parents can leave comments to praise and encourage their children.
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10 reasons why school office staff love SchoolTray
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- Update from anywhere.
You can access your school website from anywhere with internet access to update, add events or send messages.
- Website upkeep is everyone's responsibility.
Our multi-user system means user groups or individuals can be given authority to update their own pages. With lots of updates your websites will be more lively, interesting and actively used.
- It's secure.
Security is embedded throughout SchoolTray and you can manage exactly who has access to view or edit pages.
- Improves communication.
Urgent messages can be sent to parents or teachers by e-mail, SMS text or instant app messaging and you can create page-over-message-boxes on the website so nobody will miss your message.
- Saves the school money.
SchoolTray means less paperwork - all admin, permissions and financial transactions with parents can be made paperless, saving the school cash.
- Saves the school time.
You won't have to waste your working day taking calls about child absence or dealing with parental paperwork - SchoolTray does it all online.
- Fulfils Ofsted requirements.
Our user-friendly SchoolTray websites are constantly updated in all our schools, fulfilling Ofsted's requirements and recommendations.
- Saves on admin.
No more worrying about the right change in the cash box - parents and carers can pay online for dinners, school trips, uniform, special events or donations.
- Easy medication management.
Manage sell-by-dates for medication held at school including inhalers and epipens and send automatic reminders directly to parents.
- Great value for money.
SchoolTray is more than just a website, it's a complete management system that take the headache out of admin and contributes to the school community.
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