Schools are busy all the time

From the start of the Autumn term to the last cheerio of summer, school staff are constantly rushing about, teaching students, assessing students, planning for progression, preparing reports, with one eye over their shoulder for Ofsted and somehow fitting in extra-curricular activity, seasonal shows and parents' evenings.
Appsforschools regularly get enquiries about school apps. They are driven either by one of our marketing blasts or a response to a twitter post, but usually because someone at the school mentions an app to someone who is busy. Somehow that person finds the time to ask us for more information. If we are lucky that person manages to take the information that we provide to their senior leadership team, and then pushes them to make a decision, generating a PO number from the finance office. Then they comes back to us to make a few changes from the initial enquiry... thereafter they take responsiblity for the app.
If the school launches their app and regularly sends out push notifications and the parents like the regularity of contact... then everyone wins.
An app is more interactive than a mobile website, no matter what your web developers tell you. Websites are a passive medium. An app is an active medium, if you use push notifications. We can show you the stats to demonstrate user activity whenever there is a push notification. We see user engagement increases at least 10 fold times on days when a push notification is sent.
Occasionally, a school will suggest something original that we will endeavour to develop .
WE HAVE A INTERESTING SOLUTION FOR SCHOOLS!
We really do understand that schools are incredibly busy.
So in the coming weeks, we plan to release a new development that should help school admin departments. It will keep parents up to date and drive more parent involvement and engagement. This will be part of our basic app offering. So far, the response to this development from schools has been far more positive than anything we have done previously. 
As we believe we are the leading app developer for schools, we won't be posting any details yet, but I am happy to discuss these new developments with any school before the end of summer term. Or you could subscribe to our blog so you are kept up-to-date.
Peter
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