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Message: Hello! I saw this Tried & Tested Review on Teach Primary Magazine's website and thought you might like it - please find an excerpt below: Jigsaw School Apps Communication is fundamental to effective partnerships with parents. In the past, messages from school have relied heavily on ‘pupil post’, but this has always been inconsistent and is now, quite frankly, a bit old hat. These days, there are many mediums teachers can use to communicate with parents, including websites, group emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. The more recent addition to this list is the smartphone app, which has the potential to make information even more accessible to parents who place a premium on convenience. One feature-rich option that’s gaining momentum is available from Jigsaw School Apps; and it’s an attractive offering for those looking to keep in touch with a smartphone-reliant generation. When in use, the Jigsaw app frees up school administration by allowing you to share relevant and accurate information (both photos and text) in a timely manner through the use of ‘push’ notifications. It’s an immediate, anywhere and safe form of communication that gives parents an important sense of control and ownership. I love the option Jigsaw provides to create a branded app with your choice of colours, logo and photo. It creates a powerful identity and gives the school presence. You can also customise the app by creating additional areas and it’s a flexible experience for parents, too, as they can apply filters that ensure only information that’s relevant to their child is displayed. An uncomplicated control panel makes updates a simple task, which means there’s no need to get in touch with the people at Jigsaw every time you want to make a change to the app. Keeping all parties abreast of the school’s (often changing) schedule can be one of the biggest logistical headaches, but again the Jigsaw app is ably to simplify this task as important dates and details can be listed and easily downloaded to the calendar on parents’ phones. What about diversity and inclusion? If your class is multi-lingual, how do you reach out to parents who don’t speak English or use it as a second language? Well, Jigsaw has addressed this admirably by allowing parents to automatically translate information into any one of 70+ languages. It’s a big plus and, as far as I’m aware, Jigsaw is the only app provider to offer this service. The two-way survey is another feature to get excited about. This allows you to quickly and easily set up questionnaires and thus get rapid feedback on how parents are feeling… If you want to read the full article, please visit: https://www.teachprimary.com/tried_and_tested/view/jigsaw-school-apps Thanks!