Dear Parents/Carers,

Our school is delighted to announce that we will shortly roll out the Aladdin Schools Connect to all parents and carers. The school uses the Aladdin Schools software for administrative purposes and ‘Connect’ will give you secure access to messages from the school and to details of your child’s attendance, reports cards etc. via a secure login from your internet browser or Aladdin Connect App

Aladdin Connect is a fantastic way to enhance a school’s communication with parents/carers. It enables parents/carers to stay connected and informed about their child’s education by:

• Ensuring that the school has their most up to date contact information
• Keeping parents/carers apprised of their child’s attendance
• Keeping parents/carers up to date on school and classroom news via noticeboard messages
• Allowing parents/carers view their child’s approved report card

 

Along with strengthening our home/school partnership, we hope Aladdin Connect will help the school by:

• Helping to improve attendance by allowing parents/carers to keep track of any school days their child may have currently missed, along with late arrival and early leaving information.
• Helping to reduce the amount of class/school notes being sent home
• Helping the school/ teachers communicate with parents when the need arises
• Reducing costs by eliminating the need to send school report cards by post
• Reducing costs by reducing the number of text messages that need to be sent

 

You can rest reassured Aladdin Schools uses state-of-the-art security to safeguard information entered by the school and data is stored and processed in strict compliance with Irish and European data protection laws.

In the next few days, you will receive a text/email message containing your registration link.  There will be one link per parent or carer which will allow the parent to access information for all their children in the school from one user account. Please do not forward this text/email or share this link as this is a unique registration code for each parent/carer for your child/children in this school. During registration you will choose a password that will be used in conjunction with your email address to securely access the Aladdin Connect going forward. Once you are registered you will be sent an email with links to download the Aladdin Connect App for your mobile device. The main advantage of using the App is to receive immediate alerts for app messages sent by your school.

 

By default, both parents/carers will have access to view their child’s contact information. If for any reason you do NOT wish to share your own personal contact information within the family circle or if you have any concerns regarding your particular family setup, please contact the school in confidence to discuss or have this facility restricted. In preparation for this please let the school know if your email address or phone number has changed recently.

Your child’s class teacher, Liz, our secretary or I will welcome any feedback or questions you may have.

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Éadaoin Kelly

Principal

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