ClassDojo

At Amblecote Primary we use ClassDojo to communicate with our parents, share our activities in class and celebrate their children’s achievement. ClassDojo can also be used to share extra details about homework tasks, links to useful websites and key events that are coming up in school.

Each child and parent receives a personal login, to allow them to see what is happening in the class, and private access to a portfolio of their child’s work. As only ‘invited parents’ (that’s just in our Amblecote School community) are able to see what we post, this provides a safe platform to share photos  and videos.

With the phone app, it will be extremely easy for parents to use. Parents and teachers are able to securely message each other with any questions or queries allowing for simple and efficient communication. This is particularly helpful for working parents, as it allows regular contact between parents and teacher, even when a parent cannot be at the school gates.

All messages and posts can be translated into a wide range of languages, which aids communication with parents for whom English is not their first language.

Portfolios

ClassDojo Portfolios are digital student portfolios that allow students to share classwork with their teachers and family. Teachers can also assign projects directly to students. Teachers can view and approve student work on Portfolios. Students can create and upload photos, videos, drawings through ClassDojo, and can also upload Microsoft Office files, PDFs, and image files from any laptop devices to which students can respond. Parents and teachers can leave positive feedback in the form of a like and/or comments.

School Story

Stories are instantly updating streams of messages, pictures and videos.  The main school story can be used to keep up to date with the latest news, information and advice
from school. Mrs Cook and staff members will use this feed to update on whole
school issues or provide links that will be useful to our whole school community.

Class Story
Every class and school has their own Story.  Staff linked with your child’s class are able to contribute to the Class Story feed. This is where teachers will post updates specifically for that class.  Parents/ Carers and pupils should check their Class Story daily. If required, home learning activities will be posted on your child's class story; attachments of worksheets, website links etc will be provided on here to help you to access any relevant home learning activities.

Messages

Through ClassDojo, parents have the facility to send and receive text messages directly with teachers. Teachers will respond as soon as is reasonably possible. We have a duty to monitor teacher workload and well-being and so ‘Quiet Hours’ have been set between 5pm and 8am, during this time you are able to message parents if necessary but you should not expect a response until the next working day. Teachers may choose to work beyond these hours and will always strive to ensure that they provide contact in a timely manner.  For urgent messages please contact the school office directly on 01384 906535.

As school makes effective use of ClassDojo as a communication platform and information is shared frequently, we no longer send weekly newsletters.

Where possible electronic copies of letters and forms are sent via these platforms, rather than children bringing letters home.

ALL LATEST NEWS AND INFORMATION WILL BE SENT DIRECTLY VIA CLASSDOJO