How can your school benefit from Cosmic SMS Service?

Pupils arriving home from school bearing a dog-eared scrap of paper with news of last month’s school trip, underpaid dinner money or overdue library books are (thankfully) gone - replaced instead by modern, speedy communication methods which mean parents need never worry about missing an all-important message from school.

SMS messaging is a highly effective, low cost system that schools and other educational providers can use to reach out to a large number of students, parents and carers. Some of the benefits include:

• Reminders of upcoming school events
• Informing parents of impending or immediate school closures due to bad weather, security lockdown or any other emergency.
• Verifying attendance with parents (Department for Education regulations were introduced in 2018, mandating that absent pupils’ parents be notified after the morning/afternoon registration)
• Upcoming or overdue fee-related notifications – eg. for school trips or lunch money
• Notifying students and parents of deadlines, course information, reports, exam dates and results
• Co-ordinating sports teams and schedules

Due to their high response rate, low cost, reliability and lightning fast delivery, Cosmic SMS messaging service is a fast and effective means for important messages to reach large groups. Those same benefits enable educational establishments to:

• Reduce costs: implementing text messaging solutions can reduce expenses and man hours for schools by saving money on unnecessary photocopying, phone calls and paper. It can also free up valuable admin time when contacting parents or sending repetitive messages
• Boost parent engagement: using SMS messages to deliver information helps parents to feel more connected to the school
• PTA fundraising: use SMS to send reminders of upcoming meetings and even run fundraising campaigns.

Find out more about how Cosmic SMS can help improve communications at your school, university or other academic setting at www.cosmicsms.com