For parents to be informed, already overwhelmed schools are forced to spend significant time each week sending out communications and reminders across multiple channels multiple times.
Parents are equally frustrated. To be organised, they have to read everything, decide what’s relevant and then manually tap a few words into their diary. Later they have to trawl through all the communications to find the detail they need.
With a plethora of “Apps” aimed at reducing school’s workload, My Family Hand is the product leader! Never in my 30 years in education have I had such a positive experience dealing with a third-party platform.
My Family Hand is a genuine time saver, that effectively and efficiently streamlines school communications. Backed up by extremely professional staff who respect confidentiality, support is always on hand if needed.
Since joining My Family Hand, the office staff’s workload has seen a significant reduction.
Western Sydney Primary School Principal of 750 students
My Family Hand is automatically filtered by class, group, year, and co-curricular activity.
Entries include all the detail, like what to do and where to go, and contain links for parents to provide consent and make payments directly in the Student Management System.
Teachers have visibility of their class’s calendar and can add entries about extra materials or uniforms needed on certain days, giving them confidence that students will arrive at class prepared.
Parents receive an end-of-day push notification summarising everything added to their calendar that day and what’s on tomorrow. Posts aren’t lost in the news feed.
We can also send immediate ALERTS for cancellations or emergencies.
We are approved by both NSW Government and the NSW Department of Education.
The app is password protected and can only be accessed by approved users. We use SSL encryption and two-step verification.
Family data is protected by our rigorous privacy policy. There is no advertising in the app, and no data is sold. Privacy Policy here
Our data is secured in a server that meets the Australian Government’s highest data security certification.