Communication

School Communications

Brunswick Primary School is happy to offer an open door policy with regards to all parents concerns.

Every weekend parents will receive a newsletter by email in additional to occasional letters which are sent home whenever there is important news. These newsletters include class specific information, school wide news and issues. All newsletters can also be viewed from the Homepage. 

Introduction to Arbor Parent Portal and Parent App

What is the Parent Portal? The Parent Portal is our version of Arbor accessible to guardians on a laptop or computer.

What is the Parent App? The Parent App is the mobile version of our Parent Portal, for use on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

 

 

Introduction to ParentPay

ParentPay offers you the freedom to make payments whenever and wherever you like, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – safe in the knowledge that the technology used is of the highest internet security available. Making a payment is straightforward and ParentPay holds a payment history for you to view at a later date. Once you have activated your account you can make online payments straight away.

 

What does ParentPay do?

  • Enables you to pay for school meals and in the future, other items like trips

  • Offers a highly secure payment site

  • Gives you a history of all the payments you have made

  • Allows to create a single account login across all your children that attend a ParentPay school

  • Shows you all items available for payment relevant to each of your children

  • Emails a receipt of your payment to the email address you register

  • Offers you the ability to set automated email/SMS payment reminders

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How does ParentPay help you?

  • Gives you the freedom to make payments to school whenever and wherever you like

  • Stops you having to write cheques or search for cash to send to school

  • Gives you peace of mind that your payment has been made safely and securely

  • Helps with budgeting; payments are immediate, there is no waiting for cheques to clear

  • Payments for many of the larger trips can be made by instalments up to the due date

  • You never need miss a payment or have insufficient credit with automated email/SMS alerts

  • ParentPay is quick and easy to use

     

How does ParentPay help our school?

  • Reduces the administrative time spent on banking procedures

  • Keeps accurate records of payments made to every service for every student

  • Payments do not bounce

  • Reduces paper ‘waste’

  • Improves communication between the school and parents concerning payments

  • Offers a more efficient payment collection process, reducing the amount of money held on school premises

     

How do I get started?

We will send you an activation letter containing your activation username and password to enable you to setup your ParentPay account. Once logged in, the home page has a help tab at the top of the page. If you have more than one child at a ParentPay school/s you can also add children to a single account providing one login for all children at ParentPay schools.