The benefits of SMS

A new way of communicating

By registering all the different people in your school such as parents, teachers and students, you can choose to text as many or as few people as you like.

But with txt4schools, the communication doesn't just have to be top-down. It opens up a whole new way of having conversations with students allowing them to initiate contact with teachers and carers.

90% of the UK population, and as many as 96% of teenagers, have a mobile phone, sending 3 billion text messages each month. This makes SMS the communiction tool of choice for many people.

Cutting costs, saving time

The system handles and automates mass communications offering massive time savings.
Traditional communications such as letters can be considerably reduced saving money and valuable resources.
Records of all messages are kept so it's easy to track who's received their text and who hasn't.

Cleverly, the system also makes a note of those messages that don't get through. This allows your school to target its follow-up contact strategy effectively, again cutting costs.

Helping schools

txt4schools can integrate with an electronic register managed either from a PC or a handheld PDA. The system will automatically notify parents or authorities such as truancy officers, within minutes of an unexplained absence. [more information]

txt4schools is in use now

txt4schools is already up and running. Highbury Grove school in Islington is using the system to remind pupils and adult learners to attend their IT courses while the Looked-After-Children's unit allows at risk children to initiate contact with their carers regarding problems. For more information, contact us.

Use it now

txt4schools is a very cheap option for schools. It costs less than 10p a text. The installation of the web interface is quick and easy and requires no technical knowledge to run or use it, making it simple for anyone to use.

Texting is the modern communication tool of choice so the power of txt4schools is obvious.

Click here for a few more facts about text usage.