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Welcome to The MA Parent App

Dear MA Parents,

We are so excited to introduce the new MA Parent App! It will be a quick and easy way to find all the information you need throughout the school year.

Through the MA Parent App, you’ll be able to:

  • Subscribe to your child’s classroom to easily access monthly classroom letters and calendars
  • Record absences
  • Read the Buzz weekly newsletter
  • Receive time-sensitive/urgent messages pushed to your device

When…

We encourage you to download the app today! The teachers are adding November letters and monthly events for you this week, and there are already Buzz issues available under the Bee icon. Absences can be recorded through the app this week.

Keep reading… links to download the app are below. 🙂

Watch for a printed MA Parent App Guide (PDF) coming home on Friday. The guide provides instructions on how to get started and where to find what information.

What does this mean for…

The Buzz parent newsletter 

Starting next Tuesday, you will receive the Buzz through the app. Please continue to read the Buzz each week for important updates and school-wide news and reminders.

Monthly Classroom letters and calendars

Your class letters and calendars will also be available through the app on the first of each month. You will no longer have to login to the MA Parent Portal to read these communications pieces.

Urgent messages

With the launch of the MA Parent App, we will phase out our SMS/Text messaging service. Please enable Notifications when you set up your app to ensure you receive time-sensitive and urgent messages such as winter weather closure notifications.

What about the Parent Portal?

Our Parent Portal isn’t going anywhere. It is tied to our student information system and will be used for re-enrolment, sibling applications, report cards, managing your contact information, and housing important resources such as parking procedures, the Parent Handbook, and school forms and policies.

The great news is that you can log into the portal through the app – under More… It will open a web browser. If you’ve been accessing the portal on your mobile device, it’ll function the same way. 

Chart: MA Parent App – ‘Where do I find…’ (PDF)

What about Parent Reps?

We love our Parent Reps! And we are so grateful for their help sharing communications from the classrooms. Your Parent Reps will continue to provide a valuable connection between families and the school, sharing regular email reminders from teachers and important information. Please keep an eye out for their messages on a regular basis.

Let’s get started!

1. Download the app…

2.Sign into the MA Parent App with the same email and password you use for our MA Parent Portal.

3.’Subscribe’ to your children’s classrooms.

  • You will automatically be subscribed to ALL classrooms. Under More… / Settings / Subscriptions bulk deselect and then re-select your child’s class. Watch this short video to see how Subscriptions work: https://vimeo.com/1022122261?share=copy#t=0 

4. Important: Enable Notifications under Settings. This is how the school will share time-sensitive and Urgent Messages moving forward. This short video shows you how to enable notifications in the MA Parent App: https://vimeo.com/1018793753?share=copy

  • Starting Friday, find your classroom’s November letters under Class Newsletter and November events under Class Calendar.

We’re still learning… but it’s going to be MA-zing!

We appreciate your patience as the faculty and staff get used to using this new technology. There are still some features that need to be adjusted, but we wanted to get this valuable tool into your hands because we know it will be a huge help in providing you important information.

FYI: We may send a “reminder Buzz” or two via email over the next weeks with links to download the app to reach as many families as possible.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.

All the best,
Linda Yovanovich
Communications Director
lyovanovich@montessori.on.ca

 

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