School Gateway vs Firefly for Parents

School Gateway, the easiest way to interact with your child’s life at school. Designed to support schools in achieving outstanding parental engagement, School Gateway helps you manage school communications, payments, clubs, dinner money and more all in one simple, easy to use app. Key features: • Receive push notifications and in-app messages from your school • Easily pay for items using your preferred payment method • Top-up your child’s dinner money and select meal choices • Book before and after school clubs • View your child’s timetable and end of year reports • Monitor attendance • Update the contact details your school hold for you • All your children across multiple schools in one account Things you need to know: • Your school must be subscribed to School Gateway before you can use this app • Your school controls the information shared with you • To register/login, your school must have your email address and phone number on their system. If you can’t log in, please check these details are up to date at your school • Your account will automatically display information for multiple children /schools as long as the schools use School Gateway. Please check that your email address and mobile number at all your schools match • You must turn on push notifications for the app to receive messages and updates from your school

The Firefly for Parents app is your place to go for school announcements, homework, grades, learning resources and much more. Simply log in using the code provided by your school and you will have access to all the essential information you need to support your child’s learning. You’ll be able to see when homework is set, when it is due and have easy access to the same learning resources your child is using. You can also get important announcements and messages, such as for upcoming school trips, or Parents’ Evenings straight to your phone. Firefly for Parents lets you: • Instantly receive the latest news and announcements from school • See your child’s homework and any related resources • Get information on your child’s progress and grades • Keep up to date with all aspects of your child’s learning experience Log in once and you’re ready to go. Available in English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil) and Chinese. Note: The Firefly for Parents app requires your school to have an active Firefly licence.