School Gateway vs Wigston Academies Trust

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

This app is Wigston Academies Trust own parent engagement and communication app and it is designed to enhance communication between the Wigston Academy/Wigston College and parents of our students. Benefits of this app for parents of students at Wigston Academy and Wigston College include: - Receive push notifications and in-app messages from the Academy or College. - Keep important Academy and College information available away from the clutter of email. - View the school calendar and noticeboard, with information relevant to you and your child. - Access important Academy and College information via The Hub. - Keep up to date with your children's activities via the Newsfeed. - Clear and visible Notice updates for important Wigston Academies Trust events. - Paperless communication.