Parental Communication
Parent’s Evenings
Parents are invited to attend parent’s evening events scheduled across the school year. During meetings, teachers discuss the child’s progress across the curriculum, their behaviour, engagement in their work, and overall wellbeing at school. Parents have the opportunity to review their child’s work, observe any displays, and experience their child’s learning environment. Any parents who cannot attend our parents evenings are offered alternative appointments or a telephone call.
Newsletters
The school produces a regular newsletter each week for parents to view on a Friday. It includes information about upcoming school events, news, reminders and other useful information. You can access our Riverdale Roundups here.
Useful Apps:
We encourage all parents to sign up for the communication apps we use, all the apps are accessible on a computer, phone or tablet. Find below a list of apps we utilise at Riverdale Primary School, please click on the pictures or headings to access the individual websites.
Arbor
The Arbor Parent app allows communication between the school and parents/carers electronically. Messages are sent through the app, text message or email. The Arbor Parent app can also be used to book places for breakfast club, extracurricular clubs, and to make payments for trips, uniform and dinner money amongst others.
Seesaw
Seesaw is an online educational app used by children and teachers to share learning material and to showcase children’s hard work. Teachers can empower students to create, reflect, share, and collaborate.
Purple Mash
Purple Mash is a cross curricular platform engaging children with maths, spelling and grammar games. It enables positive online behaviours whilst providing a safe way for children to learn to email, blog and express themselves.
Spelling Shed
Spelling Shed’s approach to spelling involves the relationship between sounds and written symbols as well as using morphology to help spell through meaning.
Oxford Owl
Oxford Owl is an award-winning website to support children’s learning at home. It is home to fantastic eBooks accessible to your child.
Accessing the apps
Parents/Carers can access the Arbor Parent app by inputting their personal details, this will sync with the schools system. Please ensure school hold your up to date phone number and email address. To access all other apps, codes are sent home at the start of an academic year, if codes expire or are lost please request a copy from the school office.
