telephone. 01443 654265 email. [email protected]twitter. @CEMAS_USW website. www.cemas.mobi Based in Swansea, the founder Michael Leach came up with the idea for ‘In My School’ to improve communication between schools/teachers and parents. Winner of the Swansea Startup competition 2013, the app offers parents a quick and easy way to access what activities, when PE Kit etc is needed and general useful information about their child’s school day. It became clear that the key to the success of In My School would be the teachers seeing the benefits of being able to simply add events and information to the school system. An app could be optimised to make that job easy, in fact much easier than the current method of creating and printing letters that pupils then take home in their rucksack! Features: • Easy creation of event reminders such as “Sports day, remember PE Kit”. • Add digital Letters that replace expensive photocopying. • Send free & instant push alerts rather than expensive SMS messages for important events such as “School closed – Snow Day!” Working with the dedicated CEMAS team was a great experience that afforded us a wealth of expertise and experience. The teams hard work has meant that our In My School app has exceeded our expectations. Michael Leach, Director In My School App Store Available on the iPad inmyschool.co @ inmyschool The advantage of collaborating with CEMAS on our app is that they have successfully project managed and built the app, working from a design and a spec that we had defined. Through the experience we gained an experienced partner who could turn our wish list of features in to reality. As a start–up our resources are very small, without this support our dedicated app for teachers would not have been made. We would have relied on a simpler web only interface that would have dramatically reduced the appeal of our service.
Wedi’i leoli yn Abertawe, cafodd sylfaenydd Michael Leach y syniad ar gyfer ‘In My School’ er mwyn gwella’r cyfathrebu rhwng ysgolion/athrawon a rhieni.
Mae’r ap, a enillodd Gystadleuaeth Busnesau Newydd
Abertawe 2013, yn cynnig ffordd gyflym a hawdd i rieni
gael gafael ar wybodaeth ynglŷn â pha weithgareddau
sydd ymlaen, pryd mae angen dillad Addysg Gorfforol
ac ati a gwybodaeth ddefnyddiol gyffredinol ynglŷn
â diwrnod ysgol eu plentyn.
Daeth yn amlwg mai’r hyn fyddai’n allweddol i lwyddiant
In My School fyddai athrawon yn gweld manteision gallu
ychwanegu digwyddiadau a gwybodaeth at system yr
ysgol mewn ffordd syml. Gellid optimeiddio ap i wneud
y gwaith hwnnw’n haws, yn wir yn llawer haws na’r ffordd
bresennol o lunio ac argraffu llythyrau i’r plant fynd adref
â nhw yn eu bagiau!
Nodweddion:• Hawdd creu negeseuon atgoffa fel “Diwrnod
mabolgampau, cofiwch eich dillad Addysg Gorfforol”.
