Our software helps teachers
to communicate more
efficiently and effectively
with students and parents
allowing them to monitor
and track their educational
journey...
Our software helps teachers to communicate more efficiently and effectively with students and parents allowing them to monitor and track their educational journey…
...whilst supporting children transitioning from
Pre-school to Primary School.
Teacher Benefits
Reduce cost
Save thousands on stationery and printing costs
Improve Productivity
Save hundreds of hours on repetitive paperwork and record-keeping
Link National Frameworks
Seamlessly link Aistear & Siolta and EYFS
Be Inspection Ready
Our platform helps with compliance to meet regulations
Digital Storage
No more filing cabinets. Digitally stored and easily accessed
Promote Parental Involvement
Give a greater insight into their child’s learning & development
Allows for Early Intervention
Flags when help may be needed in a child’s development
Real-Time Communication
Instant communication between teachers, students and parents
Stand Out From Other Schools
Move your school into the 21st century by going digital
Ulster University is now teaching Child Paths Software
As part of their Primary Education Courses, Ulster University is now teaching Child Paths as part of their course content with the view to piloting Child Paths in Primary Schools across Northern Ireland
Teacher Features
Online Child Registration
You can now get parents & guardians to complete their child’s registration details online through the app. They can add in some information around “get to know me”, upload profile picture, add emergency contacts, health information, doctors details, medicines and more. Once the parents & guardians activate their account they will be prompted to fill in their own details first and then their children’s helping reduce physical contact and will save a huge amount of time on administration.
Form Builder
We have created various digital forms where your parents and staff can digitally sign online like incident & accident, medical consent and cleaning sheets. We have created all the HSA forms for your staff returning to work, these can all be completed online and saved automatically for compliance. You can edit any of the forms or create your own. You can use it to create surveys or questionnaires with colleagues and parents or build your own checklists, it’s endless.
Subjects
Help parents feel more involved by sending quick snippets and even photos on what their children are learning daily. You can do this quick and easy for each of the subjects to all students and parents.
Curriculum Planner
Plan your teaching curriculum days, weeks and months in advance. Be able to highlight to your students and parents what your school has in store for their learning journey. You can let students and parents give feedback on the curriculum and state if there are any emerging interests from students or parents while seamlessly linking the National Frameworks of Aistear & Síolta or EYFS
Homework
Our homework tool allows teachers, students and parents to check and sign off on homework digitally. Teachers can now communicate each students homework quicker and smarter where both teacher, student and parents can communicate if necessary.
Observations
Create observations quicker and smarter on each child whilst linking in seamlessly with your National Frameworks of Aistear & Siolta or EYFS. You can link your students observations together to show their progress and even create a plans for the students and parents to do at home.
Milestones - Junior & Senior Infant
With our Milestones tool was built in collaboration with the Adult and Child Therapy Centre. Teachers can determine if junior and senior infants students are meeting the required targets for their age and stage which is all linked to the National Framework of Aistear and Síolta. If they find that a student is not reaching at least 50% of their intended milestones, then Child Paths automatically suggests an action plan to be carried out.
Attendance Tool
Our attendance tool records the students arrival and departure times, sick days, holidays and time off for appointments. You can even set up amber and red alerts to you are notified when students are missing a specific amount of days which you set. Parents will see every class each student has attended.
Occupancy Planning
Always know when, and if, you have space available for new students in each class for the coming term, or for the years ahead. All your students will move rooms automatically and you can set alerts to move students manually if you wish.
Staff Rota
Based on your students, you can now build your staff rota so that you know which teachers are needed for what rooms. Teachers can also request holidays for approval.
Staff Sign In
If you want to do your payroll quicker, then you can use the new teacher sign-in option. They can mark themselves arrived and departed each day so there is a record of attendance for each teacher.
Conversations
‘Communication is the basis of all relationships’. No more need to write notes into individual student notebooks. Instead, send communications digitally to students, parents and teachers.
Reports
Stay inspection compliant. With our software, reports can be run off at the touch of a button. You can now maintain reports digitally so they can be pulled from your system whenever they are requested for auditing. You can also print or export the reports into excel if needed.
Text To Speech
Can’t read your own version of ‘shorthand’? Not to worry! You no longer need to write up those pages of notes accumulated throughout your busy day. With Child Paths, you just talk into your tablet and it will type it up for you. Have a go. It’s easy! Another feature which will free up some of your valuable time, allowing you to spend it with the students and communicate much quicker and smarter.
Tutorials
Our video tutorials in every section are fantastic in helping you get up and running on our platform as it will show you section by section how to use the app. However, should you require it, we will come to your school personally to train all your teachers, at a time that suits you.
Video & Audio
Now if you need to share videos or music, it can be done at the click of a button. Even if you want to create your own audio with greetings, advice or support for students and parents you can record your own voice and send this. So with Aistear it’s about understanding more about the students outside of the school, now you can even get the students to upload videos of themselves at home.
Storage - Policies, Healthy & Safety, Administration and more
Endless boxes of files filling up your office. Now you can store everything on Child Paths and share with your colleagues or guardians. You can drag and drop folders from one to another. You can upload all the files from your computer and password protect ones which are sensitive. You can even use your printer to scan all the paper files into pdf’s and upload to Child Paths giving you back all that space..
Push Notifications.
No more texting, if you need to send a message you will be able to include a push notification, same as texting without the cost.
Office Tool - Payments
Coming soon! Payments easily accessible and in one place.
Teachers and parents provide a vital support system to help students flourish. When parents and teachers communicate and work together effectively, it can significantly impact each student’s long-term success
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