Hi,What a year! We just wanted to wish you a well deserved Christmas break and hope that, however the crisis has impacted you, your family or your school, this message finds you in good health and ready to make the most of 2021.
Going virtual has positives
We’ve all found a few things are better virtual:
- • PTA meetings & AGMs with more attendees than usual over Zoom
- • Some parents who rarely made it to the school gate before Covid say they feel more connected with others by being part of their online school community.
- • Personalised Christmas videos from Santa – we can see children wanting these next year too!
- • Will Zoom drinks continue? We smiled when we spotted an ‘Online Panda & Giraffe Parents get-together’. We hadn’t realised we had any animal members on Classlist before seeing that 🙂
Innovative fundraising
Undeterred by Covid you have done a super job of organising innovative alternatives to your usual events, often using our app as a really easy way of collecting payments from parents. (Did you know that Classlist is the only ticketing platform that doesn’t charge any fees?).We spotted the following Covid-friendly fundraisers on Classlist during the last few months: Lockdown cookbooks, Virtual pet shows, Doorstep family photoshoots, Child entrepreneur challenges, Online astronomy sessions, ‘Dress your parent’ day, and an interesting ‘Send you teacher to jail’ fundraiser too!
“Classlist has definitely already impacted our fundraising capability in just the 2 weeks we have been on it. It’s a fantastic app. We really love it.” – Sophie, Vice Chair, Hazelwood Schools PTSA