Dear Parents/Carers,
Strood Academy is looking forward to inviting our Year 7 students and parents/carers into the academy to meet with Year 7 child’s tutor on Wednesday 11th October.
You will need to book an appointment via SchoolCloud here.
(Please note this may not open on a mobile phone, so a laptop or computer may have to be used).
The Parent Guide to SchoolCloud is attached to this email.
Appointments will be booked as 5 minute appointment slots to ensure there is time for the tutor to meet with all the students in their form group. Appointments will start at 2:30pm and the last appointment will be at 4:25pm. Appointment bookings will be open on Monday 2nd October and will close on Tuesday 10th October.
There will be be key stations set up during your visit which can support you IF you any queries on the the following areas:
- Google Classroom
- MCAS (MyChildAtSchool)
- ParentPay
- Pastoral Team
- Safeguarding
We look forward to seeing you.
Yours faithfully,
Miss S Nasim
Assistant Principal
Parents’ Guide for Booking Appointments
Click here to access the SchoolCloud website.
Step 1: Login
Fill out the details on the page then click the Log In button.
A confirmation of your appointments will be sent to the email address you provide.
Step 2: Select Parents’ Evening
Click on the date you wish to book.
Unable to make all of the dates listed? Click I’m unable to attend.
Step 3: Select Booking Mode
Choose Automatic if you’d like the system to suggest the shortest possible appointment schedule based on the times you’re available to attend. To pick the times to book with each teacher, choose Manual. Then press Next.
We recommend choosing the automatic booking mode when browsing on a mobile device.
Step 4: Choose Teachers
If you choose the automatic booking mode, drag the sliders at the top of the screen to indicate the earliest and latest you can attend.
Select the teachers you’d like to book appointments with. A green tick indicates they’re selected. To de-select, click on their name.
Step 5a (Automatic): Book Appointments
If you choose the automatic booking mode, you’ll see provisional appointments which are held for 2 minutes. To keep them, choose Accept at the bottom left.
If it isn’t possible to book every selected teacher during the times you are able to attend, you can either adjust the teachers you wish to meet with and try again, or switch to manual booking mode (Step 5b).
Step 5b (Manual): Book Appointments
Click any of the green cells to make an appointment. Blue cells signify where you already have an appointment. Grey cells are unavailable.
To change an appointment, delete the original by hovering over the blue box and clicking Delete. Then choose an alternate time.
You can optionally leave a message for the teacher to say what you’d like to discuss, or raise anything beforehand.
Once you’re finished booking all appointments, at the top of the page in the alert box, press click here to finish the booking process.
Step 6: Finished
All your bookings now appear on the My Bookings page. An email confirmation has been sent and you can also print appointments by pressing Print. Click Subscribe to Calendar to add these and any future bookings to your calendar.
To change your appointments, click on Amend Bookings.
