Vantage Technologies - Barkston and Syston CE Primary School Chooses Vantage Technologies’ Paragon to Deliver Online Reporting to Parents

Innovative e-portfolio band-aid will accord parents absolute acceptance to their children’s educational development, advice accession accomplishment and accede with new accessible Government guidelines

09 March, 2009 – Barkston and Syston CE Primary School will arrange Paragon, a web-based achievement ecology and administration apparatus to accord parents absolute acceptance to their children’s educational development, allowance them to accommodate abutment and accession accomplishment by accepting added complex in their children’s apprenticeship as categorical by new Government regulations advancing into aftereffect next year.

Developed by e-portfolio specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports pupils’ development and acquirements requirements by acceptance agents to almanac affirmation of their bookish and behavioural achievement in an easy-to-access portfolio, which can be accessed by parents.

This gives parents absolute online acceptance to an abreast almanac of their children’s achievement and facilitates added captivation in their educational development by acceptance them to analysis and animadversion on advice about their child.

Andy Canadine, chic abecedary and ICT co-ordinator at Barkston and Syston CE Primary School, said: “I aboriginal came above Paragon if I was alive as a advance babysitter at addition organisation area it was acclimated as a connected able development apparatus advised to aid the abecedary training process. I begin the apparatus accomplished to use and it consistently has absolute acknowledgment so knew it was ideal and adjustable abundant to be acclimatized to use for advertisement to parents.

“Paragon will be amiable to parents as the after-effects they see will advice them be added acquainted of the areas their adolescent needs to focus on and get advice with. For baby primary schools that don’t accept circuitous advertisement requirements such as Barkston and Syston, Paragon is ideal as it can calmly be tailored to clothing the needs of the alone academy – authoritative it as simple or as circuitous as necessary. This adaptability aswell makes it affordable for abate schools with abate budgets.”

A key account of Paragon is its flexibility. It can calmly be tailored to accommodated the needs of any academy analytic to gather, adviser and administer information. For both parents and agents the band-aid is ideal as it’s user-friendly, advisory and aloft all, secure. While teaching agents accept a college akin of access, parents are alone able to acceptance advice apropos their own child; this helps ensure there is no aperture of acquaintance or unauthorised access.

In accession to aegis and affluence of use, Paragon offers schools a cost-effective and simple to arrange band-aid which enables them to abatement in band with new Government regulations termed: base ICT to advance affectionate engagement, which are advised to absorb parents in their children’s apprenticeship through the use of ICT, and will appear into aftereffect for all accessory schools in 2010 and all primary schools in 2012.

Paragon lets agents upload and abundance advice about a pupil’s bookish work, behaviour and appearance in a individual area deeply accessible by both parents and teachers, over the Internet at anytime. Parents can login via any PC with an Internet affiliation to appraise their child’s progress. Schools are currently focussing on application ICT to adviser children’s articulacy and numeracy.

Andy Canadine continues: “The adorableness of Paragon is that it is an evolutionary apparatus and can be developed added as and if it is required. Vantage accept been acutely accessible with the development of our bespoke band-aid and their advising access is allowance ensure we get absolutely what we ambition from the tool.”

Barkston and Syston CE Primary School will liaise with parents apropos the belief and targets which will be complete into Paragon and plan to pilot the band-aid with a alternative of pupils afterwards Easter; they achievement to accept it deployed above the accomplished academy by September. The primary academy will use Paragon in accession to acceptable ancestor and abecedary evenings to accumulate parents beside of their children’s progression.

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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk

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