Website
Our website is mostly for visitors, but you will find useful info there such as faculty and staff lists and all the latest news posts, as well as access to our Parent Information Portals.
Parent Portal
The portal, which covers both Primary and Secondary, can be accessed via the navigation menu on our website The portal is packed full of essential information on our procedures, curriculums and policies. If there’s something you’d like us to add, let us know. It will be constantly updated with new information.
Managebac
As a St Andrew’s parent you really must ensure you’re signed up to Managebac. Our online learning management system is used more widely the older a student grows. In Primary grades, teachers share curriculum information, helpful learning or inquiry links, the PYP Focus newsletter, class updates, schedule changes, homework, specialist information, and photographs. In the Secondary school each Advisory Group has its own page and subject pages feature course information and gradebooks with real-time reporting for students and parents. Managebac will also host our full suite of policy documents. Contact Mr Strachan if you’re having trouble signing up.
Weekly Updates
In the Primary School, teachers share a weekly newsletter and in Secondary, our weekly ‘Hurricane Forecast’ update bulletin for parents is sent each weekend and is also shared on the portal.
Face to Face Events
We prefer the chance to discuss school issues and individual student progress rather than simply broadcast information to you.
Phone calls
If we call, we’re hoping for a conversation, but we understand you may be working or busy when the phone rings. If it’s not a convenient time, please let us know and we’ll arrange another time to talk.
We will use email to communicate on individual issues, confirm the details or follow-up to a discussion or perhaps to let a whole grade level or indeed all parents know about something important. Please ensure the email contact details we have for you are up to date so that you don’t miss anything. We aim to respond to all emails within 48 hours and usually do so sooner.
Newsletters
Newsletters and letters feature news from key areas of the school. A chance to see all the events that have taken place over a term, hear from various school leaders and read about in-school developments.
We realise not everyone uses Facebook, so we avoid using this medium for sharing key information. We mostly use this medium to celebrate student and staff successes, share images and stories of school life and perhaps reinforce messages that have been emailed to all parents. Information of interest to alums goes here.
Our school Instagram account is there to give a visual representation of life at St Andrew’s. Follow us at @standrews_school