The right information, to the right person, at the right time.

Juniper Education App

Connecting schools and families

Juniper Events connects seamlessly with JoinUp, bringing event management, communications and engagement together in one connected platform. From planning and bookings to payments, consent, attendance and reporting, every stage is linked, creating a single source of truth for your school.

The result is the right information, to the right person, at the right time. Staff spend less time on administration, parents enjoy a simpler experience, and school leaders gain the insight they need to monitor participation, measure engagement and support better outcomes for every child.

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Parental Engagement & Communication

Forge a strong school-home connection

Parental engagement is a key part of every School Improvement Plan. The Juniper Education App brings communication, attendance, classroom updates and key information together in one secure place, helping schools build stronger relationships with families, reduce administrative workload and demonstrate measurable progress against their school improvement priorities.

Transforming the Everyday Experience of Being a School Parent

The Juniper Education App is free for parents and gives families one secure place to stay connected to school life. No searching across platforms. No missed messages buried in inboxes. No guessing whether something was sent home in a book bag. Clear, organised information when families need it — with easy navigation into the detail when they want more.

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What's included in The Juniper Education App

Report Absences Quickly and Easily

Report absences securely in seconds, reducing calls to the school office, improving attendance records and giving staff more time to support pupils.

See Attendance at a Glance

Parents can see attendance in real time, encouraging earlier conversations, stronger home-school partnerships and better support for improving attendance.

Stay Up-to-Date with School Announcements

Keep families informed through one trusted communication channel, improving engagement, reducing missed messages and building confidence in school-home communication.

Start with the Essentials and Extend the Impact

Designed to be modular because no two SIPs are identical. The Juniper Education App provides essential communication, attendance, and announcement features by default. Schools can then boost parental engagement by activating optional modules — some standalone, others adding more value when used with other Juniper solutions on the JoinUp platform. Add depth as your improvement plan needs.

Celebrate Achievements and Awards

Recognition is a behaviour and wellbeing strategy in its own right. Schools using a recognition framework as part of their SIP can now communicate with families directly — through digital badges, awards, and positive moments delivered instantly into the app. Parents see these, respond to them, and engage with them, transforming recognition from an internal school activity into a shared experience between school and home.

Recognition drives behaviour and wellbeing
Instant updates engage parents
Connects school and home experience

Awards & Activities

Read Teacher Observations

The quality of education isn't just about what happens in the classroom — it's also about what families understand about it. Observations bring the school day home: brief notes, photos, and moments from learning, displayed in a Pinterest-style view that families can tap into and interact with. Termly reports no longer serve as the only window into learning, and the gap between progress data and parent understanding begins to close.

Shares real learning moments with families
Replaces reports as the only insight
Closes the gap in parent understanding

Observations

Receive Newsletters and Calendar Updates

Newsletters, calendars and school news flow from your Juniper Website, through CommsHub, into the app: one source — one update — informing every family. The duplication that quietly consumes office hours each week disappears. families no longer need to remember which channel each part of school life arrives on.

One update reaches every family
Eliminates admin duplication
Simplifies how families stay informed

Communicate

Where Parental Engagement Actually Happens

Parental engagement strategies succeed or fail in the classroom. CommsHub (included in the free Juniper Platform and powering the app) is where teacher practice connects with school-home links. Easy to use, secure by design, and reliable enough to support evidence-based improvement.

Parental engagement strategies succeed or fail in the classroom. CommsHub (included in the free Juniper Platform and powering the app) is where teacher practice connects with school-home links.
Send one-way messages to individual parents or specific groups — without recipients seeing who else received them.
Keep all communication securely stored in one central place, creating a clear record of messages to support safeguarding and SIP evidence.
Reduce duplication and save time by keeping information consistent and easy to access.
Reduce duplication and save time by keeping information consistent and easy to access.

Simple Technology That Strengthens Parental Engagement as Part of Your School Improvement Plan

Designed around the realities of school life and developed by education experts, the Juniper Education App integrates seamlessly into daily routines without adding complexity or extra layers for teachers and office staff to manage. It's how Juniper delivers parental engagement to a standard you can build a SIP on.

Intuitive and quick to adopt
Fully GDPR compliant
Securely hosted in the UK
Free for parents
Accessible and inclusive

Simplicity, security and accessibility in one connected system, schools can rely on from the first day, scale as the SIP develops, and evidence with confidence.

HOW THIS FITS INTO JOINUP

Parental engagement doesn't work in isolation — and neither do we. That's the JoinUp philosophy.

The Juniper Education App plays a defined role within Juniper's JoinUp philosophy. It sits inside the free Juniper Platform — a flexible, connected ecosystem designed to help schools move from pressure to progress, and from reactive admin to continuous improvement. Through the free Juniper Platform, schools integrate the systems, insights, and expertise that foster meaningful improvement, ensuring that data, communication, and professional practice work collaboratively rather than in isolation. Parental engagement becomes an integral part of the overall approach rather than existing as a separate tool to manage alongside everything else.

Juniper MIS

The statutory data foundation on which your school depends daily. Free for eligible schools. Provides the essential information that supports every confident decision, and every meaningful conversation with a family.

CommsHub

Included with the free Juniper Platform, which powers the Juniper Education App. Keeps every message organised, secure, and visible across your school community.

The Juniper Education App

Where families connect through a shared view. Real-time visibility of communication, attendance, and learning — strengthening the partnership between school and home, and making parental engagement measurable as a SIP outcome.

More than Assessment Software

Three modules extend it to support every SIP area connected to teaching quality and pupil development.

Module

Observations

Capture insights into teaching and learning and benefit from integrated pupil records.

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Module

Benchmarking

Make confident decisions with benchmarking across 5,000+ schools through Juniper's national dataset.

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Module

Awards & Activities

Motivate pupils for progress and behaviour, and share updates with parents in real time.

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Juniper Education App and JoinUp

The Juniper Education App is part of JoinUp, connecting communication, attendance, engagement and key school information in one joined-up experience. Together, they ensure the right information reaches the right person at the right time, reducing administration, strengthening home-school partnerships and giving leaders clearer insight to support continuous school improvement.

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See Juniper Education App in Action

Book a personalised demo to see how the Juniper Education App helps strengthen parent engagement, reduce administration and keep your whole school community connected.

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