Put together a family newsletter
Available on Run and Grow
Rolling out: if you don't see this yet, it isn't on for your school yet.
Pull a month of what families already saw into one page, add your own words, then print it or send it to families.
The newsletter tool builds a one-page monthly newsletter from things families have already seen. You add your own words and decide what goes out. Teachers build one for a room they teach. Directors can build one for a room or for the whole school.
Open Tools, then Newsletter, in This week.
Build a page
- If you have more than one option, choose what it's For. A director sees Whole school and each room.
- Choose a MONTH.
- Choose Pull the month together.
The page comes back with five blocks, always in this order:
| Block | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| What we learned | Activity lines from daily reports that were delivered to that child's family |
| Birthdays | Children with a birthday that month, first names only |
| Closed days | Holidays and closures on your school calendar |
| Please send in | Always empty. You write this one. |
| A note from us | Empty, for you to write |
Every line carries a chip that shows where it came from, like "Daily report · Oct 3", "Birthday" or "Calendar". A line you type has no chip. A teacher's private note about one child is never pulled in.
If a block has nothing, it says "Nothing this month."
If you change the room or month after building a page, Print / share and Send to families stay off until you choose Pull this one together instead. That way one room's page is never shared under another's name.
Make it yours
- Give it a Title, such as "Sunflowers — October".
- Edit any line, or remove one with its close button, labeled "Remove this line".
- Choose Add a line in any block to write your own.
Sunny arranges the lines, but it only uses facts from that month's list. Anything it can't trace to a source is dropped.
Print or send
Print / share opens your phone's share sheet with the page as plain text, ready to print or paste.
Send to families posts the newsletter to your school's family announcements, after asking "Send to every family?" A teacher who can't post there sees "You can't post to the family announcements — ask your director to send it." If your school hasn't set up an announcements channel, you'll see that too. If sending isn't turned on for your school, the button says so.
Nothing is saved in the tool. Leave and the page is gone, so print or send before you do.
Your Sunny work allowance
Arranging a page uses 2 points of your monthly allowance. When the allowance is used up, or there's nothing approved yet for the month, the facts come back unarranged, and you write it your way. No charge applies to printing or sending. See Your Sunny work allowance.
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