Little Vista Testimonials

"We are a community-based childcare service offering sessional preschool in the mornings and school-aged childcare during the afternoons. We introduced Little Vista into the preschool, just before the first Covid lockdown. Consequently, we didn’t make full use of it at first. However, as lockdown eased and preparations began to reopen, Little Vista proved a useful means of communicating with parents. Since then the Little Vista App has been fully utilised throughout our 4 classrooms, with tablets in each room and 2 PC’s in the office. Staff use the App to note arrival and departure times, send messages to parents, record observations and update learning journals. During covid, the staff made use of the facility to record the child’s temperatures. Staff have really appreciated the facility to share photos and learning journals instantly with parents, and this has maintained and nurtured our good partnership with parents. The Manager and Admin assistant are able to see room attendance at a glance, and send messages to groups; parents within a specific room or all parents, depending on necessity. Attendance records can be printed for official compliance. Little Vista is particularly useful for new registrations and children can be archived if taking a long absence (eg. for health reasons) Parents install the Little Vista App on their mobiles and can send messages to staff as well as receive regular updates. Many parents have expressed their gratitude to us for using the Little Vista App to keep them informed and allay their fears of their child settling in well. Both parents can be registered, provided they have separate mobile numbers and email addresses. There is an extensive help and support feature, offering training videos and clear explanations. The support team is available for an online chat; they are very experienced and also patient if you are struggling with any aspect of the App."

"Our staff find Little Vista very easy to use. It is great to be able to add each child’s daily routine at the click of a button. Parents receive the information/photos directly to their phone app and this is particularly useful if a child is unsettled. Staff can send out a quick message or picture to reassure parents. Little Vista has got rid of our notebooks for the daily records which were often hard to keep track of. They would go home and not come back in or would not be sent home and parents would not be aware of how the child’s day went. Once children and staff are set up on the system it is so easy to navigate and it is easy to add new children or staff starting in the service. As we are all more capable of using apps the fact parents can see the information directly on their phones is a real bonus. They can communicate directly with key staff working with their child. It is also fantastic for sending out information to parents. We would always have used notes/letters to give information about special events, holidays etc to families but now we can add the note/letter to the app and even if a child is absent on the day all families get the information at the same time. We would always have printed out lots of photos of the children participating in activities for parents. Using Little Vista now we can send the photos directly to parents."