SchoolMessenger Parent Notification System
Dear Parent,
In our effort to improve communication between parents and school, RSU 63 implements a telephone broadcast system that enables school personnel to notify all households and parents by phone, email, or text within minutes of an emergency or unplanned event that causes early dismissal, school cancellation or late start. The service may also be used from time-to-time to communicate general announcements or reminders. This service is provided by SchoolMessenger, a company specializing in school-to-parent communications. RSU 63 will continue to report school closings due to snow or weather on local radio & TV stations and will use this system as an overlay to the public announcements.
When used, the service will call all phone numbers in our selected parent contact lists and will deliver a recorded message from a school administrator. The service will deliver the message to both live answer and answering machines. No answers (phones ringing over 40 sec.) and busies will be automatically retried twice in fifteen minute intervals after the initial call.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
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This requires NO registration by the parent. All parent phone numbers and email addresses are entered into the RSU 63 Student Information System from the enrollment forms that parents complete each year at the beginning of school. When completing the contact information on enrollment forms, please make sure the phone numbers and email addresses are current.
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All information and contact numbers are strictly secure and confidential and are only used for the purposes described herein.
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Any parent or guardian who is connected to a child in our Student Information System and marked as Emergency priority contact 1 or 2 with a mobile phone number can opt-in to SMS messages and receive texts by sending a text message of Y or Yes to 67587. You can also opt-out of these messages at any time by simply replying to one of our messages with Stop.
- Caller ID: The Call ID will display one of the following phone numbers based on message origination.
Eddington School – (207) 843-6010
Holbrook School – (207) 843-7769
Holden School – (207) 843-7828
Superintendent’s Office – (207) 843-7851
Please contact your child's school if you suspect your phone number is not being called by the system or if you ever have a change of number or email address.