Events
Your Events feed shows everything coming up at all your schools and centres, week by week. Pull down to refresh it.
Each week that has something in it starts with a line, named the way schools do: Week 4 · 2 – 8 Nov, or School holidays · 21 – 27 Dec. Weeks with nothing on don't get a line. (Families with only an early learning centre see Week of 2 Nov.) Within this week, Today and Tomorrow are picked out, and next year's events come under Next year.
New Zealand public holidays, including your region's anniversary day, appear in the feed too. They follow the region set in Profile and settings.
Search
Tap 🔍 at the top of Events and start typing: results appear as you type. Search looks at each event's name, description, place, school and type, for upcoming events and the past year at all your schools and centres, so "when was Athletics Day last year?" works too. Upcoming events come first, soonest first, then past ones, most recent first.
You only need the start of a word ("ath" finds Athletics Day), capitals and macrons don't matter, and if nothing matches exactly, JuggleBoard shows close matches for a small typo ("athletcs").
🔍 on the Notices tab searches your notices the same way.
School terms
Your feed shows the last day of each term and the first day back for your schools, as a slim teal line rather than an event card. The last day of a term comes after that day's events; the first day back comes before them. If several of your schools share a date, it shows once with all their names.
Schools choose their own first day of the year (within a week or so set by the Ministry of Education) and can finish the year early. Until your school has set its own, the feed shows the Ministry of Education's dates: for example "Schools start between Thu 28 Jan and Wed 3 Feb. Check with your school for its first day."
Early learning centres don't have terms, so their dates only show if the centre has chosen to follow the school terms (many kindergartens do).
Schools and centres set this up in their school details (see Your school's details).
Reading an event
Each card shows the date on the left, then the title, the school or centre, the time, location and cost, which year levels it's for, and the start of the description.
Tap the card to see the whole description and any links (Show more, or Details and 1 link). Tap it again to close it.
A label shows who posted it:
- Staff: posted by the school or centre. Official posts from Premium schools and centres also have a green edge, a green date and a verified tick next to the name.
- Community: posted by a parent or community member.
- You: you posted it.
Public holidays have a blue edge.
The bell next to the title sets a reminder (see Reminders). Tap ⋮ on a card for more:
- Add to calendar puts the event in your own calendar. In the iPhone and Android apps your calendar app opens with it filled in: check it and tap Save. In a web browser it downloads a file; open it to add the event to your calendar. If the school changes the event later, your calendar copy doesn't change, so a reminder is the way to hear about it.
- Report tells us the event breaks the community guidelines.
When a school hasn't added events yet
If a school or centre you follow has nothing coming up, the top of Events says so. Term dates and public holidays still show. You can:
- Tap Ask your school to join (or Ask your centre to join). Your email app opens with a message to the office, ready for you to change and send.
- Tap Add an event you know about, if the school or centre lets parents add events.
- Tap ✕ to hide the card for 30 days.
Add an event
You can add events for schools and centres that allow it (see Choose your schools and centres).
- Tap New (bottom right; on a computer, top left), then Event.
- Fill in the form, then tap Add event.
- Tap + at the top right, then Event.
- Fill in the form, then tap Add event.
Guidelines for posting events
Please keep events suitable for groups and not about one child: no private birthday parties or playdates. Posting inappropriate events can stop you posting in future. See the community guidelines.
Event details
- School or centre: which one it's for.
- Who's it for?: tick Everyone if it's for everyone (e.g. the school gala), or choose the year levels or groups it's for. Each school shows the year levels it has. Choosing them helps everyone: families whose children are in other years don't see it in their feed, so the events they do see are the ones that matter to them. Early learning centres have one group, shown as All ages (or the name the centre gives it).
- Title: what's happening, e.g. Bake sale.
- Event type: e.g. Fundraising, Sports, After School.
- Description: anything else people need to know. You can include a website address or phone number. The feed shows the first two lines; people tap the event to read the rest.
Date and time
Choose a Duration, then the date (and times):
| Duration | Example |
|---|---|
| Part of the day | 9:00am until 10:30am |
| All day | Friday 5 September |
| Over several days | 15 September until 18 September |
| Custom | 9:00am 15 September until 3:00pm 20 September |
More details
- Location: e.g. School hall.
- Amount: any cost, e.g. 2.00.
Links and documents
Attach links such as a map, permission slip or ticket page:
- Tap Add link.
- Enter the address and, if you like, a Link name.
- Tap Add.
See how many have set a reminder
Events you posted show how many people have tapped the bell for a reminder, for example 🔔 12 reminders set, so you can tell how much interest there is. It updates each time the feed refreshes. Staff see it on every event at their school or centre. You only see the number, never who set them, and no one else sees it.
Change or cancel an event
You can change events you posted.
- Change it: tap ⋮ → Edit, make your changes, then tap Update event. If you change the date or time, everyone sees that it's been rescheduled, and their reminders move with it.
- Cancel or delete it: tap ⋮ → Delete. Choose Cancel event to keep it in the feed marked as cancelled (you can add a reason, e.g. Wet weather), or Delete event to remove it for good.