The Winnisquam Regional School District subscribes to the AlertNow Rapid Notification Service to enhance parental communication. This service allows us to send a voice message to ALL of our student's parents for various types of alerts within minutes. It is used for announcing school day schedule changes (cancellations, delayed openings, early releases) or in the case of an emergency. At a later time, AlertNow may be used to help schools pass along key information regarding school events or reminders.
IMPORTANT: The ability to deliver a message is only as successful as the contact information we have for our families, so please make certain we have the most up-to-date direct dial numbers and email addresses on file in the schools' student information system. If this information changes please let your school(s) know immediately.
School cancellations, delayed openings or early dismissals are generally due to inclement weather. For cancellations and delayed openings a single phone call will go out (no earlier than 6:00 a.m.) to a student's primary contact phone number as on file in our student information system. This is the home phone number as listed for Contact 1. Early Dismissals are treated as an Emergency Notification (see below).
For Emergency Notifications the system will call up to five phone numbers as on file in our student informaton system. These will be home phone numbers, work phone numbers or cell phone numbers as listed for Contacts 1, 2 and 3.
1. Your caller ID will display your school or the district's main number anytime a non-emergency call or notification of inclement weather is generated. Caller ID will not display a name with the number.
2. Your caller ID will display 411 anytime an Emergency Notification is being sent.
3. The service will leave a message on your voicemail or answering machine.
4. If you have such things as Telemarketer Zapper or Privacy Director on your telephone lines, you may not receive the call.
5. The service does not call extensions. If you have a direct dial number at work, you should provide your child's school with the direct dial number not a main number plus an extension. You may want to inform your place of employment that an automated call from the district may occur.
AlertNow Frequently Asked Questions
For other questions you may call the SAU office at (603) 286-4116 or Sanbornton Central School's main office at (603) 286-8223.
