A PDF
- Arrives on Friday, read by Tuesday.
- Everything for everyone.
- Searched, never found.
What a school companion is
More than a message on a screen.
Every school has something that makes it special. School Companion gives that character a voice: a mascot families can message, in Afrikaans or English, that knows the school and messages first.
The cast so far
Two characters. Every school’s own story.
Akker is the first, for Laerskool Eikestad in Stellenbosch. Suikie is a concept for a dual-medium school. Tap one to walk through its world.
How it works
Four things a school app never does.
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No new app
It lives in WhatsApp and Telegram, where parents already are. No download, no login, no password to reset.
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Messages first
A rain plan, a changed pick-up time, the Musiekfees tickets. It writes when a family needs to know, not when they remember to check.
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Remembers you
Your language, your grade’s news, the events you said you’d attend. Say it once.
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A character
The school’s own mascot, with a name and a voice the kids already cheer for. Never a phone tree in a chat bubble.
Why it’s different
Same phones. A different kind of school communication.
A login
- Another password to reset.
- Notifications nobody opens.
- Built for admin, not for families.
A familiar face
- Lives in the chat the family already has.
- Starts the conversation, then stays in it.
- Built around one school, one mascot, one community.
FAQ
The short version.
The school’s mascot as a character families can message. It knows the calendar, the newsletter and the rules, answers in Afrikaans or English, and writes first when something changes. Akker is the first, for Laerskool Eikestad.
WhatsApp and Telegram, in the chats parents already use. No app, no login, no password to reset.
It is designed that way from the start: school-approved sources only, age-appropriate access with parental consent, no child-targeted advertising profiles, and uncertain answers go to a person. The school leads.
What the school decides matters and what a family says once: language, which grade’s news to send, the events they said they’d attend. Nothing a child shouldn’t share.
No. It answers the questions the office answers forty times a week, and sends the rest to the right person. The office gets its mornings back.
Yes. Tell us about your school, your mascot and your language. We design the character with you, and it goes live where your families already are.