52 Short Hills Avenue, Short Hills, NJ 07078 | (973) 379-3973 | 2024-2025 Registration Packet

Emergency Phone System Test Tonight at 7:30 PM

To: All Parents,

We will be conducting an Emergency Phone System Test tonight at 7:30 pm.

This is only a test.

If you do not receive a phone message by 9:00 pm, please email Danny with your name and phone number.

If you want a number to be removed please email Danny with your name and the phone number you would like removed.

*As part of this new emergency contact system you have the option to receive text messages as well as phone calls.  You will receive a text message from 67587. The first line of the message will read "Newark Archdiocese alerts. If you wish to receive text alerts please reply "Y" to the message. Text messaging will then be enabled. 

If you did not receive a message, text "Y" to 67587 and you will be added to the text messaging service.

Thank you,

Principal Tina Underwood

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About SchoolMessenger

In our effort to improve communication between parents and school, Saint Rose of Lima Academy is instituting a telephone broadcast system that will enable school personnel to notify all households and parents by phone 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. Saint Rose of Lima Academy will continue to report school closings due to snow or weather on the school webpage.

When used, the service will simultaneously 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.

NOTE:

1) This requires NO registration by the parent on the SchoolMessenger website. 

 2). All information and contact numbers are strictly secure and confidential and are only used for the purposes described herein.

Here is some specific information you should know:

Caller ID: The Call ID will display 973-379-3973 which is the main number for Saint Rose of Lima Academy.

Live Answers: There is a short pause at the beginning of the message, usually just a few seconds. Answer your phone as you normally would; "hello" and hold for the message to begin. Multiple "hello's" will delay the message. Inform all family members of this process who may answer your phone.

Answering Machines:The system will detect that your machine has answered and will play the recording to your machine. The phone will ring for up to 40 seconds, but make sure your machine answers after four rings or you may miss the message.

Message Repeat: At the end of the message you will be prompted to ‘press any key' to hear the message again. This is very helpful when a child answers the phone and hands it to a parent, who can then ‘repeat' the message in its entirety.   

SchoolMessenger, the service provider, uses the best available technology in the industry to detect the difference between human answer and machine or voicemail answer.

Here's how detection works:

The system detects and measures the voice energy when the phone is answered.

The system measures this energy in combination with the background noise and line impairments.

If the system determines that it is a "live" answer it will immediately start playing the message.

If the system determines that it is a machine, it will wait for three full seconds of silence before playing the message with a maximum wait time of twenty seconds.

If the system cannot make a determination, it will default to answering machine thus requiring several seconds of silence for the message to play. In this case, you may hear a prompt to "press any key to hear the message immediately."

Some reasons for false detection:

Loud background noise; television, radio, general noisy environment.

A cordless phone that has static or other foreign noise.

Not saying "hello" or repeatedly saying "hello".

Cellular phones which, when called, have the ‘ringback tones' music option.

Answering machine/voice mail greetings which are too long or have long pauses in speech.

What can be done to remedy this?

Do not say "hello" more then once. If the system detected your answer incorrectly, all noise will reset the three-second counter.

If, after you answer, the message does not immediately play, cover the mouthpiece of the phone to cutout all background noise. The message should begin after three seconds.

Please make every effort to provide the school with current and accurate phone information any time there is a change to ensure that you do not miss important information.

St. Rose of Lima Academy

Principal: Tina Underwood, Ed.S.
 
52 Short Hills Avenue
Short Hills, New Jersey 07078
 
Phone: 973-379-3973
Fax: 973-379-3722


 


 

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St. Rose of Lima Parish

Pastor: Father Larry Evans

50 Short Hills Ave
Short Hills, NJ 07078

Phone: 973-379-3912 
Fax: 973-379-6157 

Website: http://www.stroseshorthills.org