ONLINE PRE-SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR URUMPIRAI KIDS’ PARK

Abstract

ABSTRACT Jaffna is the major education city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Kids’ Park is one of the best model preschool in Jaffna district which has several branches located around the Jaffna Peninsula. They provide best education for children from the ages of infancy until six. It has specially trained preschool teachers and facilitate each child's learning through continuous observation and assessment. “Kid’s Park” still keeps their records manually and faces many difficulties when using manual system. This system is generally very bulky both to handle and to store. The details of the students are recorded when students are admitted to the preschool in record books. Details of staff are gathered each time a new staff is appointed, these details are kept in record books. With that, every time the details are updated. Changes of address, telephone numbers and other changes are not updated in manual procedure. The purpose of the project is to provide an efficient and effective online system to Kids’ Park to manage their details of students, staff and handle the payments process. With the help of this online system parents can easily see their student progress and maintain their relationship with the school. The administrator can also handle the admission processes, manage the registered details of students and staff. This Online Pre-school management system has mostly been developed using some modern open sourced tools and software. PHP which is a powerful server side scripting language has been used for server side scripting along with the Apache web server and MySQL which is a relational database management system. The developed system has been properly tested using a comprehensive testing procedure which ensures a high quality system.