Text-2-ICS for Parents and Families
Every school year starts with a PDF. Term dates, closures, early finishes, parent evenings — all of it laid out on a page that the school expects you to copy into your own calendar, one date at a time.
For Parents, carers and families
The school sends one PDF for the whole year. The sports club sends a fixture list. A letter comes home in a bag with three more dates on it. None of it is in the calendar you actually look at.
Why the dates get missed
A school-year calendar has dozens of dates on it — term starts and ends, breaks, closure days, early finishes, parent evenings. Typing them all in takes an evening, so most people add the next few and mean to do the rest later. The early finish nobody remembered is usually one of the rest.
And every family at the school is doing the same job, from the same document.
How Text-2-ICS fits in
Upload the school's PDF to PDF to ICS. It reads the dates out of the document, shows you each event so you can check it, and gives you an ICS file that adds them all to your calendar in one go.
- PDF to ICS — for the school-year calendar, term dates and club fixture lists
- Image to Calendar — for a photo of a letter home or a screenshot from the school app
- Text to ICS — for the dates in an email or a class group message
The file works in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook, so the dates go into the family calendar you already share.
Do it once for the whole class
Once the calendar is converted, you can share it as a link. Other parents open the link and add the same dates to their own calendar, with no account and nothing for them to convert. One parent does the work; the whole class group gets the calendar.
Convert the school calendar now
Upload the PDF and get every date into your family calendar in a few minutes.
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