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IMPORTANT NOTICE: Online payments are moving from ParentPay to MyChildAtSchool (MCAS)

Risedale School is moving all online payments from ParentPay to MCAS.

Key Dates

  • Thursday 26th Feb (4pm): ParentPay will close. This is the final deadline for all ParentPay transactions.
  • From 4pm on Thursday, 26th Feb to 10am on Friday, 27th Feb: No online payments can be made during this window while balances are transferred.
  • Friday 27th Feb (10am): The online payment facility goes LIVE in your MCAS app.

New MCAS Users: If you haven't activated your account yet, please contact the school office.

More Info and FAQs: Online Payments Moving from ParentPay to MCAS (Letter to Parents Sent 06/02/2026)

ParentPay

ParentPay is our online payment service

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What does ParentPay do?

  • enables you to pay for school meals, trips and other items such as ties via a highly secure payment site
  • gives you a history of all the payments you have made
  • allows creating a single account login across all your children who attend a ParentPay school
  • shows you all items available for payment relevant to each of your children
  • emails a receipt of your payment to the email address you registered
  • offers you the ability to set automated email/SMS payment reminders

How does ParentPay help you?

  • gives you the freedom to make payments to school whenever and wherever you like
  • stops you from having to write cheques or search for cash to send to school
  • gives you peace of mind that your payment has been made safely and securely
  • helps with budgeting; payments are immediate, there is no waiting for cheques to clear
  • payments for many of the larger trips can be made by instalments up to the due date
  • you never need to miss a payment or have insufficient credit with automated email/SMS alerts
  • ParentPay is quick and easy to use