But Epsom Primary ICT specialist Jenny Ashby said there were more developments to come.

Ms Ashby said the school already had plans to release an Android app for smartphones and tablet computers in coming months and hoped to later introduce lessons teaching students how to develop their own.

“We’re launching into the 21st century,” she said.

Ms Ashby said iPods were first introduced in fitness programs at Epsom Primary in 2008.

This was followed by the addition of iPod Touch and iPad devices as learning tools for students.

“Having an app available seemed an extension of that,” she said.

“The question people are asking is no longer ‘do you have a website?’ It’s ‘do you have an app?’”

The app features class blogs, school newsletters and policies, photos, a twitter feed and documents available to download including absence notices and lunch order forms.

Ms Ashby said the school enlisted the help of a local developer to begin working on the app in January this year.

It became available on iTunes on Saturday and students and staff celebrated its release during a school assembly on Monday.

“It’s something that will allow us to provide information to parents quicker than ever before,” she said. “As far as I know we’re the only school in Bendigo or Melbourne for that matter to have an app.

“We’re now asking for feedback and comments for a second version.

“It can only grow from here. The app will evolve and change in a way that suits the school.”