It’s been no secret that for many years Ofsted have been having a peak at school websites prior to inspection or as part of their risk assessments. But the heat has been turned up and schools have been telling us that Ofsted are really taking a good look at school websites at present: A couple of weeks ago, Ofsted came visiting and used the website as a source of information gathering ahead [...more]
“It would be great if I could add all my policies in one go without creating umpteen individual links on a page one by one” Absolutely! And while you’re at it, why not newsletters, letters to parents and other documents? So we’ve taken your suggestions and created ‘autolists’ within our Content Management System (CMS). Once an autolist is dropped into a page you may never need to edit that page [...more]
Adding Google Translate to your school website will allow your EAL parents to instantly translate a page into their native language. (Well, hopefully their native languages are included in the 64 currently supported and available for translation). We’ve recently seen a strong upsurge in interest from schools who wish to add the Google translator to their website. Anecdotally, schools have told us that Ofsted see it as a useful aid to parental engagement for those schools with parents whose [...more]
It’s been just over a month since the new school website statutory requirements regarding the content of school websites came into force. So far this term we’ve had several hundred schools contact us mentioning the new Ofsted School Website guidelines. Though these requirements aren’t strictly from Ofsted, there is plenty of evidence that with no notice inspections, they will be taking a very good look at your school website ahead of [...more]
We’ve recently re-designed the websites of some of the schools we work with for a second time! In some cases they were becoming Academies and others just fancied an updated look. We can completely transform how your website looks with a new home page layout & look & feel. Best of all, every page will automatically be updated – no need to tediously edit every page. This means a re-design [...more]
New regulations for school websites come into force on 1st September 2012 by way of amendments to the School Information Regulations 2008. If the school does not have their own website they must arrange for this information to be published on a website and the details made known to parents.
You may already be aware that on 26th May 2012 new rules about cookies on websites came into force. Read more details about they might affect your school website.
Your home page is the most important page of your school website. If people only ever see one page of your website, it is likely to be your home page. It should be immediately obvious from the home page what is unique and special about your school. And your home page needs to serve a diverse variety of audiences from current parents, prospective parents, staff, prospective staff, pupils, Ofsted to [...more]