Do you find yourself asking WHY your school needs a website upgrade? Your school website is not only your schools digital front door, but it serves as the hub for communication, marketing your schools ethos and values and providing valuable resources for parents and pupils.
We’re here to explore the reasons why your school website is extremely important, along with how School Spider can help you transform your online presence without any headaches!
The Importance of Marketing Your School
Your website is often the first point of contact for prospective parents. It needs to make a strong first impression, showcasing the qualities of your school. This includes highlighting your school’s achievements, while portraying your key values and ethos.
When marketing your school, your website is key but also think about evaluating the effectiveness of your current school brand.
- Is your logo of high resolution and recognisable?
- Does your school brand represent your school ethos?
- Does your school have a tag line that represents your schools overall ethos and values?
At School Spider we specialise in school website but we can also help you refresh your school or whole trust brand and identity. This can be a great way to shape and transform and market more effectively.
How Your Website Improves Parent Communication
Effective communication with parents is crucial for fostering a positive school community. Your website should provide all the necessary information parents need and want. Regular updates and news posts keep parents engaged and informed about school activities and important announcements.
School Spider’s communication tools integrate seamlessly with your website, allowing you to send emails, app notifications, and text messages directly from the platform. This ensures that parents stay fully informed and you have the ease of cross platform posts.
Manage Your Website Content and Stay DFE Regulated
One of the critical roles of a school website is to ensure compliance with DFE website regulations. A well organised and up-to-date website ensures that all necessary information is easily accessible.
Having an interface for your website that allows you to maintain and keep the site up to date is extremely important. Along with remaining compliant, easy to use software means you can post regularly about what is happening within the school. Ultimately, this has a great impact in parent engagement for both current and prospective parents.
If you are struggling with out dated content or difficult to use software then we can help! Our content management system has been specifically designed for ease of use, regardless of your technical abilities.
Multi Academy Trust Collaboration
For Multi Academy Trusts, managing multiple school websites can be a laborious task. Having strong trust identity can have a great impact on the trust and taking a unified approach across all schools within the trust can not only simplify processes, but also save money.
School Spider offers solutions tailored to MATs, enabling centralised control over individual school websites. This streamlines the process of updating information across multiple sites, ensuring consistency and ease of management.
Whether you want to have a consistent brand through all websites, or complete unique bespoke identities we can assist in providing a personalised solution for your trust.
Time for a Hassle Free Transformation
Now you’ve decided on a website overhaul, you might be thinking this sounds like a lot of work! Not with School Spider.
Our design team specialises in bespoke custom websites and your dedicated project manager is there to take you step by step through the process. And don’t worry, with us training and customer support is our main priority!
We handle the entire process, including transferring content from your existing website to our platform. Our team ensures that your new website is up and running with minimal disruption, allowing you to focus on what matters most.
Book in with our founder Alex to see how we can support your next transformation.
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