To promote the relationship between schools and parents, communication is key.  A well-designed school website can play an active role as part of your school's parental engagement strategy.

Ideas for keeping your parents involved and informed via your school website include:

• Having up-to-date, relevant parental information in one central location
• Updating the school Calendar regularly with school events
• Producing half-termly/weekly newsletters that parents can subscribe to on your website
• Providing copies of all letters sent home on a 'Letters Home' section/page
• Celebrating success by sharing pupils' achievements
• Showcasing your school's curriculum by sharing photos/videos of school events and pupils' work
• Sharing your school's prospectus
• Creating helpful guides (text or video) e.g. How to support your child's learning
• Linking to useful websites e.g. online safety, Parent View
• Using scrolling text to highlight important news.

With a Schools-Online website, all of the ideas above are quick and straightforward to achieve in just a few clicks.  Our content management system is so intuitive and easy to use that you can have your site updated within minutes.

We continually strive to make our website features unique and user friendly and we have recently developed some new features that are included as standard as part of your annual subscription. We will never make additional charges for any new features that we develop.  

Our E-News feature allows parents to subscribe to updates from your website. Find out how you can easily create your E-news subscriptions by clicking here.

Our scrolling text feature ensures that important information is not missed by visitors to your website. Click here to find out how add scrolling text to your website.

Another new feature that we have recently introduced is our 'popup window' feature, which will help grab parents' attention and inform them of important news or upcoming events. Click here for further information.

If your school uses social media, you can post links to any updated content on your website for parents to quickly and easily access.