Keeping Parents Informed with New School Website

St Hild’s is a modern, yet traditional, Community-centred secondary school. They provide high quality education in a Christian, fully inclusive context. Previously, they had a website that was difficult to maintain, as well as being a hindrance to parents trying to find information quickly.

They came to us for a brand new, streamlined website that would offer better user experience, along with improved functionality. The brief was to create a solution that would appeal to both existing pupils and parents, as well as attracting new prospects to the school. Additionally, we had to take into consideration that it is a legal requirement for the site to contain all the information that Ofsted require.

Behind the new website, we developed a bespoke content management system (CMS) for St Hild’s, to ensure that maintaining the website would no longer be a time-consuming task for the admin team.

To achieve a clean yet professional appearance with easy navigation, we worked closely with St Hild’s to establish an intuitive site structure. This allowed our team of in-house designers and developers to create a high quality solution which would work across all devices.

For this website to remain up-to-date, we had to optimise the design to include focused marketing space, which allows St Hild’s to quickly and easily upload adverts for their upcoming open evenings and out-of-school activities.

Having a bespoke CMS allows St Hild’s admin to be able to keep their website up-to-date with all the latest news and upcoming events. This allows any user with a log-in to quickly and securely insert new courses, events, news articles, job vacancies and much more.

Now that we’ve transformed their old content sections into a more intuitive style, users can locate the information they’re looking for in significantly less time. This allows parents to find a quick answer to their queries, and also enables the collation of all the required information for Ofsted in one place.

Finally, a student council area was created, to be populated with content from the council members, showing news, events and blog-style posts. These updates go through an approval process before content is published on the website, and as they are complete with a full log report, this allows admin to see which user has created, amended and approved each article.