Keeping Parents Informed with New School Website

St Hilds 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, and it hindered parents trying to find information quickly.

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

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

To achieve a clean yet professional appearance with easy navigation, we worked closely with St Hilds to establish an intuitive site structure. This allowed our in-house designers and developers to create a high-quality solution that 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 Hilds to upload adverts quickly and easily for their upcoming open evenings and out-of-school activities.

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

Now that we’ve transformed their old content sections into a more intuitive style, users can locate the information they want in significantly less time. This allows parents to find a quick answer to their queries and enables collating 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 the admin to see which user has created, amended, and approved each article.