Branching out with our website designs

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Rachel Morris

Today, Martin Smout, one of our Senior Designers visited Oakdale Primary School in Peterborough to see a local artist recreate one of e4education’s website designs as a 10ft wall Mural in the school hall.

Martin said “I had an immense sense of pride seeing the work throughout the school, from the signage at the front of the school building to the mural taking centre stage”.

The local artist, Keith Warrington who used to teach at Walton School in North Peterborough spoke of how he had previously lent his creative skills to graphic, web and even retro game design, designing “Skool Daze” on the ZX Spectrum (released in 1984).

Keith said, “It was Head teacher, Mrs Steward’s idea, she wanted a tree depicting on the wall. As soon as I saw the schools website, I could see that using the same design would not only work perfectly, but would offer consistency to the schools’ image in helping to hang it all together.”

Techniques employed to create the mural include using vinyl emulsion for the base colour, and black and white acrylic paint to create the tint colours. Once complete, a clear varnish will be used to protect the paintwork. He aims to complete the mural today having only just started the project yesterday morning!

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Hillingdon Primary School wins prestigious ICT Mark Award at BETT 2012

Posted on January 20, 2012 by nick.myers

Straight off the heels of this years BETT show, we’ve received news that one of our clients, Hillingdon Primary School, has received the highly regarded ICT Mark for their school.

The accredition marks the effective use of ICT equipment and resources to aid teaching and learning inside and outside of the classroom.

As a company, we at e4education are passionate about the use of technology to change the face of teaching and learning. It’s why, as of late, we’ve been working hard developing a learning platform that puts the students and teachers at the heart of the system.

On behalf of all the e4education team – congratulations to Hillingdon Primary!

If you would like to learn more about the school, be sure to check out their stunning website, driven by the powerful e4education Content Management System.

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Another Successful BETT Show…

Posted on January 19, 2012 by nick.myers

Wow – what a week! For those that don’t know, each year in London a gathering of people from all over the education sector takes place; bringing people together to share the latest ideas and innovations. Last week marked our ninth appearance at BETT, where we showcased some of the very best products and services aimed at helping to improve communications, marketing, teaching and learning for schools.

In the past, interest in our stand has always been rife, with many keen to learn more about our stunning website designs and easy-to-use, feature rich, content management system. This year was no exception, with the e4education and Kite Learning Platform stand buzzing with educational professionals eager to experience our latest offerings.

This year we launched two big products, the e4education Primary VLE and the Kite Learning Platform. We are delighted with the reception and extremely positive feedback they have both received. One London School representative said, “There is nothing quite like it [Kite] for ease of use”. Another added, “I have been looking for a learning platform like this for 18 months!”. They joined hundreds of people who visited the stand and demo’d the product. Kite didn’t just fly at BETT, it soared!

Kite Account Director, Charlotte Wolfe, explaining how Kite can transform teaching & learning

We thoroughly enjoyed this years BETT show and would like to thank our partner schools for delivering effective demonstrations and allowing BETT visitors to speak first hand to our tried-and-tested customers. Special thanks to John Kinchin, Assistant Head teacher at The Kings (The Cathedral) School and Alan Wheelhouse, Deputy Head Teacher at Hartshill School who was accompanied by the wonderful ‘Geek Squad’.

Our Fabulous Team – e4education Staff, Partner School Representatives & The Geek Squad

As we look forward to a very exciting year ahead, it is our hope that BETT visitors came away with all of the information they required. If you’d like to speak about any of our products/services, please feel free to contact us and we will be more than happy to arrange a meeting or provide a remote demo.

 e4education Director, John Roach & Kite Account Director, Charlotte Wolfe, Toasting A Successful Show.

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e4education ‘School News’ app

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Rachel Morris

The most important measure of a school website is how well it communicates. With parents and other people involved within a school, trying to juggle an increasingly hectic lifestyle and staying on top of what is going on at a school becomes an impossible task if they need to wait for a computer to load up, remember the website address and then find the correct place on the website to get that information.

With this daily struggle in mind, e4education have a ‘School News’ app solution that can deliver this information to parents quickly and easily direct to their smart phones. The only information you need to set it up is to know which school you’re interested in receiving news from. Using the latest technologies, the app finds all the schools within your area and you simply add the school to the app. From then on every time you open the app it will check your schools website and pull out all the latest news and events that are happening within the school.

and…. if you have children attending different schools, it is not a problem; the app can pull through news and events from as many schools as you need and will display them in the news timeline for you.

If you are attending BETT 2012 (11-14 January) at the Olympia London, please come along to our stand – F26 (on the ground floor of the Grand Hall not far from the pass through to the National Hall) where one of the e4education team will be happy to demonstrate how it works.

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Are you looking for a combined bespoke website and learning platform for your primary school?

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Rachel Morris

e4education’s unique approach means that your learning platform and traditional primary school website come together to makes the whole process easy to manage, simple to implement and very affordable. We work together with your school to create a unique design allowing you to have a high quality web presence that will run through your website and learning platform. It also saves you money by negating the need for multiple costs and maintenance fees.

Teaching and learning are at the heart of what all good schools do, so you want to be sure you have the right Learning Platform to support this. Our system features a homework downloading and uploading facility within a secure area for each pupil; communities can share resources and web-links; class pages can be created and photographs and other information can be stored and displayed securely for only the school community to access.

The platform can link to your management information system allowing the provision for online reporting to parents. It provides parents view-only access to a secure area in which they are provided with an overview of their child’s attendance, progress, and summary information; allowing a clear line of communication between the school and the school community in an informative and transparent way.

If you are attending BETT 2012 (11-14 January) at the Olympia London, please come along to our stand – F26 (on the ground floor of the Grand Hall not far from the pass through to the National Hall) where one of the e4education team will be happy to discuss this exciting development along with other new and existing product offerings.

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