Whether you’re looking for a new school website design, wanting to improve your school newsletter frequency or finally getting round to filming that virtual tour, the new year provides schools and trusts with the perfect opportunity to put these plans into action.

Take a look at our new year, new start suggestions for 2023!

We have a full guide to all of these requirements which is available to download for free from our website, but one of the key area of focus which our account executives are often asked about is curriculum.

We’ve shared our key times in the year we think, from experience, are perfect for launching your new school website(s).

But, before you start the process of putting your website live, have you completed these 7 key ‘go live’ checks and considered the best time to go live?

Juggling a school website project and everyday tasks within your school can be difficult, which is why we’ve shared our top tips to ensure success and keep your project moving.

It’s also a brilliant tool for parental engagement, boosting search engine optimisation and for keeping your community up to date.

But if you’ve not changed your website design in a few years, you might be feeling like it isn’t really working as hard as it could be or that you aren’t benefiting from the latest technological and design advances.

The good news is that you’re not alone! Our research shows that, on average, our customers usually redesign their school website every 3.4 years.

So, if you’re feeling underwhelmed and wishing your school website could be doing more for you, why not consider a school website redesign?

If you'd like to find our more about our work or see our content management system in action, then why not book a call with our team. We'll talk through our solutions, give you a free demo of our system and discuss how we can help to transform your online presence. 

Having worked with a number of MATs, we’ve put together this guide to help trusts make their next trust-wide website project a success.

We offer a consultative approach to school website design, which puts you firmly in the driving seat and offers you the opportunity to have a truly bespoke website tailored specific to your own needs and requirements. If you'd like to find our more about our work or see our content management system in action, then why not book a call with our team. We'll talk through our solutions, give you a free demo of our system and discuss how we can help to transform your online presence. 

We’ve put together 5 top tips to make sure your school or trust is confident when it comes to collating, reviewing and populating the content for your new school website.  

If after seeing our work, you're inspired to start a new school website project, then why not book a call with our team for a consultative chat about your requirements. We'll give you a free demo of our content management system and show you how we can help you to transform your online presence. 

Discover our top 2 time-saving tools that you need for your school website and see how we can save you time, money and resource!

Discover a selection of our recent Latest Lives below and if you're inspired to start a new school website project, why not book a free consultation with our team? We'd love to hear from you.

Get it right, and your new website will look visually stunning and support cost savings through streamlined, automated processes. It can also drive increased engagement with parents and key stakeholders, as well as attracting students, staff and alumni.

It’s a great question and with trust-wide website projects becoming more frequent and the growth of MATs accelerating, it’s never been more important to ensure that your trust website is the best it can be.

Here's 11 key things you should include for a great multi-academy trust website.

Take a look below at a selection of our recent Latest Lives and if you're inspired to start a new school website project, why not book a free consultation with our team? We'd love to hear from you. 

You can use it to signpost prospective parents to the information they require and then channel them from initial interest to application.

We’ve put together a list of ways that you can use your independent school website to enhance your school admissions process.

We've enjoyed working with you all, and we're delighted to say we've launched almost 400 new school websites this year! 

If you're thinking about a new website for your school or trust next year, why not book a free consultation with our team for January? We'd love to hear from you. 

Finally, from all of us to all of you, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and enjoyable 2022. 

There’s no denying that beautiful designs and powerful software are important for creating positive first impressions, enhancing security and protecting the overall longevity of your investment.

However, it’s the content which will inform your parents, boost your search engine optimisation and increase the length of time spent on site. And just because content is predominantly text and images, doesn’t mean it has to be boring!

At e4education we offer a range of inbuilt content templates to enhance your text and style your inner pages, as standard with our bespoke website designs. They are built into the content management system, so you can select your templates and use them as and when required.

Take a look at the options below to see some of the ways that you can jazz up your school website content, without breaking the bank:

If you're thinking about a new website for your school or trust, download our free redesign eBook to learn more about the process, view our portfolio for additional inspiration or book a free consultation with our team. 

Read on to discover why having a blog on your school website can help engage your community, increase your online traffic and provide a unique perspective on life within your school.

If you're thinking about a new website for your school or trust, download our free redesign eBook to learn more about the process, view our portfolio for additional inspiration or book a free consultation with Chris and Ryan, our Business Development Managers.

Many schools and trusts are working on ways to ensure that home-school communications are provided in all of the languages required by their EAL community so that their parents and students can be informed, included and aware of all that is happening within the wider organisation.

Changing from time-honoured traditions can feel daunting but your school could be missing out on a wealth of time-saving opportunities. An online calendar can not only make organising your diary easier and more secure, but it can also improve communications and streamline your processes.

We've seen an incredible number of trust-wide website project clones going live in September! We've also seen a surge in our essential website launches which are ideal for schools or trusts with smaller budgets or time-sensitive deadlines but fofer the same powerful software and high quality you would find from our bespoke designs. 

Speaking of bespoke websites, you're in for a treat this month as we showcase a selection of our latest stunning design projects which includes a couple of beautiful redesigns for long-standing e4education customers!

So, if you're thinking about a new school or trust website this academic year, then why not download our free eBook or even better, book a free no obligation CMS demo with one of our friendly team? 

Teaching school hubs, alliances and SCITTs are a massive part of the education landscape, responsible for educating the next generation of teachers as well as helping to up-skill and provide continuous professional development (CPD) to those who have been in the profession for a while. 

That's why we want to celebrate our fantastic teaching school customers with a special edition latest live post, showcasing a selection of some of the brilliant websites we've had the pleasure of working on over the last few months.

If your teaching school is looking for a new website, why not get in touch to see how we can help?

If you're thinking of starting your own school website project in 2021/2022, then why not download our free eBook to help you get started? Or, if you'd like a look at the software that powers all of our websites, why not book a free demo with one of our friendly team? 

We love working with educational organisations of all sizes and with all ranges of budgets, so if you're thinking about starting a new school website project next term, then take a look at a selection of our latest lives or at our portfolio for inspiration. Or, if you'd like a look at the software that powers all of our websites, why not book a free demo?

The full list of changes can be found on the government website or in the 2021 edition of the Academy Trust Handbook 2021 and we strongly recommend that all academy members, trustees, local governors, accounting officers, chief financial officers, auditors and governance professionals read the document prior to the regulations coming into effect on 1 September 2021. 

We love to work with educational organisations of all sizes and with all ranges of budgets, so if you're thinking about a new school website, then take a look at a selection of our latest lives or at our portfolio for more inspiration.

If you'd like a look at the software that powers all of our websites, why not book a free demo?

If you're thinking about a new school website design, then take a look at a selection of our latest lives below, or for an in-depth look at the software that powers all of our sites, why not book a demo?

During the last 20 years our own website and branding has also evolved as we have expanded and grown. Our website was last redesigned in 2016, and although we made a number of changes and updates to it since, we felt it was time for a shiny new website to support our future growth plans.  

Following our own recent website redesign project, we thought we’d share our top tips for achieving success.

Take a look at a selection of our highlights below and don't forget, if you're interested in finding out more about our school website designs and software, you can always book a demo!

This month we see some exciting updates to remote learning and our communications suite, as well as to some core content management system functionality. 

Let’s see what the team have been up to this month: 

The human brain is able to process visual images faster than written content which means that photography, videography and virtual tours will convey the main messages about your school or trust far more effectively and efficiently than lengthy paragraphs of text.

But what are the options available to schools and how can they be achieved in a safe and socially distanced manner?

Like many great companies, e4education started out from a humble home office. That was back in April 2001. Today the business has grown to employ more than 40 people and support more than 2,500 schools and trusts.

e4education’s founder and CEO, John Roach, takes a look back over the last 20 years and how the business has evolved.

Ellie will be working with our northern customers, building long-term relationships to help them enhance their school websites and get the most from their investment.

Here she shares her experiences and her top 3 essential tools to support schools.

It also was a month of 27 new school and trust website launches for schools, trusts and teaching schools across the country. Let's take a look at a few....

During lockdown #3, with the disruption to education set to continue in one form or another, for a while, the government made a policy change stating that schools must make information about their remote learning provision available on their school website.  

Let's take a look at a selection of this month's Latest Lives:

We partnered with the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a leading multi-academy trust based in Surrey, to share their thousands of secondary school educational resources for free to all UK schools across the UK. 

So, let’s see what our in-house developers have in store for us this month!