A great school website can both save you money, and make you money!
With prices starting at just £745 for our pre-designed template websites, we could write a whole blog about how much value you get for your money from our brilliant team and the elements included in your template or bespoke websites. But instead we want to talk not about how much money you will be spending, and focus on how much you could be making or saving with a well-designed and well-maintained school website.
One of the most costly elements of school budgets is staffing. Which means schools operating with staff who are all wearing multiple hats and trying to cover off lots of different jobs each day, week, month and term.
Our CMS, and the many features listed below, all help to maximise staff time by minimising the time needed to update the school website and associated elements. We have also introduced our new AI Text Wizard to further help staff with writing everything from local press releases to policy updates. Saving time is one of the best ways to allow staff to make an even greater impact elsewhere.
Where some companies charge schools for each addition or edit of the website – or charge costly retainers or hold schools into long term contracts – we have created a content management system which makes it easy for schools to keep their website updated regularly. With everything from diary dates, news pages, and curriculum information being easy to edit and adapt, our CMS (Content Management System) ensures your website stays fresh without adding to workload.
How does this save money? Well not only does it save on staff time, as with the point above, it can actually have a knock on effect on both saving money and making money by engaging parents and local business owners who are then more likely to support your events. Whether this helps with raffle prizes, or encourages the community to come and paint the playground walls in the holidays, or brings more stall holders to your Summer Fayre, a regularly updated website is the perfect way to keep the local community engaged with the school.
No need for expensive parental communication software
A school app linked to your school website is a one off cost followed by very low ongoing costs and can save money on subscribing to complex software systems. Parents download your branded app for free and can stay up to date with news, newsletters and diary dates. They can also sign online to let you know when their child is absent, saving further money on absence apps and on staff time chasing up to find out reasons for absence.
The free push notifications also make sure that communication is easy and accessible which is priceless!
Save money on policy management software
Our new School Policy Compliance Manager makes light work of one of the less glamorous jobs in schools. You can review, approve and publish documents all through your Greenhouse website. It makes a lot of sense to add this feature for schools who want an easy way to keep on top of both reviewing and publishing their policies.
Reminders for policy review are automatically sent to the staff named as responsible for each policy, and new versions are sent to the approval team with opportunities for feedback to be given all through the same system. A full audit trail also records every change so that school leaders can have oversight.
Recruiting is a costly business. Getting your school noticed and found is difficult without huge expense. We believe we have made a great solution for you, though, and many of our schools are already using it to recruit and save money!
Our jobs feature, as part of our Greenhouse website CMS, allows you to create a template for your job vacancies which can be easily applied to all new adverts. It’s easy to set up and adaptable for each school or trust. Once you have a template you can quickly add any new jobs with a standard layout. Job vacancies will automatically appear on the vacancies page of your school or trust website. Not only is this a quick task, it makes your job adverts look just like they would on a premium recruitment website or publication.
Want to check if your current website needs an update to benefit from all of the above? Get in touch and book in for our free website audit!
