Building a School Website HELP!!!

boggsZ · #1 (**permalink**) 09-20-2006, 02:32 AM

Hi everyone I am going to be working on my dd's school web site posting things, writing newsletter and thing like that i am in need of some ideas so any of you do websites we have the doman and it seems simple to do but i need ideas on what to put on there to keep the parents coming back and interested. If you know of anything please let me know or if you work on one i would love to look at it so i can see how other schools are doing there sites. thanks for the help

barbszy · #2 (**permalink**) 09-20-2006, 03:41 AM

My family did our school's website last year.

Include:
the lunch menu
classroom highlights
school rules
pictures of fun events
SCHEDULES for athletic events and other events
INFO on how parents can volunteer in the school, and who to contact

Our new school also has a pretty good website. You can check it out here. This is not the one we made (that's down now, since the school closed).

boggsZ · #3 (**permalink**) 09-20-2006, 06:59 AM

barb thanks for the info i love your school web site i hope ours is half that good ill post it when we get it up and going

barbszy · #4 (**permalink**) 09-20-2006, 09:33 AM

Karen, I was pretty impressed with our school's website too. The principal writes a new "update" every week, which is great.

Good luck putting yours together. It can really be a helpful tool for the families.

redcardinalbird · #5 (**permalink**) 09-22-2006, 10:14 PM

Karen, Our new school has been putting the website together too. It has pages for the school board meetings, a PTO page, newsletter, Policy and Procedure book, supply list, a page for each teacher, menu, and others. The link for it is: http://www.john-paul-academy.org/

Our computer teacher and her husband are updating and revising it as we discover new needs. She is against putting the children's pictures on it due to privacy and safety issues. The only exception might be a group shot where faces are not real clear.

boggsZ · #6 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 03:30 AM

THanks for posting that link and suggestions here is the link to our school web site tell be what you think so far.

teann · #7 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 06:38 AM

Very nice websight Boggs... You are doing a TERRIFIC job girl!

boggsZ · #8 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 04:27 PM

teann thank you so much I have some great ideas for new things on there hope to get them up and running soon its alot more work than i thought it would be lol but thats ok this is the last yr the school well be open I went there as a kid and my dd will be in the last 5th grade class so its sort of a sad yr for us anyway thanks and check back often and let me know what you think

mom2-4 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-25-2006, 02:42 AM

That sounds like fun Karen! I will have to check out what you have done so far!

I thought I would give you the link to our school district. If you look across the top of the page you will see, Akron, Fulton, Clay, and Highland, those are the elementary schools in our district.

Last year the elementary school that Kate went to closed, it was so upsetting as the school was so small and all the kids knew each other, even in the other grades!!

Here is the link to our entire school district, now keep in mind, I think someone is paid to take care of this website!

http://www.easd.k12.pa.us/

boggsZ · #10 (**permalink**) 10-25-2006, 02:49 AM

thanks for the link karen this is that last yr for our elementary also thay well be a new school built and combin 2 elementarys but dd will be going to middle school so she wont go to the new one when you have a chance to look at the site let me know what you think