53% of your school’s parents are on facebook

We are very pleased to announce that we can now make available password protected pages on your website. This function can be used for any content you deem to be sensitive and for only a closed community to view. If you have an interest in establishing a private section, please click here  to download the user manual - don't worry, we'll set it up for you.

Highlights.

• Parents register to be issued a password
• You vet the application and approve accordingly
• We set up the page/s for you
• You add content in exactly the way you do today 

I approach this article with a great deal of trepidation. I’m going to explain why kids write so well and I’m pitching this article to teachers – a very bold move indeed. I also need to mention that my wife’s a primary school teacher and is hanging (note I didn’t drop the ‘g’) off every word. So with the courage of a first time bungy jumper here I go - deep breath now.

‘Why kids write so well’ by Denis Masseni and with some support from Professor Geoffrey Blainey – sorry but I had to bring in a heavy hitter. more...
 

Denis Masseni - sponsor-ed Director

Since the launch of sponsor-ed over 18 months ago, we have always touted the homepage main publishing frame for the principal's message to reside in.  However we have since learned that the main publishing frame can be reserved for an even more school-centric feature, the student's work!  From what we have learned from Google Analytics and from speaking to many schools, student’s work is one of the most popular things to put on the school website.  

It gives the parents, particularly the ones who are not able to attend all the school's events a chance to see and read the students work.  Interstate and overseas family members can also access the site and feel a bit more connected to what's happening in their grandchild's, niece or nephew's school life.  

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We have found there is a always a significant increase in pageviews when there is an announcement in assembly about the importance of making the school's website each family's homepage.  It becomes a doubly strong message when the announcement is followed by an article in the newsletter too.  To help get this message out there into the school community, we have written a blurb you may like to read or release to encourage people to click the orange Homepage button! 

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sponsor-ed has just welcomed it’s fourth school in the Geelong area! Along with St Roberts, Hamlyn Banks and Wallington Primary Schools, North Shore Primary School has now joined sponsor-ed. It is one of our smaller schools, with 155 students and the school was established in 1923.

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In September this year we invited all of our schools to participate in an online parent survey.  For the schools that accepted the invite, we accessed their websites and uploaded a survey-ed icon that when clicked took the viewer to a survey for parents to complete. The survey ran for 3 weeks and schools were asked to help publicise the survey in their assembly and newsletter to help it get the best possible response.

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