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The Changing Landscape of School Websites: From Compliance to Connection
Over the past decade, school websites have transformed from basic repositories of regulatory information into dynamic, multi-functional hubs. This evolution reflects broader shifts in technology, communication, and societal expectations, positioning school websites as central to the operational and cultural life of educational settings. For schools navigating these changes, a robust online presence is no longer…
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How School Leaders Can Make Their School the First Choice for Parents
As school leaders, we know that in today’s competitive educational landscape, parents have more options than ever before. It’s no longer enough for a school to be good—your school needs to stand out as the first choice for parents. But achieving this isn’t always straightforward. It requires understanding how to effectively communicate your school’s strengths, connect with…
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Cyber Defense and Recovery Strategy
Understanding Our Cyber Defense and Recovery Strategy: A Layered Approach to Mitigating Threats In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, cyber threats are a persistent and complex reality for all schools. At iTCHYROBOT, our cyber defense strategy for your website is built to address various types of threats, emphasising prevention, mitigation, and fast recovery to ensure…
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Top Tips to Make Your School’s Open Day a Success
With declining birth rates in the UK, the competition among primary schools to attract new students has never been fiercer. Recent data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) highlights a 2.9% drop in births from 2019 to 2020, with similar trends continuing. This means fewer children and more competition for schools. A well-organised and…
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How to Run a Successful Parents’ Evening: 5 Essential Tips for Schools
Parents’ evenings are a crucial part of school life, offering an opportunity for meaningful communication between parents and teachers. However, organising them can be a logistical challenge. From managing schedules to communicating with parents effectively, there are a lot of moving parts that need to come together for a smooth and successful event. In this…
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7 Marketing Tips to Increase Your Primary School Admissions
How do you attract new pupils to your school and how do you reach out to parents who are considering schools for their children? In this current economic climate, your reliance on gaining pupils is crucial to maintaining school budgets. There is often a lot of competition for school places, with multiple schools in one…
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Website Access Rules to Watch over your content!
We all know how important it is to keep things fresh and up-to-date, especially when it comes to the content on your school’s website. But let’s face it, managing all that can be a bit of a juggling act. That’s where our friendly tech team at iTCHYROBOT have been listening to school conundrums around managing…
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Nurturing relationships: A Guide to Onboarding new Parents to Your School
With primary school placements now confirmed, the countdown to the first day of school in September begins for many families. As educators, it’s not just about welcoming new students but also about embracing their parents into the school community. Establishing a strong relationship with parents early on sets the tone for a collaborative and supportive…
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Going Green with iTCHYROBOT
At iTCHYROBOT we are passionate about the environment and creating sustainable solutions. From using eco friendly data centres that employ carbon offsetting through to reducing the amount of paper we use as a business. All the little changes we make hopefully add up to a meaningful and responsible contribution to looking after our world. The…
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How to use your school website to promote reading and literacy.
In today’s digital age, technology plays a crucial role in education, offering innovative solutions to enhance learning experiences. As we celebrate World Book Day, it’s essential to reflect on how school websites can serve as powerful tools for promoting reading and literacy among pupils. At iTCHYROBOT, we believe in the transformative potential of technology in…
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Why iTCHYROBOT Schools? Making the Move for a Seamless School Website Transition
Schools are realising the benefits of improving their current school website. Simply having an “Ofsted compliant” website that just exists is no longer enough and schools are expressing a desire for more. At iTCHYROBOT, we embrace the idea of constant improvement. We firmly believe that your school website should be a vibrant showcase, effectively capturing…
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WordPress 6.4 Updates and Changes
WordPress 6.4 has recently been released which holds many updates and upgrades for the platform we use. Top Toolbar One of the main ones we have seen that may impact users is the “Top Toolbar” option. What this does is to move the editing toolbar from the block itself to the top of the page.…
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Harnessing the Power of QR Codes: Streamlining Access to School Information
In our fast-paced digital age, QR codes are emerging as a popular and efficient means for communities to access information seamlessly. Gone are the days of burdening materials with lengthy URLs; QR codes now offer a streamlined way for your community to connect with your school’s pages. Beyond simplicity, the use of QR codes presents…
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New Options for Training
We’re on a mission to make our training sessions as tailor-made for you as possible, and guess what? Now you have the power to shape our training plans! Introducing the VIP School Training Plan Initiative. We’ve opened up the floor for you to pick the topic, day and time that suits your school’s availability. Want…
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Baltic Live and Apprentices
Last week, our esteemed Technical Manager, Scott, undertook a reflective journey to the beginning of his 15-year career in the realm of Information Technology. With minimal IT knowledge but backed by a sound range of technical A levels, he evolved through the ranks—from an apprentice with Baltic Training working as a content editor, junior and…
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A new way to communicate (for us)
iTCHYROBOT are now on YouTube! Here’s the link over to our channel iTCHYROBOT Schools – YouTube We will be using the channel in the coming weeks and months as an extra method of communication. On the channel already you can see a few videos. Primarily we will be showcasing the features and functionality of our…
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Tips for Welcoming New Parents to Your School and Boosting Engagement
This time of year is an exciting but also a worrying time for parents whose children may be entering Year 7 and the start of their secondary school journey, or saying goodbye to their child as they make their first steps into Reception. As a school, it is important to ensure parents feel comfortable and…
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Adobe Photoshop: When Art Meets AI
We absolutely love the Adobe Creative Suite at iTCHYROBOT. Our team use it extensively and the tools are industry leading when it comes to creating digital art. That covers everything from drawing line art, manipulating photographs or making your own videos. Like any tools they take time to learn but getting started now the game…
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LEVEL UP WITH MICROSOFT POWER APPS AND POWER AUTOMATE
It’s important to future proof your plans and use technology to your advantage! Whether that’s for digital marketing purposes, customer management or processing orders, there’s plenty of tech out there to make life easier. One such platform is Microsoft Power Apps. What is Microsoft Power Apps? Simply put, Power Apps allows people with little knowledge of…
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WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMON MISTAKES WE SEE WHEN TAKING ON WORDPRESS SITES?
At iTCHYROBOT, we have been developing and hosting WordPress themes and plugins for over a decade now. Our skilled team has provided solutions for a wide range of clients implementing high transaction e-commerce to brochure-based websites. Over the years, we have transferred a number of websites to our care and this has lead us to…
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Our platform keeps evolving in 2023
As a follow on to our mini update blog in 2022 we thought we should add a round up to the school year with what we have been up too. The year seems to be flying by and whilst we continue our security theme having just completed our Cyber Essentials Certification the many features added…
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We have achieved Cyber Essentials Certification
As all our customers know, we take security seriously and are always looking to improve our systems and processes. Having had a gap year from being Cyber Essentials Certified, we decided the time was right to re-certify. Cyber Essentials accreditation proves our dedication to cyber security and protection from cyber-attacks as part of our overall…
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How often does your school get feedback from parents/carers?
If you don’t know how you’re doing, how do you know it’s working? Many people deliberately avoid getting feedback in the fear that they are going to get negative comments or highlight known issues. Isn’t that the point? At the end of the day, if they aren’t telling you about them, they are telling someone.…
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In Time-Sensitive Situations, How Does Your School Manage Comms?
Kids love it, adults loathe it, but at this time of year, extreme weather conditions are often unavoidable! With weather forecasters predicting freezing temperatures across the northeast, accompanied by up to four inches of snow and bitterly cold winds, now is the time to make sure your parents and carers know where to find those…
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Options For Creating Your School Site
When it comes to creating your school website, there are plenty of options and none of them are wrong. That said, making some informed decisions upfront may help save you frustration and time whilst building your site and help you keep money in the school to support teaching and learning. To preface, we will be…
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New Website Requirements from Ofsted
Ensuring your website is up to date with the most recent requirements from Ofsted can be a tedious, but necessary task. We love keeping our schools up to date on these changes and would like to share with you the latest updates published on September 5th 2022. School Opening Hours Schools should publish on their…
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Wix or WordPress: Which Option is Best for my New School Website?
If you are considering a new school website then you may be looking to build this in house and with many options to choose from currently in the marketplace, this option is becoming more and more popular. Wix and WordPress are two platforms that are widely used by schools and businesses alike. However, have you…
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Educational Games for the Summer Holidays!
With the Summer Hols in full swing, hopefully the kids are out enjoying the weather while it’s nice! However, we all know what a British summer is like and it’s bound to be rainy and grey for at least a few days. You may find it hard to pry them off Roblox or Fortnite, but…
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Multi-Academy Trusts & You
With the most recent Schools White Paper released by the DfE a few months ago, which mainly focused on multi-academy trusts, the dust has started to settle and the information has been better digested. It’s clear that the current government are full steam ahead for the full academisation of schooling within the United Kingdom. It…
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What’s New With WordPress 6.0
On Tuesday 24th of May, WordPress released their second major version of the year. 6.0 contains a swathe of updates designed to improve how users build and edit websites. Some of them are designed for more advanced users or websites with features such as ecommerce, but we’ve identified some we think might be of value…
