Copy of email to Primary Heads:

Dear Headteacher

Please take just a moment from your busy schedule to look at the superb new website for Great Hormead Primary School. I have just completed this for them and you can find it here: http://www.hormead.herts.sch.uk/

More affordable than you might have imagined is a new school website that all stakeholders can be proud of, that will enthuse pupils, delight parents, impress governors (and inspectors alike) and empower staff. The Great Hormead School website was built efficiently in just under two days and to budget at just £600 (all inclusive).

Standard features for your new website (included in this fee):

• Clean, contemporary design - incorporating your school colours, motifs/logos etc.
• Updating, editing and adding new pages and menu items by staff at the school through a sophisticated (yet easy to use) award-winning Content Management System (1 hour of free on-site training provided within this fee).
• Adding pupil work, images and stories for example (in state of the art slide-shows etc.).
• Ability to use the website to bring the IT curriculum to life and teach students web-publishing etc. through their own school website.
• A dynamic "Calendar of Events" that you update easily with an "upcoming events" block highlighting these.
• Dynamic Google Location Map - with "street view".
• Advanced website "search" facility.
• News section - keeping all stakeholders up to date.
• Emergency announcement feature for front page (e.g. school closure announcements that can be posted/published from any computer connected to the Internet).
• Blogs - one or many.
• A spam-proof contact form.
• FAQ section - answering questions on-line and saving admin staff time to handle calls (updated easily by staff).
• Links section (updated easily by staff).

If required, I can develop and implement additional functionality quickly and easily - thereby very cost-effectively. From an on-line newsletter (saving paper and the planet) to a full featured VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). Anything you should wish for in fact.

I use free to use, award-winning, Open Source Software (Drupal for websites, Moodle for VLEs), meaning your costs are kept low - with no ongoing licence fees.

I have twelve years web development experience and, as an ex-teacher, can better understand the requirements for, and potential provided by, an excellent school website. I can provide ongoing support and assistance - as necessary.

Also, I can provide high quality training for your staff - to ensure that they are confident in managing content for your new school website. One hour of free on-site training is provided within this fee and additional time can be booked if/when/as required.

I am Hertfordshire based and would welcome the opportunity to visit you and discuss the possibilities for a new school website with you directly - with no obligation on your part whatsoever.