Front Page

Containing a photo of the school, school logo, email contact, and a number of links to site pages (including perhaps a link to a "what’s new" page)

About Our School

This might contain any of the following:

• School logo, contact details for school, Principal, etc.
• General "philosophy on learning" statement
• Teachers in school - list with perhaps short biographies and staff photos
• B.O.M. list
• Classes breakdown
• History of school / locality
• Year Calendar (holidays, sports events, notices etc.) listing upcoming events

The School Year in pictures

Photos of some events and occasions throughout the year done on a monthly or cumulative basis

School Plan

Parts of your school plan may be appropriate for online publication, especially those aimed at parents and the community. Remember this is an ongoing and cumulative process. This implies that most schools are just starting out in this area, so start small.

Elements of your school plan may include:

• Attendance policy
• I.C.T. web publishing policy
• I.C.T. acceptable use policy
• Health & safety policy
• Code of conduct / discipline / punishment procedures
• Bus conduct
• Emergency closures procedure
• Insurance policy
• Special needs policy
• School self-assessment policy
• Parent-teacher partnership
• Other school procedures

(This list is not meant to be exhaustive. Rather it should serve to "get the ball rolling")

School Projects:

• Class work and project work across various curricular and cross-curricular areas
• Collaborative projects undertaken with other schools
• Special projects
• School Clubs (if any, e.g. music, computer, art, library)
• Other special interest groups

Our Community

• B.O.M. and its role
• Past pupils classes
• Pictures and community description / aspirations / patrons statement (by B.O.M.)
• Local history project (history of the area, logainmneacha, historical profiles, genealogy resources, school roll from early century project etc.)
• Links to community sites

School Publications

• Pupil work (cartoons, creative writing, paintings, quiz questions, etc.)
• Samples of work
• Articles/ poems/ limericks/etc. written by pupils
• School Newsletter (could be ins MS Word, TextEase or Publisher format)
• Recorded audio of music/recitation/debate etc.
• Art-work done
• Relevant school projects

Credits

• Aim of this web site
• People involved in the site
• Invite feedback and link to "Contact Page"
• Site Map (flow-chart drawing of the organisation of all the pages on your site)

Guestbook

• To include visitor name, address, email, comment, feedback
• Tutorial on how to add a guestbook is included in the section Web Site Interaction

What’s New

• Page that lists announcements and other happenings, and provides links to new pages or content throughout the site.

Tip: The "What’s New" page is essential, as it encourages your school to update/modify content, as well as encouraging viewers to make a return visit. Ideas for content here might include:

• Chronological list of updated pages
• Announcements
• Star pupils of the week/month
• Something else "of the month"

Contact Us

• List of contact details for Principal, BOM, pupils forum
• Link to guestbook (if any)
• By Post / phone / fax / email

Tip: In addition, you should include an email address on each and every page of your site to facilitate feedback and interaction.