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The following articles, taken from recent issues of our Optimus newsletters, will prove invaluable for anyone with a professional or personal interest in School Profile. To ensure you stay up-to-date with the very latest thinking in this area, please make use of the articles below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, simply click on another category on the left or 'search the library'.
A different approach: teaching through the arts | School ProfileGallions Primary School teaches the entire curriculum through the arts, with fantastic results. Co-heads Paul Jackson and Emma McCarthy explain how it's done The role of risk taking in school improvement | School ProfileHeadteacher Anne Clarke reveals how her personal experience of taking a risk as a headteacher led to success and highlights why risk taking is often vital to school improvement Early Years Marketing 5: Running a campaign | School ProfileIn this final article in our series on marketing and promotion Early Years Update looks at planning and running a marketing campaign Alternative pathways into the world of work | School ProfileHeadteacher Brian Rossiter outlines his experience of seeking to take advantage of the variety of alternative qualifications available to boost his school’s headline statistics, while at the same time preparing individual pathways into the world of work for his students Early Years Marketing 4: Promotional material | School ProfileThe importance of producing accurate and attractive promotional material about your school or setting Early Years Marketing 3: Promoting your setting | School ProfileIn this third article on marketing and promotion, Early Years Update looks at creating a range of promotional material to make potential customers aware of the services you provide A pupil's right to privacy | School ProfileWhich is more important — a pupil's right to privacy, or the public interest in education? Early Years Marketing 2: Knowing your customers | School ProfileIn this second article on marketing and promotion, Early Years Update, looks at how to use market research to find out more about the customers who use your services Early Years Marketing 1: Creating an image | School ProfileIn the first part of a series on marketing, Early Years Update looks at the vital area of creating an 'image' as part of marketing and promoting your organisation Making the most of school profiles | School ProfileYour school profile communicates essential information to parents. Roger Smith gives tips on how to present that information in a positive way Moving forward with falling numbers | School ProfileSharon Wallwork provides comprehensive advice on dealing with a decline in student numbers. She argues that, far from being something that only schools in specific circumstances should be concerned about, all educational institutions need to assess the risks of declining numbers and the huge financial implications this can bring Communicating with parents: hidden messages | School ProfileDo you always know what messages your parents are taking away with them? Carole Farrar examines some of the messages that you may be giving out. Managing your image | School ProfileWorking to promote a positive image for your school can be a powerful tool for school improvement and can provide a focus for staff efforts on many fronts, argues Brin Best, education writer and director of Innovation for Education Ltd. Managing your image | School ProfileWorking to promote a positive image for your school can be a powerful tool for school improvement and can provide a focus for staff efforts on many fronts, argues Brin Best, education writer and director of Innovation for Education Ltd. Making vouchers work for you | School ProfileRoss Midgley of the Crocus Early Years group offers some practical ideas for managing payments by voucher. Child protection, schools and the media | School ProfileIf your school hit the headlines, how would you cope? Education Bradford’s press and communications officer Paul Parker has some tips. Make the most of your marketing | School ProfileMarketing a nursery is more than advertising and promotion. Marketing covers other activities, including the development of the nursery, market research and what prices should be charged. Whether your nursery is at the planning stage or is an existing business, you will still have to think about marketing. Joanne Taylor talks us through. Working with the media to promote your school | School ProfileMany communities are keen to know what is happening in local schools and the profile of your school can be raised and presented in a positive light by successful use of the media. This counters a great deal of the damage done to the public view of education by more generalised central reporting, where sensationalism is the main criterion for publishing/reporting. By Linda Trapnell Getting a view of yourself in profile | School ProfileSome time this term your school will be sent an email which will give a site reference and password for downloading the template of your school profile. School profile makes a slow entry | School ProfileSince the beginning of September, schools have no longer been required to produce an annual governors’ report or hold an annual parents’ meeting. Most Related:
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