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Under the GDPR, there are six lawful bases for processing data, one of which is consent – schools must be able to justify their processing with at least one of these bases. This guidance outlines the key information schools need to know to ensure their consent procedures are compliant with the GDPR. 7 things schools […]

What if there was a way to save school money by using a different approach to communication with parents and carers?

OK, so what’s a desire path? A desire path (sometimes also referred to as a desire line) is an unplanned path created literally as a consequence of the repeated use over time by humans, animals or traffic. You’ll see them everywhere you look. On the school field it’s the daily shortcut pupils take straight across, […]

If you’ve found this post while looking for tips to write an engaging school newsletter, or for the perfect school newsletter template then perhaps you could look at things slightly differently and change the way your school communicates with parents/carers.

School photo day – don’t we all do our best to make sure our little darlings look neat for at least one day?

Clean shirt (maybe even a new one if you’re super-organised!). Lovely ironed uniform, hair brushed into submission, or tied up in a style that will manage to hold until after break, because somebody thought it would be a good idea to book the reception class in for their photos after they’d been running around outside in the mud!