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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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What Does Ofsted’s Latest Computing Research Report Mean For Schools
On the 16th of May, Ofsted released a report with the findings of their latest research into how computing topics are positioned and taught across key stages 1 to 4. […]
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Our platform keeps evolving in 2022
It is long overdue that we start writing about all the exciting developments we have on our project backlog and those complete or nearing completion. After final testing over the […]
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The Recipe For An Outstanding School Website
When approaching your school website, you need to look at it as if you are preparing a meal for your school community. Prepare your ingredients, sourced from quality suppliers, providing […]
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7 Step Guide to Social Media Planning
Social Media, if used and planned correctly, can create an effective marketing tool for you to share everything that is amazing about your school. This involves publishing great content on […]
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The Importance of Clarity
Whether you’re sharing a policy with members of staff, sending a newsletter to parents or just having a conversation with a stakeholder, it’s important to maintain a high level of […]
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The Importance of High Quality School Photography
School photography is key to sharing what exactly your organisation is about. Whether it’s to populate your website, use on marketing materials or post on your social media, it’s vital […]
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Market Your School To Stakeholders Better With Our Webinar
As part of the School Business Management programme from Schools North East, our Marketing Manager, Becky is delivering a webinar on ‘Marketing Your School To Stakeholders’. This will take place […]
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WordPress 5.9 – What’s New?
Last week, the latest version of the WordPress CMS, 5.9 or ‘Joséphine’ was launched, but what exactly does this mean for your website? Well, we can assure you that any […]
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How visible is your school?
Before you eat at a new restaurant or visit a new shop, the likelihood is that you’ll search for it on Google first. You may notice an area near the […]
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iTCHYROBOT’s Green Initiative!
Climate change is a hot topic right now, and we’ve been taking steps over the past few years to ensure iTCHYROBOT is operating in as eco-friendly a way as possible. […]
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What is SEO for Schools?
You may or may not have come across the term SEO when considering marketing your school – and no, we’re not talking about Senior Executive Officers! SEO stands for Search […]
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Half Term Boredom Buster
The iTCHYROBOT Devs have spent a little time this week putting a game together using a Javascript framework. It sees our Robot jumping over the aliens for as long as it can to get […]
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5 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 […]
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Problematic PowerPoints
If your school uses PowerPoints regularly, you will no doubt have come across the issue of the file sizes being huge, especially if you are sharing these with your staff […]
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Make your website content easy to find
The amount of published content that is required from schools to display on their website is getting more and more. Ensuring the information is accessible quickly and easily is crucial […]
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Secret weapon for PDFs and Documents
When working with schools I have one top tool that helps with the myriad of PDFs, Word Documents, Powerpoints that we have to deal with on a daily basis. There […]
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Online Image Editing Made Easy
With the new term here we want everything to be as easy as possible for you so we have a new tool for you to add to your arsenal when […]
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The benefits of working with WordPress
Upcoming Functionality All of our clients know that our website platform is built on top of WordPress. This allows us to spend more time on writing school focused functionality and […]
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Online Surveys. Our Solutions…
Online Surveys With face to face contact being a communication tool of the past for many schools during this pandemic, there is still the requirement to engage with parents/carers consistently […]
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The iTCHYROBOT Guide to Videos
We have seen a massive upsurge in video creation since the schools have closed. It is the best way to foster a level of community outside of the school. We […]
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Websites using WordPress
In good company WordPress is one of the best examples of an open source development community. As a platform it is solid and robust at its core and it allows […]
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5 Steps to improve your school admissions with Facebook Ads
If your school is in the unfortunate position of being under-subscribed then you will understand the negative effect this can have. Reduced staffing, budgets cut and limited resources can affect […]
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10 Tips for refreshing your school website!
Giving your school website a refresh for the new school year may seem daunting and a task that you keep putting off. iTCHYROBOT’s Top tips will give you the push […]
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Does my MAT need a website?
With the growing numbers of Multi-Academy Trusts being created across the UK which is set to increase following the recent Government paper specifying a 2030 deadline to join a MAT, […]
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Policy Manager
How do you communicate your school policies to your staff members? If you have a new staff member how do you ensure they have viewed and agreed all of your […]
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Top Tips to keep your website Tip Top
Your school website is one of the best marketing and communication tools your school can use. It is an opportunity to provide a window to your school, showing your strengths […]