Comms for Schools

23/03/2023

This event will upskill staff so schools can increase pupil numbers. The fundamentals of marketing applied to a modern British state school setting.

Early Bird rate - £150 pp | £195 pp after the Early Bird tickets are sold

12/04/2022

We are looking for a finance manager to support our network of fantastic schools. We support large city secondaries, small Church of England primaries and all schools in between. The right candidate will be able to choose between part-time or full-time working. Full-time salary is between £39.5K and £42.5K, with 29 days' holiday. https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/finance-manager-kidlington-oxford-1613222

31/03/2022

This school is rated Good in all categories by Ofsted, but it is still shutting...

The education authority decides to close a village school with "a heavy heart".

11/01/2022

Drawing on past pandemics, scholars have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic will bring about fertility decline. Evidence from actual birth data has so far been scarce. This brief report uses data on vital statistics from a selection of high-income countries, including the United States. The pandem...

09/11/2021

We are very proud to have worked on the project to open The Swan School in Oxford. Great news that it was one of the winners at the Oxford Preservation Trust Awards 2021.

06/11/2021

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2021/11/04/primary-schools-may-close-as-pupil-numbers-plummet-report-warns/

One in five reception places will have to be slashed from Brighton and Hove's primary schools by 2025 - and some schools may close. A council report out today has earmarked seven schools for a reduction in numbers, and says more will be needed. Pupil numbers are continuing to fall and Brighton and H...

03/11/2021

'A spokesman for the trust has stated low pupil numbers “show no prospect of improving for many years ahead”, with predictions for demand for school places showing a steady decline until 2031/32.'

A LOCAL education authority which has come under fire for failing to arrest a stream of village school closures is urging the Education Secretary to…

23/08/2021

Getting a key message across to a carefully selected audience with a 30-second video on Facebook. The video then drives the right people to the school website where the full video plays through from YouTube and where, if you have set the site up properly, you provide or clearly signpost all the key information about outcomes, vision and values, admissions etc.... https://lnkd.in/d_TMRftA. See more about us here https://lnkd.in/dXpnbFx

We're Comms For Schools - A communications, design and marketing consultancy, exclusively serving the education sector.

17/06/2021

A company that simply provides a school with a new website, a new prospectus, a new video, banners, a 360 tour and a new logo might call itself an education marketing agency. But that company is a design agency. That company has simply provided a school with the assets required to market itself. It’s like someone giving you a pile of bricks and telling you they are builders and they have built your house. A specialist education marketing agency will identify prospective parents. It will identify several types of parent – they might live in catchment, a certain part of catchment, just outside catchment or some way away, work in catchment or nearby, or commute via your catchment. It will tell you which medium to use to reach each audience, what to say to each audience, where to take them when you have delivered each message and what to tell them and provide for them when they get there. A specialist education marketing company will politely push back and explain when you say you ‘just want A, B or C’ or you ‘don't currently do X, Y or Z’. They will do this because they know that assets alone have little impact. It’s hard work and it’s a million miles away from the fluffy spivery of repute. It’s work that we do at https://lnkd.in/dmGFy_2

15/06/2021

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with this school – it's being merged with another primary in the MAT because there aren't enough kids to sustain both of them. Worryingly, both schools concerned are rated Good by Ofsted and the Medway area has seen a lower than average fall in the birth rate over the last decade.....

MP Kelly Tolhurst says plans to merge two primary schools are short sighted, but Trust leaders say Stoke Primary Academy is not sustainable.

10/06/2021

The first drop in private school numbers for a decade should be seen as an opportunity for state schools to make sure their classrooms are full. Not all schools are positioned to capitalise on the economic fallout from the pandemic and Brexit. But if your school has decent outcomes, a good Ofsted and extra-curricular provision, then now is the time to look at selling yourself to parents who might be wavering on whether to go or stay private. It doesn’t require a fundamental change in your school’s vision or values – it just requires you to identify the right people and to reach them with the right message. The really good bit? You don’t have to feel guilty about taking pupils from other local state schools.
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UK independent school fees have grown at their slowest rate on record, while the number of students enrolled has fallen...

08/06/2021

When did you start thinking about which primary school to send your child to? I can guarantee that it wasn't the day the admissions process formally opened in the autumn. Ideally, schools that were disappointed by their numbers for Sept 2021 should have started doing something about numbers for Sept 2022 a couple of months ago. In the real world, a million and eleven other things have been occupying heads and MAT leaders. However, parents all over the country are making up their minds about school places right now. Don't wait until September to start thinking about raising your numbers for 2022-2023. The clock is ticking if you haven't yet identified prospective parents by analysing admissions data, catchments, birth rates, other local demographics, commuting patterns, local employers, and planning frameworks, as well as made sure your website, messaging, physical assets and social media channels are fit for purpose.

We aim to increase the intake of students in your school. Our solutions, tailored to each school, help make sure there are no empty chairs.