Are your school’s walls uninspiring?

Research on the effects of learning environments on pupil’s show that school buildings lay the foundations for pupils’ learning and for their experience in school.

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The effect of the visual environment on well-being

In recent years there has been a growing awareness of the decline in pupil’s mental health and well-being in our educational establishments and a need to address this in order to improve our children’s health and education achievement.

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Bring your school’s walls to life – A guide to our process

Use bespoke designed wall graphics to help communicate your school’s visions and values, impress visitors, inspire learning and add a wow factor to your school.

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5 alternative ways to fund a Wall Art Project

Enhancing your learning environment can have a huge impact on both pupils and staff in terms of wellbeing, enthusiasm and cutting workload. Finding the space in your budget for this is not always east so here are 5 tips for find other funding options, outside of your school budget, to generate additional money for projects like Wall Art.

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Make your school a happy place for your pupils

Is your school visually appealing for your pupils? When they close their eyes and imagine their school will it be a breathtaking, ‘happy place’ with wow factor or will their mental images be of plain, bland walls?

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Using Wall Art to Improve Parental Engagement

With school open days just weeks away parental engagement is never more key. Creating a school environment that is welcoming as well as engaging and impactful can be easier than you think.

School’s vision and values workshops

Values are the guiding principles that determine behaviour, actions and words. At the heart of a school should lie values that are clearly defined and understood. These values underpin the culture that drives the teaching and learning in school and therefore the pupil’s experiences.

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Ways to approach a Wall Art project in your school

When we visit schools and they see the benefits and opportunities of Wall Art, one of the fundamental factors in them going ahead is of course budget.

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The impact of the aesthetic environment on attitude to learning

The space we live and work in has a very real impact on the way that we feel. The way that we feel has a very real impact on our attitude towards what we need to do.

How to develop imagination in children with wall art

Communicating valuable messages all year round

Spring term is a busy one for important days that help us focus pupils on key skills or learning and raise their profile within school, for example, World Book Day, International Women’s Day and Safer Internet Day.

Using photographs to promote your school

It is often heard said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. This is so true when trying to communicate the atmosphere, aims and ethos of your school to prospective parents, pupils, staff and Ofsted. Well-taken photographs used on bespoke designed wall art can say it all.

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New statutory requirements for school websites

The statutory requirements for maintained schools to publish certain information on their school websites were brought into effect in 2012. Since then there have been a number of updates and changes to what should be published on school websites.

How to develop imagination in children

It has long since been believed by many, and widely researched, that imagination is vital to successful learning in children. Children learn best when they are engaged in their learning and when there are engaging their imaginations.

Ways to help improve pupil’s well-being using Wall Art

Anxiety and mental health issues in children and teenagers is rapidly increasing. Services like CAMHS are overloaded and Childline recently reported a rise of 35% in calls regarding anxiety issues.

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Promote reading through your school’s walls

Fostering a love of reading is always high on a schools agenda and raising the profile of reading plays an important role.

10 ways to use bespoke Wall Art in schools

10 ways to use bespoke Wall Art in your school

Schools are full of plain and tired walls and surfaces that could easily be brought to life using inspiring wall art.

10 reasons why you should use quizzes with children

How may of those quizzes that pop up on Facebook you have done recently? They can get addictive. When many of us were young we loved those quizzes in our favourite weekly magazines that would tot up whether you were a ‘mostly A’s/B’s/Cs’ type. Now we can quiz until our hearts content online – there is always one we haven’t done yet.

10 reasons why children should be blogging

There are usually two camps of people when it comes to blogging in school – those who love it and those who hate it. It’s a bit like marmite.

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Maintaining a successful website – time for a tidy up?

Schools are busy places with events and changes happening every day so your website can quickly become filled with outdated information and need a spring clean.

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Vision and Values Workshop at Osmani Primary School

Remi Atoyebi has been the head teacher of Osmani Primary School’s for ten years this year. The school itself is also celebrating the big 3-0. For Remi and her staff this year felt like a poignant time providing them with a natural opportunity to reflect on all the progress and achievements to be proud of so far and a time to question how best they as a staff could take Osmani forward for the next 10 years.

What does Ofsted want to see on your school website?

When The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 came in and school websites became a compulsory item for all schools Ofsted quickly made it clear that a school’s website would form part of their judgements. Schools these days are only too aware of how important a school’s website is both legally and in terms of Ofsted ratings.

The thinking behind OneSite.

As a teacher of many years I have seen so many new directives, ideas, ways of thinking and approaches to excellent provision and teaching. Some I have loved, some I have despised.

Stimulate learning and raise aspirations through displays

We live in a very visual culture. Your pupils are used to being visually stimulated from so many angles and from such a young age with all the technology that is available to them. In order to engage them, we are in a time where the visual presentation of lessons, activities and your school are of huge consequence to a pupil’s ability to learn.

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Promoting character and values in your school

The need for schools to have a clear vision, a core set of values and a strong ethos that underpins all that they do as a school and that are communicated clearly to all major stakeholders is more important than ever.

The effect of the learning environment on pupils’ progress

As adults we are well aware of what effects our moods and motivation and its fair to say that usually, if we feel good in the environment and surroundings we live or work in then we feel happier. A dreary, tatty room is uninspiring, whereas an aesthetically pleasing workplace on the other hand has an impact on our positivity and our outlook.

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How to promote e-safety effectively

As schools, you are constantly teaching children how to be e-safe, just as you are teaching them to play safely outside, cook safely and behave safely around each other and in public.   Is the hard work that you do regarding e-safety clear to parents, prospective parents and Ofsted?

What should you be publishing about your Governing Body?

Before the end of term there was much speculation over changes to the Statutory Regulations for what should appear on a school website. Over the summer we have been keeping a beady eye on any changes.

Promoting Safeguarding on your website

Safeguarding is an important part of a schools duty towards the development of their pupils and is a very current topic this term with the new responsibilities for schools under The Counter Terrorism Act 2015.

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The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and your website

The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty of care on schools to prevent people being drawn into terrorism as part of their safeguarding duties. This statutory duty came into effect on today and places responsibilities with schools to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

Top tips to get your school’s website is Ofsted ready

Most of us are familiar with Ofsted taking a peak at a school’s website ahead of inspections. It can help them form a good first impression and get a feel for the lifeblood of a school. But often too, Ofsted are checking that key information that should be there is there, and have certain ‘hot topics’ where brownie points may be issued if they’re seen to be included.

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