Newsletters
Why do I need a newsletter?
It all comes down to this: a newsletter will help you better engage and support your school communities, which then builds mutual trust.
Use your newsletters to celebrate school and student achievements and keep parents/guardians updated and engaged on important announcements and information. In return for providing this regular, professional, informative, and accessible communications update, your school’s reputation, together with enrolment numbers, may well grow.
Trusted by schools, dioceses, organisations, and associations across Australasia
Helpful features
Accessibility
Students with disabilities, non-English speaking families, and diverse learners can fully engage with school materials. Newsletters can be translated into 87 different languages using add-on, EduTranslate. And a responsive design means easy reading for mobile and tablet users.
Visibility
Visibility across all sites provides insight into things you would never have been able to easily see before.
Central management
Dioceses, multi-campus schools, and any education entity managing multiple sites (e.g., multi-childcare centre networks) can use our Enterprise solution to ensure their local newsletters all have consistent branding, meet high child protection standards, and allow critical updates to be made network-wide at the click of a button. <Link underlined to Enterprise page>
Unlimited support
Our locally based, human, customer success team do the heavy lifting to help ensure parents/guardians stay informed and connected, and your school maintains its respectable reputation. The 2,000+ schools and 11 dioceses who already trust us have witnessed the difference this support has made, especially with the extra time that’s been awarded back to staff.
Branded templates
Create great looking newsletters in no time. Build your templates in a training session, then hand them over to your schools to populate. Include galleries of student artwork, links to events calendars, a side banner for critical updates (into which central governing bodies can push out network-wide content). And leave lots of space for all the school and student achievements. The outcome will be a communications piece so professional it suggests you’ve acquired a graphic design degree!
Analytics
Gone are the days of PDF newsletters. The parent/guardian audience prefer to click on a link. And that’s how you get your data.
What articles are being read? How is the news being digested? How many times have they opened the newsletter? How long do they stay on a section? What language are they translating it into?
Timeline
Engagement
Metrics
Views
Safety and compliance certainty
With Schoolzine, you can leave the worry behind. Our system adheres to compliance, security, accessibility, and best practice standards, including the protection of child identification through Image Guardian’s facial blur and redact tools, and consent to publish protocols. Plus, our EduTranslate tool delivers multilingual content that meets the Australian Accessibility Standards – WCAG 2. You’re in safe hands.
A fully supported service
We offer unlimited training and support from real people who really understand. Across Australasia, our team all live and breathe education systems and are there to assist staff at all levels.
During onboarding, we can help you create your newsletter template, which you can clone for your network of schools or campuses. Individual tweaks are also straightforward so your schools can maintain some independence. Distribution is easy, via a simple URL link. Do it yourself or enlist our help.
We’re here for anything (even the small stuff, like inserting photos). We care about your reputation, and we consider ourselves an extension of your school and brand. What’s important to you is important to us.
Introducing Enterprise
Enterprise is a new system built specifically for dioceses, multi-campus schools, and anyone trying to manage multiple sites and keep their communities connected. The platform sits on top of your newsletters and websites, helping you monitor engagement and brand consistency, publish centralised articles, and push out your content to all sites in one go – saving your teams a lot of precious time! It’s a system built for parent/guardian engagement, which has been known to encourage better educational outcomes for students.
There is nothing else like Enterprise on the market that lets you monitor school newsletter engagement across your diocese or multi-campus school.
See it in action
Watch how simple it is to filter and analyse the data around your newsletter’s performance. Helping you make the right decisions around marketing, enrolments, and general approach to audience.
Newsletters that work
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Other ways we help schools
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FAQ
How much control does each school in a network have over newsletter design?
School’s can be given a branded template or can easily create their own, depending on how you want to manage this across your network. They will have the ability to populate the template with their own content, but as the central governing body, you will be able to push out important network-wide notifications into the side banner of every school’s newsletter, ensuring everyone is updated at the same time. You can do this at the click of a button.
What if a parent or guardian doesn’t want their child’s face to be published in the newsletter?
Our system adheres to compliance, security, accessibility, and best practice standards, including the protection of child identification through Image Guardian’s facial blur and redact tools, and consent to publish protocols. A parent or guardian’s wishes will always be considered.
Is the Schoolzine system safe?
Yes, Schoolzine is safe. We have enterprise-grade security, ST4S-approved status, and our Image Guardian tool enables non-scrapable face blurring on images.
What makes Schoolzine different to other education communication platforms?
Schoolzine’s difference is our team. We are all human (no bots). We live locally, across Australia and NZ. And we live and breathe education communication systems – and that’s all we do. Our focus is 100% on maintaining and improving a system that simply works, and works simply. We understand dioceses, large schools, small schools, multi-campus schools, and we understand your specific needs and nuances. We’ve built the Schoolzine system and implemented updates purely based on diocese and school feedback, to ensure it really does address your needs, even when things change. We also offer unlimited training and support. And you will always get a quick response, and a human answering the phone.
How much does Schoolzine cost?
The cost of Schoolzine depends on which tools you choose to use. We’re about one third of the price of some comparable tools on the market, and could work out less expensive than the cost of using manual tools such as phones and spreadsheets. For small schools, you can use the same platform big schools use, scaled for your budget.
Can I trial Schoolzine to see if it’s right for us?
Yes, we offer a free demonstration of the system so you can see how it works and understand the benefits it can bring. Book a demo here.