Communications
These resources are designed to help you address workload issues with communications in your school.
How to use this section
You can use the resources as they are or adapt them to meet the needs of your school.
The presentation is designed to enable safe discussion with your staff in a staff meeting or INSET day. You can use it to identify which issues with communications workload to prioritise, update, streamline or stop completely.
You can also read case studies and see examples of how other schools have reduced communications workload.
Resources to help communications workload
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Review and streamline communications
Review communications with your staff.
Presentation
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Parental communications policy
Develop a communications policy for parental engagement.
Example
Reading time: 4 minutes
Created by: St Edward’s School (Secondary)
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School email protocol
Develop an email protocol by reviewing the range of information sent by email.
Example
Reading time: 2 minutes
Created by: St Edward’s School (Secondary)
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Switch to online parents’ evenings
Develop a time saving system for online parents’ evenings.
Example
Reading time: 5 minutes
Created by: Prince Henry’s Grammar School (Secondary)
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Streamline internal school communications
Read how to reduce workload by streamlining internal communications and introducing an email protocol.
Case study
Reading time: 3 minutes
Created by: Hilltop Infant School
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