Since September, the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning has been working closely with a number of schools in the Hemel Hempstead area to develop their own school websites. The results have been tremendous with schools demonstrating great creativity and innovation. A model for a school website cannot be defined by a single example.
School websites are as individual and unique as the schools themselves.
We recently asked the Hemel primary schools involved in the project for feedback about how they started their website and what motivated them to do this. Another common factor in motivation was the excitement of putting the school on the world-wide map and being seen to use the technology of today to promote the school. The Internet is viewed by schools as a vehicle for promoting the school and a place to celebrate children s work by creating pages that included examples such as paintings or poetry. Many schools were keen to encourage children to create some of the pages themselves. Some schools, for example Hobbs Hill Wood, have an Internet Club which maintains the website.