Our dedicated website design team supports over 70 primary schools, working in partnership with school leaders, teaching staff, and parents to create engaging, accessible, and effective websites that showcase each school’s unique identity.
We work closely with every school throughout the entire design process, ensuring your website reflects your vision while meeting the needs of your community. Every website is designed to strengthen communication with parents, celebrate achievements, and provide an intuitive experience across desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.
All of our websites are built with education in mind, combining attractive, modern design with the practical features schools need every day. They are fully responsive, designed to support Ofsted expectations, easy to manage, and backed by our experienced support team. This gives you complete peace of mind by ensuring your website remains secure, compliant, and up to date.
As part of Bolton Council, we don’t simply build websites—we work alongside schools as a trusted partner, providing ongoing advice, training, and support long after your website has launched.
Featured Website Design Services
Ofsted Ready Website
Throughout this set-up process, we liaise closely with the school to develop a custom look and feel regarding themes, layouts, menus, and images that tick all the Ofsted boxes. The latest OFSTED guidance is followed to ensure that statutory site content is the basis for all new sites.
Content Management
Depending on your school’s requirements we can take care of updating all of your school’s website content, simply email your update request including the content along with instructions and we’ll make the changes and confirm the changes within 24 hours.
High-Quality Photography
A member of our web team will visit the school to take unlimited high-quality photographs to use across your website and in your school setting. However, if you wanted something a little more special we also offer a school video package, contact us for more info.
100% green hosting powered by renewable energy
Our school websites are powered by 100% renewable green energy, green energy provides the highest environmental benefit and includes power produced by solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, low-impact hydroelectric, and certain eligible biomass sources.
🧩Website Design Services Packages
Our school websites offer support for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), enhancing usability for all users, particularly those with disabilities. Key updates include improved integration of alt text for images, while the introduction of a ‘skip to content’ link allows users to bypass repetitive navigation elements. These, along with improvements to visual contrast ratios and the more consistent use of heading tags, contribute to a more inclusive experience for a diverse range of users.
Bronze Package
Our website bronze package enables schools to take control of their website without the hassle of updates to the framework, plugins, security, or maintenance of their websites for one low fee. See what is included below.
Silver Package
Our silver package has everything a school website needs by providing an amazing online profile that reflects your identity and ticks all the Ofsted boxes. This package includes bronze features plus website content updates.
Gold Package
Our Gold package includes an amazing online profile that reflects your identity and ticks all the Ofsted boxes. This package includes silver features, an enhanced media package and a Triennial website revamp.
| Bronze Package | Silver Package | Gold Package | |
| Powered by 100% Renewable Energy | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Domain name | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| SSL certificate | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Server administration and monitoring | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Framework & plugins updates | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Ofsted ready | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Website analytics | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Website Accessibility | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Really simple syndication feeds | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Google maps with directions | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Interactive school calendar | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Social media feeds | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Website translate | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Powerful site search | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Scrolling announcements | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Videos | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Photo Galleries | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Parents area | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Staff training service | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Page Builder | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Collaborative tools | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Content updates by Bolton SICT | ✖️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Photograph package | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| School Policy Update Notifications | ✖️ | Add on | ✔️ |
| Simple Download Monitor | ✖️ | Add on | ✔️ |
| Triennial website upgrade package | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔️ |
New Websites – While the Gold package includes a new website with the Photograph package every three years, schools can purchase a new highly dynamic and engaging website separately and choose a bronze or silver package dependent on what you require. Supplementary photograph and video packages can also be added.
Bolton Schools ICT Webs team have the responsibility of ensuring that our school websites are launched with the list of statutory documents that are required by OFSTED guidelines (listed here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-maintained-schools-must-publish-online), however, the creation of content is the solely the responsibility of schools.
Website updates are subject to a fair use policy and additional costs may occur.
DIY Packages
School Blogs
School blogs are an essential tool for showing day to day activities in school , communication, and education. They provide an online platform for schools to share information with parents, students, and the community. While social media platforms like Facebook can be useful for promoting a school’s brand and sharing short updates, blogs are better suited for schools who want to own and control their own data.
Blogs allow schools to organise and diversify their digital space by including articles, videos, visual effects, photos, podcasts, graphics, charts, links, and other forms of content. They also provide a unique opportunity for schools to produce original and helpful content that reflects their image and builds trust with their audience.
Not to mention that blogs are the safest way of sharing content with your community and all content added to your blogs belong to the school and unlike social media channels the content can be removed from the internet as and when you decide.
DIY Website Builder
Design a limitless online presence.
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Web Hosting
Expect more from your hosting.
We provid managed web hosting services for schools and businesses to build and maintane their own websites.
High-performance hosting. Unmatched speed, reliability and 24×7 expert support.
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