One website for four schools under one roof

An all-through free school in Eastbourne, served by one website and one content management system.

The Gildredge House school buildings seen across the playing field

Gildredge House is a free school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, teaching children from reception through to sixth form on one site.

Applications for in-year places, taken online

Places do not only come up in September. The site explained how in-year admissions worked, set out the oversubscription criteria, and let a family apply to the school directly rather than printing a form and posting it. The admissions policy for each year sat alongside it, so parents could read the rules that applied to their application.

The Gildredge House in-year applications page, with the admissions menu beside it
The Gildredge House calendar, with events marked for the lower school and for individual year groups

News and documents that knew which school they belonged to

An all-through school has four audiences reading the same website. Every news item, event and document was tagged to one or more parts of the school, so a lower-school notice never crowded a sixth-form page and a sixth-form deadline never reached a reception parent. One editor, one place, four audiences.

Everything the school published, in one admin

Behind the site, the school edited its own content: news and events including recurring dates, governors, staff grouped by department, school bulletins, the document library, vacancies and the homepage itself. Parents signed in to a private area with its own document library, separate from the public site.

The Gildredge House governance page, with the board of governors and its reports and minutes alongside

One system, four audiences

Four schools Lower, middle and upper schools and a sixth form
In-year places Applications made through the website
Parents’ area A private document library behind a login

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