Overview
Hackney Education has teamed up with online experts eSchools to bring you Hackney eSchools.
Hackney eSchools combines an easy to update school website that is beautifully designed to match your school's branding and ethos. It offers a host of communication and learning tools, minimising the need for multiple online services and saving you huge amounts of time and money on a day-to-day basis.
Hackney eSchools offers:
- Standard or custom school website design package providing intuitive drag-and-drop content management, integration with the full-featured learning platform, and easy access to your preferred social media channels
- Unified communication tools, such as text messages, email broadcasting, free mobile app for parents and carers, email versions of letters home and a handy news broadcasting feature
- Parents and carers can securely view their children’s MIS pupil data via the parent centre - and the unique mobile app - including attendance, achievements, and school calendar, and stay updated with class projects
- Dedicated email and telephone support for school staff
- Access to the eSchools community and knowledge base
What's included?
Specifically, Hackney eSchools includes:
- School website
A standard school website is provided as part of the Hackney eSchools package, and integrates seamlessly with the learning platform. The website will be designed to match the look and feel of the school and utilise your existing website address. Bespoke website development is also available for schools with more complex requirements.
Find out about our Hackney eSchools website offer - Parental engagement and the Hackney eSchools mobile app
Parents and carers can securely view pupil data held on their children in school through the dedicated parent centre and mobile app. This feature offers all the usual read-only MIS data options, and a secure platform for online consent forms and online payments. - Learning platform
The Hackney eSchools learning platform (VLE) is packed full of features, yet intuitive and easy to use and navigate. The platform integrates seamlessly with schools’ MIS, providing automated user account and class creation, start and end-of-year processes, and daily pupil data updates. - Governor portal
A dedicated Governor space provides new opportunities for secure online discussion, file sharing, group calendars and tailored full and sub-committee spaces.
Hackney eSchools is a complete solution. No need for multiple suppliers or multiple passwords, and schools can take advantage of a dedicated single point of contact for all their electronic communications needs.
Available to Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Islington, Waltham Forest and Haringey schools
eSchools in action
Here are some of the schools currently using Hackney eSchools:
- Hackney Forest School
- Nightingale Primary School
- St John of Jerusalem Church of England Primary School
- Our Lady and St Joseph Primary School
- Comet Nursery School and Children's Centre
- Ickburgh School
And if you need some further inspiration, you can view some example website layouts:
- eSchools layout example 1
- eschools layout example 2
- eSchools layout example 3
- eSchools layout example 4
What our customers think
“Hackney eSchools makes it easy. It’s so simple to arrange and upload content; it’s a breath of fresh air. The customer service is outstanding and we would recommend them for users at any level.”
Kate Apostolov, Assistant Headteacher, Jubilee School.
“Our new Hackney eSchools website is leagues ahead of our old one and super easy to update”
School Governor, St John of Jerusalem Church of England Primary School
eSchools video explainer
Why you should choose us
We pride ourselves on offering professional and family friendly school websites that look great but are also easily updated by the schools. eSchools are always available to help via telephone and email and have a full academy site with training videos to access at your convenience. We are happy to help you improve your engagement with your parents.