20 Special Educational Needs School websites showcase students and learning and highlight principles and culture of the school.
Thorough research is carried out to determine features and functions available, costs and benefits and types of website design that would suit the school.
Having up to date information about the the industry and customer’s needs and expectation and will be key to the success of the project. Below is a sample of 20 Special Educational Needs Websites containing different, and similar, design features for our next project.
The Wolf School
This WordPress website is simple and clear making good use of images with call to action buttons on the slider taking visitors deeper into the website.
This school website contains an active blog with their Facebook page feed inviting visitors to join them on Facebook. The dropdown menus make navigation easy to find your way around. The homepage displays the mission statement with transparent blocks leading deeper into the website. They offer Newsletter Subscription, blog, videos and testimonials on the homepage making the site very ‘active’ and current. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube platforms used for marketing this school.The Children’s Institute website has been designed to inform and communicate with current lists of events and interesting site short cuts on the home page. The video is immediately available for visitors and gives an instant insight into this organisation.
Swiss Cottage
Strathmore School
Branded primary colour’s throughout the website with good use of images. Block categories on the homepage for simple navigation. The translation feature accommodates many languages.
St Elizabeths
Boxed layout with clearly defined link boxes taking visitors deeper into the website. The front page offers 2 case studies and the organisation’s mission statement with news and stories on the homepage. These features give you a sense of the school very quickly.
The Sheiling School
Modern with good use of soft colour’s focus on projecting a soft and caring image using a promotional video and images of happy children having fun in rural surroundings.
Royal School for the Blind
Modern branding with eye catching logo, bold font with large fading slider, clearly defined full length sections make this home page stand out. The slider contains braille with two cool features to turn the screen black and increase the font size.
RNIB College
Striking colour’s immediately excite the eyes drawing you into this boxed grid design with clearly defined features and categories of the website. Blog feed and slider rather then one big slider gives visitors more information
Rainbow School
Bold logo with full page layout with full width slider image. Vertical menu is unique, clear and concise.
Queen Alexandria College
There is a lot of content in this website but it’s been designed to not feel ‘overwhelming’ by being compact and easy to navigate. Menu and sidebars are colour coded. Strapline, sub menu and search facility.
The Priory
Sub menu and main menu separates the content about the organisation and the services they offer with breadcrumbs showing the path taken on the website. Video on the homepage is very informative and gives a good indication of what this organisation does. The slider fades with useful transparent text overlay.
May Center School
The school website border of colour nice additional design feature with prominent contact telephone on button background. Verbs used on each slide represents the schools philosophy of teaching. Video on homepage includes testimonials from parents.
Henshaws
Left side menu in bold orange and blue branding. Advanced visual impairment feature to change backgrounds to black or yellow and increase/decrease text size easily and also branded. Social media links prominent. Breadcrumbs.
Grove School
Having a secondary menu and main menu allows you to separate the important links from general information as used here. The sliders are informative and clear with call to action links embedded.
Easter Seals New Hampshire
Daldorch House School
This boxed layout draws you into the page straight to that smile ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ the bright blue is the perfect backdrop to that image.
Crotched Mountain School
This functional website has some good features. The slider is small, subtle yet effective with links deeper into the website. It looks professional and academic with news feed on the homepage and useful call to action prominent i.e. apply now, send email, set up a visit.
Camphill School
The color pink is the color of universal love of oneself and of others. Pink represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability” so it’s a good colour for Charities and organisations that are required to care for others. I am a fan of transparency over images and this highlights why. The whole image is visible but the mission statement and call to action is equally visible giving this page style and functionality.
Bedales School
Modern site design with soft colour pallet, nice background with beautiful professional slider images gives this website a touch of quality. Headmaster appears on the homepage as is quotes from ISI report and Tweets. The school has a link to their approach to teaching, videos, events and calender, another slider, student life and latest photos. Boom. They have included everything on the homepage in an ordered fashion
Abingdon House School
Summary School Websites
School websites are bright, bold and contain lots of useful information for parents and interested parties, so it is important to show some personality and be very clear on navigation.