Websites for Edinburgh schools and colleges, written for the Scottish system.

Pages that walk through broad general education, the senior phase, SCQF levels and the qualifications pupils sit, with a short comparison for families used to GCSEs and A levels. Qualifications Scotland has taken over from the SQA as the national awarding body, and the content names it correctly so your site does not age on day one.

For independent schools, entry points, assessment days, bursary information and registration forms. For council schools, a plain explanation of catchment, how placing requests work through the City of Edinburgh Council and where parents find the official forms, so your office is not explaining the same process twenty times a week. Key dates are held once and reused wherever they appear.

A tidy home for Education Scotland inspection reports, Care Inspectorate reports for nursery classes or boarding, and the policies parents ask for most. Each document shows a review date and an owner, and expired items are flagged to your administrator before anyone outside notices.

Many Edinburgh independent schools are Scottish charities regulated by OSCR, and the rules on stating charity status and number reach into websites and online forms. We place these details in the footer, on fundraising and donation pages and in confirmation emails, and check them against your OSCR register entry.

Where a school offers Gaelic medium education or serves many families who speak another language at home, we plan bilingual navigation, translated summaries and correct handling of accented characters in titles and URLs. Translations are commissioned from people, not machines, for anything parents rely on.

A clear path to your child protection coordinator, the policy and local reporting contacts, kept separate from general enquiries. Forms that might carry a concern route to restricted inboxes. Recruitment pages explain PVG scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland for roles working with children.

Open mornings, taster days and individual tour requests handled through one booking enquiry form, with capacity limits, confirmation emails and reminders. Families can say which stage their child would join and whether they are relocating to Edinburgh, so the registrar prepares the right conversation. Event data stays in your systems, not a third party list.

Many Edinburgh schools and colleges host summer courses, residentials or let buildings during August. We give these programmes their own section with dates, age ranges, safeguarding arrangements and booking enquiries, so seasonal visitors never land on pages meant for current parents.

Most school offices have one or two people updating the site between other duties. We set up simple templates for news, events, menus and newsletters, with approval steps where heads or bursars need to sign content off. Training is recorded so new staff can learn the system later.

Templates are designed and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA, with readable type, strong contrast, captions and alt text guidance in the CMS. Pages are kept light so they load on patchy mobile signal, which matters to parents checking a closure notice on a bus or at the school gate.