Services · Website development · School websites
Codeeo provides school website development Manchester schools and Greater Manchester trusts can rely on during the busiest weeks of the year. We build sites that carry the statutory information Ofsted checks, explain admissions through Manchester City Council and neighbouring authorities, set out SEND support clearly, and speak to families in the languages they read. Office staff update everything from one editor, without waiting for a developer.
Good school sites cut phone calls. When the attendance policy, term dates, uniform supplier and SEND contacts are easy to find, the office spends its morning on pupils instead of repeating the same answers. That is the measure we design to.
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What the website includes
Greater Manchester is ten boroughs, and families do not stop at the boundary. A child living in Salford may attend a school in Manchester, and a trust may run schools in Trafford, Oldham and the city itself. Admissions, transport and SEND processes vary across those authorities, and your website is where parents expect the differences to be explained.
Many Manchester schools also serve communities where English is not the first language at home, and where a phone call to the office is harder than reading a page in the language a parent knows best. We plan around both realities. The features below cover most of what a Manchester school site needs, and we adjust them for your phase, your trust and your intake. Where a feature would duplicate something the council or your MIS already does well, we link to it rather than rebuild it, because two versions of the same process confuse parents and double the data the school has to protect.
A plain-language attendance page explaining how to report absence, what counts as authorised, the school's approach to persistent absence and who to talk to when there is a problem at home. Linked from every page header so it is never more than one tap away.
Absence is reported earlier and conversations start sooner.
Your SEN information report, required under the Children and Families Act 2014, published as readable pages with the SENCO's contact details, how needs are identified and how families are involved, plus links to the local offer of each authority your pupils come from.
Families of children with additional needs find support quickly.
Admissions pages that explain your criteria and remind families to apply through their own home council, which is how Manchester City Council's coordinated scheme works for applicants from outside the city. Faith schools get clear supplementary form guidance.
Fewer late or misdirected applications.
Key pages, such as attendance, admissions, uniform and free school meals, translated by people into the languages most used by your families, with a language picker that remembers the choice. Machine translation is offered for other pages, clearly labelled.
Parents who are not confident in English can follow the essentials.
Travel pages covering local bus routes, walking routes, school coaches where you run them, and how older pupils obtain the igo card that Transport for Greater Manchester requires for child fares. Updated in one place when routes change.
New starters and their parents plan the trip with confidence.
Practical pages on free school meal eligibility, uniform expectations, trips and charging, written with the cost of the school day in mind and linked to your charging and remissions policy. Applications go through the council route you specify.
Families get support without the embarrassment of asking.
A careers area with live roles, job packs and your safer recruitment and child protection statement on every advert. Greater Manchester schools compete for teachers and support staff with neighbouring trusts, so the pages also explain training routes, workload commitments and what makes your school a good place to work.
Applicants understand the role and the safeguarding checks before applying.
Subject pages that heads of department own: intent, sequencing, assessment and enrichment, with options and post-16 pathways for secondaries. A consistent template keeps the section tidy across dozens of subjects and meets the DfE expectation to publish curriculum content.
Curriculum information is complete and stays consistent.
A newsroom staff can post to from a phone after a match or a trip, with photo consent checks built in. Newsletters can be published as web pages rather than PDFs, so they are accessible and searchable. Posts can be tagged by year group, so a Year 9 parent can filter out the Year 11 exam reminders.
The site feels alive without extra work for the office.
WCAG 2.2 AA templates, an accessibility statement, and a compliance checklist that tracks every statutory item, its owner and its review date. Governors can see the status at a glance before an inspection.
Statutory gaps are found by you, not by Ofsted.
Who this is for
The schools that approach us in Greater Manchester usually share one complaint: the site was set up years ago, nobody now knows how it works, and the office team avoids touching it. Beyond that, their needs differ sharply depending on phase, governance and the community they serve. These are the four situations we see most. In each case we ask the same opening question: which three things do parents phone the office about most often? The answers shape the homepage more than any design trend.
Your website supports the attendance strategy as much as any letter home. We put absence reporting, the attendance policy, pastoral contacts and early help signposting at the front of the site, with translated versions for the families who need them. Year 6 transition pages give new families a clear picture before September, reducing anxiety and first-week absence.
Attendance pages are written with your pastoral lead.
Each authority has its own admissions timetable, local offer and transport arrangements. We build a trust platform where shared content, such as policies, governance and vacancies, is maintained centrally, and each school's site carries the local details for its own borough. School staff edit their own pages without risk to the others. When a new school joins the trust, it moves onto the platform as a setup task rather than a separate project.
Families often arrive after a long process and want practical detail: how places are agreed through an education, health and care plan, what therapies are on site, how transport works and what a typical day looks like. We design calm, easy-to-read pages with strong accessibility, including easy-read versions where your families need them. Photo galleries are optional and consent controls are strict, as many pupils in special schools are especially vulnerable.
Faith schools carry extra admissions detail, supplementary information forms and diocesan context. We structure the admissions section so families understand the criteria quickly, publish the religious character and collective worship information clearly, and keep the inspection reports for the school's religious character alongside Ofsted's.
Diocesan wording is taken from your own documents.
How we work together
We do not have an office in Manchester or anywhere in the UK. Codeeo's team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and every meeting with your school happens by video call, recorded for anyone who could not attend. We have completed 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and hold a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. You get a named project lead, a written scope, a shared log of decisions and a data processing agreement before we see any personal information. Governors receive a short written summary at each milestone, which saves the head teacher writing one.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We often build school sites on WordPress, with a simplified editor so office staff see only the fields they need. Trusts with many schools may suit a headless Next.js build fed from one CMS. Hosting can be in the UK, with daily backups, updates and uptime monitoring included in support. Pages are kept light so they load quickly on mobile data.
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An audit, a new structure, design, build, migration and staff training.
We start by checking your current site against the DfE list of what schools must publish, then look at what parents actually search for and where they give up. From there we plan the structure and languages, design and build on a private staging site, move the content worth keeping and train your staff. Most Manchester schools also ask us to sort out SEND, attendance and admissions pages, because those generate the most phone calls. A typical project ends with a compliance checklist your governors can review each term.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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