WELCOME FROM THE WEB SITE TEAM

Welcome to the school web site. We spent many weeks preparing and creating it: collecting information; typing up text; making pages, banners and buttons; taking pictures; editing, and, finally, putting it all together.

The Web Site team began as an enormous group of pupils, who were invited by Heads of Department, and Heads of Year, to help build the pages for their subject or pastoral areas. Pupils who had shown particular interest or ability came to a meeting just after Easter, and many took up the opportunity to get involved.

The first tasks were to learn how to use the software programme we needed, and to help make some of the decisions about the design and style of pages, banners and buttons. Once the initial choices were made, information from staff had to be gathered and put onto the pages. Photos needed to be taken and images inserted into text. A lot of this work was done during lunchtime sessions so that it would be finished by the end of term. As the volume of work to be done got smaller, so did the number of people required to work on it.

During the holidays, a group had the chance to build a mini-Web Site for the Excellence at Priesthorpe Year 6 and 7 Summer School. This was a great opportunity to try out some of the School Web Site ideas to see if they would work and how they might look. We divided our time and efforts between creating the Summer School Site, and completing and editing the pages we had already made for the Priesthorpe Web Site.

This term an even smaller group of volunteers has continued to work every lunchtime, and until 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday nights, to finish off the remaining work. This has involved checking for any gaps and filling in missing material and images; getting staff to check their pages; building the navigation system and linking all the pages. Now that we have finished, we are very pleased with, and proud of, what we have achieved. All the ideas and time we have contributed have been well worth it. We have learned a lot and enjoyed ourselves while we've been doing it. It has been great to work on a whole-school project as part of such a large team. We would like to thank all the pupils and staff who have contributed to what is on these pages now, and to encourage others to help expand it in the future. We hope people will really enjoy looking at our site and using it to find out more about Priesthorpe School, and what goes on here.

Thank you for taking the time to read this welcome.

Robert Watts (Year 8, 2002 - 03)
David Goodall and Martin Scott (Year 9, 2002 - 03)
on behalf of the Web Site Team