Theme
School Bulletins
How the school reaches parents and staff as a whole. A bulletin is a notice to an audience — not a conversation.
Writing one
A bulletin has a title, a body, and an audience. The audience is the part to get right, because it decides who sees it:
- Everyone — the whole school.
- A grade — every family in that year group.
- A class — one class, usually through that class's teacher.
- Specific people — hand-picked recipients, which is what Message parent from a behaviour incident uses.
Pinning
A pinned bulletin stays at the top of the list until it's unpinned, which is the right treatment for anything people need to keep finding — term dates, uniform policy, an exam timetable.
Editing and removing
Bulletins can be edited after publishing, and removed when they're no longer relevant. An edited bulletin keeps its place; a removed one disappears for everyone who hasn't read it yet.
Because of that, prefer a correction over a deletion when people may already have acted on the original.
This is the school's only outbound channel
There is no direct message or chat with a parent. When a teacher or the principal needs to say something to a family, it goes out as a bulletin addressed to them. That has two consequences:
- Everything is on the record. Wording matters; there is no informal side channel.
- Recipients can't reply. If an answer is needed, say what you want them to do — call the office, return a form — rather than asking an open question.
Empty states
- No bulletins yet — nothing published.
- No bulletins match — the audience filter is excluding everything.