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School newsletter advice

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Rudolphtherednose · 29/01/2019 07:50

I’ve offered to help with the school newsletter - basically cutting and pasting it into a nice format rather than just an email. But my IT skills aren’t great! Has anyone else done this? Can you recommend somewhere I can get a really easy to use, free templates that would work for emails and the website? Thank you.

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achoocashew · 29/01/2019 08:00

Why would you offer to do something you don't know how to do? Surely it's the secretary's job anyway!
Offer to do something you are good at!

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Rudolphtherednose · 29/01/2019 08:11

To learn a new skill?

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Rudolphtherednose · 29/01/2019 08:13

Because I think it would be helpful and no one else wants to?

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Rudolphtherednose · 29/01/2019 08:14

Because if I stuck to things I’m already brilliant at I’d be very short of options!!

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onegrapeshortofabunch · 29/01/2019 08:19

Are you sending it out in the body of the email or as an attachment? If it’s the former, you could try using a programme like mail chimp. If it’s the latter, then you could have a look at the templates in Word and then turn it into a pdf before sending

LIZS · 29/01/2019 08:21

Do they not have a template already? Packages like word and publisher have them but you may need to save as a pdf to put online or email.

tablelegs · 29/01/2019 08:29

Word has a template for it, you can search options for newsletters.

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Rudolphtherednose · 29/01/2019 20:26

Thank you everyone. I’ll have a look at these :-)

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Moominmammacat · 30/01/2019 09:51

I did this for a few years ... put everything into Word then sent to IT department for design/formatting.

Paddington68 · 30/01/2019 13:49

Try mailchimp and then it will record who opens the email.

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 01/02/2019 22:24

If you look at MSPublisher there are newsletter templates included in the package.

Thesunrising · 02/02/2019 11:55

MailChimp. Or Canva. Or combo of two! Canva has lots of great free images.

Onceanexpat1 · 02/02/2019 19:35

Hi- good for you learning a new school and helping your skill. As others have said mail chimp (free) or campaign monitor (small monthly fee) are good email platform with lots of support and tutorials and templates you can use for inspiration. Ideally you want to add images and make it as pretty as possible so that people actually read it! I would never send a newsletter out in the body of an email or as a word attachment as it is so dreary for the people reading it, but then again parents will read anything about their children :-) so I’m sure whatever you choose to do will be a success! X

Onceanexpat1 · 02/02/2019 19:36

Meant to say helping your school! Sorry. Fat fingers

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