| Kathryn Fleming |
09 June 2008 12:19:04 |
Dropped in while trying to find contact details for one of the 3 primary schools in my new parish....Lovely to see everything flourishing in so many different directions...Huge changes, clearly, even since we visited for Rupert's farewell. Lots of love and continued blessings to all of you.
Kathryn xx
PS LOVED reading the comments from former pupils in the guest book. It says alot for Gt Rissington that they've bothered to drop in :-) |
| William Henderson |
20 May 2008 20:58:17 |
I visited Great Rissington school today as part of my work experience - nice little place it was. Nice staff.
Cheers. |
| Nigel Thomas |
09 April 2008 23:11:07 |
As a teacher I must say how wonderful this site is. Congratulations on a wonderful school and a fantastic website |
| Maddy Robson |
18 January 2008 18:12:10 |
hey!!!!!!
I am having such a great time at the Cotswolds!!!!
Say hi to all the teachers for me!
xx
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Hello Maddy. Glad to hear you're enjoying secondary school. |
| Katie Smith |
16 November 2007 00:00:00 |
HI!!!! remember me??
Just wanted to say a big congratulations for the award! and a hello to Mrs Morgan!!! Still miss u lots!!! Emma (Witt) says hello and we both send a big hug to you! Hope to see you soon!
lots of love katie xxxx
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Good to hear from you Katie and Emma. I'll let Mrs Morgan know that you've mentioned her. |
| Craig Hartley |
01 November 2007 00:00:00 |
Hi there, remember me?? I'll be surprised if you can. I haven't stepped foot inside the school ever since I left there a few years ago now.. but looking around on the site things are looking good and a good school to be a part of, regards to all.. Craig |
| Natasha Surch |
12 February 2007 00:00:00 |
Hey, how are you all? I hope you're having fun, I am! |
| Slim School, Germany |
12 January 2007 00:00:00 |
We are a service childrens school based in Germany and have looked at your website and have been very impressed with it's layout and the information available, please could you tell us how you achieved the school logo on your background. We are currently using one of the ik templates but strive to personalise ours, we appreciate you may be busy but would really appreciate a response. Many Thanks - Slim school. If you would like to see our website we're at www.slimschool.ik.org
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: In response to your query about how to set a background logo.....
Firstly, go to the Schools IK website and click on the left hand tab 'Online Help and Knowledgebase' and download their Training Manual. You then need to refer to Part 3 (the 'Advanced' section). You'll require a graphics program to create a logo on your background and points 1.1 and 1.2 explain about the various graphics packages available, then refer to point 1.4 about the size settings for the background page and then point 1.8 gives further details about customising your background. Make sure that the logo is quite opaque, like a watermark, otherwise you won't be able to read text over the top of it. The 'opacity' settings on graphics packages will create this effect. If you are not familiar with graphics packages, it will be a case of trial and error! |
| Andy Scott-Evans |
01 January 2007 00:00:00 |
Really enjoyed looking round your website today. We use IK at our school, but I had no idea you could do so much with the software! My new year's resolution is to make our site more colourful. I may well be ringing Helen for some advice! Wonderful school. I would love to teach at a school like yours! Congratulations on the award - you deserve it.
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Thanks for your praise, and do feel free to e-mail me direct at helen@eastwooduk.com if you want any advice! |
| Laura Stratford |
14 December 2006 00:00:00 |
Hi there!
Hope things are all well with you, it seems ages since I was at Great Rissy! Things are going great here at the Stratford house, still winning medals (and so is Kate) See you soon hopefully!
Laura
x~x~x~x |
| Sophie Godman |
07 November 2006 00:00:00 |
Hi there guys! It's Sophie. I Hope all is well with everybody. The school is looking amazing, drove past the other day! I Miss it a lot, and the great times I had there. Hope to see some of you soon. Lots of love, Sophie. x
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: It's lovely to hear from you Sophie. |
| Matthew |
02 November 2006 00:00:00 |
This website is the coolest! |
| Lucy Holland |
11 October 2006 00:00:00 |
Hi Mrs Franklin, hope you are all well and hope to see you soon from Lucy Holland and Lee Knowles
x
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Hello Lucy and Lee, nice to hear from you. I hope you are both enjoying life at Secondary School. |
| David |
22 September 2006 00:00:00 |
Who is Helen? Why is she not on the Staff page?
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Hello David, I'm Helen and no, I'm not on the staff page. I used to work at Great Rissington as their administrator where I started to create their first website, and since leaving I did further work on the site to finally launch it, and have carried on editing it since then. Schools IK no longer offer the free training that I was lucky enough to receive, so it's not quite so easy to handover to new staff coming into the school. I'm now working as school administrator at Rodmarton School, which is much nearer to my home than Great Rissington. Helen |
| Nathalie Hooper |
20 August 2006 00:00:00 |
Hi there, just to say a very impressive site. Can you tell me how you get the coloured border around the photos?
Many thanks
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Hi Nathalie, The photos that have a border around them (i.e. those in 'About Us') have also been made into 'internal links' so that you can either click on the picture or the text below it to access the page in question. As soon as the photo has been made into a link, it automatically appears with a border. The colour of the border depends on the settings applicable to your design of site, i.e. whichever colour scheme you originally chose when you first set up your site, although you can go back into 'Site Settings' and 'Theme Control' and edit the border colours at a later date. (P.S. The colour of the border will usually change once you have clicked on the picture, which shows you've already accessed that link). Do get back to me if you have any more queries. Helen |
| Eileen Livingstone |
07 July 2006 00:00:00 |
FANTASTIC SITE.
I have set up our school web site using IK. (www.barrowcliff-jun-sch.ik.org) and I thought it was good, until I saw your site! I now feel I have more work to do. Your site is an inspiration to us all.
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Thank you for your kind comments. |
| Joanne Proud |
26 June 2006 00:00:00 |
Your Web Site looks great.
I have recently started to design a Web Site for our school, but have very little knowledge on this area. I have been into ender-design for lines, but how do I put these onto my web pages?
Any advice and tips would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks
Joanne at Walworth Special School
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: In Ender Designs, double click on the line or bullet etc. that you want to save - this will open it up so you can see it as a picture on its own, then right click on the image and select 'Save picture as'. You can then save it to your computer, either with the name it's been given, or you can rename the picture so you can remember what to look for when you want to add it to your site! You then need to upload it onto your Schools IK site as you would a photograph. If the image you've uploaded is a 'gif' you won't be able to see a preview of it when you've loaded it up onto the images on your site, but once you insert it as a picture onto your web page, you'll be able to see it. Hope this helps, Helen |
| Anonymous |
25 June 2006 00:00:00 |
Brilliant site! You deserve that award! |
| Mason Moore - Young Politics GOA 2nd Place |
30 May 2006 00:00:00 |
Just to add to the PDF Prosepctus & Ofsted, Microsoft's New Office application (Office 2007) has a built in *PDF Format Document Saver
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Thanks for that piece of information Mason. I don't have such up to date software on my computer! |
| Mason Moore - Golden Owl Awards Winner 2nd Place |
30 May 2006 00:00:00 |
Hi, I was just wondering how you made those 'dividers' on your homepage which have a gradient effect. I would really like to put them on my site. You may contact me via my e-mail address above. Thanks
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Hi Mason. Thanks for all your helpful input.
I actually got the gradient lines from a website called http://www.ender-design.com/rg/ which I found out about from a DIY website book. If you go to this site and click on the LINES option, you get a whole host of lines including INWARD GRADIENTS and OUTWARD GRADIENTS. Alternatively it is possible to make them yourself in Adobe Photoshop Elements or similar photo editing software, but it depends how familiar you are with such packages. A word of warning though, sometimes the lines are too wide for the page, even though it doesn't appear that they are, and if this happens they may push some of the right hand text out of view on the page you've inserted them. If this occurs, you just need to manually drag the line from the edge to reduce the size, as you would to resize a text box or drawing object in Microsoft Word/PowerPoint. Good Luck! Helen |
| Mason Moore - Young Politics GOA 2nd Place |
12 May 2006 00:00:00 |
In Reply To Carl's Message. You do not have cookies enabled, therefore, you will need to go to TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > Click On The PRIVACY tab and click on the default button and slide the button down to either ACCEPT ALL COOKIES, LOW or MEDIUM. Thank You.
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: Many thanks for your advice Mason, you're obviously an expert on these matters! |
| Carl |
24 March 2006 00:00:00 |
I can't view any of the 'About Us' section. It says I have not enabled cookies. But I have!
What can I do?
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON: I've not come across anyone with this problem before Carl. I will forward your problem direct to Schools.IK to see if they have any ideas. |
| Lorraine Cooper |
12 February 2006 00:00:00 |
Hi
Congratulations on winning your award. I am in the process of updating our school website. I thought your idea of using PDF format for your Prospectus and OFSTED report is great. Is there an idiots guide for doing this and do I have to purchase any special software?
Thanks, Lorraine Cooper, St Joseph's Catholic Primary
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON:
We bought the Adobe Writing software from http://www.pugh.co.uk who are based in Aberystwyth. They have special reduced prices for educational establishments. I think the current price for Acrobat 7 Std software is around £80.00. Once you have it installed on your computer it is really easy to save any word, excel or powerpoint file as a pdf. You can't use it to save any Publisher files though. You can create a direct external web link to the Ofsted site where your Ofsted report is, so you don't even need Acrobat to save your Ofsted report. I also understand that there are websites that now allow you to download pdf writing software for free, but I haven't used them.
All the best with your site updating.
Helen |
| SallyArcher, Meadows School, Worcs |
23 January 2006 00:00:00 |
Wow!! Very impressive site. Having spent months putting our site together I know how much effort has been put in behind your award winning site. Loved the icons for your calendar and will be looking for similar ones to enhance our site, hope you dont mind the poaching!
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON:
Thanks for your praise and good luck with enhancing your site.
Helen |
| Liz Gorringe, Hillside School, Wokingham |
31 October 2005 00:00:00 |
Congratulations on winning the award and on an impressive website.
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON:
Many thanks for your kind comments. |
| Helen Hall, Putnoe Lower School, Bedford |
29 October 2005 00:00:00 |
Hi, I had a look at your site as a fellow ik.com developer (www.putnoelower.ik.org). Congratulations on winning the award this year. The site is attractive, informative and well laid out. Great! I know the effort that will have gone into getting everything in place and in keeping it all up to date. Well done to the site developers and the school.
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON:
Many thanks for your comments. I'm glad you approve of all our efforts! |
| Tim Nicholls, Suffolk |
28 October 2005 00:00:00 |
I am looking to use IK.COM for a school in Suffolk. Yours is very impressive!
REPLY FROM GREAT RISSINGTON:
Many thanks for your feedback. We were so pleased to receive the 'Best Website' award - it has made all the hard work of setting up the website worthwhile! If you have any technical questions concerning the website, do feel free to e-mail me direct - helen@eastwooduk.com |