Week 7

Maltby Elementary School

This is the school that I did my 40 hours of volunteering in last school year. I enjoyed my time there so I decided to look at their school website.

The first thing that caught my eye was that you could change the whole website to Spanish. I remember when I was volunteering, there were quite a few students that spoke Spanish as their first language so this would be helpful to parents at home that have a difficult time reading English.

What was interesting about this school’s website was that it was connected to the whole school districts website. Parts of this I like and other parts I don’t. I like it because you can easily find your way from school to school but it doesn’t give each schools website as much school spirit.

My favorite part about this school’s website was the news link. It is a news letter that is geared for parents that is sent out three to four times a month. It gives information about up coming events in the school and in the community; including advertising Northshore soccer and Woodinville football. The new letter was around 17 pages long. However, it was pleasing to the eye and easy to read.

A few teachers had links to their blogs under their contact name on the website. It was fun to look through the blogs to see what the students are doing in the classroom through the pictures and posts. A few of the posts were specially for parents too.

Over all the website was easy to navigate and was very organized.