This website Writing for Catholic Schools supports leaders and those who design and deliver education in Catholic schools. We focus on the way Catholic schools write and use their websites to say what makes them unique. Every school has a website, often not by choice.

In some case the website is like a multi-layered reference library of policies and legal notices. Pack in references to how brilliant the principal has been in the school’s success, lay out rules like an authoritarian state, overload the site with convoluted curriculum outlines and pretentious ambitions and you realise why many visitors do not return for a second visit. That is before you stumble over technical language, jargon jingle and an air of defensive aloofness.

Our focus here is on how well Catholic schools represent themselves on their websites.

We now include the findings coming out of Catholic Schools Inspections. Knowingly or not, they are setting out what it means to be a Catholic school. 

We share our findings with you on this website.

We are open to your comments and possible collaboration.

We don’t do defensive aloofness. We have been insulted and abused by the best. Here is where you say your piece