Posted on 16th October 2020
Promote wellbeing and learning with our partners Thrive
Reducing the impact of lockdown on your students. The Thrive Approach® offers practical tools and training to promote wellbeing and help prevent mental health issues for all children and young peo...
Posted on 7th October 2020
School touchscreen cleaning guide
We saw this expert school touchscreen cleaning guide by our partners at Sahara and thought our subscribers would find this useful at this time. For schools and businesses that are conducting an over...
Posted on 11th September 2020
National Teaching Assistants' Day 2020
Nominate your lockdown heroes This year the annual Teaching Assistant of the Year competition is all about celebrating those Teaching Assistants who have been heroes throughout the pandemic. We ha...
Posted on 1st April 2020
Beware of coronavirus email scams
Families who receive Free School Meals have been targeted by a coronavirus email scam asking them to pass over their bank details. The government has issued a warning urging people not to fall for it...
Posted on 23rd March 2020
Keyworkers information on School Closures
To limit the spread of COVID-19, the government have advised that if children can stay safely at home, they should. Schools and all childcare providers are being asked to continue to provide care fo...
Posted on 20th March 2020
Home School Resources
Home School Resources for School Closures Due to the School Closures that are coming into force from today, Friday 20th March, we have combined a list of websites that are offering free resources to...
Posted on 19th March 2020
Are you preparing for your staff and students to work from home?
Home learning and working is now essential. The difficulty for most schools is managing this on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, whilst ensuring minimal disruption. In these unprecedented times w...
Posted on 11th March 2020
Statement in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Statement in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19) This statement sets out the steps that School Business Services is taking to help keep staff safe from the Coronavirus and therefore maintain as consis...
Posted on 10th October 2019
LGfL offering free broadband boost for schools
Did you know that the LGfL is offering a free broadband boost for schools? The broadband boost could improve internet performance for all LGfL schools, benefitting classroom connectivity and increa...
Posted on 24th September 2019
Schools and Ransomware in 2019 - Guest webinar from Redstor
To inform proactive ICT planning for the 2019/20 academic year, and following our previous guidance on schools and ransomware, this is a blog and accompanying webinar from our expert Online Backup p...
Posted on 24th June 2019
Important: Spam emails
.enforcedisplay { display: block!important; } We are seeing an increasing number of spam emails slip through the spam filtering net into users' inboxes. Typically these spam emails come from use...
Posted on 7th February 2019
Email security update for schools
It has been brought to our attention that we have had a couple of instances where a rule has been set up within Microsoft Outlook email client to forward all emails to a different email address. We...