Just ponder this a mo. Each year the College distributes 6 newsletters ( two a term) to parents, pupils & staff. On average it uses 1 sheet of A3 paper per newsletter, that's around 2140 sheets of paper in total per newsletter. Over the course of a single year that amounts to a staggering 12,840 sheets of paper! At 2.5p per copy that works out at £53.50 per newsletter and £321 per annum. What if......what if..... we produced it electronically!. During an individual pupils 5 year stay at the College we could save over 64,000 sheets of paper. That's quite a few trees!!!! (About 1,500 in a rough calculation)
Now, I'm not normally a number crunching nurd or a tree hugging hippy type, but this has all come as quite surprise and makes me determined to make the 'Electronic Newsletter' a reality.
Initially I suspect we would embed it into the website and then build up a database of subscribers so it can be emailed directly to parents in the future.
From a developmental point of view, making it electronic, means that we can include a whole raft of media (Video, Full colour photographs, animations & feedback etc etc) that we've only dreamt of before. We could also publish design ideas and allow the public to vote otheirer favourite format. More food for thought.
College Newsletters HERE
Treetastic Fact HERE
Happy browsing.
Stu
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