Primary, Infant & Junior Head Testimonials

Since using our 3-Step Plan literature, we have seen our school website hits go up significantly. Stoneworks Education’s 3-Step Plan is very different to anything I had seen in the education sector. The meeting I had with Andrew, at the start of the project, was highly informative. You can tell that he is an expert in schools marketing. The unique approach they take, of using family case studies to market the school, is innovative and brilliant.

The fact that it is a planned out strategic approach covering several months, that you can repeat, means that its not just a ‘one off’ marketing push. It isn’t just the family case studies though, there are two more steps that are equally powerful, including Starting School Storybooks and Celebration Prospectuses (that also feature the family studies), and that roll out across several months.

We get free ongoing support from Andrew too, and free literature updates. All very useful and cost effective.

I’d recommend that all schools who need to increase pupil numbers to get in touch with Andrew at Stoneworks Education, so he can take you through the three steps. I’m so pleased that we did.

I just wanted to contact you to let you the open evening went extremely well, and this was in no small part thanks to the work you did for us. Your whole team worked so fast and professionally on each part of the work we commissioned. Myself and the staff here are really pleased with the prospectus and we have had so many great comments about the storybooks already! So, I just wanted to take the time out to thank you for your hard work and efforts in such a tight time frame – THANKYOU!

Stoneworks Education has a fantastic variety of innovative and useful school products. Many of which I'd never seen before from a school supplier. They managed to capture the ethos and atmosphere of our wonderful independent Muslim school, and I'd not hesitate in recommending them to other schools. Andrew and his team are extremely easy to work with, reliable and have lots of great suggestions and ideas which have helped our school enormously in celebrating our achievements and successes through a variety of literature.

We were worried our pupil numbers would fall due to a drop in the birth rate locally. It’s a problem that a lot of schools are currently facing. When I came across Stoneworks Education and their 3-Step Plan to increase pupil numbers, I was definitely intrigued.

I had an initial meeting with Andrew that was very encouraging. I could see that his innovative approach could easily work. It's no use a school talking about itself if they are saying what other schools in the area say. You can’t tell one school from another if they all say the same thing.  

Parents usually talk to friends and family when they are selecting schools. Using that angle, Andrew developed a range of family stories that were then used in a planned way across our community. I like the fact that its all planned in three steps. He also gave us a plan to work from and encouraged us to get in touch if we had questions while running the plan.

What parents say about your school has much more impact in the community that what the school says about itself.

I’d say that if a school is facing a drop in the birth rate, as lots of schools are, they need to call Stoneworks Education for a chat. Andrew and his team definitely know what they are talking about.

What a revelatory idea! To use parent and pupil stories to market and communicate to parents. It's simply brilliant! I'd never seen anything like it before. These studies will really help us to show just what makes our school so wonderful.

It can often be quite difficult to show parents the wide variety of things that happen at school, and how the school could benefit their children academically and socially, but these case studies definitely do just that. You can tell that Stoneworks Education have been doing this for a long time too. It was totally painless and they handled everything. I'd certainly recommend them to other schools!

It’s such a fantastic, family-friendly idea. The perfect transition tool, in that it actually illustrates our school, and ‘storyboards’ the main worries that children have when starting a new school. It helps children to get used to the school before they have even started.

"Not only does our bespoke Storybook excite children and share starting school information, but it helps children to recognise, through the thoughts and feelings of the children in the book, that it’s normal to be nervous. It encourages them to talk about their feelings with their parents, and ask questions. 

These innovative parent engagement tools will definitely inspire new and existing parents to get more involved with our school. The testimonials capture the personal stories of our pupils and their parents, helping to say what a school could not.

I like the fact that Andrew and his team update it all for free too, which I had never heard of before from such a supplier. This means that our literature will last a very long time and never be out of date. They seem a very ethical company and I would not hesitate to recommend them to other schools.

These parent/pupil case studies say what a school can't. They highlight what a difference a good teacher and a good school can make to a child and their family. As told by the family! They can transform a school profile, because they help to tell the whole 'school story'. They reflect how a school works, and what it excels in, through the prism of a parent and pupil's experiences. I've personally found the case studies very enlightening and inspirational. What a brilliant idea.

Andrew and his team were fantastic and nothing was ever too much for them. Work was turned around quickly and it's definitely of the highest quality. I'd certainly recommend Stoneworks Education to other schools. I'd never seen this approach before, and I'm very happy that we commissioned Stoneworks Education.