Your school has great stories. We make them easy to tell.
Gather your stories in one place. Choose a visibility level. Share with your community.
What if there was a way to make your newslettersimple to make, enjoyable to read, and safe – not threatening – for your community?
Stories arrive on their own
Empower your community to become storytellers. A teacher via the web app or email. A QR code in the staffroom. Every submission lives in the Story Hub, ready to write.
Phone flowMost external school communication is managed by one person, doing it all.
Days spent chasing
Content scattered across email, Teams, and the teacher you can't track down.
Hours in Canva
Built from scratch every edition, and it still never quite looks right.
Does anyone even read it?
Lost in an overflowing inbox, or a PDF nobody can read on a phone.
Should we be posting student images online?
The risk profile of social media is becoming an unavoidable problem for schools. How do you tell stories and reduce risk?
OurNews is packed with clever features
Submission pathways
People submit stories via QR code, email, voice notes, or a guided submission portal.
Visibility controls
Reduce risk with clever per-story visibility controls that don't require another parent login.
Ultra-fast setup
Start using OurNews straight away thanks to our no-integration policy.
Branded hub
Make OurNews look just like your school.
Flexible to your school
OurNews can be linked to in your parent portal, in an email, from your website or even social media.
Story feed
The feed means you can publish stories at any point in time. A natural replacement (or complement) to social media.
Search and filter
Automated tagging means every story can be surfaced with filters and search.
Security
Content is encrypted at rest and in transit, every image is served through an access-controlled route, and founder access to a school's account is logged.
No design or layout required
OurNews automatically lays your story out. Like a designer in your pocket.
No lock-in or data held hostage
Export your data in simple markdown format or request a takedown at any point in time.
Newsletter collections
Publish stories one at a time, or curate them into a collection - like a newsletter edition.
Readable on any device
No more pinch-zooming a PDF newsletter. Every story is responsive and easy to read on a phone.
Privacy & access
Reduce risk and safeguard your students and staff.
AI-assisted misuse like image manipulation and scraping has changed what it means to put a student or staff member’s photo on social media or a public website.
Common questions
Become a founding school.
Our Pilot Program is open for registration. We’re looking for a small number of founding schools who want to be a part of OurNews from day one.