--- title: The Latest News From Grebot Donnelly | Pupil Recruitment description: Pupil Recruitment | --- [![Grebot Donnelly](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/Grebotdonnelly-Images/Grebot-Donnelly-1.png)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/) - [Home](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com) - [About us](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us) - [About us](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us) - [About GD](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us) - [Our Team](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us/our-team) - [Our Values](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us/our-values) - [Services](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services) - [Services](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services) - [What We Do](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services) - [Marketing & Consultancy](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services/marketing-pr-consultancy) - [Branding & Creative](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services/branding-creative) - [Research & Analysis](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services/research-analysis) - [Training School](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services/training-school) - [Student Recruitment & Marketing](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/student-recruitment-marketing-workshop-1) - [Pupil Recruitment & Marketing](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/pupil-recruitment-marketing-workshop) - [Sixth Form Marketing](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/marketing-the-sixth-form-workshop) - [School Business Managers](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/sbm-workshop) - [MAT Marketing](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/mat-marketing-workshop) - [My School's Public Image](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/my-schools-public-image) - [Teacher Recruitment & Marketing](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/teacher-recruitment-marketing-workshop) - [Governors Introduction to Marketing](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/governors-introduction-to-marketing) - [The How to Academy](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/how-to-academy) - [Portfolio](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/portfolio) - [Insights](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog) - [Contact us](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/contact-us) - [Subscribe to Mailing List](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/subscribe) - [Home](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/) - [About](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us) - [About Us](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us) - [Our Team](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us/our-team) - [Our Values](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us/our-values) - [Services](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/services) - PR - Crisis Management - Social Media - Logos - Photography - Prospectuses - Web Design - Copywriting - Newsletters - Signage - Strategic Reviews - Focus Groups - Competitor Analysis - Recruitment Trends - Government Policy - Mystery Shopper - Public profile - [Training School](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/services/training-school) - [Portfolio](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/portfolio) - [Careers](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/careers) - [Contact](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/contact) - [Blog](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog) [Follow @GrebotDonnelly](https://twitter.com/GrebotDonnelly) - [Home](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com) - [About us](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us) - [About us](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/about-us) - [Services](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services) - [Services](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/services) - [Portfolio](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/portfolio) - [Insights](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog) - [Contact us](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/contact-us) - [Subscribe to Mailing List](https://www.grebotdonnelly.com/subscribe) # Latest News ## [Back to School Mantra](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/back-to-school-mantra) Posted by [Aimee Monteith](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/author/aimee-monteith) on 07/09/2021, 10:47 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/Sept%202021%20blog%20quote-1.jpg)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/back-to-school-mantra) *“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” Paolo Coelho* [Read More](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/back-to-school-mantra) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/back-to-school-mantra#comments-listing) Topics: [Training School](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/training-school), [Marketing Consultancy](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/marketing-consultancy), [Pupil Recruitment](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/pupil-recruitment), [Profile Raising](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/profile-raising) ## [What’s your hook? And we’re not talking fishing!](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/whats-your-hook-and-were-not-talking-fishing) Posted by [Aimee Monteith](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/author/aimee-monteith) on 14/04/2021, 12:30 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/iStock-183799780.jpg)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/whats-your-hook-and-were-not-talking-fishing) In marketing terms, a ‘hook’ grabs attention, creates interest and makes an audience receptive to your messages. [Read More](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/whats-your-hook-and-were-not-talking-fishing) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/whats-your-hook-and-were-not-talking-fishing#comments-listing) Topics: [School Capacity](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/school-capacity), [Marketing Consultancy](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/marketing-consultancy), [Reputation](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/reputation), [Pupil Recruitment](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/pupil-recruitment), [Reputation Management](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/reputation-management) ## [Are you a movie buff?](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/are-you-a-movie-buff) Posted by [Aimee Monteith](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/author/aimee-monteith) on 10/02/2021, 09:21 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/image-png.png)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/are-you-a-movie-buff) In our minds, there are two popular movies that are resonant at the moment for primary school leaders: Groundhog Day and The Sound of Music. [Read More](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/are-you-a-movie-buff) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/are-you-a-movie-buff#comments-listing) Topics: [Training School](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/training-school), [Marketing Consultancy](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/marketing-consultancy), [Pupil Recruitment](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/pupil-recruitment) ## [Prospecting for gold: the recruitment & consolidation of student numbers in a pandemic](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/prospecting-for-gold) Posted by [Aimee Monteith](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/author/aimee-monteith) on 18/01/2021, 08:54 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/iStock-815712236%20(2).jpg)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/prospecting-for-gold) We all know that these are unprecedented times and the world will never be the same again, but one thing is for certain in the world of education and that is that the wheels will keep turning. [Read More](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/prospecting-for-gold) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/prospecting-for-gold#comments-listing) Topics: [School Capacity](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/school-capacity), [Marketing Consultancy](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/marketing-consultancy), [Pupil Recruitment](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/pupil-recruitment) ## [Life is like a box of chocolates!](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates) Posted by [Aimee Monteith](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/author/aimee-monteith) on 06/10/2020, 13:20 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/iStock-992766536.jpg)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates) The staff room is typically the central hub of a school pulsating with everyday trials, tribulations and jubilations along with chocolates, biscuits and cakes! This autumn term the key priorities of communications, pupil recruitment and managing the school’s reputation continues at a pace with the same deadlines but complicated by new and additional problems and challenges. With a whole new world ahead of us, rather than looking to overcome these challenges is it time to face them head on? Is it time to adapt and do things differently? How ready is your school in dealing with these key areas that will ultimately impact on the school’s future?       [Read More](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates#comments-listing) Topics: [Marketing Consultancy](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/marketing-consultancy), [Pupil Recruitment](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/pupil-recruitment) ## [It's never over until it's over!](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/its-never-over-until-its-over) Posted by [Aimee Monteith](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/author/aimee-monteith) on 04/10/2020, 15:06 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/iStock-497155649.jpg)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/its-never-over-until-its-over) Who doesn’t love a motivational quote – and moreover a sports motivational quote, in fact a **‘Yogism**’ from Yogi Berra, an American professional baseball catcher of the 1940s-60s. This quote is particularly relevant to the autumn term and the strategic marketing of secondary schools. [Read More](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/its-never-over-until-its-over) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/its-never-over-until-its-over#comments-listing) Topics: [Research & Analysis](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/research-analysis), [Marketing Consultancy](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/marketing-consultancy), [Reputation](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/reputation), [Pupil Recruitment](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/pupil-recruitment), [Open Events](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/open-events) ## [SCHOOL CHOICE DECISION MAKING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/virtualopenevents) Posted by [Aimee Monteith](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/author/aimee-monteith) on 14/09/2020, 10:32 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/iStock-179258590.jpg)](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/virtualopenevents) **Who would have thought that open event season 2020 would feature empty corridors, classrooms and playgrounds? As a society, we are creatures of habit and we like patterns, regularity, familiarity…but this is the year we have to do things differently, starting with your school’s traditional open mornings, days, evenings, tours… We can no longer run the same events that we have for years, tweaking here and there, in the hope that when we open our doors hordes of prospective pupils and their families will come** [Read More](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/virtualopenevents) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/virtualopenevents#comments-listing) Topics: [Marketing Consultancy](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/marketing-consultancy), [Reputation](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/reputation), [Pupil Recruitment](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/pupil-recruitment), [Open Events](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/topic/open-events) [All posts](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/blog/all) ## Get In Touch Suite 4, Millennium House Eden Street  Kingston-upon-Thames,  KT1 1BL, England - ![Email icon](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/Grebotdonnelly-Images/email-icon.png) [info@grebotdonnelly.com](mailto:info@grebotdonnelly.com?subject=Enquiry%20from%20website) - ![Telephone icon](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/Grebotdonnelly-Images/phone-icon.png)+44 (0)20 8892 2242 - ![Twitter icon](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/Grebotdonnelly-Images/twitter-icon.png) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/GrebotDonnelly) - ![LinkedIn icon](https://blog.grebotdonnelly.com/hubfs/Grebotdonnelly-Images/linked-in-icon.png) [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grebot-donnelly-associates?goback=%2Enmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1&trk=NUS_PROF-nw_pos_co) Grebot Donnelly Associates Limited is registered in England & Wales No: 4725222 Registered address: 5 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RD Copyright © 2015