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Newsletters & Email

Monthly Recap pulls the events, sessions, pupils seen and employer visits from the month you actually had, and builds the issue around them. Or describe an issue and let AI lay it out. Plus reusable email templates for the messages that repeat all year.

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Newsletters

Compose and distribute monthly careers newsletters to your school community

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Careers Recap - July 2026

July 2026 · 9 sections

PublishedAll staff, parents and students
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Employer Week Special

June 2026 · 7 sections

PublishedParents and carers
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Year 11 Next Steps

May 2026 · 6 sections

DraftYear 11 parents

Apprenticeship Focus

April 2026 · 5 sections

PublishedAll staff

Paused - the monthly recap is written from events, sessions and visits you already logged

NewslettersThe newsletter creator's three modes, and a monthly recap built from the term's real data.

Why it matters

What changes

The honest version of the before, and what it looks like once this is running.

Without Chapter
  • A careers newsletter that never gets written because nobody has the hour
  • Event invitations retyped from scratch every single time
  • Months of good work invisible to parents and staff
  • Design done in Word and photocopied crooked
With Chapter
  • A monthly recap generated from what actually happened
  • AI layout from a one-line brief, then edited by you
  • Reusable templates for invitations, reminders and follow-ups
  • Publish, print, or download as Word

How it works

Up and running in minutes

Three steps, in the order you'd actually do them.

Choose how to start

Monthly recap from real data, an AI layout from a one-line brief, or a blank page.

Edit in the block editor

Live preview, cover image, issue label and audience - all three starting points land in the same editor.

Publish or export

Publish to your audience, print to PDF, or download as Word for the school office.

In detail

How it actually works

The mechanics behind the screenshot.

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The recap writes itself from the term you had

Monthly Recap pulls the month's events, guidance sessions, pupils seen and employer visits, picks out the highlights and writes the issue around them. It is the Wrapped treatment applied to a careers programme - and it exists because the barrier to a newsletter was never design, it was recall.

  • Events run, 1:1 sessions, pupils seen, employer visits pulled automatically
  • Highlight events surfaced for the lead story
  • Set an editorial angle if you want it to lead somewhere specific
  • Tagged with its recap period so the data can be replayed
Monthly recap · March

9

Events run

34

1:1 sessions

212

Students seen

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Three starting points, one editor

Start from the recap, describe the issue and let AI build the layout, or start blank. All three land in the same block editor with a live preview, and all three export the same way.

  • Monthly Recap, Generate with AI, or Start Blank
  • Issue label, audience and an optional cover image
  • Draft and Published states, with unsaved changes flagged
  • Export: print / save as PDF, or download as Word
Email templates
Employer talk invitationInvitation
Careers fair - one week to goReminder
Thank you & feedback requestFollow-up
Work experience confirmedConfirmation

What you get

Everything included

No add-ons, no per-seat pricing - it's all in the platform.

6 capabilities

Monthly Recap generated from real event and session data

AI layout from a one-line brief, then edited in the block editor

Draft and Published states with a live preview

Export: print to PDF, or download as a Word document

Reusable templates: invitation, reminder, follow-up, confirmation

AI-drafted employer outreach in the Provider CRM

Evidence & integrations

What it proves, and what it plugs into

Benchmark 1 asks for a programme pupils, parents, staff, governors and employers know about. Communication is how that happens.

Gatsby Benchmarks evidenced
  • 1A Stable Careers Programme
Works with
  • Events

    Recap data and invitation templates

  • Provider CRM

    AI follow-up drafts to employers

  • Resend

    Delivery, with bounce handling

Questions

The things schools ask

No, and it would be misleading to call it one. It is a newsletter builder with reusable email templates, plus AI-drafted outreach in the provider CRM. If you need campaign-grade open and click analytics, keep your marketing tool.

Print or save as PDF from the browser, or download as a Word document - which is usually what a school office actually wants.

You set it per issue - all staff, parents and students by default, or narrower. The audience shows on the newsletter card so old issues stay legible.

The repeated messages around events: invitations, reminders, follow-ups and confirmations, plus a general category. Write once, reuse all year.

See Newsletters & Email in action

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