Talententhuis Turnhout is a GO! boarding house for young people from 10 to 18, from schools in and around Turnhout. Parents choosing a boarding house want to know exactly what a week looks like, what it costs and who takes care of their child. The website had to answer all three before the first phone call.
Context
A boarding house is a big decision for a family. Parents look for structure, warmth and honesty about what happens between Monday afternoon and Friday noon. Talententhuis had all of that in practice, but its old site said little more than the address and the opening hours, and enrolment, absence reports and documents were scattered over e-mails and paper.
The new site needed to put the daily rhythm front and centre: the day schedule, study support, meals, the leisure room and the Wednesday activities. It needed the practical answers parents ask first, the calendar, the rates and the documents, and a simple way to enrol and to report an absence.
And it had to feel like the place itself: warm, calm and clear, with real photos of the building and the team rather than stock images of classrooms.
Approach
One section walks through a boarding week as it really happens: arrival after school, a fixed study moment with the educators, a warm meal, free time and the Wednesday activity. Parents read it once and understand the rhythm.
Calendar, rates and downloadable documents sit right under the welcome, each with its own page. The questions that used to arrive by phone now have a link.
An enrolment form and an absence report connected to the school's administration platform replace paper forms and morning phone calls.
Every educator is introduced with a photo, a role and the days they are present, so a parent knows who is with their child on a Tuesday evening.
Testimonials from parents and students, in their own words, carry the emotional side of the story that a brochure never can.
Blue, orange and green accents, playful hand-drawn doodles and generous photos of the building and the people give the site a warm, calm feel within the GO! education network's identity, and it stays easy to update for a team that runs a house full of teenagers.
The work
Result
talententhuisturnhout.be now does the first conversation with parents: it explains the week, shows the rates and the team, and lets families enrol or report an absence without a phone call.
The team keeps the news and the calendar current themselves, and the photo gallery and testimonials give new families a real feel for the house before they visit.
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