Education Today Education Today Magazine
Transform Trust has expanded its partnership with TrilbyTV, the UK’s leading digital signage platform for education, to strengthen communication across its schools.
Initially installing screens in every staffroom to ensure clear and consistent staff updates, the Trust has now extended the initiative to pupils through the launch of ChilbyTV – a pupil-led digital signage project developed by Transform Trust’s Children’s Parliament. The move aims to improve whole-school communication by giving both staff and students a clear, shared platform for information.
Children’s Parliament brings together pupil representatives from across the Trust to share ideas, and experiences. During discussions, members identified a recurring challenge: important messages shared reliably with staff were not always landing as effectively with pupils. ChilbyTV was developed to bridge that gap – with content created by children, for children, displayed in shared school spaces.
The project moved from concept to reality with a dedicated training day hosted at Ashbrook Junior School. TrilbyTV Director Neil Emery and Head of Relationships Terri Roberts worked alongside Canva Learning Consultant Adwoa Oforiwa to equip pupil parliamentarians with the skills to create impactful digital signage.
Year 6 pupils explored how to research key themes, plan timely communications and design engaging visual content. In hands-on sessions using Canva, they created bold, animated signage promoting school events – starting from blank canvases and quickly producing confident, screen-ready work.
The training focused not just on design, but on understanding effective communication: why timing matters, how visuals support understanding, and how messages can be made accessible to all pupils.
Rather than relying on a single year group, parliamentarians will pass their knowledge and skills to younger peers, embedding digital communication expertise across schools year after year.
Screens will carry both school-specific updates and trust-wide messaging, including safeguarding and belonging initiatives, helping to create a shared communication culture while keeping children at the heart of it.
What began as a staffroom communication project has evolved into a trust-wide, pupil-led platform shaped by student voice and backed by leadership. The ChilbyTV project represents collaboration in action – equipping young people with practical digital skills while strengthening communication across every level of the trust.
Trish Wilson, Transform Trust Associate, commented, “Children’s parliamentarians have driven this project right from the start and it will be amazing to see the information they want to share reaching children in their schools and beyond. Children across Transform are eager to connect with each other and Chilby offers a great way to enable this.”
As Transform Trust looks ahead, ChilbyTV is set to continue growing across the Trust using the TrilbyTV digital signage platform.
