Creating your school email signature – staff instructions
To maintain a consistent and professional look across all staff emails, please follow the steps below to create
and apply your official school email signature.
Step 1: complete the Microsoft Form
1. Open the link here – Email Signature Template
2. Fill in all required fields:
– Full name
– Job title
3. Click submit.
Step 2: receive your email signature
You will receive an email with your personalised email signature shortly after submitting the form.
If you don’t receive it within an hour, check your spam/junk folder or contact IT support.
Step 3: add the text and image to your email signature
1. Open the email containing your signature.
2. Copy the entire signature (Make sure to copy from your name right to the bottom of the banner image).
3. In Outlook, go to:
File > Options > Mail > Signatures
4. Click New to create a new signature.
5. Enter a name for your signature (e.g., “School Banner”).
6. Paste the copied signature into the signature box using Keep Source Formatting:
– Right-click in the signature box and choose Paste > Keep Source Formatting.
7. Under choose default signature (top right):
– Set your new signature for new messages.
– Set the same signature for replies/forwards.
8. Click OK to save and close.
Final check
Create a new email to confirm your banner appears correctly.
If you experience any issues, please email ICT Helpdesk for assistance
About the artist
“Bush Onion Dreaming” design by Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa
Growing up in Yuelamu (Mt Allan), 290 km northwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, meant life began the traditional way, in the bush, for Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa.
Her lived experiences of hunting for bush tukka and traditional ceremony, as well as hearing her parents’ sacred stories, became inspiration for her canvas artworks, which she’s been painting since the 1980s. A renowned Walpiri artist, Maureen depicts her father’s stories of Fire Dreaming, Napa (Water Dreaming), and Lightning Dreaming, along with her mother’s Dreaming stories and women’s ceremonies for storytelling to her children and grandchildren.
Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa is a highly respected Warlpiri artist born in 1959 at Mt Allan (now Yuelamu), an Aboriginal-owned cattle station in the Northern Territory. She attended school at the Yuendumu settlement and later worked as a teacher’s assistant before beginning her painting career in 1981. Maureen’s artwork is deeply rooted in her cultural heritage and traditional Dreamtime stories passed down through generations. Her paintings originate from Warlukulongu, her father’s and grandfather’s country and reflect ancestral stories including Emu Dreaming, Fire Dreaming, Women’s Ceremonies and Bush Onion Dreaming—the piece featured in our new email signature.
She refers to her work as “culture art”, a way of preserving and sharing the stories and landscapes of her homeland. Her style is bold, innovative, and rich in symbolism, often depicting the desert’s rhythm and sacred topography. Maureen has exhibited widely, including collaborative works like Seven Sisters Dreaming, and has served as an Artist in Residence at Ayers Rock Resort since 1994. She now lives in Adelaide but continues to travel back to Central Australia to stay connected with her family and Country. We are proud to feature her artwork in our school communications and acknowledge the cultural significance it carries.
