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Regarding the gallery I fully agree with orangepeel that you should not have the full size images loading on the index page. I understand that its for a limited audience but strictly speaking that's not true as already you have members from here viewing it too
If you want more functionality with very little effort take a look at some of the free gallery software packages that are available in our download section. There are some great ones in there that are very easy to set up, will make thumbnails automatically and some even offer many other features such as slideshows, exif information, email to friend etc.
If you instal one of those you could then make galleries for different events at the school and keep everything simple for the future while reducing your workload at the same time
Hope that helps