Yearbook awards pages are a great way to get everyone involved and talking about your leavers yearbook. They are also a great way to showcase the wide range of talented students in your year group. You can choose awards for almost anything: funny, serious or a mixture of both.
Approach your school yearbook project as if it were an actual business (looks great on a CV too). This means you’ll need to assign specific job roles to give everyone their own area of responsibility. Feel the power! Where to begin we hear you ask? Well we’ve put together a list of school yearbook tips for the […]
1. Save Time: Everything is less effort when you go digital. You already know that. That’s why you have a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, computer etc. So why not carry this through to a digital school planner?
The age of digital We’re living in a digital age, meaning that as teachers, you have an important decision to make about school planners. Should you move your student and teacher planners to digital or to stay with print? Well, with the new Boomerang Digital Homework Planner (DHP) you can actually do both. Go fully digital […]
Love the growth mindset concept but unsure how to introduce it to your students? We’ve got you covered with our growth mindset tips for teachers. It’s important to understand that as a teacher, you are still learning too.
This month, we suggest you enter the Guardian Young Critics Competition 2016. Each month we’ll be highlighting a fabulous competition for young people. You can find our full range of competitions on the Carpe Diem page here. We also include Carpe Diem opportunities throughout our school planners, so if you’ve got a Boomerang planner, take a look!
Here at Boomerang Education, we’ve noticed that, frustratingly, opportunities for young people haven’t been very obvious to the students themselves. This is where Carpe Diem comes in. Carpe Diem is a youth initiative that showcases hundreds of nation-wide competitions, youth programmes and work experience opportunities to young people.
Here at Boomerang, we like to think we know a thing or two about the yearbook process. So we’re going to share a few of our secrets with you while you’re in that proactive, ‘back to school’ frame of mind. There are all sorts of things to consider when it comes to making a successful yearbook and they’ve been condensed into this handy list for you:
Adopting a growth mindset nearly always needs to be a conscious act. This is because, for most of us, it’s all too easy to slip into fixed mindset tendencies, especially when it comes to praising young minds. Firstly, let’s (very broadly) define the terms ‘growth’ and ‘fixed’ in this context:
With the start of term fast approaching, it’s so important that you stay organised if you want to minimise/manage your stress levels. Feeling stressed just thinking about it? Fear not! Here’s our guide to keeping on top of everything this year:
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