School Yearbook Tips: Ideas for Your Yearbook Awards Page (Pt 2)

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Looking for ideas for a yearbook awards page? Yearbooks awards pages are a great way to get everyone talking about your leavers yearbook.

They’re also a way of showing off the wide range of talented students in your year group. You can choose awards for almost anything: funny, serious or a bit of both.

Check out part 1 of this yearbook tips series for the ‘best…worst’ awards and carry on reading for some ‘most likely to…least likely to’ awards!

 

Most likely to…
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  • Appear on Jeremy Kyle
  • Become a famous artist
  • Become a footballer
  • Become a comedian
  • Become Prime Minister
  • Get ID’d at 30
  • Invent the next Snapchat
  • yearbook-awards-page-idMake millions
  • Set a new Guinness World Record
  • Star in the West End
  • Visit Mars
  • Win an Olympic gold medal
  • Win an Oscar
  • Win the X Factor
  • Write the next Harry Potter

yearbook-awards-page-graduatesLeast likely to…

  • Attend a school reunion
  • Ever be able to grow facial hair
  • Graduate university
  • Get a job
  • Get in trouble for anything
  • Get married
  • yearbook-awards-page-parentsPass their driving test
  • Move out of their parents’ home
  • Remember any of our names in five years’ time
  • Stay in their hometown
  • Win a school prize

Stay tuned – next week we’ll be bringing you our favourite teacher awards ideas!

Boomerang Team

School Yearbook Tips: Ideas for Your Yearbook Awards Page (Pt 1)

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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.

There are all sorts of ways to approach the awards page for your yearbook, which is why this blog is going to be a three-parter. Part one is dedicated to the ‘best…worst’ awards – recognising student ‘achievements’. Next week we’ll be bringing you ‘most likely to…’ awards ideas.

So without further ado, here are some of our favourite awards for your school yearbook:

The ‘Best’ Yearbook Awards…

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  • Best Hair
  • Best Couple
  • Best Smile
  • Best Laugh
  • Best Dressed (Male & Female)
  • Best FIFA player
  • Best Sense of Humour
  • Best Singer
  • Best Dancer
  • Best Newcomer
  • Best Celebrity Impression
  • Best Excuse for Being Late

yearbook-awards-obsessedThe ‘Biggest’ Yearbook Awards…

  • Biggest Poser
  • Biggest Gossip
  • Biggest Drama Queen
  • Biggest Party Animal
  • Biggest Ego

 

 

yearbook-awards-highlightersThe ‘Most’ Yearbook Awards…

  • Most Gullible
  • Most Competitive
  • Most Organised
  • Most Stubborn
  • Most Annoying
  • Most Hardworking
  • Most Sarcastic

 

 

yearbook-awards-bad-drivingThe ‘Worst’ and ‘Least’ Yearbook Awards…

  • Worst Attendance
  • Worst Driver
  • Worst Dressed
  • Worst Dancer
  • Worst Hair
  • Worst Singer
  • Worst at Sport
  • Worst Laugh
  • Least Hardworking
  • Least Organised

Let us know if we’ve missed any important awards off this list and stay tuned for part 2 next week!

Boomerang Team

School Yearbook Tips: Recruiting Your Team

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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 types of job roles you could consider:

school-yearbook-tips-staff-repThe Staff Rep

 

  • Decides who will have access to edit the yearbook.
  • In charge of signing off the completed yearbook.
  • Generally oversees students.
  • Pays the final yearbook bill to Boomerang Ed.

 

school-yearbook-tips-editor-roleThe Editor

 

  • Decides on the content that will be included in the leavers book.
  • Coordinates each member of the team.
  • Ensures that all deadlines are met.

 

 

school-yearbook-tips-art-directorThe Art Director

 

  • Oversees the page designs.
  • Decides on the order of yearbook pages.
  • Coordinate which students works on which page.

 

 

school-yearbook-tips-copy-editorThe Copy Editor

 

  • Gathers, writes or delegates all copy (text) for the yearbook.
  • Makes sure all copy has been proof-read.
  • Ensures that all copy is supplied on time by other students and staff.

 

 

school-yearbook-tips-photo-editorThe Photo Editor

 

  • Takes photos at school events.
  • Collects photos from other students who want to contribute to yearbook pages.
  • Checks through all of the photos before adding them into the yearbook.

 

 

school-yearbook-tips-sales-marketingSales & Marketing

 

  • Sells the yearbook concept to other students.
  • Comes up with ways to advertise the yearbook.
  • Keeps everyone updated with the yearbook process.

 

 

school-yearbook-tips-financierThe Financier

 

  • Collects payments from students.
  • Collects payments from possible sponsors.
  • Keeps accurate records of finances.

 

We hope you found these school yearbook tips on recruiting a team useful. Head on over to our school yearbook page for more information on our leavers yearbooks.

Happy recruiting!

Boomerang Team

10 Reasons to Get a Digital School Planner in 2017

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Pretty self-explanatory really.

So here goes…

1. Save time.

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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?

2. Access your school timetable, calendar & homework anywhere.

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You can view a digital school planner on your mobile, tablet, laptop & PC. This means you’ll have access to all the important info you need, any time, any place.

3. Set yourself homework reminders.

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This is really handy because it’s easy to forget to check a homework diary. With a digital school planner, the ability to set yourself homework reminders means that you’ll never forget about a piece of homework again (yes this does means you’ll actually have to do said homework).

4. Keep everything in one place – saves on storage! 

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A digital school planner means that you have loads of storage space without taking up any physical space in your school bag. You can even use it as a personal calendar to make things even easier.

5. Catch up on schoolwork easily.

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Teachers will be able to attach lesson plans & useful classroom resources to individual classes so it will be easy for you to catch up if you aren’t able to attend a lesson.

6. Submit your homework online with the click of a button.

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You don’t have to worry about printing off and handing in homework assignments – just submit online with a digital homework planner!

7. No need to wait to receive your grade, view marking & feedback instantly.

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Just as you can submit your homework online, your teachers can also submit your feedback online. This means you’ll be able to view your grades the second they are awarded.

8. Get with the times – digital is the way forward.

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We all know that society is becoming more and more geared towards technological and it’s easy for schools to get left behind in the new digital era. Make sure your school is keeping up!

9. Better for the environment.

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We care about our carbon footprint and so should you. Cut down your paper usage by using a digital school planner and say goodbye to pages and pages of unnecessary paper. Save those trees!

10.Never lose your homework – everything is saved & stored.

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For those of you who aren’t the most organised – everything that you enter into your digital school planner will be saved and stored. This means that losing your homework diary doesn’t equal losing your entire life.

You’re welcome!

Boomerang Ed Team.

Digital or Print? Boomerang Digital Homework Planner 2017

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The age of digital

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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 with the DHP

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The Boomerang Digital Homework Planner is more than a school planner, with all sorts of benefits for schools, teachers, students and parents, including:

  • Interactive online calendar
  • Lesson timetable
  • Homework manager
  • Lesson plans

Why go digital?

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  • Fully integrates with school MIS and can be accessed on any digital device
  • Simplifies homework process
  • Engages with students through their favourite digital devices
  • Impresses OFSTED
  • Reduces your workload

Or have it both ways: digital-print hybrid solutions

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Unsure if your school is ready to go fully digital? You’re not alone.

That’s why we also offer the option to combine the Digital Homework Planner with our printed planners. We want to make the transition from paper to digital as smooth as possible for your school.

Cut your planner budget in half!

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Need we say more? Contact us here to find out how you can save your school money and improve standards at the same time. Let us know what you think!

The time to embrace digital is now.

Promoting Opportunities for Young People

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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.

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Carpe Diem homepage

What is Carpe Diem?

Carpe Diem is a youth initiative that showcases hundreds of nation-wide competitions, youth programmes and work experience opportunities to young people.

Students can simply head directly to the Carpe Diem online area.

Here, students will find categories, from English, to Higher Education, to Art & Design.

These are filled with opportunities to explore both in and out of school.

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Help us promote opportunities for young people

I’m a teacher, how can I get involved?

There are a number of ways you can get involved in this exciting new project:

  • Tell your students about Carpe Diem. This is the quickest and easiest way to spread the word in school. We want young people to get involved in as many exciting new opportunities as possible!
  • Incorporate aspects into your lesson plans. For example, you could sign your class up for the Big History Project. Why not take a look at the ‘English’ category and set one of the creative writing competitions as a homework task?

Carpe Diem in school planners

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Carpe Diem in school planners

The great thing about Boomerang school planners is that they promote all of these fabulous Carpe Diem opportunities on every page.

This means that students can read about things like the St John Ambulance Cadet Program or the BBC Proms Inspire Scheme, as they look through their homework diary.

What next?

Be sure to follow us on Twitter by clicking here for regular tips and updates for educators.

Help us spread the word about Carpe Diem opportunities by sharing this article!

PS: If you have any ideas on how we could improve Carpe Diem, just leave a comment below or drop us  a tweet 🙂

 

Do You Have a Growth Mindset?

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The new Boomerang 2016/17 school planners showcase psychologist Carol Dweck’s groundbreaking ‘growth mindset’ concept, designed to help students thrive both in and out of school.

So What’s ‘Growth Mindset’ All About?

The theory goes, that as human beings, we have 2 principal mindsets: FIXED and GROWTH:

FIXED MINDSET TRAITS:

  • heavily self-critical
  • likely to avoid challenges
  • ignores constructive criticism
  • gives up easily
  • believes that intelligence is fixed and so can’t be changed

GROWTH MINDSET TRAITS:

  • thrives on challenges
  • capable of growth and doesn’t expect to achieve goals immediately
  • willing to put in effort
  • strategic and focused approach to learning

Explore our Carpe Diem page for exciting opportunities if you’re looking to embrace a new, more positive mindset.

You can also take this speedy quiz to help you determine your mindset.

– Find out more in Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential, by Dr Carol S. Dweck –

Staying safe online with CEOP’s ‘Think U Know’ campaign

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Every 2015/16 Boomerang school planner contains a ‘Think U Know – You. Your Friends. The Internet.’  page created by the leading government agency CEOP to develop awareness amongst UK students about the possible pitfalls whilst spending time online as well as providing links for help and guidance. Go to www.thinkuknow.co.uk for more.

Carpe Diem – great student opportunities & much more…

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Our new 2015/16 planners preview Boomerang’s latest initiative for teenage students in the UK  – we have produced a comprehensive directory of great things to get involved in beyond school and home. There’s something for everyone, whatever your passion or interest, check it out.

If you know of any comps, events or opps that we might have missed let us know and we’ll publish them on the Carpe Diem page with a credit to you!

Have you heard about the World’s Greatest Lesson?

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If you’ve got a Boomerang planner you would have!

Anyway on September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders will commit to the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. 17 goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change.

If every school in the world teaches children about these goals, we will help them become the generation that changed the world – find out more at www.tes.co.uk/worldslargestlesson