In the last school year, graduates and their parents are concerned not only with the upcoming exams and admission questions, but also with graduation, gifts to teachers and the traditional gift for the school. Each issue wants the gift to be original, memorable and at the same time useful. Modern graduates, as a rule, prepare the whole project, combining all kinds of gifts: creative, traditional, useful.
Selection rules
Grade 11 is often a very friendly and fairly mature team. It is already well known who possesses leadership qualities, who - the creative abilities, and who - the technical skills. If we take a responsible approach to organizational matters from the beginning of the school year, then it will not be difficult to prepare a creative gift for the school from graduates.
Creative gifts: a film about the life of a school or class, a colorful album with photos, wishes, impressions, a song about the school of his own composition, a grand concert. It will be a wonderful gift, for example, for the last call, when it is not customary to give expensive presents.
Teachers and graduates themselves will be very interesting to see such a film or album after many years.
In schools, as a rule, long-term traditions are formed, following which each graduation leaves its mark in the history of an educational institution. This could be landscaping near the school: planting deciduous and fruit trees, equipment for the sports field. An interesting and beautiful tradition - the design of the school art gallery or greenhouse.
Most schools are budget institutions, so the desire of graduates to present something useful as a gift is quite understandable. This may be a cabinet repair or recreation, the acquisition of technical or educational innovations, the completion of the school library.
The choice in this category of gifts is huge and limited only by material possibilities.
Original souvenirs for memory
Memorial souvenirs are pleasant not only to teachers, but also to graduates themselves, and parents. This is a great opportunity to show creative talents, team cohesion. It does not require large material costs and students can organize everything on their own.
- Colorfully decorated memorable album for a school museum. It can include photos of classroom activities starting from the junior or middle classes, wishes to the school and students. A modern analogue is a film about class life. Such presentations are interesting because each such album will be absolutely unique, it can be supplemented with subsequent materials, gathering for meetings of graduates or the anniversary of the school. In a few years, these albums will be interesting not only to teachers and graduates, but also to subsequent generations of students, telling about interesting historical moments in the life of the school.
- Big calendar featuring a graduation class is another interesting idea for a creative graduation present. It can be made strict or amusing, with one large photo of a class or with several pictures of especially memorable moments.
- Circles, t-shirts, porcelain plates with portraits of teachers or graduates - great ideas for memorabilia. You can add them with memorable inscriptions with the meaning: “The best teacher”, “Teacher No. 1”, “To the classroom teacher”.
- Concert by graduates - long tradition You can replace the concert with an interesting performance, the script for which will be written by the whole class. You can make costumes yourself and then donate them to the school. The highlight of the concert can be a song, words and music to which the students themselves will write.
It is necessary to begin the preparation of such gifts long before the prom, in order to exclude all unforeseen accidents and not to spoil the impression of the holiday.
Useful gifts
In the preparation of such gifts can not do without the financial assistance of parents. In addition, it will be useful to consult with either the leadership of the school or the class teacher, to find out what the school really needs at the moment. The simplest is to purchase any of the technical innovations.
- Powerful computer. Now it is difficult to imagine full-fledged training without him, but the school often lacks funds for updating a computer class or purchasing equipment for a particular study room. Such a gift will always be necessary and useful.
- Other equipment of the last generation: video camera, video projector, sound equipment for the assembly hall, plasma TV, printer, copier.
- Modern boards. Without this accessory today it is difficult to imagine a school office. The budget option is to replace a conventional wooden board with a metal one with a special coating that allows you to write not only with chalk, but also with a marker; you can use magnetic holders to place didactic materials. A more expensive present is an interactive sensory board. The kit also includes a projector and a computer.
Extensive technical capabilities of such a system allow you to optimize the learning process, which will bring undoubted benefits.
- A set of telescopic pointers. This is a great idea both for an individual gift for subject teachers and for equipping each room.
- Equipping individual classrooms with teaching materials and equipment.
And now we will consider more complex options that allow you to create a cozy and pleasant atmosphere at school.
- Repair cabinet. This could be the replacement of wiring with convenient placement of outlets and the replacement of lighting devices, the replacement of linoleum, the decoration of walls and ceilings using modern technologies, the purchase of furniture.
- Repair school recreation. The school often does not have enough money to fully finish these rooms.
- Beautiful curtain sets for offices, recreation, corridors, teacher.
- Repair the gym or equip it with inventory. Balls for different sports, wall bars, gymnastic bars, mats, trainers - such gifts are always relevant, and often simply necessary.
- Certificate for the acquisition of necessary school items. This will allow the school’s management to send funds to where they are most needed, and parents will save them from unnecessary trouble.
What can you do with your own hands?
Worthy souvenirs can be made independently. It is important only to approach this process with soul, to think over and prepare everything in advance, to fulfill all our plans not only creatively, but neatly as well. What options are possible?
- Decorative Vases - a necessary subject in any school office. They will not only decorate the room, but will also bring undoubted practical benefits. There are many decorating techniques, and the base can be a regular vase or even a bottle.
- Addition to the decorative vase - hand-made flowers, the petals of which may be photos of graduates; bouquets of small soft toys sewn with their own hands.
- Unusual crafts - A large panel that can be made of any materials, even pencils and felt-tip pens. The whole class can take part in its making.
- Large colorful wall newspaper or collage with drawings, wishes, stories from school life. In their design, everyone will be able to show their talents, touching or ridiculous illustrations even after many years will cause genuine interest.
- In each class there are skilled workers who can knit, sew, embroider. A set of curtains, tablecloths, napkins will be for many years the "highlight" and decoration of the teachers' or school museum.
On the basis of these proposals, it is possible at the beginning of the school year to develop a detailed preparatory plan for the graduation party, in the course of which a number of creative ideas will surely appear, the implementation of which will diversify leisure, unite graduates, will be a pleasant, memorable and useful gift to the school, teachers and next generations of students .
The original greetings from graduates, see the following video.