School gift options from alumni

In the last school year, graduates and their parents are concerned not only with the upcoming exams and admission issues, but also with the organization of the graduation ceremony, gifts for teachers and a traditional gift to the school. Each issue wants the present to be original, memorable and at the same time useful. Modern graduates, as a rule, prepare a whole project that combines all types of gifts: creative, traditional, useful.

Grade 11 is often a very friendly and rather mature team. It is already well known who has leadership skills, who has creativity and who has technical skills. If you take a responsible approach to organizational issues from the beginning of the school year, then it will not be difficult to prepare a creative gift for the school from graduates.

Creative presentations: a film about the life of a school or class, a colorful album with photographs, wishes, impressions, a song about the school of his own composition, a grand concert. This will be a wonderful gift, for example, for the last call, when it is not customary to give expensive presents.

In schools, as a rule, there are long-term traditions, following which each graduation leaves its mark in the history of the educational institution. This can be the improvement of the territory near the school: planting deciduous and fruit trees, equipment of a sports ground. An interesting and beautiful tradition is the decoration of a school art gallery or greenhouse.

Most schools are budgetary institutions, so it is quite understandable that graduates want to donate something useful. This can be the renovation of an office or recreation, the acquisition of technical or educational novelties, the replenishment of the school library.

. Memorable souvenirs are pleasant not only for teachers, but also for graduates and parents. This is a great opportunity to show creative talents, team cohesion. At the same time, large material costs will not be required and students can organize everything on their own.

• Colorfully designed commemorative album for the school museum. It can include photographs of class activities starting from elementary or middle grades, wishes for the school and students. The modern counterpart is a film about class life. Such presentations are interesting in that each such album will be absolutely unique, it can be supplemented with subsequent materials, going to meetings of alumni or the anniversary of the school. In a few years, these albums will be of interest 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 with a picture of the graduation class is another great idea for a creative graduation gift. It can be made stern or funny, with one big photo of the class, or several that depict memorable moments.

• Mugs, T-shirts, porcelain plates with portraits of teachers or graduates - great ideas for keepsakes. They can be supplemented with memorable inscriptions with the meaning: "To the best teacher", "Teacher number 1", "To the best class teacher."

• Concert by alumni - a long and wonderful tradition. You can replace the concert with an interesting performance, the script for which will be written by the whole class. You can make your own costumes and then donate them to the school. The highlight of the concert can be a song, the words and music to which will be written by the students themselves.

In preparing such gifts, one cannot do without the material assistance of parents. In addition, it will be useful to consult either with the leadership of the educational institution or with the class teacher, to find out what the school really needs at the moment. The simplest thing is to buy something from the technical innovations.

• Powerful computer. Now it is difficult to imagine full-fledged training without it, but the school often does not have enough funds to upgrade a computer class or purchase equipment for a specific classroom. Such a gift will always be necessary and useful.

• Other latest generation equipment: video camera, video projector, sound equipment for the assembly hall, plasma TV, printer, copier.

• Modern boards. Today it is difficult to imagine a school office without this accessory. The budget option is to replace an ordinary wooden board with a metal one with a special coating that allows you to write not only with chalk, but also with a marker; magnetic holders can be used to place didactic materials. A more expensive present is an interactive touch board. The kit also includes a projector and a computer.

• A set of telescopic pointers. This is a great idea both for an individual gift for subject teachers and for equipping each classroom.

• Equipping individual classrooms with training materials and equipment.

Now let's take a look at more complex options that allow you to create a cozy and pleasant atmosphere at school.

• Office renovation. This can be a replacement of wiring with a convenient placement of sockets and a change of lighting fixtures, replacement of linoleum, decoration of walls and ceilings using modern technologies, purchase of furniture.
• Repair of school recreation. The school often does not have enough funds to fully furnish these premises.
• Sets of beautiful curtains for offices, recreation, corridors, teachers' room.
• Repairing the gym or equipping it with equipment... Balls for different sports, wall bars, gymnastic bars, mats, exercise equipment - such gifts are always relevant, and often simply necessary.
• A certificate for the purchase of the items necessary for the school. This will allow the school management to direct funds where they are most needed, and save parents from unnecessary trouble.

Decent souvenirs can be done on your own. It is only important to approach this process with a soul, to think over and prepare everything in advance, to carry out everything conceived not only creatively, but also accurately. 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 a decorative vase - hand-made flowers, the petals of which can be photographs of graduates; bouquets of small do-it-yourself soft toys.
• Unusual craft - a large panel that can be made from any materials, even from pencils and felt-tip pens. The whole class can take part in making it.
• 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 funny illustrations will arouse genuine interest even after many years.
• In each class there are craftswomen who know how to knit, sew, embroider. A set of curtains, tablecloths, napkins will be a "highlight" and decoration of a teacher's room or a school museum for many years.

On the basis of these proposals, even at the beginning of the school year, it is possible to develop a detailed plan of preparation for the graduation party, in the course of which a lot of creative ideas will surely appear, the implementation of which will diversify leisure, unite graduates, become a pleasant, memorable and useful gift to school, teachers and future generations of students ...

See the following video for the original congratulations from graduates.