Celebrating Schools Day
Remember your school days with pride!
Book-Builder are delighted to sponsor Celebrating Schools Day: a day that allows your school to get some free positive publicity.
This is a teacher and educational initive which will be held on 15 July 2009.
"The idea is simple. Every summer the media run a series of negative educational stories – often centred around the fact that standards in exams are falling, along with declining literacy and numeracy levels in primary schools.
Such stories are, of course, all made up, and although ministers and others come out and defend schools the newspapers treat such comments as excuses.
So the plan here is to get in the retaliation first and have a day which celebrates the good things in schools – a day which occurs before the negative summer stories emerge.
In the coming weeks the Celebrating Schools Day committee will be sending press releases to every local paper and radio station in the UK to tell them about the Day and inviting them to contact their local schools for stories of the year.
The idea is that a week or so ahead of the day all interested schools should send a press release to their local paper commenting on some of the great things that have happened during the year in the school.
This can include anything that the school and the pupils or students value – such as special achievements by pupils, money raised for charity, expeditions, work in the community, and indeed the fun and celebration of the leavers’ ball and other such events.
We’ll be putting more ideas and details here in the coming weeks – but I would urge you to make a note of this option now, because there is very little time between now and the big day. It would be a shame if your local paper received a press release from another school in your area for the Day, and not one from your school.
Celebrating Schools Day is being sponsored by Book Builder, the company that publishes School Year Books. They will be building a website that allows pupils and students to post their own positive memories and recollections of the year".
