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January 18, 2019

5 Ways Schools Are Using Certificates

Filed under: Event Planning Tips,Helpful Resources,Recognition & Motivation Ideas,Seasonal & Special Events Ideas — Tags: , , , , , — Toledo Jhoanny @ 10:17 am
Graduation Certificates

Certificates are a great way to award teachers and students who are going above and beyond in their sports or studies. Traditional and styled certificates make great awards that turn into keepsakes. Show students and teachers you appreciate and recognize their achievements.

Graduation:

Graduation is a monumental part of a student’s life and should be celebrated in style. Awarding students with their diploma is one of the most important achievements in a student’s life. Choose between styled or traditional certificates that will be cherished forever.

Honor Roll:

Give your students the recognition they deserve! Students that have made it onto the honor roll have gone above and beyond in their studies and have achieved academic excellence. Award them with a stylish certificate that they can hang up in their room.

Student Of The Month:

Awarding a student for their achievement and excellent citizenship is what Student Of The Month is all about. When teacher’s hand students their certificate, it will become a keepsake they can show their parents and families. Choose a certificate that goes perfectly with your school’s colors.

Athlete Award:

Athletics is an important part of every school and exceptional athletes are hard to come by. Award your above and beyond athletes at your sports banquet or at the end of the year ceremony.

Teacher of the Month:

Teachers often times aren’t awarded properly but with the right certificate they can be! The teacher of the month is influential and important in a student’s life, recognizing and awarding those teachers is a great way to show teachers how much you appreciate them.

Celebrate and recognize your students and teachers the right way with customizable certificates. Handing them graduation diplomas, teacher awards, honor roll or excellence certificates is a wonderful way to award teachers and students. Don’t forget to check out PaperDirect for your entire certificate needs.

March 21, 2017

What to Include in Your High School Graduation Program

Filed under: Event Planning Tips — Tags: , , , , — PDWriter @ 2:19 pm
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So you’ve been given the opportunity to craft the program for the high school’s graduation ceremony. It’s a big job, and it’s extremely important that you create a stunning, yet informative document.

A graduation program will be every parent’s step-by-step countdown to the moment they can snap a picture of their son or daughter walking across the stage to shake the hand of the school’s principal. But, what should you include on this special occasion program to ensure that your audience is always informed about what’s coming next?

Not to worry, we’ve got you covered!

Entrance Information

As students enter the venue, will there be music playing? If so, find out which songs will be used, as well as how they’ll be played. If the music is live, it’s always a good idea to credit the people playing the music (i.e. the high school band) as opposed to the person who originally composed the notes.

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Opening Remarks

Most ceremonies will include opening remarks, often from the salutatorian. It’s an opportunity to welcome everyone for coming before the awards and/or diplomas are given. You’ll want to be sure to note who will be speaking and include their title or reason for importance.

Class Awards

Awards are special for not only the recipient but for their family as well. Be sure to list out which students won which award (cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude, Most Likely to Succeed, Most Popular, etc.) so that parents can keep track as they’re being presented.

Visiting Speaker

If you’ve recruited someone to give a few words of wisdom to your students before they graduate, this is the place to include it. You’ll want to include their name, professional title, and maybe a little snippet that explains why they were chosen as this year’s speaker. If there is no outside speaker, feel free to exclude this from your program.

Presentation of Diplomas

After the first speech and distribution of awards, it’s time to get down to the main event. Take this opportunity to shine the light on whoever’s been assigned to hand out the diplomas and shake each student’s hand. If you intend to add the names of all the graduating students, be sure to list them alphabetically and organize them evenly on the page. Also, double check that you’ve got the correct spelling of each graduate’s name. The last thing a parent wants to see is their student’s name spelled wrong on their special day. For larger-size high school classes, this may require multi-page programs or several inserts!

Valedictorian’s Speech

After everyone’s gotten their diploma, it’s time for the class valedictorian to top the occasion off with an inspirational and uplifting speech. Again, you’ll want to be sure to include their name and their valedictorian status. However, be sure to avoid posting their GPA as this is personal information.

Conclusion

At the end of the ceremony, students will toss their hats into the air marking that the occasion is officially over. Either the students will file out in an orderly fashion — in which case, include the song they’re marching to — or they’ll simply filter out slowly on their own.

Even if you do accidentally forget one or two things when you’re trying to craft the perfect program for your high school graduation, you can be sure that the audience will overlook it if your itinerary is printed on one of PaperDirect’s high-quality specialty programs.

May 13, 2013

Let the Graduation Party Commence – Creative Party Ideas

Filed under: Student Recognition Ideas — Tags: — PDWriter @ 7:44 am

Baccalaureate Casual InvitationWhile the graduation ceremony itself is the official way to recognize a student’s accomplishment, there’s usually not space for all of the student’s friends and family to attend. That’s why so many families host a graduation party afterwards to celebrate together and give guests a chance to interact with the graduate, not just watch him walk across a stage. Incorporate some of these creative ideas into your graduation party.

Use the School Colors: Anybody can throw a generic graduation party full of black mortarboards and gold diploma scrolls, but you can personalize yours by using the school colors in the theme and decorations. Choose graduation party invitations with the school’s colors in the border, decorate with streamers and balloons, and even incorporate the school mascot if you can.

Set up a Photo Booth: Rather than creating a display with memorabilia from the Key To The Future Casual Invitationsstudent’s educational career, encourage guests to use the items as props in a photo booth. Create an area at the party with a camera or laptop set up to take pictures and let guests pose with old sports jerseys, textbooks, backpacks, and trophies.

Make Graduation Cap Treats: You’ll need plenty of finger food at the party, and one creative type is designed to look like a graduation cap. Make miniature ones with small peanut butter cups turned upside down topped with a chocolate square and fruit roll up tassel, or larger ones out of an upside down cupcake with a graham cracker on top and frosting tassel.

The graduation party should be a fun event, with lots of laughter and reminiscing about the student’s time in school. Start planning well in advance, and use PaperDirect to create custom graduation party invitations and graduation announcements to spread the word.

April 12, 2013

Calling All Graduates- Let the World Know Your Achievement with Graduation Announcements!

Filed under: Seasonal & Special Events Ideas — Tags: , — PDWriter @ 10:39 am

Filigree Stripes Pocket Invitations by PaperDirectAfter four years of late nights and last minute study jam sessions, your day to celebrate has finally arrived. Whether you are graduating from high school or college, you want to make sure your friends and family are aware of your special day. Unlike your cap and gown, your graduation announcements can reflect your unique sense of style and capture the joy of the moment.

You have so many choices, you may feel overwhelmed. First of all, decide what format you want to go with. Once you have chosen your template, choose your color scheme. Remember, you no longer have to stick to your school colors, in fact you can play around with different borders, whimsical accents or even use a photo collage of your senior pictures. To make this as easy as possible for you, PaperDirect has a wide variety of graduation invitations and graduation border papers in various formats and colors to choose from.Graduation Party Specialty Flat Invitations by PaperDirect

After captivating the invitation recipients with your own pizazz, you need to make sure the wording you choose is in a very readable font and includes all the important information about your big day. This part can be fun – if you consider yourself a poet, use your talents to announce your accomplishment in a fun four line rhyme! Of course, if you are a Senior in high school, your parents may want to have some say in the type of invitation you mail out. If they are demanding a formal, old-fashioned announcement like they sent out when they were graduating – just go with the flow. But order only enough to send to those people they have on their list. Then, because it is your big day after all, design an announcement of your choosing that you can send to your friends and loved ones. This way, everyone will be happy.

Pristine Specialty Flat Invitations by PaperDirectMost importantly, don’t wait until the last minute to order your announcements. In addition to giving your relatives plenty of time to mark their calendars, they get the opportunity to reward you with a special gift (usually fun money) that you can use on your Senior trip!  If your loved ones are being inundated with graduations, birthdays and weddings, most likely the first one in the mail box will be a number one priority!

September 28, 2011

Diploma Wording & Style Made Easy

Filed under: How to Design Certificates — Tags: , , , , , , , — PDWriter @ 8:00 am
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Graduation ceremonies are not just any celebration. Graduation day is a moment that students will cherish for the rest of their lives and only happens once in a lifetime. Whether the graduation is from middle school, high school, or college, you want to make sure the diploma wording is correct and professional.

Essentials Standard Certificate Paper

Finding the proper college graduation diploma wording, style, and layout can be challenging. You want to convey the thoughts and emotions of the day in the right way with the right tone and proper message.

Use the 7 ideas below and the diploma shown at right to refer when creating your custom diplomas for your middle school, high school, or college graduation.

1.  Your school name can be arched across the top of the diploma in a Gothic-style font

2.  The next several lines can be used for the city and state of your school, or for a school motto

3.  The student’s name on the sample above is shown in hand calligraphy. Or you can use the same font as the school name.

4.  Choose the wording for the center line of the diploma. You may select “College Preparatory Course,” “Honors Course of Study,” or whatever fits the particular student.

Graduation Embossed Seals

5.  Include a saying something like this, “He is thereby granted this high school diploma and is entitled to all the rights and privileges which pertain thereto. Dated fifth day of June two thousand twenty-three.

6.  Include signatures and titles beneath the signatures. Leave space between the signatures to accommodate a center seal.

7.  Add an engraved seal toward the bottom of the diploma. Many schools position it in the middle, but you can leave space by either corner for it.

No matter which of these diploma wording ideas you use, make sure you keep one thing in mind. Customize all of your diplomas to fit your school and traditions. If something seems “off” about the overall presentation, change it. Create diplomas that are true to your school!

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