TUESDAY: Celebrating Your Students

Schools celebrate students during CSW by planning activities that are enjoyable and meaningful for them and that recognize their accomplishments. They encourage students to reflect on the benefits of Catholic education and how, by learning, serving and leading, they will succeed throughout their lives.

TIP: All students contribute to your school in ways big and small. Share stories on your school’s social media and/or website or create a special newsletter that recognizes current student accomplishments as well as alumni accomplishments. This is a great marketing tool for fundraising days like Many Gifts, One Nation.

Ideas for Celebrating Your Students

• Line school halls with student work emphasizing the themes of CSW.
• Have a door decorating contest between classrooms. Set a theme for the friendly competition, and let students invoke their creativity and work with their teachers and each other to design and create the best classroom door decorations.
• Schedule times for older students to read aloud or partner on special projects with younger students.
• Have older students dress as saints and prepare skits to teach younger children about them. Consider having saint stations for groups of younger students to move between.
• Start a pen pal program with another Catholic school.
• Let your students show off their technology skills by creating videos to help promote the school.
• Share a list of colleges and universities at which your graduates matriculate.