-William Yeats
Schooling/Education (pages 12 & 13)
You must include journaling and at least one photograph on each page, although the more you include the better.
What Schooling/Education have you attended?
Kindy
Day-care
Preschool
Primary School
High/Secondary School
College
TAFE
University
Photographs
School portraits
Photographs at home on the way to school
Whole class portraits
Photographs from school events, trips, socials, camps, etc
Photograph of the school
If you don’t have any or many of these, most schools have websites where you can download and print pictures of the school buildings, emblem and uniform
If you went to school near where you live now, go and take a quick photograph on the weekend
Facts and Figures
Include the names, location, dates, grades, etc for each School you attended. If you attended many different Schools a timeline format would work well.
It even counts if you went back to some form of study as an adult, because it has shaped who you are.
Journaling
Use the following prompts, questions and ideas to help you write your journaling. These items should trigger some memories from your School days to add as anecdotes.
-Study habits
-Grades – results
-Teachers – good, bad and favourites
-Reports and certificates
-Awards
-Camps, trips, field trips
-Clubs at school
-School motto
-Uniform
-Dress code
-Extracurricular activities
-School colours
-School sports
-Subjects – good, bad and favourites
-Why you chose the subjects you did
-How did you get to school each day?
-Your behaviour at school
-Did you parents participate in any school activities, clubs or committees?
-What course and why at university/college
-Create a timeline
-What did you eat for lunch?
-Where did you sit for lunch?
-Student council
-School committees
-School social activities and events
-Textbooks
-Fire drills or bomb threats/drills
-Recess/lunch activities
-History of each school
-Why each school
-Achievements
-Did the school change while you were there or after you left?
-School fete/fair
-What did you like or dislike about each school
-Principal/s
-Location of each school
Tips and Hints for completing your book:
* Keep collecting/copying every photograph with you in it
* Don’t have any or many photographs of yourself….Take some! Take lots!
* Get a notebook or cheap exercise book and write down anything about yourself as it comes to you
* Use stuff you love (scrapbooking supplies)
* This is a good opportunity to use up your stash
* You could use your favourite colour scheme
* Try something different on every page
* Experiment on every page
* Use your own handwriting
* Scraplift if all if you want
* Be honest
* Use your own style of scrapbooking or try something a bit different
* Do the pages as simple or as elaborate as you choose
* Use hidden journaling to conceal sensitive or personal information
REMEMBER: This is your book about yourself and that means you get to do it how you want!
Copyright Alicia Redshaw 2008-