Bulletin boards are a great way to engage students at school. They can be used for anything from announcements, reminders, and even homework assignments.
The best part of using bulletin boards is that they are easy to make and inexpensive. You can use them in your classroom or at home. There are many different styles you can choose from.
The new year often brings new opportunities and is the perfect time to start fresh. It is often something that many teachers like to discuss with students.
The New Year is also an opportunity to reflect on what happened last year and set goals for this year. This is why it is important to have a bulletin board where you can post all of these things.
So if you want to make a bulletin board that is about the new year, then we’ve come up with a list of 12 different ideas.
These bulletin boards will help to inspire your students to think about what they want to achieve in the new year.
This Is Your Year To…
The new year is all about the goals and resolutions we make. This is why this bulletin board is perfect for getting the students involved with this bulletin board.
For this bulletin board, you can have the year on the board and use colors that are typically associated with the new year, such as gold.
You can ask your students to write on the inside of a card that is folded in half. They should write a resolution they want to make for the year.
Then you can place everyone’s goals on the board so they can be reminded of their goals but also look at others.
Shine Bright In The New Year
This is a great bulletin board for bringing some cheer into the classroom in the new year.
What we love about this bulletin board is that not only is it a great bulletin to put up at the start of a new year, it can be a great one to have on display at the start of a new school year.
The key to making this bulletin board engaging for your students is to have it be bright and colorful.
We also like decorating this bulletin board with disco balls and words of positivity.
Seeing this bulletin board every day will help to keep your students positive when in the classroom.
Goodbye Previous Year, Hello New Year
Sometimes the best bulletin boards are the ones with a classic phrase. This is a great bulletin board for having students reflect on the last year as well as focus on looking forward to the new year.
For this bulletin board, you can get the students involved by having them write on a piece of paper something they want to let go of from last year.
You can also get them to write a goal for the new year.
This bulletin board is a way to promote reflecting as well as being able to look forward to the future.
It can also be used to help aid lessons as they can look at the bulletin board and be reminded that it is important to take a moment of reflection.
New Year, Clean Slate
This bulletin board is a creative one that really emphasizes being in school. This bulletin board should have a picture of a blackboard in the middle of it with some chalk.
The students should be tasked with making their own mini blackboards and writing a new year’s resolution on them.
Depending on the age group of your students, you could get them to personalize the bulletin by having them draw a picture of themselves.
This way the students can easily recognize what their new year’s resolution is.
What we like about this bulletin board is that you can also use it at the start of a new school year. This bulletin board helps gives the students a fresh start to their school year.
We like this bulletin board as it allows even students who may have had trouble in the previous year to feel as though they can leave that behind them.
Sliding Into The New Year
Sliding into the new year is a great way to encourage your students to be bold about the new year. This is a bulletin board where you can be creative about the design.
A fun design for this bulletin board is to have penguins sliding down a hill. However, you could even have a drawing of a child sliding down a slide into a ball pit.
We like that this bulletin board can also be very festive so you can put it up in your classroom before the students break up from the holiday.
However, it can also be used at the start of a new school year to encourage the children to be excited about what the future of this new year holds.
New Year, New You
There is nothing more classic than the saying ‘new year, new you’. This is one of the most popular phrases when it comes to looking forward to the new year.
This phrase helps people to think about the changes they are going to make to their lives.
When it comes to making this bulletin board, it should be bright and eye-catching. We like the fact that this bulletin board allows you to get your students involved with creating it.
For this bulletin board, it would be a good idea to get the students to write down one thing they are going to change to make them a new version of themselves.
This allows your students to have a moment to reflect. They can write a change they are going to make in school this year, which will help them reflect on their work.
What’s Your Next Step? Stepping Up In The New Year
If you want to create a bulletin board that inspires and motivates your students, then this is the board for you.
Whilst all bulletin boards about the new year focus on the resolutions students make, this bulletin board really brings into focus the student’s power to make a change.
This bulletin board can be made in a few different ways but we like the idea of there being a staircase with each word of the title on each step.
This bulletin board can be left like that but you can also allow the students to personalize it with their answers to the question.
This is a fantastic bulletin board to use not only at the start of a new year but also at the start of the new school year.
This bulletin board can be used to motivate the students to think about what they want to achieve that year.
This Is Your Year To Sparkle
The great thing about the new year is that it is a chance to make your students believe in themselves. This is exactly what this bulletin board achieves.
If you want to make a bulletin board that encourages your students to be excited about the new year then this is the one to make.
This bulletin board can be decorated in many different ways but we love to add glitter to it so the bulletin board sparkles. You can also add small circles that look like pieces of glitter.
Catch All Of Your Goals This Year
Since the new year is all about setting goals for yourself, then using a bulletin board to remind your students of that is a good idea.
This bulletin board can be decorated in many different ways. We love seeing it as a game such as Pac-Man.
To inspire your students, they can take part in this bulletin board by writing down their goals on a piece of paper.
You can place their goals on the bulletin board so it looks as though their goal is going to be caught by the Pac-Man.
This is a fun bulletin board to have your students reflect on their goals for the year, as well as be reminded of them every time they look at the board.
Put Your Best Foot Forward This Year
The phrase put your best foot forward means to try as hard as you can to achieve your goals. This is a great phrase to introduce to your students as they start a new year.
Teachers should motivate their students when they are starting a new year and this is the bulletin board to do that.
This bulletin board can be decorated in a lot of different ways but we like the idea of having a bunch of steps walking across the bulletin board.
To make this bulletin board focus more on the student’s goals you could include their goals on each footstep of the bulletin board.
Be A Goal Digger
There is nothing like a good pun to start out the new year. This pun makes digging for your goals an empowering act.
For this bulletin board, you should have a bunch of paper shovels on the board. The shovels should be gold to represent the new year.
This is an excellent bulletin board to get the students involved as they can all write a goal on one of the shovels.
This is a bulletin board that can be placed in the classroom at the start of the year and looked back on at the end, to see if they have achieved their goals.
This provides the students with a great opportunity to reflect on their year and how far they have come.
New Year = New Challenges
The new year brings new challenges and that is exactly what this bulletin board represents.
This bulletin board is about challenging your students to complete a series of tasks as the year goes on. The aim of this bulletin board is to push your students.
For this bulletin board it doesn’t matter how you decorate it, what matters is that there are a bunch of challenges that your students can follow.
These challenges do not need to be particularly hard but should push your student’s ability.
We like to have a bunch of different challenges on the bulletin board, some relating to school subjects and others relating to the new year.
For example, you could have a challenge for them to write down a personal goal of theirs that does not relate to school.
If you are an English teacher, one challenge for your students could be to read a specific book.
It is a great way to encourage the students to work on their growth and development.
Final Thoughts
Bulletin boards are an easy way to make sure that your students remember things throughout the year. They are also a good way to remind your students of things they need to do.
These bulletin boards are especially helpful if you teach a class or unit that has a lot of information to communicate.
However, bulletin boards can also be used to inspire and engage your students.
The bulletin boards we have listed are helpful for bringing cheer to the classroom as well as allowing students to reflect.
The new year is a time when people think about what they would like to change in their lives.
At school, the new year can be a way of challenging students and allowing them to let go of the previous year.
If you’re looking for ways to motivate your students, then these bulletin boards will definitely help.
We hope that this article helped you find bulletin boards that are useful for your classroom.
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Hi, my name is Helena Waters and I was a teacher for 40 years before retiring last year.
During my time as a teacher I dedicated the majority of it to making classrooms as fun as possible, with educational parties, fun activities, and low cost entertainment that made the children excited about learning.
I taught children of all ages, from preschoolers to high school students. Now, with the pandemic having uprooted everything that children once knew about school and learning, I think that the need for my ideas is bigger than ever.
That is why I created School Sparks, a place in which I can write down and share all of my ideas on how to get students excited about going to school again. I hope that you’ll find some useful within a school setting, even at home too!
