Bulletin boards are a really great way to celebrate the new school year, and they are a great way to get students hyped up about the different things that they can get involved in over the course of the school year.
As a teacher, the best thing that you can do is create bulletin boards that will motivate, excite and inspire your students.
Creating A Bulletin Board For The Student Council
Creating a bulletin board for the student council when the term starts is really important because it allows them to keep track of all their activities throughout the year.
This will help them stay organized and focused on what they need to do during the school year.
This will also encourage students to get involved with the student council, and it can also be a great way of encouraging students to contribute their ideas more often.
Building A Bulletin Board To Promote Teamwork
The start of the school year is the perfect time to encourage your students to work together, you want to build a sense of community amongst your students right from the start.
Creating a bulletin board where students can showcase their teamwork over the course of the year will be really inspiring.
This can even feature different achievements, from the sports teams’ achievements in the school, to the debate team’s victories, to any achievements that students have attained outside school.
In addition to this, if you have a team project coming up, create a bulletin board where students can post notes, pictures, and other items that demonstrate how well they work together as a group.
Using A Bulletin Board As An Art Display
If you’re an art teacher, you should use a bulletin board to display student artwork.
In fact, you could hang one on each wall in your room, or you could put them all in one big area.
Either way, having a bulletin board with lots of artwork displayed on it makes a great visual representation of your class.
This is a really great way to keep your class motivated and inspired to get their work featured on the bulletin boards.
You also want your students to celebrate each others’ achievements and successes – and seeing the talent of their peers is a great way to bring your class together.
Utilizing A Bulletin Board To Share Important Announcements
You can use a bulletin board to share important announcements like upcoming tests, field trips, and parent conferences.
You can also use it to store things like homework assignments, due dates, and other important reminders.
It’s a good idea to make sure that only students with permission can access these notices, but if you don’t want to go through the hassle of managing permissions, you can always just leave them out on the bulletin board.
This is a great way to encourage your students to be much more independent and responsible for their schedules.
Depending on the ages of your students, this can be super helpful in transitioning to high school – and this will stand them in good stead for being organized young adults.
Keeping Your Students Motivated Through Using A Fun Bulletin Board
September bulletin boards can be a really great way to keep your students feeling inspired and motivated, and seeing their work and their efforts getting recognized will encourage them to work to their full potential.
You can keep your students motivated by using competitions. Competitions are a great way to motivate students and reward those who excel.
If you’d like to hold a competition at your school, set up a bulletin board where students post their entries. Then, give prizes to the winners based on the quality of their entries.
In addition to this, a bulletin board can be an especially useful tool for keeping students on track.
For example, you may want to place one next to your desk so that students see it every time they sit down to do their work.
It can have helpful tips on how to improve grades, and you could even include helpful resources for your students.
Your bulletin board can be a great way of helping organize all of the different projects going on in your classroom.
This will also make sure that students can easily add new projects to the board once they start working on them, so it can become a space that you as the teacher and the students contribute to.
Alternatively, your classroom bulletin boards are a great way for you as the teacher to provide clues about what needs to be done.
For instance, you might write “turn in math assignment by Friday” on a bulletin board near your office.
When students walk past this board, they’ll notice it and realize that they need to turn in their math assignment before the end of the week.
Fun Bulletin Board Themes For September
If you are keen to create bulletin boards that are more decorative that will help you to create a positive atmosphere within your classroom, then we have some September theme suggestions that you will really enjoy – and that your class will love.
A great September theme for your classroom bulletin board is ‘Fairy tale’. Naturally, this depends on the ages of your students and the level of reading that they are at.
However, it can’t be ignored that Fairy tale themed boards are perfect for teaching children about fairy tales and encouraging them to read books from the genre.
They are also a fun way of introducing your students to new stories that they haven’t heard before.
Another great September theme for your bulletin board is ‘Nature’.
Nature-themed boards are great ways to get your students thinking about nature and the environment around them.
You can use these boards to teach about plants and animals, or simply to show off pictures of beautiful places that your students have visited.
You may even want to lean into an autumnal theme, as it’s the most visual of the seasons.
You could have your students help decorate it by making paper leaves painted in all different colors.
You could even make your bulletin board a tree with all the different tasks written on leaves.
Once your students complete the task, you could take the corresponding leaf and pin it to the bottom of the board, eventually creating an autumnal blanket of conquered tasks.
Celebrating The School Year With Your Classroom Bulletin Board
You can also try out a ‘School year’ themed bulletin board. This is a good choice if you want to celebrate the fact that your students are now officially back at school after summer break.
There are many ways that you can use this theme to inspire your students, including using it to decorate your classroom, or to encourage them to keep up with their homework.
If you are looking for a creative way to get your students excited about starting school again, then why not try out a ‘Start of Term’ themed bulletin board?
This theme is ideal for teachers who wish to make sure that their students know exactly what they should expect during the first few days of term.
However, if you are wanting a bulletin board that you can leave up to inspire your students for every term then you can create a more universal bulletin board.
You can try out a ‘Back to School’ themed bulletin board. This theme works well when you are trying to motivate your students to finish their assignments and complete their work before the end of term.
In Conclusion
Overall, when it comes to making your September bulletin board for your classroom, it is important that you think carefully about which theme you want to focus on.
Make sure that you pick one that you feel will suit your classroom, your teaching style, and of course, your students.
If you want your bulletin board to be more of a decorative feature then you can include lots of images and bright colors.
But, if you want your bulletin board to be more informative, you should include charts and timetables – this will encourage your students to consult the bulletin board often.
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!
