Over the coming weeks, we will be helping you get ready for the end of year celebrations, whatever they may be.

Our suggestion to start off is with an appreciation chain – this can be as complex or simple as you would like it to be. Regardless of students’ religious persuasion, the end of the year is generally a time to reflect back and be grateful for your achievements, your health, your family etc.

Students can work on poems or acrostics using their name, and perhaps those of their parents for extra length. This will take a lesson or two to plan, draft and finalise. Once done you can cut some Colorific Bright Sheets into strips and write a line of the poem on each strip and link them together to make a gratitude chain. These can be used to decorate the classroom and will make a nice decoration for the tree or around the home once the school year is over.

Rather than just write on the chains and link them, how about adding in some angels, or candy cane shaped links. Maybe the children can use them as a personal countdown to the end of term…tear off a link each day and read the appreciation message of other students.  What a nice way to celebrate as a group.

Maybe even some drawings to illustrate the poem links can be added in. The poem can be written out in full and framed with decorated Colorific White Card Frames or turned into a laminated gratitude placemat as an end of year gift to the family.