How to Set Up a School Bulletin Board
Keep students, teachers and parents apprised of upcoming dates and events by setting up an informative bulletin board on campus. You can also use the colorful graphics and simple organizational style to design a board for your classroom to help the kids remember important dates, skills and facts.
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Things You'll Need
- Bulletin board
- Pins, tape or staples to hang items
- School rules
- Notices of upcoming events
- Photos
- School shirts
- Seasonal decorations
Instructions
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Choose a bulletin board with sturdy Plexiglas doors to keep kids from adding or removing items. If your school is prone to vandalism, consider a version that allows you to add a sliding lock, particularly if the board hangs outside and will be unattended when school's not in session (see Resources).
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Use the board to display items like school rules (keep them posted through the entire year for easy reference), the time and date of upcoming assemblies and family night activities, class field trip details, information on current and upcoming fundraisers, including photos of prizes to entice kids to participate, and school shirts available for sale.
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Create an eye-catching display by adding decorative items like seasonal banners, small stuffed animals that resemble the school mascot, photos from recent field trips or assemblies and clip art images printed on colorful paper.
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Enlist help by letting other teachers, the PTA president, class officers or upper-grade students arrange and decorate the board each month.
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Ask the principal or administrator to review and sign off on notices, memos and displays to ensure they follow school and district-wide regulations.
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Tips & Warnings
Design a bulletin board for your classroom, too. Use it to showcase classroom rules, common grammar and punctuation rules or photos from your last field trip, for example. It can also reflect the unit you're currently studying. If the class is learning about phases of the moon, for example, clip short articles and enlarge text from books as quick facts for the kids to read each day. Also encourage them to bring photos they've taken of the moon to display.
