School Memory Book

What to include in a School Memory Book.

Most schools take class photographs every year as well as photos of every individual pupil, and most parents only pay for a copy of their own child's photograph not the group one. So our first bit of advice would be net to ignore the class photo, and to collect both an individual picture and a group picture every year.

The individual picture presents an individual record of how you've changed and grown through years of quite remarkable bodily change. The class picture is what makes the school memory book stand out. One of the big mistakes that people make with the class picture is to fail to list everyone who is shown on it. You know everyone, right? So why do you need to list everyone? For the simple reason that in ten, twenty, or thirty years time you will have forgotten. You remember the name of your best friend, and a handful of others, but you forget more names than you remember.

For a school memory book collect both individual and class photographs. Make sure you mark both with the date, and create a list of pupils for the class one, front to back, and left to right.

Also, if you get the opportunity, keep some of your written work. I know it starts off with lots of rubbish! Crossings out, blotches, mistakes, scribble! The thing is, year by year, you will see the change. If not from one book to the next, certainly from the first book to the last. A school memory book is enhanced by copies of your written work.

Creating a School Memory Book

Photographs are easy to obtain, as parents can usually purchase copies. Some schools also produce year books that contain the photograph and list both pupils and teachers, so saving you a lot of work.

School work itself may not always be so readily available, and some schools like to store the work away for a while. If this is the case in your school, all is not lost. Most schools that save work, for reasons of space if nothing else, usually do so for only a certain length of time. So find out how long work is usually kept for, let your teacher or head teacher know that you would like one of your books back, and remind them towards the end of the period of storage. The work is only going to be shredded anyway, so most schools will be only too happy to let you have some of your work back.

A school memory book is a reminder of the formative years of your life, the period, from when you start to when you finish, that the greatest change takes place, both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ideally, your memories should include things that will remind you of every facet of this fascinating part of your life. So many people only think of collecting things later on in life, but it's far easier if you think of it at the time and collect whilst still a pupil.