Increase the excitement about different activities and events throughout your senior class’s last year of high school with a visual checklist in a public space.
School Type: High school
Activity Goal: Promote and encourage graduation
Prep Time: 2 hours
People Required: Principal for approval, 1 Staffulty supervisor, senior class leaders
Space Required: 2 ft x 8 ft wall space – either in a common area or near senior lockers
Timing: Throughout the school year
Materials: Long piece of paper, markers or graphic design app, supplies to hang the poster (if janitors are unable to help)
Cost: $15
Submitted by: Fairfield Career Center, Ohio
INSTRUCTIONS FOR Creating and maintaining a Senior Checklist:
- With your soon-to-be seniors, list all the exciting events, activities and milestones that will happen throughout the school year. Here are some examples:
- Last First Day of Class
- Senior Sunrise or Senior Sunset
- Homecoming
- Senior Class Meeting
- Signing Day
- Prom
- Grad Robe Delivery
- Senior Walk
- Last Day of School
- Graduation
- Using either markers or a graphic design app like Canva, make visually interesting designs for the title of each thing on the checklist.
- Place them in chronological order on a long strip of paper — we recommend 2 ft x 8 ft — and place a box next to each title.
- With approval, hang in a high traffic area or near a hub for seniors (lockers, homeroom, etc.).
- Throughout the school year, have a student leader check the box next to the completed activity or milestone.
ADDITIONAL IDEAS & OPPORTUNITIES:
- Take a video of a senior student leader checking the box and post it on Instagram and TikTok.
- Display the completed checklist at graduation or Senior Sunset
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