Provide seniors with a memorable final Senior Walk through campus, and show younger students the power of the graduation cap and gown.
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School Type: High school
Activity Goal: Encouraging Graduation – C2G®
Prep Time: 1 hour for scheduling and coordination
People Required: One organizing Staffulty member, and everyone on campus
Space Requirements: Hallways
Timing: Spring (when graduation caps and gowns are delivered)
Materials: Cap and gown regalia, and (optional) paper and markers to make signs
Submitted by: Renaissance Community
INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SENIOR WALK:
- Dedicate a class period, after seniors have received their graduation regalia, for your Senior Walk. Ask teachers to block off this time so everyone at school can participate!
- Encourage younger students to make posters and/or signs to cheer seniors on.
- At the designated time on the day of your Senior Walk, have students and Staffulty™ line the halls.
- Dressed in their caps and gowns, have seniors process through the halls in an organized manner so they pass all the classrooms and spaces. Play music, provide noisemakers and encourage loud cheering and congratulations!
- Make this a tradition that younger students remember and seniors look forward to.
- Close with an assembly or serve a treat after the seniors are finished.
ADDITIONAL IDEAS & OPPORTUNITIES:
- Make a video of the Senior Walk and post it on social media so your wider community can see, too!
- Have younger students make posters and signs to cheer on the seniors.
- Do this with any class that is having a graduation event – kindergarten graduation, elementary graduation, or 8th grade graduation!
- Do this in your yearbook classroom! Choose a day to celebrate the soon-to-be grads in your class. Host a pizza party or ice cream social with a moment of applause for your seniors—dressed in their caps and gowns!
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