Hello everyone,
I'm in charge of the aforementioned party and I'm stuck for ideas. Do you have any great activities? The activities should be fun and to follow the theme. Also, the party is for adults.
Thank you very much!
Back to School Party ideas
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Sally Olsen
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Why not reverse it and have a graduation party at the beginning. Have pictures up of all the activities that you have done through the year (things that you have planned to do this year). Take some friends and take pictures of the activities you want to do and ask them to bring three changes of clothes. Then cut out their faces. As people arrive for the class take their pictures and get a friend to add their faces to the pictures and put them up around the room.
Prepare fancy graduation certificates and call the students up one by one to present them and tell something about them. You won't know them of course, so you can make up something funny or something you have learned about them quickly as they come in. If the other students know them, they can add something.
Make up great comments about their contributions for the year. Then put them in groups and get them to share the comments and take one that they would like to accomplish and paste that on their certificate.
On the back make up a curriculum of things you would like to cover in the session and have a box for a mark. You can start them out with low marks in the check box and say that they can improve on those and you will change them as they progress. Or they could fill out the boxes with marks they would like to have or just check marks when they feel they have learned the material.
Have food - perhaps a graduation cake. Take lots of pictures of their "final" day, pictures with "friends", with you and a class picture.
Give an inspiring speech about how good a class they have been and how wonderful they are, how you hope their next class will be in your school and promise to meet in 10 years to see how everyone is doing.
Then ask for feedback and talk about doing things backwards, and do any administration activities you are required to do.
Prepare fancy graduation certificates and call the students up one by one to present them and tell something about them. You won't know them of course, so you can make up something funny or something you have learned about them quickly as they come in. If the other students know them, they can add something.
Make up great comments about their contributions for the year. Then put them in groups and get them to share the comments and take one that they would like to accomplish and paste that on their certificate.
On the back make up a curriculum of things you would like to cover in the session and have a box for a mark. You can start them out with low marks in the check box and say that they can improve on those and you will change them as they progress. Or they could fill out the boxes with marks they would like to have or just check marks when they feel they have learned the material.
Have food - perhaps a graduation cake. Take lots of pictures of their "final" day, pictures with "friends", with you and a class picture.
Give an inspiring speech about how good a class they have been and how wonderful they are, how you hope their next class will be in your school and promise to meet in 10 years to see how everyone is doing.
Then ask for feedback and talk about doing things backwards, and do any administration activities you are required to do.
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shelleyvernon
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Hello there,
When people come back to school they naturally like telling people about what they were doing in the holiday. The students could each describe their hols to the class and get an award. The other students think up the award and everyone gets one so it could be the most fun holiday, the most helpful, the hottest, or wettest, or the most sporty, or the most nature-loving, or whatever.
The fact that the class have to think up awards for each holiday gives them an extra reason to listen to the holiday descriptions.
All the best
Shelley
PS Lots of ideas in my games and activities book for adults:
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/adults.htm
When people come back to school they naturally like telling people about what they were doing in the holiday. The students could each describe their hols to the class and get an award. The other students think up the award and everyone gets one so it could be the most fun holiday, the most helpful, the hottest, or wettest, or the most sporty, or the most nature-loving, or whatever.
The fact that the class have to think up awards for each holiday gives them an extra reason to listen to the holiday descriptions.
All the best
Shelley
PS Lots of ideas in my games and activities book for adults:
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/adults.htm