A Guide to Student Journals

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A Guide to 4Schools Student Journals
A chara,
Welcome to our NEW guide to choosing the perfect
customised student journal. This guide will explain the
4Schools process and help you to create the best journal
for your school and your budget.
We understand that you are busy, so our process is
easy and cost-effective. By choosing 4Schools you will
receive a journal that best represents your school at an
affordable price. If your school is using digital devices or
is planning to make the move, we have a solution that
will meet your needs. Schoolbag is a digital organiser
that facilitates digitally enabled twenty-first century
teaching and learning.
Switching to 4Schools is easy.
Our experienced account managers will work with you
from quotation to signoff and advise you every step of
the way. With prices starting from as little as €2.95 +
VAT, what have you got to lose?
If you’d like to know more, simply fill in the fax back,
return it to us on 01 836 2739 and a member of our
team will be in touch with you. Alternatively you can
contact us directly by calling 01 808 1494 and we look
forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Superior design and outstanding quality
Your student journal is one of your school’s largest
expenditures each year. Therefore it is important that you
choose a provider that will create a journal to meet your
needs and reflect the culture and ethos of your school.
Over 25 years' experience
Our experienced graphic design team combine design
and functionality to create a stylish and hard-wearing
student journal. Each year we revise the content to
reflect the changing landscape of Irish education.
Gary Collins
Sales and Marketing Manager
Direct Line: 01-814 0708
Mobile: +353 87 938 4008
E: [email protected]
The 4Schools journal builder
Our step-by-step guide will help you to create a student journal that is hard-wearing, stylish and competitively priced. It will help to
include all the necessary elements to meet the needs of the entire school community.
1.
Journal size
Choose A4, B5, A5 or custom size
A4:
B5:
A5:
210mm x 297mm
176mm x 250mm
148mm x 210mm
The most popular sizes are A5 and B5. However if
you require a specific size we can offer you any size
up to and including A4.
Standard
2.
Binding
Choose hardback or spiral bound
Hardback
Spiral bound
All hardback covers are glued, stitched and reinforced
with fabric mesh webbing to ensure that they stand up
to the wear and tear of school life.
The spiral-bound cover is light and has an additional
durable plastic cover to protect it and keep it in
good condition.
3.
Cover
Standard cover (choice of 5), school name and crest overprinted, or fully customised cover
Our standard cover designs for 2015/2016 feature a personal resilience theme, which runs throughout this year’s diary. You can view the
full-size images of our cover designs on our website www.4schools.ie
Cover A
Cover B
Cover C
Cover D
Cover E
Your School Name and Crest
You can have your school name and crest overprinted in black on our
standard covers.
Please note, you will need to provide us with a good quality digital
image of your school crest (a high resolution JPEG or vector file).
Custom Cover Designs
For schools who want a personal touch, we offer the
option to completely customise the journal, front and back.
Our design team will take your ideas and turn them into
a beautiful cover your school will be proud of.
Some schools want
a simple but elegant
look and feel to their
journal. We offer the
option of a nicely
textured hardback
cover with your school
name and crest
embossed in gold leaf.
Interestingly, schools who have opted to include photos
of school events, sports teams and student activities have
reported that the students take better care of their journals.
4.
Choose front inside leaf
5.
Choose your number of customised pages
Standard
Customised
standard or customised
This section of our student journal is unique to each school. Here you can communicate your school’s culture, ethos and rules to
the entire school community.
You can choose as many customised pages as you require, printed in one colour or full colour (Between 8 and 32 pages one colour
is usual), depending on your budget.
Our customers add a range of content to this section of their journals. While customised content varies from school to school,
below is a list of ideas that you may find helpful when considering what you want to communicate through your student journal.
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Class timetables
School rules
Uniform guidelines
Map of the school and grounds
Public transport timetables
Fire, health and safety charters
Report cards
Student achievements
June exam timetables
Classroom behaviour contracts that are signed by pupils
and parents
• School services
• List of year heads and class tutors
• School phone numbers and space for student phone
numbers/email addresses
• Details of student organisations, social groups and afterschool activities
• Photographs of school outings, sports teams and other
school events
• Mobile phone policy
• CAO information.
6.
Include or exclude our learning content
Each year we revise our learning content to reflect the changing landscape of Irish education. Past themes include making
a difference, positive mental attitude and the achieving Irish. Choose to include or exclude this full-colour module.
Our journal includes 32 pages of outstanding learning content designed to be colourful, engaging and informative. This content covers
all of the critical topics that schools have told us they need for their students. This includes information, advice and internet resources on
the following topics:
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Adolescence
Individuality
Diet, Exercise and Rest
The Importance of Friendship
Dealing With Bullying
Cyber Bullying
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Road Safety
Leaving Certificate Points
Study and Goal Setting
Mind Mapping
Memory Techniques
Mental Maths
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The Periodic Table
Maths Formulae
History Timelines
Irish Verbs and Tenses Map of Ireland
We are happy to email a PDF of this learning content directly to your school email address.
This content is also available as Gaeilge.
Self-care, personal well-being and resilience
Each year we update our journal design and learning content so that your journal remains contemporary and relevant to your students.
This year our theme is self-care, personal well-being and resilience. This theme explains the importance of caring for ourselves and
outlines strategies for students so they can build resilience and
use it as armour during life’s rough patches.
7.
Choose your diary spread
Choose your diary core from our selection of standard two or four-pages diary cores or create a fully customised diary core for your school.
Recording information is the primary function of any school diary so space for writing is vital. Our student journal maximises this space
so your pupils, teachers and parents have the room they need to record information.
Our weekly diary spread is in full colour at no extra charge to you! We have a range of standard diary spread options to suit the needs of
your school. If what you need is not shown on the next page, please get in touch with us as we also provide customised diary spreads.
New language: Spanish
New quotes 2015/2016:
Well-being and resilience theme.
CORE 1
Full colour with a
weekly parent and
teacher sign-off.
CORE 2
Full colour with
a weekly parent
sign-off.
CORE 3
Full colour with no sign-off
(includes to-do list and
Saturday/Sunday)
CORE 4 - Part 01
Full colour with no
weekly sign-off and 2
pages of notes after
each week.
CORE 4 - Part 02
Full colour with no
weekly sign-off and 2
pages of notes after
each week.
Choose your notes
8.
Choose your notes from our selection of perforated or non-perforated standard notes or
create fully customised notes for your school.
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Communication is a vital function of our student journal. We
We provide the following standard options:
have worked closely with schools and teachers to develop notes
that make communication easy.
• 16 pagesNotes
of free-text absence notes
Behaviour
• 16 pages of absence notes based on NEWB absence
The notes come in sets of 16 pages, with four notes per page.
categories
Student Name:
Class:
These may be perforated or non-perforated.
• 16 pages of notes to/from teacher
• 8 pages of absence notes and 8 pages of notes to/from
There are 64 notes per set of non-perforated notes and 32
teacher
notes per set of perforated notes. All notes can be viewed at
• 16 pages of permission to leave notes
www.4schools.ie/notes
• 4 pages of out of class notes
Notes to/from Teacher
Work Given:
• 4 pages of permission to leave school notes
Signed by Parent/Guardian:
Date:
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/ late for class notes.
• 8 pages
of
Other options
Traffic lights
Choose back inside leaf
Standard
10.
Teacher comment cards
Standard or customised
Customised
9.
Year Planner and Exam Timetable
The standard back inside leaf of our journals includes an optional year planner, an exam
timetable to help keep your students focused and organised throughout the academic year.
Additional Components
At 4Schools.ie we aim to meet your needs in every way
that we can. That is why we offer our customers the
option to add additional components so you can build
the journal that is right for your school.
On-time Delivery
All of our customers will tell you the same thing: we’ve never
been late with a journal.
Schools have come to recognise our reliability and our
commitment to delivering on time.
We understand how frustrating it can be when someone does
not deliver what they promised, that is why we are different.
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