I've been asked to do the PTA newsletter/calendar for the rest of this year and next year for our elementary school and was wondering if any of you had ever done one before. I'm looking for template ideas, sources for free clipart, etc. The newsletter will be posted on the school website, Facebook and emailed home. Any suggestions you can give me would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!
I do our Sunday school newsletter each month here are a few: I love the idea of actual newsletter/paper and Danyale has these: [/IMG] [/URL]
[/URL] oooh ahhhh.... Anne, thanks for showing me the newsletters. I didn't even think of Danyale's products and I think there are others in the store too. Off to check them out for ideas.... happy dance!
There are these too! What a fun idea to incorporate scrapping with the newsletters! Anne's are so colorful, I love that - it draws you in! YUM, pancakes!
Teachers Pay Teachers has a lot of low price education clip art that would be probably be okay to use for the newsletter. If you are on a Mac, I usually use of the pre-formatted templates and then customize it school colors and make it work for the school. Does someone have the files from what they did before? I'd just clean up what was old and not re-invent the wheel. If you are on PC, I'd google, free Word/MS Publisher newsletter templates and use something that was already created. That way I'm not making from scratch everything. I like 2 or 3 columns with the formatting and text boxes already set.
@enjoyyourpix - I'm on a pc, but thanks for the ideas. I keep telling myself, "Google is my friend".... hehe I just haven't found anything yet, that fits the idea in my mind. It'll come, I just need to be patient. The person before was doing a calendar with the message from the principal using her digi scrap supplies. They want something a little different this time that has the message and then all the calendar items for the rest of the year instead of just one month at a time. Here's what the current newsletter/calendar looks like. I'm looking at word and publisher right now, to see if I can tweak a pre made newsletter to fit my needs this time. Then, next year I'll go back to doing them kind of like how the other gal was doing them, but I want to jazz them up some and really get parents' attention. Plus it'll be more fun for me to do them, if I jazz them up... hehe
It's been about 30 years since I did a parent newsletter, all in Word or was it Word Perfect for me then?? One thing that I enjoyed writing and the parents and children seemed to enjoy was a Tip each month to combine learning with fun. That shopping chore...got a lot of use since many parents have to take their children. Call it Family Fun and you may even fool the adults! Idea - If you buy soda, have them check the newspaper ads to see which soda is cheapest using division to find cost per oz. Idea - use the same technique for cereals and perhaps give them three kinds to compare. Idea - Movies If you go often, tell them the movie and have them look up the times showing. LOL this was done via newspaper back then! I suspect any homeschooling site will have more of this kind of thing. Good luck with this year's project. It really can be a fun one to do or so I found.
I started out the year doing our PTA newsletter ... and then as I got drafted into other events, the newsletter has been neglected. I tried to come up with something that was concise and informative, and a little bit eye catching so that maybe people would actually read it. This was the format I came up with. The icons I got from various CU sites that do monthly free fonts and stuff.
This is what I came up with for this time. I did it in Microsoft Publisher and tweaked a premade newsletter template. I found the skyhawk for free on vecteezy.com and tweaked it to make a school logo. I think it turned out ok for short notice and gets all the info out there. I'm not sure what I end up doing for next year, but at least I've got some time to gather ideas to gear up for back to school.
Quite impressive and easy to read. If a newsletter is too busy it often goes right in the trash. Yours is a winner!! (well you too of course!)
oh I love it! Very professional looking and I would as a parent love the ability to cut the calendar out and use in my planner!
