playgroup1 Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 I am planning to give each child who is leaving a certificate and I would like to add "awarded for" and then some personal comment, e.g. always being kind. But I 'm running out of ideas. has anybody done this and can give me some more ideas that I can adapt to my particular chlldren? Thanks
Panders Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Well apart from looking up the word "kind" in the thesaurus so that you get different words for the same meaning if nothing immediately springs to mind about a child when you think of them, I fear this isn't really worth doing, why not just have the certificate saying they attended .............. for ...............months/years and had tremendous fun and they will be very much missed by all the staff. 1
louby loo Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 I saw some lovely 'mr/miss men' certificates on the TES website resources the others day. They had about 36ish, all ready to personalise. x
Cait Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 How about something like being good at tidying, great at jigsaws, biggest laugh, fastest runner, bounciest, etc
Guest Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 helpful, caring, problem-solver, good at persevering, friendly, good at looking after younger children, best constructor, super painter etc etc!
Guest Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Or use their particular talents/gifts - one of mine is very knowledgeable about dinosaurs and a good source of information for his peers; if they want to know about dinosaurs, they ask Max. x
Wildflowers Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 I feel very uncomfortable about this and would never do it.
Andreamay Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 We do it every year and it is very popular. It is basically how we will remember each child and do not have a problem finding a positive comment for all children as every child is good at something
Beau Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 Our certificates were also customised to reflect each particular child, so the 'categories' would tend to change every year.
lashes2508 Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 our certificate says - awarded to ........ to celebrate their time at ............. 'may you continue to grow and blossom in all you do ' July 2013 staff all sign it
Guest Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 (edited) ours show the child's name and date of attendance and the reason that the child has been awarded the certificate which is 'for being a good friend and helping the grown ups to play'. we write personal memories from each member of staff in the home/school diaries at the end of term Edited July 21, 2013 by max321
Wildflowers Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 I like yours Lashes. It's lovely and without any competitive / comparative element to it. 1
enuffsenuf Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 Ours are all identical (apart form the names of course) and say they are a certificate of graduation from XXXXXXXXXXX pre-school. Then they say "your learning journey has only just begun but you are already a star!" We choose not to say "given for xxxxxxx" and individualise it because in my experience with adults they read things into what is written and compare their child's to the next....so I keep them uniform to avoid comparisons by the grown ups.
mps09 Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 is special because - forum.docx We do a general certificate, but we also issue each child with a XXXXXX is special because... and ask the other children to comment on what they like about each child, what they think they are good at or what makes them special. Always brings a tear!
lashes2508 Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 I added a poem Inge had posted on the back of ours and this year and last we created medals for each child - very simple - wooden discs ( could not get any stars this year) edged with gold glitter glue and childs name on one side and the nam eo fpreschool and date on the other - children and parents loved them . We also gave all the children leaving a watering can as they loved watering the garden this year -well received too
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