wallpaper themes

[MK-2]

i've created a standard wallpaper for all client machines with just our school badge and a dropped shadow on. i altered it this week to add a bit of snow, santa hat etc just to add that little bit of festive cheer!!

but of course ive now set a wheel in motion so that it will be expected on other occasions. what other ones should i do? i'm not thinking to the extent of google (73rd birthday of a swedish poet who died 200 years ago, etc) but the usual:

xmas

easter

summer hols

anything else?

[gibbo_ap]

halloween, fireworks night, pudsy (if approved, i got grief), fridays,

[MK-2]

not too sure if we'd get away with halloween (i think a plan for a halloween party was put off once as we have a christian ethos to follow etc and doesnt fit in with the school). pudsey definitely i could, fireworks is a maybe.

fridays you can bugger off

[aerospacemango]

St George's Day

St Andrew's Day

St Patrick's Day

St David's Day

 

These could be possibilities???

[Domino]

Ask each department for an important date maybe?

 

Science could have an important discovery date, history a local event, PE a date a world record fell, etc,etc

 

Might get brownie points for you in encouraging cross-subject interaction too ;-) as everyone could see what that subject would be talking about on that day

[SteveT]

Your own birthday!!!!!!

[MK-2]

Domino, I've already sort of done this. We have a few strategies the school uses for teaching and one idea was to remind kids of these strategies via the wallpaper. nothing too intrusive, but yes, having subject specific would be good too.

Cheers

[CESIL]

I have a graphic in the top right corner of our Intranet site that changes to mark significant dates.

 

I have done saints days, valentines day, bonfire night etc...

 

For Christmas I have a different related animated gif for each day of December like an advent calendar...

[sippo]

Remember not to offend anyone...

[MK-2]

Remember not to offend anyone...

 

so my "celebrate hitler day" wallpaper might not go down as well as i thought?

[Admiral208]

Remember not to offend anyone...

 

I was going to do a halloween themed wallpaper in my old school once, just happend to mention it to the headteacher in passing, and to say he wasnt very happy was an understatement.

 

Maybe I should have thought first about celebrating a pagan festival in a church school before mentioning it to the headteacher who happens to be a vicar!!

[Dom_]

Just check google every day and update accordingly :-P

[Pyroman]

International observance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Pyroman]

And of course, talk like a pirate day =D

[MK-2]

Just check google every day and update accordingly :-P

 

And of course, talk like a pirate day =D

 

Thank you both. Your inputs have been ignored equally.

 

[TwoZeroAlpha]

My effort for the last days of term, GIMPed up this morning in a spare 5mins.

 

I've got a few I've done for various school literacy drives, apostrophes, they're/there/their etc