A central aspect of Catholic education is learning the importance of service to others.  Let’s celebrate our school community by taking part in service activities, both local and beyond!  What do you do on this day to celebrate your community? To me, we always remember how someone made us feel.  That feeling stays with us.  That feeling will then touch another person.  Let’s celebrate our communities and have warm feelings filer through.  CSW is a great opportunity to market our school.

Ideas for Celebrating your Community

• Do you have families who are essential workers?  Do you have families who are active duty military?  Have students create care packages for them.  Write personalized notes.  A handwritten note has a different “feeling” and “meaning” than one that was typed.
• Host a dress-down day fundraiser, asking students to donate $1 toward a charity.
• Schedule visits for community members/prospective families to come in for muffins and coffee.  This can be an opportunity to have your school community interact with members of your community/parish and along with meeting your students.  This can be another great way to have prospective families come into your school
• Have students make a thank you video that you can promote on your social media platforms and website.
• Schedule student lead community tours.  You can get alum, parishioners, prospective families into the school and they can “feel” the excitement and warmth of catholic education.
• Reminder that anything you do is a great way to market your school and your social media platforms and website.

 Whenever having any type of event or activity it is always a great practice to gather their information (name, address, and phone number, etc.).  Sending out a handwritten thank-you letter can go a long way.  Have a student, teacher, family member, board member etc. send a handwritten thank you letter.    Create stickers or small magnets that can go into the card.  Sticker mule is a great site for inexpensive stickers and magnets.  Create your own postcards that you can use to send out these written letters.  Vista Print is a great site for this.